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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. After the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and today's exchange of hostages and detainees, President Trump was in the Middle East today to take a victory lap, as NPR's Jane Araf reports.
Trump was given a generally rapturous reception at the Israeli parliament, where he was called the greatest friend Israel has had. From there, he flew to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to co-chair a peace summit. He noted that the 20 or so world leaders standing behind him had agreed to come on extremely short notice. As a dealmaker, he said peace in the Middle East would be the biggest deal of them all. If you do anything about deals, that's all I've done all my life is deals. The greatest deals just sort of happen, and that's what happened right here. Always the businessman, he called on the wealthy countries who had come to the summit to fund Gaza's multi-billion dollar reconstruction.
Jane Araf, NPR News, Amman.
Unresolved issues remain for the ceasefire, including Hamas disarmament and how Gaza should be governed. The federal government remains shut down, with Congress unable to come to a deal to resume funding. NPR's Andrea Hsu reports that some furloughed federal employees are finding ways to support each other.
Charlotte Slayman works for the Federal Trade Commission and is a member of the National Treasury Employees Union. She says federal workers need to take care of each other right now, given what they've been through. Seeing important work they've been doing denigrated or halted, being unable to do the jobs they were hired to do for the public, she spoke in her personal capacity.
I want us to turn that pain into strength and action.
What recent developments occurred in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire?
And I want Congress to fight for us.
The White House continues to blame Democrats for the impasse. In a statement, spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said the administration was encouraging Democrats to, quote, stop the pain and reopen the government. Andrea Hsu, NPR News.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed one of the first laws to require law enforcement agencies in the state to disclose whether and how they used AI to write police reports. Rachel Miro of member station KQED reports.
State Senator Jesse Arreguin of the San Francisco Bay Area said he's not opposed to law enforcement using AI. He just wants transparency, accuracy and accountability for the courts and the public.
Because this is the official report, a legal document which is so essential in criminal legal proceedings that could decide the fate and the freedom of people.
While some law enforcement groups were opposed, Araguin said he amended the bill to address their concerns, including adding a provision that says only the final police report will be considered an officer's official statement. For NPR News, I'm Rachel Miro.
And you're listening to NPR News. SpaceX capped Monday night's test launch of its huge Starship rocket with a splashdown in the Indian Ocean. The test flight was Starship's second consecutive apparent success after a string of failures. Its latest test was aimed at demonstrating the vehicle's reusable design. and its capacity to eventually take humans to the moon and Mars. Scientists say the answer to a 180-year-old mystery surrounding a penguin-like bird called the Great Auk has been hiding in plain sight at a museum in Cincinnati. Tana Weingartner of Member Station WVXU explains.
The last two great auks were taxidermied and lost to time. Now Cincinnati Museum Center curator of zoology Heather Farrington says scientists using tissue saved during the taxidermy process and other records confirm a specimen at the museum is the last female auk.
What they were trying to do was match soft tissues they knew came from those two individuals, two taxidermy mounts from museum collections around the world. And the male was found in a previous scientific study, but the female was not.
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