NPR News: 10-09-2025 3PM EDT
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What peace plan is Israel's cabinet considering for Gaza?
Israel's cabinet is meeting today and is expected to give formal approval to a peace plan for Gaza. Under the plan, Hamas will release the remaining living hostages, while Israel will return more Palestinian prisoners to Gaza. President Trump says he's happy with the results.
I'm going to try and make a trip over. We're going to try and get over there. And we're working on the timing, the exact timing. We're going to go to Egypt. where we'll have a signing, an additional signing. We've already had a signing representing me, but we're going to have an official signing.
Not all issues have been settled, though. Uncertainty remains over just how Hamas will disarm and who will eventually govern in Gaza. When it comes to health information, a new poll finds who and what people believe is diverging along party lines in the U.S. NPR's Yuki Noguchi has our report.
President Trump warned pregnant women last month against taking acetaminophen, the ingredient in Tylenol, claiming it causes autism. Doctors say there's no causal evidence for that and say taking Tylenol is safer than a fever in pregnancy. So what's the public reaction? The poll by KFF found nearly 60 percent of Democrats say the president's statements were definitely false, but an almost equal percentage of Republicans believe the opposite. Ashley Kersinger directed the poll for KFF, a health policy research organization.
As people are going to different sources of information to make decisions around their health care, we're going to see partisanship playing a big role in what people decide to do. Yuki Noguchi, NPR News.
The execution of Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson has been put on hold. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted Roberson a stay today, one week before he was set to die by lethal injection. Texas Public Radio's David Martin Davies reports.
sudden turnaround, Texas's highest criminal court ruled that Robertson's execution should not move forward, but they did not grant him a new trial, which is what his attorneys have been calling for. They argue that the new evidence will show Robertson didn't murder his two-year-old daughter, Nikki, and that she died from an illness. This is the third execution date that Robertson has faced. He was set to be executed on October 16th. I'm David Martin Davies in San Antonio.
Federal auto safety regulators have opened another investigation into what Tesla calls its full self-driving technology. The government has received dozens of reports of the electric vehicles running red lights or driving on the wrong side of the road. Sometimes those incidents have led to accidents. In complaints, Tesla drivers said they got no warning about the unexpected behavior. Stocks remain down at this hour on Wall Street. And you're listening to NPR News. Regulators in China are further restricting the export of rare earth minerals and related technologies. New regulations announced today will require foreign companies to get special approval to export items that contain even small amounts of rare minerals and metals critical for high tech.
The elements are a key sticking point in tariff talks between Beijing and Washington. In Germany, Lufthansa is calling on the government to implement a drone deterrent policy as quickly as possible. As Esme Nicholson reports, suspected drone sightings forced Munich Airport to ground flights twice last week.
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr says closing airports cannot be the solution to drone incursions and is advocating for the speedy installation of drone defense technology at all airports. Speaking to public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk, the airline chief stressed the aviation industry guarantees passenger safety at all times and anti-drone policy must catch up. Chancellor Friedrich Merz's cabinet has drafted a bill to strengthen police and military powers to shoot down rogue drones.
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