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The Western moves were apparently in response to Moscow's deployment of North Korean troops as it prepares for an offensive aimed at driving Ukrainian troops out of a small area they have occupied in Russia's Kursk region.

Russ Vought, who previously occupied the role for two years in Trump's first term, will return with wide-ranging powers to shape Trump's budget and examine the federal bureaucracy to ensure that it complies with his chosen policies.

Embassy and recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, he pushed for the so-called “Deal of the Century,” a peace plan that would have left the Palestinians without a state and allowed Israel to annex wide swaths of the occupied West Bank.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich celebrated Trump’s win and ordered preparations for the annexation of the West Bank, declaring on X that 2025 would be “the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria” — the biblical name Israel uses for the occupied territory.

In 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended at least five air changes per hour for occupied spaces indoors, and this month the California Department of Public Health reiterated this recommendation specifically for classrooms.