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The planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom now under construction off the back of the East Wing is nearly double the square footage of the White House residence. Its renovation is one of the largest at the White House in decades.

President Trump visited Egypt and Israel on Monday as the 20 hostages in Gaza were returned to Israel in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.

Multiple people were killed and several others were missing after an explosion at an ammunition plant in Tennessee on Friday morning, the authorities said.

After hundreds of thousands of federal workers were furloughed during the government shutdown, some took to social media to document their lives and show how they are coping. Without knowing how long the shutdown will last, some workers are concerned about how they will sustain themselves in the meantime.

Deepraj Rai, 23, was shot in the thigh during antigovernment demonstrations in Nepal. As he recovered at the hospital, he shared his hopes for the youth-led movement.

Heavy rains, flash-floods and cloudbursts have battered much of Northern India in recent weeks, killings hundreds of people and displacing more than a million.

Two Israeli strikes hit a hospital in southern Gaza on Monday, killing at least five Palestinian journalists, a rescue worker and up to 14 more people, according to local health officials.

More than a dozen Border Patrol agents turned up in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday outside a museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom of California was holding a rally.

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Aid agencies say Gaza faces the threat of widespread starvation in the wake of the 80-day Israeli blockade on food deliveries that ended in mid-May. Two young Gazans, Salem Madhat Alaydi and Aya Ehab Zaid, describe what it is like to fight hunger.