Israel, Hamas Begin ‘Mutual, Unconditional Cease-Fire’

By Steve Herman

U.S. President Joe Biden said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed him Thursday that Israel "has agreed to a mutual, unconditional cease-fire" with the Hamas militant group. 

The truce, scheduled to begin at 2 a.m. local time Friday (2300 GMT), would return an uneasy calm to Israel and to...