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A person familiar with the Thursday call paraphrased Netanyahu as responding: “Joe, we’re gonna do it.”

But Biden wasn’t finished. The prime minister must announce the moves that evening, the president insisted.

By Thursday night, the Israeli security cabinet had approved those three measures to increase humanitarian aid entering the besieged enclave.

The relatively brief phone call between the two leaders this week marked the first time since Hamas’ attack on Israel in October that Biden threatened Netanyahu with serious consequences if Israel did not change the way it was waging its war in Gaza. Biden, who has remained steadfast in his support of Israel’s right to defend itself — even amid growing political backlash at home — warned the prime minister that if conditions did not rapidly improve for civilians in the strip, he would reconsider how the US was backing Israel in the conflict.

The prime minister’s office declined to comment on the exchange. The White House declined to comment for this story.

In both the official White House readout of the Biden-Netanyahu phone call and public statements following the call, US officials have declined to specify exactly what US policy changes are under consideration.

Slowing down the US’ supply of weapons to Israel would be the most likely policy change, one senior administration official told CNN, pointing to a recently released national security memo that lays out standards foreign governments that receive US military aid must adhere to.

But that official stressed that no decisions have been made and that the question of how the US supports Israel’s current war is a complicated one. There are other levers that the administration could potentially pull, they said, including those related to military aid writ large or the United Nations, as well as drastically shifting Biden’s public rhetoric about his administration’s support for the war.

Even as the administration considers what changes it could make if Israel doesn’t follow through, the US government is still sending deadly weapons to its ally. Biden is set to greenlight an estimated $18 billion sale of American-made fighter jets to Israel, and the administration also recently authorized the transfer of over 1,000 500-pound bombs and over 1,000 small-diameter bombs to Israel, CNN has reported. The White House has defended those sales and transfers as the product of a process that has been in the works for years.

Through the month of April, the Biden administration plans to monitor the new steps that Israel takes to alleviate the civilian and humanitarian crises in Gaza. But how exactly Biden would measure Israel’s commitment to a course correction is also unclear.

US officials have not publicly specified metrics for how much humanitarian aid per day they wish to see enter into Gaza, nor have they said how they would determine whether the Israel Defense Forces were sufficiently being careful about protecting civilians, including aid workers, in Gaza.

Senior administration officials have said it was the IDF strike that killed seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) workers on Monday that prompted Thursday’s call between the two leaders. US officials view the incident, which killed a Canadian-American dual citizen, as a glaring tragedy that captures the Biden administration’s growing concerns about Israel’s operational strategy.

The Israeli government on Friday shared the findings of an investigation into the killing of the WCK workers, revealing a series of botched assessments and decision-making failures. The IDF also fired two senior officers and reprimanded a top commander as a result.

Publicly, White House officials have avoided describing Biden’s demands to Netanyahu this week as an ultimatum.

“I would characterize this call as very direct, very businesslike, very professional on both sides,” White House spokesman John Kirby told reporters moments after the call ended. The president was clear, Kirby added, that the US is “willing to reconsider our own policy approaches here, dependent upon what the Israelis do or don’t do.”

The two men, who have now known each other for some four decades, have had their relationship tested by the Israel-Hamas war, as global condemnation for Israel’s conduct has grown louder by the day. The president and the prime minister are both facing angry constituents at home, and both could have their political fate determined by the outcome of the conflict.

For Biden, the end of the war can’t come soon enough. His support among key constituency groups such as Muslim and Arab Americans, progressives and young voters has eroded since October. And almost everywhere he turns, Biden appears to be met with angry protesters calling for a permanent ceasefire.

Netanyahu, meanwhile, stands to face a political reckoning once the war comes to an end. The moment could very well lead to the fracturing of his already tenuous right-wing coalition.

Biden himself indicated recently that he believed a rupture in his increasingly strained relationship with Netanyahu was coming — and that it was only a matter of time.

The president was caught saying on a hot mic after delivering his State of the Union speech last month: “I told Bibi, don’t repeat this, I said: ‘You and I are going to have a come-to-Jesus moment.’”

CNN’s Eugenia Ugrinovich contributed to this report.

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A person familiar with the Thursday call paraphrased Netanyahu as responding: “Joe, we’re gonna do it.”

But Biden wasn’t finished. The prime minister must announce the moves that evening, the president insisted.

By Thursday night, the Israeli security cabinet had approved those three measures to increase humanitarian aid entering the besieged enclave.

The relatively brief phone call between the two leaders this week marked the first time since Hamas’ attack on Israel in October that Biden threatened Netanyahu with serious consequences if Israel did not change the way it was waging its war in Gaza. Biden, who has remained steadfast in his support of Israel’s right to defend itself — even amid growing political backlash at home — warned the prime minister that if conditions did not rapidly improve for civilians in the strip, he would reconsider how the US was backing Israel in the conflict.

The prime minister’s office declined to comment on the exchange. The White House declined to comment for this story.

In both the official White House readout of the Biden-Netanyahu phone call and public statements following the call, US officials have declined to specify exactly what US policy changes are under consideration.

Slowing down the US’ supply of weapons to Israel would be the most likely policy change, one senior administration official told CNN, pointing to a recently released national security memo that lays out standards foreign governments that receive US military aid must adhere to.

But that official stressed that no decisions have been made and that the question of how the US supports Israel’s current war is a complicated one. There are other levers that the administration could potentially pull, they said, including those related to military aid writ large or the United Nations, as well as drastically shifting Biden’s public rhetoric about his administration’s support for the war.

Even as the administration considers what changes it could make if Israel doesn’t follow through, the US government is still sending deadly weapons to its ally. Biden is set to greenlight an estimated $18 billion sale of American-made fighter jets to Israel, and the administration also recently authorized the transfer of over 1,000 500-pound bombs and over 1,000 small-diameter bombs to Israel, CNN has reported. The White House has defended those sales and transfers as the product of a process that has been in the works for years.

Through the month of April, the Biden administration plans to monitor the new steps that Israel takes to alleviate the civilian and humanitarian crises in Gaza. But how exactly Biden would measure Israel’s commitment to a course correction is also unclear.

US officials have not publicly specified metrics for how much humanitarian aid per day they wish to see enter into Gaza, nor have they said how they would determine whether the Israel Defense Forces were sufficiently being careful about protecting civilians, including aid workers, in Gaza.

Senior administration officials have said it was the IDF strike that killed seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) workers on Monday that prompted Thursday’s call between the two leaders. US officials view the incident, which killed a Canadian-American dual citizen, as a glaring tragedy that captures the Biden administration’s growing concerns about Israel’s operational strategy.

The Israeli government on Friday shared the findings of an investigation into the killing of the WCK workers, revealing a series of botched assessments and decision-making failures. The IDF also fired two senior officers and reprimanded a top commander as a result.

Publicly, White House officials have avoided describing Biden’s demands to Netanyahu this week as an ultimatum.

“I would characterize this call as very direct, very businesslike, very professional on both sides,” White House spokesman John Kirby told reporters moments after the call ended. The president was clear, Kirby added, that the US is “willing to reconsider our own policy approaches here, dependent upon what the Israelis do or don’t do.”

The two men, who have now known each other for some four decades, have had their relationship tested by the Israel-Hamas war, as global condemnation for Israel’s conduct has grown louder by the day. The president and the prime minister are both facing angry constituents at home, and both could have their political fate determined by the outcome of the conflict.

For Biden, the end of the war can’t come soon enough. His support among key constituency groups such as Muslim and Arab Americans, progressives and young voters has eroded since October. And almost everywhere he turns, Biden appears to be met with angry protesters calling for a permanent ceasefire.

Netanyahu, meanwhile, stands to face a political reckoning once the war comes to an end. The moment could very well lead to the fracturing of his already tenuous right-wing coalition.

Biden himself indicated recently that he believed a rupture in his increasingly strained relationship with Netanyahu was coming — and that it was only a matter of time.

The president was caught saying on a hot mic after delivering his State of the Union speech last month: “I told Bibi, don’t repeat this, I said: ‘You and I are going to have a come-to-Jesus moment.’”

CNN’s Eugenia Ugrinovich contributed to this report.

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Biden will take an aerial tour of the wreckage and “deliver remarks reaffirming his commitment to the people of Baltimore,” the White House said. He will also receive an operational update on response efforts, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a Thursday briefing.

Leaders from the Coast Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers will share the status of their efforts to remove the wreckage and reopen the port of Baltimore.

The Army Corps of Engineers expects “to open a limited access channel for barge container service and some vessels that move automobiles and farm equipment by the end of April” and “restore the port to normal capacity by the end of May,” the White House said.

Biden will appear alongside Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and other Maryland and Baltimore officials, Jean-Pierre said.

“They hit the jackpot,” Carol Starr told CNN.

The couple had locked their own rings in a 6-foot-tall safe, where they also secured heirloom jewelry passed down from Carol’s late mother.

“My mother loved beautiful things and she wanted to leave a legacy through jewelry,” Carol Starr said. “She bought some beautiful antique jewelry, museum-quality jewelry.”

Orange County, California, prosecutors allege a group of thieves hid in the hillside adjoining the Starr’s home, watched them leave with visiting relatives, and made their move.

“They came over our fence, they broke through a window in the upper bedroom and came through that window,” Jeff Starr told CNN. “And then immediately started working … on the safe.”

The total loss: a staggering $8 million, the family estimates.

“You don’t feel safe in your own home anymore,” said Carol Starr, who is thankful no one returned home during the burglary. “I get so emotional and so mad when I think about what could have happened.”

Prosecutors say the break-in is part of a larger issue in which so-called “burglary tourists” enter the United States from countries that qualify for visa waivers, allowing a visit of up to 90 days without a traditional tourist visa. When the suspects arrive – most often from South America, prosecutors say – they join sophisticated burglary rings that prey on luxury homes.

In some cases, the suspects “lie in wait in these ghillie suits so they remain camouflaged,” said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer. “They take advantage of the fact that most people don’t have window sensors or motion detectors on their second floors. They have WiFi jammers to stop the alarm company from being notified.”

The iPhone maker notified 614 workers in multiple offices on March 28 that they were losing their jobs, with the layoffs becoming effective on May 27, according to reports to regional authorities.

The workers were cut from eight offices in Santa Clara, according to the filings under the state’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, also known as WARN. But it’s not clear which departments or projects the employees were involved in.

Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment early Friday.

The Cupertino, California, company had been a notable exception as other tech companies slashed their workforces over the past two years. There was a massive surge in hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people spent more time and money online, and big tech companies are still larger than they were before the pandemic. Still, as growth slows, companies are focusing on cutting costs.

In a recent regulatory filing, Apple said it had about 161,000 full-time equivalent employees.

Amazon announced earlier this week a fresh round of layoffs, this time at its cloud computing business AWS. In recent months, video game maker Electronic Arts said it’s cutting about 5% of its workforce, Sony said its axing about 900 jobs in its PlayStation division, Cisco Systems revealed plans to lay off more than 4,000 workers and social media company Snap, owner of Snapchat, announced its slashing 10% of its global workforce.

The iPhone maker notified 614 workers in multiple offices on March 28 that they were losing their jobs, with the layoffs becoming effective on May 27, according to reports to regional authorities.

The workers were cut from eight offices in Santa Clara, according to the filings under the state’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, also known as WARN. But it’s not clear which departments or projects the employees were involved in.

Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment early Friday.

The Cupertino, California, company had been a notable exception as other tech companies slashed their workforces over the past two years. There was a massive surge in hiring during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people spent more time and money online, and big tech companies are still larger than they were before the pandemic. Still, as growth slows, companies are focusing on cutting costs.

In a recent regulatory filing, Apple said it had about 161,000 full-time equivalent employees.

Amazon announced earlier this week a fresh round of layoffs, this time at its cloud computing business AWS. In recent months, video game maker Electronic Arts said it’s cutting about 5% of its workforce, Sony said its axing about 900 jobs in its PlayStation division, Cisco Systems revealed plans to lay off more than 4,000 workers and social media company Snap, owner of Snapchat, announced its slashing 10% of its global workforce.

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The letter, shared exclusively with ABC News, is the third such letter activists and lawmakers have sent to the White House this year. Signatories include NAACP President Derrick Johnson, attorney Ben Crump, National Action Network President Al Sharpton, stylist Law Roach, music executive Willie “Prophet” Stiggers, actress Erika Alexander and talk show host Tavis Smiley as well as Reps. Barbara Lee, D-Calif.; Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas; Cori Bush, D-Mo., and Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y.

This latest effort Thursday comes after several months of unsuccessful attempts to secure a meeting with the White House. In the open letter, leaders desperately urged Biden that “the state of our Union depends upon” these bills.

Marcus Anthony Hunter, a UCLA professor of sociology and African American studies, who coined the phrase “Black Lives Matter,” is leading the effort. He told ABC News the letter is an accountability measure after months of work behind closed doors in Washington, D.C., and across the country.