NPR News: 10-03-2025 9PM EDT
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Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theschmidt.org. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Hamas says it's accepted some elements of Trump's 20-point plan to end Israel's war in Gaza, including giving up power and releasing all remaining hostages, but that other details require further discussion. As NPR's Aya Batraoui explains, questions still need to be answered about the deal.
example would be troop withdrawal. When would Israel withdraw its troops? The disarmament of Hamas, would Hamas be storing its weapons, giving up its weapons? How and when would that happen? How about the deployment of Arab forces into Gaza? Egypt says it's ready to do that, to help with that, but they need a clear mandate for those forces and they need a UN Security Council resolution. There's also a board that would be governing Gaza that would essentially be chaired by President Trump himself. But what role would Palestinians have and actually You know, implementing their own governance in Gaza. So all of these are questions that are still going to have to be negotiated. And Hamas wants to be at the table for that.
NPR's Aya Batraoui reporting. President Trump and his budget director, Russell Vogt, say the government shutdown has given them an opportunity to cut programs they don't like and order mass layoffs.
What are the details of Trump's 20-point plan for Gaza?
Some federal workers point out the administration's already doing that. NPR's Andrea Hsu reports.
Even before the shutdown, the National Institutes of Health had gone through mass layoffs and seen the cancellation of hundreds of research grants. Those moves have been challenged in court, but for now, the Supreme Court has allowed them to stand. Mark Heistad, a brain scientist with NIH, is part of a coalition of civil servants who say the president is overstepping his power. Heistad spoke in his personal capacity.
Trump, with Russell Vogt, has been taking this power, seizing this power from Congress and ignoring the Constitution.
The White House argues the Constitution gives the president the power to run the executive branch as he sees fit. So far, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court largely appears to back that view. Andrea Hsu, NPR News.
Hip-hop mogul Sean Diddy Combs has been sentenced to 50 months in prison. Combs was convicted in July on two counts of transportation for prostitution and As NPR's Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento reports.
Federal Judge Arun Subramanian sentenced Sean Combs to over four years in prison, citing his history of physical and emotional abuse. Earlier this summer, a federal jury acquitted Sean Combs of sex trafficking and racketeering, the most serious charges that he faced. But he was found guilty of transporting two of his ex-girlfriends across state lines to engage in prostitution with male escorts. Much of the trial centered on how Combs used power, violence, and manipulation to coerce the women into those acts. While delivering his sentence, Judge Subramanian told Combs that the harm he caused those women cannot simply be washed away, and there must be meaningful accountability for the abuse. Isabella Gomez-Sarmiento, NPR News.
A Spanish-language journalist in a Georgia immigration detention center since June was deported to El Salvador today.
What challenges remain in the negotiations with Hamas?
Mario Guevara was covering a protest outside Atlanta when police arrested him. This is NPR News from Washington. North Carolina's Democratic governor has signed a bill into law in response to the stabbing death of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte commuter train. The bill passed by the state's Republican-controlled legislature bars cashless bail for violent crimes and for many repeat offenders. It also seeks to restart the death penalty in the state. The last execution in North Carolina took place in 2006. After more than four decades in prison, a Pennsylvania man's murder conviction was vacated over the summer. This week, he was finally released and immediately detained by ICE, as Sydney Roach of member station WPSU reports.
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