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What recent developments occurred in the Israel ceasefire plan?
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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stephens. Large crowds took to the streets of Israel Thursday after the government signed off on phase one of a ceasefire plan for Gaza. The U.S. draft proposal includes the return of all hostages and Palestinian prisoners and a pullback of Israeli troops. President Trump says the proposal does not call for any further displacement of Palestinians.
Nobody's going to be forced to leave. No, it's just the opposite. This is a great plan. This is a great peace plan. This is a plan that was supported by everybody. I mean, as I said, they're dancing in the streets of many, many countries right now. It's amazing. I've never seen anything like it.
U.S. Central Command is to create a task force to oversee the ceasefire, but it is still unclear how Hamas will disarm in exchange for security guarantees and who will lead post-war Gaza. A federal grand jury has indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on a fraud charge. James calls the allegations baseless and a, quote, desperate weaponization of the justice system.
NPR's Ryan Lucas reports that the indictment comes two weeks after President Trump publicly pressured the Justice Department to prosecute some of his critics.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has been charged with one count of bank fraud and one count of false statements to a financial institution. The indictment was handed up by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia, secured by the same interim U.S. attorney there who last month brought charges against another prominent Trump critic, former FBI Director James Comey.
As the Attorney General for New York State, James sued Trump and his company for inflating the value of some of its assets. James won that civil fraud case in a more than $450 million judgment, although an appeals court later tossed the financial penalty.
Trump has long lashed out at James and publicly called for retribution, and last month directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to go after James and other perceived political foes. Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.
In Chicago, a federal judge has temporarily blocked the National Guard from being deployed in Illinois. NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran has that report.
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