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The Associated Press  A rising tide swept stocks higher, and calm returned to Wall Street after Japan’s market soared earlier Tuesday to claw back much of the losses from its worst day since 1987. The S&P 500 climbed 1% to break a brutal three-day losing streak. It had tumbled a bit more than 6% on a raft of concerns, including worries the Federal Reserve had pressed the brakes too hard for too long on the U.S. economy through high interest rates in order to beat inflation. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 294 points, or 0.8%, while the Nasdaq composite gained 1%. Stocks of all kinds climbed in a mirror opposite of the day before, from smaller companies that need U.S. households to keep spending to huge multinationals more dependent on the global economy. READ THE FULL STORY                   

Breitbart Hamas announced Tuesday that it had named Gaza-based leader Yayha Sinwar as its new leader to replace political chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Tehran, Iran, last week while attending the presidential inauguration there. Sinwar, who is regarded as the architect of the October 7 terror attack in which Hamas murdered 1,200 Israelis, is thought to be hiding underground in a tunnel in Gaza, possibly surrounded by Israeli hostages as human shields. The Times of Israel reported: Sinwar was selected by Hamas’s 50-strong Shura Council, a consultative body composed of officials elected by Hamas members in four chapters: Gaza, the West Bank, the diaspora and security prisoners in Israeli jails. READ THE FULL STORY                   

Washington Examiner Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is polling better than his Republican challenger while former President Donald Trump has a much larger lead in the same state. Brown is leading Republican nominee Bernie Moreno by 4 points, with Brown getting 46% of the support and Moreno getting 42% of the support, according to a new poll commissioned by AARP from the bipartisan team of Democratic Impact Research and Republican Fabrizio Ward. The same poll shows Trump has a strong hold over the one-time swing state, with a 9-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumed Democratic nominee.  Brown is maintaining this level of support because he has a 12-point lead with Ohio independent voters, and 14% of Republicans indicated they would support Brown. READ THE FULL STORY                   

NBC Montana Former President Donald Trump on Thursday posted via his Truth Social account that he will fight to prevent men from competing in women’s sports. Trump shared in his post a video of a women’s Olympic boxing match between Angela Carini of Italy and Imane Khelif of Algeria. Khelif qualified to compete in the Paris Olympic Games after being disqualified from the 2023 International Boxing Association (IBA) finals for not meeting the organization’s eligibility requirements. IBA president Umar Kremlev told a Russian news agency at the time that Khelif has “XY chromosomes,” Reuters reports. READ THE FULL STORY                     

NBC News Four U.S. residents wrongly imprisoned in Russia — including journalist Evan Gershkovich and Marine veteran Paul Whelan — were released and on their way home Thursday, part of a major multinational prisoner exchange the likes of which has not been seen since the Cold War. The massive deal, cut among seven nations, involves 24 people, including five Germans and seven Russian citizens held in Russia, and eight Russians imprisoned in the U.S., Germany, Slovenia, Norway and Poland. President Joe Biden called the deal that had led to the release of the four U.S. detainees a “feat of diplomacy and friendship.” READ THE FULL STORY