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The passing of Grateful Dead guitarist and founding member Bob Weir this weekend is hitting many of his fans quite hard, particularly as Billy Cruz of member station KQED tells us, in their former Haight-Ashbury neighborhood where the dead briefly lived in the 1960s.
Violence continued in Gaza this weekend despite the ceasefire still in effect.
Hospitals there say Israeli troops shot and killed three Palestinians.
Military officials say the shooting was in response to violations of the ceasefire.
Hamas, meanwhile, says it will dissolve its existing government in Gaza once the Palestinian Leadership Committee takes over the territory.
but no timeline is in place outlining just when that will happen.
Wildfires are burning in the Patagonia region of Argentina at this hour.
About 30,000 acres have been destroyed so far, and the fires are threatening a power plant, a school, as well as a number of rural properties.
The fires started almost a week ago.
The area's governor is suggesting that at least one of those fires was intentionally set.
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman.
President Trump says a meeting is being set up with Iranian leaders as protests in the country have escalated and the U.S.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says the Justice Department has served the central bank with subpoenas and threatened the central bank with a criminal indictment.
At issue is Powell's testimony about building renovations at the Fed.
But in a video statement released on Sunday, Powell says the real issue is Trump's efforts to control the nation's interest rates.
The Fed is an independent agency Trump has repeatedly attacked for not lowering key interest rates more quickly.