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What is the latest update on the Gaza cease‑fire negotiations?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavoni. President Trump is telling reporters that it will be known soon whether Hamas has accepted a ceasefire agreement in Gaza.
President has Hamas agreed to the latest framework for a ceasefire in hostage field.
Uh we'll see what happens. We're gonna know over the next twenty four hours. This week Trump said that Israel agreed to a sixty day ceasefire and warned Hamas to accept it before conditions worsen, and Piar's Hadil al Shalchi has more.
A senior Hamas official who was not authorized to speak to the media told NPR that the group wants guarantees to end the war permanently for a partial Israeli military withdrawal and for the United Nations to return as the main distributor of aid in Gaza.
The official said that Hamas could announce a decision to accept a ceasefire deal within quote hours.
How is the Trump administration handling the Biden‑era ghost‑gun rule?
Israeli and Hamas officials have said there are positive signs that they're ready to negotiate. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are expected to meet on Monday in Washington. Hadil Al-Shalty, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
Pressure is building on the Trump administration to decide whether to keep enforcing a Biden era rule restricting the sale of ghost guns. NPR's Martin Costi reports at issue is an ATF rule that classifies certain build-it-yourself gun kits as actual guns, requiring serial numbers and background checks.
The Supreme Court upheld the ATF rule in March, but now it's one of dozens of firearms regulations being reviewed under an executive order signed by President Trump in February. Bill Brooks chairs the firearms committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
We support the rule and we're in hopes that it'll be left in place because it really is helpful in suppressing the kinds of firearms that we see at crime scenes and in the hands of criminals.
But some gun rights groups want the administration to throw out the Biden era ghost gun rule, and one gun kitmaker has asked a federal court in Texas to suspend the rule's enforcement on constitutional grounds.
What Supreme Court cases are shaping transgender‑rights and sports policy?
Martin Costi, NPR News.
The Supreme Court has also agreed to review two cases on transgender rights in its next term, as NPR's Nina Totenberg reports at issue are challenges to laws banning trans women and girls from sports activities at publicly funded institutions.
Twenty-seven states have enacted these laws, with supporters saying they're needed to ensure fairness in athletic competition. And to prevent athletes whose sex at birth was male from having an unfair advantage. Opponents of the law say they discriminate based on sex and thus are unconstitutional. Transgender participation in sports, though extremely rare, has become the newest flashpoints in the modern culture wars, especially after the Trump campaign made transgender participation in all walks of life. An issue during the campaign was
NPR's Nina Totenberg, this is NPR News. And rural western Colorado people are competing for prize money to see who can catch the biggest number of small mouth bath and invasive species.
Why is Colorado holding a smallmouth bass competition and what are its environmental goals?
Competition runs through August tenth, Colorado Public Radio Stina Sieg has more.
The Ridgeway Reservoir Smallmouth Bass Classic is both a mouthful and a highly effective way to remove harmful fish. Eric Gardunio with Colorado Parks and Wildlife says smallmouth bass can decimate endangered species.
And they can eat a fish that's up to at least a third of their body length. And yeah, they just open that mouth up, suck the fish in and and swallow it whole.
A single angler can catch thousands of smallmouth bass over the course of the competition. The one with the most wins ten thousand dollars. For MPR News, I'm Stina Sieg in Grand Junction, Colorado.
The United Nations reports that extreme drought events over the past two years are pushing millions of people to starvation.
How are extreme droughts and food insecurity affecting millions worldwide?
One author called the phenomenon a slow-moving global catastrophe. The study comes from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. Food supply stresses include climate change and increased pressure on natural resources.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the latest update on the Gaza cease‑fire negotiations?
0:01–0:57
2
How is the Trump administration handling the Biden‑era ghost‑gun rule?
0:57–2:04
3
What Supreme Court cases are shaping transgender‑rights and sports policy?
2:04–3:11
4
Why is Colorado holding a smallmouth bass competition and what are its environmental goals?
3:11–4:03
5
How are extreme droughts and food insecurity affecting millions worldwide?
4:03–4:39