Despite push, U.S. appears no closer to securing ‘humanitarian pause’ in Gaza

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — More than a week after starting to publicly push for “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza, the Biden administration had little to show for its efforts as Secretary of State Antony Blinken ended a grueling Middle East tour on Monday and President Joe Biden made an apparently fruitless personal appeal to his Israeli counterpart. Nearly a month into the war, the difficulty of securing …