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Tribune News Service on Oct 14, 2025

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‘I commend President Trump’: Biden, Harris and Clinton praise Gaza peace deal

President Donald Trump has garnered praise from former White House leaders — including longtime critics and rivals — for brokering a landmark peace agreement in Gaza.

Former Presidents Joe Biden and Bill Clinton, along with former Vice Presidents Kamala Harris and Mike Pence, released statements commending Trump’s diplomatic efforts.

This bipartisan approval followed Trump’s orchestration of a deal between Israel and Hamas, paving the way for a possible end to the war in Gaza, which has raged for two years, resulting in widespread devastation and death throughout the enclave.

More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, and many more have faced famine and starvation due, in part, to Israeli restrictions on aid, according to Gaza health officials and U.N. officials. The current conflict began in October 2023, when Hamas militants attacked Israel, killing some 1,200 Israelis and taking 251 more hostages.

—Miami Herald

Trump rips Time magazine for ‘worst of all time’ cover photo

President Donald Trump railed against Time magazine Tuesday over a cover photo of him that he called “super bad” and “the worst of all time.”

In a 1:30 a.m. post, Trump slammed the photo as an unflattering look, taking special aim at the sunlight that created an odd effect on the top of his head.

“They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird,” Trump wrote on his social media site.

He questioned if editors had some kind of ulterior motive for using the upward-angled pic. “(I) never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out,” he wrote. “What are they doing, and why?”

—New York Daily News

How grand plans to restart oil drilling off Santa Barbara's coast hit California's green wall

LOS ANGELES — When a Texas oil company first announced controversial plans to reactivate three drilling rigs off the coast of Santa Barbara County, investor presentations boasted that the venture had "massive resource potential" and was "primed for cash flow generation."

But now, less than two years later, mounting legal setbacks and regulatory issues are casting increasing doubt on the project's future.

Most recently, the California attorney general filed suit against Houston-based Sable Offshore Corp., accusing it of repeatedly putting "profits over environmental protections." The lawsuit, filed last week in Santa Barbara County Superor Court, accuses Sable of continually failing to follow state laws and regulations intended to protect water resources.

Sable, the lawsuit claims, "was at best misinformed, incompetent and incorrect" when it came to understanding and adhering to the California Water Code. "At worst, Sable was simply bamboozling the Regional Water Board to meet a critical deadline," according to the lawsuit.

—Los Angeles Times

Madagascar army unit seizes control after weeks of protests

Army officers in Madagascar took control of the country after lawmakers impeached President Andry Rajoelina, who went into hiding at the weekend after soldiers joined anti-government protests demanding his resignation.

The impeachment vote on Tuesday defied a declaration by Rajoelina hours earlier dissolving parliament, and came a day after he fled to an undisclosed location, becoming the latest ruler to be imperiled by so-called Gen Z protesters demanding change.

“We took the power, all the institutions in the republic are dissolved,” Colonel Michael Randrianirina of the army’s Capsat unit, told reporters outside the presidential palace in Antananarivo, the capital. A committee will be formed and will hand power back to civilians within a few days, he said.

“The crisis has lasted long enough,” Randrianirina said. Demonstrations erupted in Madagascar last month over water and power shortages, sending thousands of people into the streets and leading to clashes with security forces in which at least 22 people died.

—Bloomberg News