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Stimulus bill keeps stalling, Israel-UAE forge peace pact, and targeted quarantines are a new normal.

President Donald Trump said he wouldn't veto a stimulus bill that contains funding for the Postal Service, backtracking on earlier comments tying his opposition to criticism of mail-in voting. In an interview with Fox Business on Thursday, Trump had said withholding funding would make it harder for people to vote by mail and encourage them to go to polls. The attacks had raised concerns among Democrats, who are seeking the money along with $3.6 billion in election funding. Negotiations over a new coronavirus relief plan remain at a standstill ahead of presidential nominating conventions for Republicans and Democrats.