President Trump Greets Freed Americans From North Korea
The three detainees, who have been in captivity for over a year, landed in Maryland early Thursday, where President Trump and the First Lady welcomed them back home.
For more background on this significant moment in North Korea-US relations, [click here](https://cheddar.com/videos/north-korea-releases-three-american-detainees).
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has died at the age of 96. The Carter Center in Atlanta announced that the wife of former President Jimmy Carter died Sunday afternoon at her home in Plains, Georgia, with her family at her side.
Communications systems in the Gaza Strip were down for a second day with no fuel to power the internet and phone networks, causing aid agencies to halt cross-border deliveries of humanitarian supplies even as they warned people may soon face starvation.
President Joe Biden has ended the immediate threat of a government shutdown, signing a temporary spending bill a day before much of the government was to run out of money.
A gag order that barred Donald Trump from commenting about court personnel after he disparaged a law clerk in his New York civil fraud trial was temporarily lifted Thursday by an appellate judge who raised free speech concerns.
