Today’s edition of quick hits. Today’s edition of quick hits. * A ceasefire deal : “President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that Israel and Hezbollah had agreed to a United States-brokered ceasefire in Lebanon. ... Under the deal, which is set to go into effect Wednesday at 4 a.m. local time, the fighting at the Israel-Lebanese border will end, Biden said in outlining the ceasefire, which he said was ‘designed to be a permanent cessation of hostilities.’” * An entirely predictable reaction : “