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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. President Trump is hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House at this hour. NPR's Emily Fang reports the meeting comes amid increasing pressure to end the war in Gaza. U.S.
Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff told reporters that there might be a breakthrough on the plan in the coming days. But we reached out to Hamas negotiators who say they have not yet received any kind of written proposal of this plan. And so the question now is, is there enough pressure on the U.S. and Hamas on Israel to overcome fundamental disagreements which have sunk previous ceasefire proposals?
NPR's Emily Fang reporting from Tel Aviv. Trump and Netanyahu are expected to hold a joint press conference at the White House following today's meeting. The top four congressional leaders will hold talks with President Trump at the White House this afternoon. The meeting comes a day before the deadline to avert a government shutdown. White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt tells Fox News the president is asking Congress to keep federal agencies funded under a bill that passed the House but was rejected in the Senate.
The president is giving Democrat leadership one last chance to be reasonable, to come to the White House today to try to talk about this. And now is not the time to try to get political points against Donald Trump. Now is the time to do right by the American people and keep the government funded.
A temporary measure keeping the government open would need at least 60 votes in the Senate to pass. Officials in Oregon are suing the Trump administration to block the deployment of National Guard troops to Portland.
What is the White House meeting between President Trump and Netanyahu about?
The state argues the president's description of the city as, quote, war-ravaged is pure fiction. In Memphis, a new crime-fighting task force backed by local, federal, and National Guard troops is launching this week. In a city known for both high crime and civil rights activism, residents and local leaders are divided over the deployment. Christopher Blank with Member Station WKNO reports.
For Rachel Spriggs and scores of activists who protested the task force over the weekend, federal help has a checkered history in this majority-Black city.
Because here, help has meant harm. Here, help has meant harassment.
But many locals, including city council members such as Yolanda Cooper Sutton, say the tough measures are a consequence of previous failed crime interventions.
What solutions do we have in place?
For Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, the solution is a surge of law enforcement from 13 federal agencies and state troopers. The National Guard, he said Friday, will neither be armed nor make arrests. It will work with Memphis police as the department focuses on violent crime. For NPR News, I'm Christopher Blank in Memphis.
What breakthrough is being discussed for a Gaza ceasefire and who says it’s possible?
Stocks are trading mixed on Wall Street at this hour. The Dow was down 26 points, the Nasdaq Composite up 183. This is NPR News in Washington. Food insecurity is a growing issue in the U.S., made worse by rising inflation and cost of living. NPR's Amy Held reports in the D.C. area, a new survey finds after sweeping federal job cuts, a persistent problem is deepening.
Radha Mathia is CEO of the Capital Area Food Bank.
Food insecurity just remains extremely high. at 36% of our population.
That means limited access to enough good food, and their survey finds it's growing more severe.
It goes from not being able to choose the nutritious foods that you might want to eat to actually reducing the size of meals and skipping meals.
Then there are thousands of federal workers who lost jobs during mass cuts. 41% of those households are now food insecure. It's part of a national problem that may soon get harder to assess and address. The USDA says it's ending its survey after it became politicized.
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