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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. President Trump says Israel and Hamas have signed off on the first phase of a peace plan a day after the second anniversary of the war in Gaza. He says that means Hamas will release all remaining hostages and Israel will begin to withdraw troops from Gaza. In a statement on social media, Trump said this is the first step towards a, quote, strong, durable and everlasting peace. Israel has intercepted another flotilla trying to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza.
The Israeli foreign ministry says 145 people were brought to shore for processing and are expected to be deported. Last week, nearly 450 activists, including climate advocate Greta Thunberg, were intercepted. Hundreds of National Guard troops have arrived in Illinois. President Trump threatened for weeks to send in the Guard over the objections of local officials. He says the move is necessary to combat what he calls out-of-control crime in the city and to protect immigration officers. He also says Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson should be jailed for opposing his actions. As Mike Puente of member station WBEZ reports, ICE agents have been clashing with protesters.
There have been vastly conflicting stories on what's been happening with arrests by ICE. With the Trump administration calling protesters rioters and protesters objecting to arrests, some of the protests at the ICE facilities in another suburban area have flared into violence with protesters videotaping incidents which shows ICE escalating the violence as they're shooting rubber bullets into the crowds and spraying them with pepper spray.
WBEZ's Mike Puente reporting.
What recent developments are there in the Israel-Hamas peace talks?
The government shutdown is now in its eighth day with no sign of progress on Capitol Hill. Today, the Senate again failed to pass either of two short-term measures that would reopen the government. NPR's Sam Greenglass reports.
In the last week, the Senate has voted six times on the same pair of bills, one authored by Democrats, the other by Republicans. neither has gotten the 60 votes needed to pass. And while a few senators are having informal talks about a path forward, there's no indication that the leadership on either side is willing to budge. Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska was among a bipartisan group of senators who shared a meal Tuesday night.
You don't have communication, nothing changes, right?
Republicans want to pass a short-term spending bill to reopen the government. Democrats won't support that without a deal to extend expiring health insurance subsidies. The votes are expected to continue. Sam Greenglass, NPR News.
The number of international students arriving in the U.S. dropped by nearly a fifth in August as universities started the new academic year. The dip came as the Trump administration ratcheted up scrutiny of foreign students. According to federal data, international visitors arriving on student visas declined 19 percent in August compared to the year before. This is NPR News from Washington. Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of molecules that can trap vast quantities of gas. The discovery could help potentially suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere or harvest moisture from desert environments. The Nobel Committee compared the structures to the magical handbag carried by Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series.
A feline mascot of a hardware store in Richmond, Virginia, has been found. The Instagram sensation Francine was missing for weeks, launching a massive search operation. Billy Shields has the tale.
Francine the cat could usually be found lounging around the Lowe's hardware store location on Richmond's main drag, West Broad Street. But sometime last month, when she was last seen, Francine disappeared. Lowe's officials said she had stowed away on a freight truck bound for a distribution center in Garysburg, North Carolina.
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