12 PM ET: Israel’s military pauses, a US execution first, humanity's hottest year & more

The White House says Israel will start to implement four-hour pauses of military operations in Northern Gaza, as we learn more about the hostage negotiations. Congress has eight days to avoid a government shutdown. A date has been set for an Alabama inmate to be executed by a method never used in the US before. A new report says humanity lived through the hottest 12 months in at least 125,000 years. Plus, Donald Trump scores a legal victory.

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