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What did President Trump announce about a deal to disarm Hamas?
President Trump says a deal has been reached to disarm Hamas. On social media, Trump called the deal reached in Cairo between mediators and Hamas leaders historic, saying disarmament would come in phases as Israeli forces withdraw from Gaza. It's not clear how long the process will take, and Israeli support for the plan is uncertain. Americans have long backed Israel, but polls show support falling since the wars in Gaza and Iran. NPR's Frank Langford reports on how Americans and Israelis now see one another.
When Rachel Lindenfeld first visited Israel, she loved it.
I had studied Hebrew in college, and I actually got to put it in action and read everything around me.
But after the huge death toll in Gaza, Lindenfeld, who's Jewish and lives in Washington, D.C., sympathizes more with the Palestinians.
And I'm worried about Palestinians and how they can come back from this.
Mayor Pavlovsky says Americans don't appreciate the threats Israelis face. In Jerusalem, he lifted his shirt to show me huge scars across his belly. The stabbing attack. The terrorist came with knife and tried to kill me. Pawlowski said a Palestinian attacked him in the West Bank without provocation in 2015. Frank Lankford, NPR News, reporting from Washington and Jerusalem.
New government data points to a slowdown in economic growth. NPR's Scott Horsley on what the Commerce Department is saying.
Gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 1.5% in the second quarter. That's a bit of a slowdown from the first three months of the year, and the growth was really concentrated in some narrow categories. But as you say, the biggest driver of economic activity is consumer spending, and that held up pretty well.
Consumer spending accounts for about 70 percent of U.S. economic activity. To appeals court serves, they ruled against the Trump administration's policy mandating those who enter the country without legal status be placed in detention. The issue expected to end up at the Supreme Court, as NPR's Human of Steel reports.
The decisions out of the Ninth Circuit and Seventh Circuit courts of appeals argue that the administration is misunderstanding decades-old immigration law.
How are American and Israeli perspectives shifting after the Gaza and Iran wars?
The Trump administration wants anyone who entered the country illegally to be in immigration detention while their cases play out in immigration court. Under previous administrations, someone without a criminal record would generally be allowed to seek a bond hearing while their immigration case was pending. The approach has resulted in the prolonged detention of people who, in some cases, have been living in the U.S. for decades, and a record number of people in detention. The Supreme Court is expected to take up the issue in its next term. Ximena Bustillo, Empire News, Washington.
Spain's prime minister planning to visit the Spanish enclave of Sueta in North Africa. The situation there has been described as absolute chaos. Thousands of migrants have surged into the territory from Morocco. At least nine people have been killed. This is NPR News. Todd Blanch remains acting Attorney General, but his nomination to the post is on hold. And while President Trump said Thursday that he could pull Blanch's nomination, he also suggested he may try to wait out two key Republicans, John Cornyn of Texas and North Carolina's Tom Tillis. That issue is a sweeping tax immunity deal that benefits Trump and members of his family. It also included the controversial anti-weaponization fund that Blanche has said has been abandoned.
But Cornyn and Tillis say they want written assurances. On social media, Trump said he could put Blanche back up for attorney general after Cornyn and Tillis leave office. A Florida professor suing after being fired for a short story she assigned to her English class. She says her free speech was violated. Nancy Guan from member station WUSF reports.
Vanita Prabhakar says she was terminated abruptly for teaching the critically acclaimed short story Bettering Myself. It's about an alcoholic teacher who jokes inappropriately with her students and was part of a lesson on narrative voice, specifically unsympathetic or unreliable narrators.
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