Stefania Cox is an NTD News anchor and national correspondent based at the network's global headquarters in New York City. Stefania anchors "NTD Newsroom," and co-anchors "NTD News Today" weekdays at 10:00 am ET.

Stefania Cox

Cary Dunst is the news anchor for NTD Evening News. He is also the co-host of NTD Good Morning.


Cary Dunst

NTD Plus

News

We present news that is truthful and based on facts, outside of the political fog. Instead of focusing on the negative things happening around us, our mission is to give our viewers a good morning with empathetic and uplifting stories. Our aim is to provide an antidote to negativity by shining a light on the best side of people. We speak to inspiring people who positively impact communities, pursue topics that represent our common human values, and will never miss an opportunity to bring you heartwarming stories.

NTD Good Morning

Smart Spending: How to Save on Summer Travel

UAE Suffered More Iranian Missiles Than Israel, Paving Way for Iron Dome: Analyst

NTD Newsroom comprises teams of reporters, editors, and producers assigned to cover breaking news and other stories.


NTD Newsroom

Washington Event to Rededicate US as ‘One Nation Under God’

Best-Selling Author Concerned Christians May Be Next in China’s State-Sanctioned Organ Trade

Jason Perry is an Army veteran and NTD's National Security Correspondent based at the network's global headquarters in New York City. Jason primarily covers border security, national defense, foreign wars, and veterans' issues.

Jason Perry

Pentagon Paves the Way to Buy 10,000 Containerized Missiles

US Reports No Hantavirus Cases From Cruise Outbreak

Juliette Fairley is a freelance reporter for NTD and The Epoch Times and a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Born in Chateauroux, France, and raised outside of Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, Juliette is a well-adjusted military brat. She has written for many publications across the country. Send Juliette story ideas at JulietteFairley@gmail.com

Juliette Fairley

Daniel Monaghan is a reporter for NTD News covering culture, social issues, and education. He holds a BA in Political Science and Government.

Daniel Monaghan

US News

Politics

Executive Branch

Rubio: China is ‘Top Geopolitical Challenge’

The Associated Press is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. 

The Associated Press

Jury Awards $49.5 Million to Family of Woman Killed in 2019 Boeing Max Crash

Andrew Moran has been writing about business, economics, and finance for more than a decade. He is the author of "The War on Cash."

Andrew Moran

China News

Trump Departs China After 2-Day Talks With Xi

Haika Mrema

Medical Plane Crash in New Mexico Mountains Kills 4, Sparks Wildfire

Accommodating, Enabling China’s Regime a Failed Strategy: China Expert

NTD Good Morning Full Broadcast (May 15)

NTD Good Morning Full Broadcast (May 14)

Kevin Hogan is an NTD News data reporter and national correspondent based at the network's global headquarters in New York City. Kevin covers breaking news, as well as U.S. and global current events. He conveys the news through data visualizations and investigates pressing issues.

Kevin Hogan

NTD Good Morning Full Broadcast (May 13)

NTD Good Morning Full Broadcast (May 12)

President Trump Leaves for China Today; Calif. Mayor to Plead Guilty to Acting as CCP Agent | NTD Good Morning (May 12)

NTD Good Morning Full Broadcast (May 8)

NTD Good Morning Full Broadcast (May 7)

NTD Good Morning Full Broadcast (May 6)

NTD Good Morning Full Broadcast (May 5)

Fast, compelling, first-hand news from China. China in Focus airs Monday–Friday at 8 p.m. ET.

China in Focus

China Sends Warships to Pacific Drill as Tensions With Japan Rise

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide writing in 16 languages.

Reuters

2 US Embassy Personnel Assigned to Cartel Case Killed in Car Accident

Gunman Kills 8 Children, Including 7 of His Own, in Louisiana Mass Shooting

Flora Hua is a reporter based at NTD's global headquarters in New York City, where she covers China news, U.S.-China relations, and human rights issues. Flora primarily contributes to NTD's "China in Focus."  

Flora Hua

Trump: Seized Iranian Ship May Have ‘A Gift From China’

Joseph Lord is a congressional reporter for The Epoch Times.


Joseph Lord

Aldgra Fredly is a freelance writer covering U.S. and Asia Pacific news for The Epoch Times.

Aldgra Fredly

Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani Hospitalized in Critical Condition: Spokesman

Wildfires Across Georgia and Florida Have Destroyed Nearly 50 Homes and Are Forcing Evacuations

News you can trust from the U.S. and around the world. Critical information and insight. We cover the stories that others don’t. NTD News Today airs Monday–Friday at 11 a.m. ET.

NTD News Today

US Warns of China Hacks via Routers, Smart Devices

Juliet Song is an international correspondent exclusively covering China news for NTD. She primarily contributes to NTD's "China in Focus," covering U.S.-China relations, the Chinese regime's human rights abuses, and domestic unrest inside China.

Juliet Song

2 Americans Among Suspected Communist Rebels Killed in Clashes With Troops, Philippine Officials Say

Ryan Morgan is a reporter for The Epoch Times focusing on military and foreign affairs. He was previously a news writer for NTD. 


Ryan Morgan

Mari Otsu is NTD's White House correspondent based in Washington. 

Mari Otsu

World News

Middle East

Iran

3 US Warships Fend Off Iranian Attacks, Trump Says Ceasefire Still Holds

Health News

3 Dead in Suspected Hantavirus Outbreak on Cruise Ship in Atlantic Ocean: WHO

Evgenia Filimianova is a UK-based journalist covering a wide range of national stories, with a particular interest in UK politics, parliamentary proceedings and socioeconomic issues.


Evgenia Filimianova

The U.N. Security Council on Nov. 17 approved a U.S.-drafted resolution that endorses President Donald Trump’s Gaza cease-fire plan, a central component of Washington’s push to end the two-year conflict between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group.

Trump congratulated the U.N. on the vote in a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115567457865630938">post</a> on Truth Social.

“Congratulations to the World on the incredible Vote of the United Nations Security Council, just moments ago, acknowledging and endorsing the BOARD OF PEACE, which will be chaired by me, and include the most powerful and respected Leaders throughout the World,” Trump wrote.

“This will go down as one of the biggest approvals in the History of the United Nations, will lead to further Peace all over the World, and is a moment of true Historic proportion!”

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz, who previously served as Trump’s national security adviser, said the resolution is “historic and constructive.”

“[The Nov. 17] resolution represents another significant step towards a stable Gaza that will be able to prosper and an environment that will allow Israel to live in security,” he said.

Waltz said the passage of the resolution is “just the beginning” as the United States seeks to carry out Trump’s plan to end the conflict between Israel and Hamas, which began in October 2023.

Russia and China—two veto-holding members of the U.N. Security Council—ultimately abstained from the vote on the evening of Nov. 17, following concerns that either might veto the resolution.

Russia had previously put forward an alternative draft, saying that the U.S. plan does not adequately reflect long-standing international legal principles, including the two-state framework.

Moscow’s proposal outlined clearer terms for deploying a peacekeeping contingent and administering the Gaza Strip.

The U.S. proposal approved on Nov. 17, which was first announced on Sept. 29 and then <a href="https://usun.usmission.gov/u-s-mission-to-the-un-statement-on-un-security-council-resolution-on-gaza/">circulated</a> in November, backs Trump’s 20-point peace plan, called the Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict.

The plan lays out a phased approach that began with the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees and expanded humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip.

Under the second phase, Hamas would be required to decommission its weapons. The Israel Defense Forces would withdraw further from the enclave as security responsibilities were transferred to a new International Stabilization Force.

The plan also calls for the creation of an interim technocratic government consisting of Palestinian and international experts and overseen by a Board of Peace chaired by Trump.

This body would eventually hand authority over the Gaza Strip to a reformed Palestinian Authority, creating what the document <a href="https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1972736025597219278">describes</a> as “a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood.”

A spokesperson for the U.S. Mission to the U.N. <a href="https://usun.usmission.gov/key-regional-partners-stand-behind-gaza-un-security-council-resolution/">said</a> in a statement on Nov. 5 that the resolution “welcomes the [Board of Peace] and authorizes the [International Stabilization Force]” and paves the way for “a safer and more prosperous Gaza.”

The spokesperson wrote that the United States wants to “deliver results at the UN—not endless talk” and that regional actors had “seized this historic opportunity to finally end decades of bloodshed.”

On Nov. 14, the United States and several regional and Islamic states—Qatar, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Jordan, and Turkey—issued a joint <a href="https://usun.usmission.gov/joint-statement-on-the-un-security-council-resolution-on-gaza/">statement</a> in support of the draft resolution, urging its swift adoption.

The UK, a permanent member of the council, <a href="https://x.com/UKUN_NewYork/status/1989499952859648391?s=20">voiced</a> support a day later, stating that it was imperative to “seize the momentum” and begin that work as soon as possible.
<h2>Opposition From Hamas</h2>
Hamas has expressed opposition to the deal so far.

Ahead of the vote, Hamas, which has committed to the first phase of the cease-fire agreement but has so far <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-security-council-vote-us-resolution-trumps-gaza-plan-2025-11-17/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">refused</a> to disarm, said amendments and core elements of the U.S. text “do not contribute to stabilizing the situation in Gaza,” according to Al-Aqsa TV, a Hamas-run media outlet.

Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said on Nov. 17 that the group wants a resolution that stops what it described as Israel's "aggression against Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem,” stating that the United States is “trying to appease certain parties with non-binding wording.”

The terrorist group Popular Resistance Committees <a href="https://t.me/ALAQSA_LIVE/266821">stated</a> that the U.S. draft served to “reinforce U.S.–Israeli dominance” and amounted to “a new form of Israeli occupation,” according to Al-Aqsa TV.

The group stated that it opposed any deployment of international or foreign forces inside the Gaza Strip and objected to what it described as U.S. oversight of Gaza Strip administration.

Maher Al-Taher, a senior official of the terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said the danger of establishing an international force in the Gaza Strip is that it could turn the enclave “into an area outside Palestinian governance,” according to Al-Aqsa TV.

“The transitional phase could last for years, posing a major risk and keeping Gaza under a new form of occupation,” he said.
<h2>Israeli Position</h2>
Israel maintains that Hamas is seeking to block Trump's peace plan from advancing because the proposal requires the group to disarm.

“Hamas is trying to do everything possible to avoid this,” Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oren Marmorstein <a href="https://x.com/IsraelMFA/status/1983448500139377116">said</a> on Oct. 29.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/rubio-says-gaza-security-force-must-include-countries-israel-is-comfortable-with-5934348">told</a> his Cabinet on Oct. 26 that Israel would decide which international forces could operate in the Gaza Strip. A day later, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Israel would not accept the deployment of Turkish armed forces in the enclave.

According to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, any international security force sent to the Gaza Strip under a cease-fire arrangement would need to consist of countries Israel is “comfortable with.”

<em>The Associated Press contributed to this report. </em>

<em>From <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/un-security-council-approves-us-drafted-resolution-authorizing-trumps-gaza-cease-fire-plan-5945771">The Epoch Times</a></em>

Latest

Paywall Related

Videos

01_Lead Story

04_Top Stories

Latest Clips

International

Free for Subscribers

Management

03_Featured

02_Second Lead

Israel–Hamas War

Latest and breaking news, documentaries, movies, and lifestyle content on NTD+.
 
Empower your knowledge and elevate your spirit with NTD+, your go-to destination for truthful news, insightful documentaries, and captivating lifestyle content that enriches your life.

UN Security Council Approves Trump’s Gaza Cease-Fire Plan

Expert Analyzes the Surge of Democratic Socialists Winning US Elections

NTD Panelists Break Down What Needs to Be Fixed in SNAP

$2,000 Rebate Checks Make for Poor Economics but Good Politics: Economist

Trump in Talks With Lawmakers on Plan to Send Health Care Funds Directly to Americans

Marjorie Taylor Greene Apologizes for Participation in 'Toxic Politics'

Trump: Grocery Prices Are Lower Than Under Biden

Trump to Host Saudi Crown Prince in Washington

Melina Wisecup is NTD's congressional correspondent based in Washington, covering Capitol Hill and campaign politics.