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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) will introduce a new bill this week to ban the United States from importing seafood and aquaculture products from China.

The move follows Hamas calling for global Muslim resistance.

The directive issued by Israel’s military for Gaza's northern civilians to relocate south is set to impact 1.1 million individuals.

Amid escalating tensions in the Gaza Strip following a major Hamas attack, the Israeli army revealed on Thursday that it has unleashed roughly 4,000 tonnes of explosives, deploying around 6,000 bombs since the weekend assault.

“Military readiness is currently in a state of freefall,” said former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel Bradley Miller.

Blinken's emphasis remained on the resumption of military-to-military communication, a U.S. priority that China has consistently declined since 2021.

Tennessee Republican Rep. Mark Green suggested China is using the chaos at the southern border to sneak in military personnel.

CIA Director Bill Burns secretly visited Beijing to meet with Chinese intelligence officials, indicating growing concerns within the Biden administration about the deteriorating relations with China, and marking the highest-level trip by a Biden official to China.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, General Mark Milley, demanded the Nellis Air Force Base cancel a "family-friendly" drag show.

Chinese embassy spokesperson urges U.S. to "show sincerity" and "take concrete actions to create the conditions and atmosphere needed for communication."