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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. The clock has begun on what's expected to be the last hostage, prisoner, and detainee exchange in the war between Israel and Hamas that's set to begin on Monday. NPR's Carrie Khan has more.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza began making the long, arduous trek from south to Gaza City. NPR's Anas Baba there says people are on the move assessing the devastation and searching for ways to rebuild.
It feels like I'm witnessing a place being born again. But Gazans here, they don't wait for permission to leave. They carry hope like oxygen.
In Israel, hospitals are preparing to care for and rehabilitate the 20 remaining live hostages to be returned. Dr. Mikhail Steinman heads nursing at Bellinson Hospital.
Welcome home. So glad to see you. We are here. We'll take care of you.
President Trump is expected in Egypt and Israel on Monday. Carrie Khan, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
The government shutdown is making a bad situation worse for Midwestern farmers. Frank Morris of member station KCUR reports farmers are now cut off from government assistance and information, just as many struggle to stay in business.
Most corn, wheat, and soybean farmers are losing money. Shortages than tariffs have jacked up the price of fertilizer and farm equipment they have to buy, while trade wars are depressing the price of the grain they have to sell. Normally in hard times, Missouri farmer Richard Oswald would look to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a short-term loan.
I've literally done this for 55 years. It's been something that has always been there.
Not this year. The USDA is mostly shut down. President Trump has promised farmers a bailout, but that's delayed. And it's unclear how any assistance program would work absent a functioning USDA. Economists expect farm foreclosures to rise. For NPR News, I'm Frank Morris in Kansas City.
Officials say they found no survivors after a massive blast at a Tennessee explosive plant lit yesterday morning. Cynthia Abrams of member station WPLN reports several vigils are now taking place in the rural community.
Around 45 people gathered at a church in McHugh in Tennessee on Saturday afternoon. The congregation's pastor said in his remarks that it would be hard to find anybody in the community that was untouched by the tragedy. Linda Sutton, one of the vigil's attendees, confirmed this.
I'm going to know more people when all the names come out, because this is small, and I've lived here, you know, all my life.
The explosion occurred at Accurate Energetic Systems, which processes a variety of explosive products for the military, commercial demolition firms, and the aerospace industry. Officials say the cause of the blast remains unclear. For NPR News, I'm Cynthia Abrams in Nashville.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. At least 21 children in India are dead from cough syrup that was contaminated with industrial chemicals, and it sparked outrage in the country. But as NPR's Gabriela Emanuel reports, it's something that's happened periodically all over the world.
Cough syrups use a liquid solvent, but in this case, it was replaced by a cheaper ingredient that looks similar but is toxic. This substitute, diethylene glycol, is meant to be used to manufacture brake fluids and antifreeze. When ingested, it causes acute kidney injury. Saifuddin Ahmed is at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
This is not some sort of accident. This is intentionally done to reduce the cost of the drug and to pocket more money.
A new report from the World Health Organization puts blames on criminals, some of whom package this cheaper toxic liquid in containers with the label of the safe solvent. In the recent case in India, officials have arrested the owner of the drug manufacturer. Gabriela Emanuel, NPR News.
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