Hamas may end

government

CAIRO (AP) — Hamas says it will dissolve its government in Gaza once a Palestinian technocratic leadership committee takes over as part of a U.S.-brokered peace plan. The timeline for the change is unclear.

A “Board of Peace” led by Trump is set to oversee the committee, but the board’s members haven’t been announced. Meanwhile, violence continues in Gaza, with hospitals saying Israeli gunfire killed three Palestinians on Sunday. Israeli forces say their actions are in response to ceasefire violations. Separately, Israeli police are questioning a top official from Netanyahu’s office related to a leak of classified military information to a German tabloid.

US census

litigated

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The next U.S. census is four years away, but two lawsuits playing out this year could affect how the head count will be done and who’ll be counted. Allies of President Donald Trump are behind the lawsuits challenging various aspects of the once-a-decade count by the U.S. Census Bureau that’s used to determine congressional representation and federal aid to states.

The lawsuits align with parts of Trump’s agenda, even as his administration must defend the Census Bureau and its methods in court. Democratic-aligned groups are trying to intervene because of concerns over whether the Justice Department will defend the bureau vigorously.

Transgender

case heard

WASHINGTON (AP) — Becky Pepper-Jackson is a 15-year-old in West Virginia who knows the upcoming sports season could be her last. West Virginia has banned transgender girls like the discus-throwing sophomore from competing in girls and women’s sports. The state is among more than two dozen with similar laws.

Lower courts have blocked the West Virginia law, but the outcome could be different at the conservative-dominated Supreme Court. The justices have allowed multiple restrictions on transgender people to be enforced in the past year. The justices are hearing arguments Tuesday.

President Donald Trump’s Republican administration has targeted transgender Americans.

Edited photos

ignite debate

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s official state photos from last year portend to show history in the making. They include images of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trips to the U.N. and world leaders convening to advance a tenuous Gaza peace plan. But when examined closely, the pictures are not accurate depictions of reality.

Experts say they have been altered to make Sara Netanyahu look younger. That discovery has ignited a firestorm in Israel.

Journalists, lawyers and members of the political opposition say the edited photos violate ethical codes and risk denigrating the state’s archives.