a major development in the investigation into former president donald trump and his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. news that the special counsel plans to go directly to the supreme court to answer some key questions about immunity in this prosecution. plus, new polls and major questions for president biden. right now, he is trailing former president trump in two critical battleground states that helped propel bite into the white house in 2020, so is it time for a new approach? we will dive into the numbers. and back on x get elon musk welcomes conspiracy theorist alex jones back to the platform to bubble the decision cost him? we are following these major developing stories and more coming in right here on cnn news central. we start this afternoon with a stunning development today in russia. a key critic and chief political rival of vladimir putin is now missing. allies of russian opposition leader a.j. alexy noah vonleh said they have not had contac
team here, who have been working out of an operation center today, alongside members of the international committee of the red cross. another key stakeholders in this. and they certainly feel like this mostly went to plan. you are right to point out this is a humanitarian pause, and the implementation of that had a number of key obligations. the pause had to stop at 7:00 local time. the hostilities had to stop on the ground from both parties. that allowed for the potential for the release of these hostages, these 13 in the first instance israeli women and children, who had been held by hamas around about 4:00 this afternoon. what happened was we saw 24 hostages ultimately released. the process took about two and a half hours to get those hostages out of hamas hands, into the hands of the icrc and out of gaza into israel via the rafah crossing, which is down on the the egyptian boarder. the surprise, and i have to say i think it was a surprise as well, possibly to those invol
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Talks resumed in Egypt Saturday aimed at halting months of war in Gaza between Hamas militants and Israel that have triggered protests around the world. Mediators from Qatar, Egypt and the United States sat down with a Hamas delegation to hear the militant group's response to a proposal that would halt fighting for 40 days and exchange hostages for Palestinian prisoners, according to details released by Britain.Read moreIsrael downplays reports of progress in truce talks as Hamas delegation arri
Israel’s security cabinet has approved the reopening of Erez crossing between Israel and northern Gaza for the first time since the October 7 Hamas attacks, an Israeli official told CNN Thursday.