What are the latest updates on the Middle East peace efforts?
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On the web at theschmidt.org. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. President Trump is on his way to the Middle East, where he'll mark what is hoped to be the end of the war in Gaza.
President Trump is arriving in Israel tomorrow, just for a few short hours. He's going to be delivering a speech at Israel's parliament. He's going to be meeting the families of hostages. And then he flies to Egypt, to Sharm el-Sheikh, for a short ceremony dubbed the Middle East Peace Ceremony. There will be major regional and international leaders there. Hamas and Israel are not attending.
That's NPR's Daniel Estrin reporting from Tel Aviv. Israel, meanwhile, says it expects that Hamas will release all the remaining living hostages sometime Monday morning. And in Gaza, families are waiting for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. The releases are all part of the latest ceasefire that went into effect on Friday morning.
Wall Street will be watching the country's biggest banks this week for clues about the health of the economy. And NPR's Maria Aspin reports that investors are also looking for reassurance after President Trump threatened to escalate the trade war with China.
JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs are among the big banks unveiling their quarterly report cards on Tuesday. to kick off the latest round of financial updates from big companies. Investors expect good news overall. Corporate profits have been beating expectations this year.
That's despite spikes of market chaos and ongoing uncertainty over how President Trump's tariffs are reshaping the global economy. and raising prices for consumers. The big banks in particular have a window into how consumers and businesses are spending money or cutting back.
That's especially important during the ongoing government shutdown when federal data about the jobs market and inflation is delayed. Maria Aspin, NPR News, New York.
Authorities still don't have any answers to what caused an explosion that killed 16 people at a Tennessee munitions plant on Friday. As Caroline Eggers with member station WPLN reports, the company handles multiple types of explosives for the military.
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