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Published: July 31, 2026 12:46pm
Board of Peace unveils 15-point plan for Gaza deal
The conflict has persisted since late 2023, when Hamas forces stormed Israeli border towns, prompting an Israeli counter-invasion.
The Board of Peace on Friday unveiled a 15-point plan for resolving the conflict in Gaza, after President Donald Trump announced that Hamas had agreed to disarm.
The conflict has persisted since late 2023, when Hamas forces stormed Israeli border towns, prompting an Israeli counter-invasion.
The peace board posted all 15 points in an X thread on Friday. Here are the points:
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All parties commit to the agreed upon peace deal
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All hostilities cease immediately
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Progression to each phase of the deal will follow verification by an international committee
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Hamas agrees to hand civilian governance to a national committee
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That committee will maintain civil institutions and services
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The committee will govern under Palestinian law
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New police personnel will join existing institutions, but with vetting
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Gaza will decommission and store heavy weapons
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Personal weapons will be subject to the laws of the national committee
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Militia weapons will be decommissioned and stored by the committee
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Signing of a social peace agreement
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An international force will temporarily deploy to Gaza, replacing the IDF
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Israel will withdraw from the Gaza Strip
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The national committee will handle internal security
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The Board of Peace and national committee will coordinate rebuilding
https://justthenews.com/government/security/board-peace-unveils-15-point-plan-gaza-deal
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GlobalFoundries (up to $300 million)
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Kepler (up to $245 million).
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Multibeam Corp,
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Extropic,
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Thintronics,
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OBSIDIA Semiconductors
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Aeluma
US Government Acquires Equity Stakes in 7 More Companies
The federal government purchased a 10 percent stake in chipmaker Intel last summer for approximately $11 billion.
The Department of Commerce said on July 29 it will allocate $874 million in incentives to bolster U.S. chip manufacturing, linking the funding to equity stakes in seven companies.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) said the Commerce Department’s CHIPS Research and Development Office signed letters of intent with the tech firms as part of the Biden administration’s 2022 CHIPS and Science Act.
According to a NIST blog post, the funds will be directed toward research and development on several vital technologies, including integrated photonics. These are microchips that move and process data using light rather than electricity.
The federal incentives will also support work on new computing architectures and memory systems designed for high‑performance and AI workloads.
This is all part of the administration’s initiative of returning chip manufacturing to the United States, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in a statement.
“With today’s compute supply chain investments, the Trump Administration is accelerating America’s innovation engine,” Lutnick said.
“These strategic investments will enhance our country’s domestic capabilities, create high-paying jobs, and keep America at the forefront of the semiconductor industry.”
Two firms will receive more than half of the funding: semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries (up to $300 million) and AI memory firm Kepler (up to $245 million).
The remaining funds will be sent to Multibeam Corp, Extropic, Thintronics, OBSIDIA Semiconductors, and Aeluma.
It has been about four years since President Joe Biden signed the landmark bill. The legislation provides federal support to domestic semiconductor manufacturers to bolster domestic semiconductor production.
Shortly after his return to the White House for a second term, President Donald Trump urged Congress to scrap the legislation, which received bipartisan pushback from lawmakers.
“Your CHIPS Act is a horrible, horrible thing. We give hundreds of billions of dollars, and it doesn’t mean a thing. They take our money, and they don’t spend it,” Trump said in a speech to a joint session of Congress in March 2025. “You should get rid of the CHIPS Act and whatever is left over, Mr. Speaker, you should use it to reduce debt.”
Rather than handing out subsidies to companies without receiving anything in return, the president has said the government should instead be given small stakes in these firms.
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/us-government-acquires-equity-stakes-in-7-more-companies-6069859
F-35 Fighter Jet Catches Fire at San Diego Airbase
The aircraft’s pilot managed to eject and has since been taken to a nearby medical facility for treatment for non-life-threatening injuries.
A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II stealth fighter jet experienced a fiery mishap while operating on the flightline at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, in San Diego, California, on July 31.
Emergency crews responded to the accident scene at around 10 a.m. PT on Friday, a spokesperson for the base told The Epoch Times.
The pilot of the aircraft managed to eject and has since been taken to a local medical facility for treatment for non-life-threatening injuries.
The aircraft was assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3d Marine Aircraft Wing.
This is a developing story and will be updated with additional details.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/f-35-fighter-jet-catches-fire-at-san-diego-airbase-6069919
1) Emergency responders remain on site as billows of black smoke are seen rising from the plane
2) The Marine Corps said the pilot ejected from the jet before it crashed. Their condition remains unknown at this time
3) An F-35 fighter jet has crashed at the original Top Gun base in San Diego, California
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16020631/f35-crash-miramar-san-diego.html
Senator Rand Paul
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Upon further reflection: Jeanine Pirro seeks to drop charges against Olympian David Hearn
admits reflecting pool damage was ‘flawed installation’
DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro is moving to dismiss charges against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn for allegedly vandalizing the reflecting pool.
WASHINGTON — DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro is moving to dismiss charges against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, revealing in a Friday court filing that the damage was, in fact, “the result of flawed installation by the contractor.”
Pirro’s office submitted the motion to dismiss after Hearn had pleaded not guilty earlier this month to one felony count of destruction of property for the alleged June 19 incident.
Video footage posted on X shortly after the incident showed Hearn being cuffed by Park Police next to his bicycle after noting the peeled-back lining was “really funny.”
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https://nypost.com/2026/07/31/us-news/jeanine-pirro-seeks-to-drop-charges-against-olympian-david-hearn-admits-reflecting-pool-damage-was-flawed-installation/
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Hearn did tug at the sealant at the bottom of the Reflecting Pool and was told to stop by authorities, the July 31 filing shows, but the lining had “[a]lmost immediately” begun peeling after the work was completed after the Virginia-based company got a no-bid contract for the renovations.
That was due to “overspraying and a failure of the coatings to bond” as part of a rushed job to finish before Independence Day festivities.
And the Department of Interior (DOI) “provided less than fulsome information at the outset of this case,” Pirro’s motion also noted.
“[I]t was not until after the return of the indictment, that the DOI provided additional documents to the USAO-DC indicating that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings (‘AIC’), and the rush to complete the project prior to events associated with the America 250 celebration in the weeks surrounding Independence Day 2026,” the court filing stated.
“It was not until after these documents were produced that USAO-DC first became aware of information showing that the damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism as initially represented by DOI.”
“The Trump administration’s case against Davey Hearn should never have been brought. Its dismissal today does not erase the abuse of government power in arresting and charging a patriotic American who did nothing wrong. The government’s approach was ready, fire, aim. The administration owes Mr. Hearn an apology,” said Hearn’s attorneys Norm Eisen, Mary Dohrmann and Steve Levin in a statement.
resident Trump has claimed that others also received citations and six were arrested in connection with damage to the pool in June, which included a “350 foot gash, made by a very sharp knife or razors.”
The DC prosecutors had to rely on “barebones police reports” about the incident from US Park Police, which was slow to respond but eventually produced the files along with “body-worn camera footage for roughly 10 individuals,” according to Friday’s court filing.
National Park Service employees had observed Hearn “violently” tug at an upturned end of the lining before being asked to stop on June 19, causing the ex-Olympian to remark they were “awfully sensitive about the pool.”
DOI assessed that the yanking caused $1,000 worth of damage and that “nearly all of the damage to the Reflecting Pool was due to vandalism” in representations to Pirro, who visited the site on July 1.
The following day, her office convened a grand jury that handed up the indictment against Hearn.
AIC contracted with DOI for more than $14 million to paint the Reflecting Pool’s 68,000-square-foot bottom, according to federal spending records, with the work beginning in early May.
Work crews sprayed Rhino 406 and Pipeliner 5000 coatings on its surface for most of that month, with rain delays — and complications with the pool’s expansion joints needing different sealant — putting them behind schedule to be finished on the Fourth of July, per Friday’s filing.
But two days after work completed on June 9, a National Park Service engineer “was alerted to peeling of the Reflecting Pool lining,” Pirro’s office noted.
“I stated my concern that this ‘overspray’ along the perimeter of the pool could lead to a 1′-2′ strip that is vulnerable to peeling,” the engineer stated in the June 11 email. “The contractor would not confirm in field if this was or wasn’t a risk.”
That was still eight days before Hearn was arrested for allegedly tampering with the lining.
“Given all of this newly discovered information, it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt,” the motion concluded.
Reps for DOI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Under Article I, Section 5, Clause 2, of the U.S. Constitution, the only body with the authority to remove a sitting Senator before their term expires is the Senate itself, and only through an expulsion vote requiring a two-thirds majority of the Senators present.