President Joe Biden hosted Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the White House on Tuesday as the outgoing administration seeks cease-fire progress in Gaza and Lebanon.

President-elect Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, longtime political rivals, met on Wednesday for the first time since Trump won back the White House last week and both promised a smooth transfer of power in January.

Anyway, the influence golf-loving Trump can exert over the U.S. Department of Justice – it has threatened to block any merger on the basis that it would violate competition law – is being viewed as something of a breakthrough in the current impasse.