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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. Today marks one week into the Gaza ceasefire. A dispute is growing over the bodies of the remaining 19 Israeli hostages in Gaza. NPR's Rob Schmitz reports from Tel Aviv it's threatening the ceasefire.
In a statement, Hamas said recovering the 19 bodies of the remaining Israeli hostages may take some time because it requires special digging equipment that it needs from outside Gaza. Hamas said the bodies are buried in tunnels under the rubble of bombed out buildings. Hamas's militant wing leaked a video to Al Jazeera showing its men searching for the bodies of hostages. The Jerusalem Post reports that an 81-person rescue team from Turkey is prepared to assist in the search for bodies, but was barred by Israel's government from entering Gaza. Israel has accused Hamas this week of holding back these bodies and violating the ceasefire agreement, while Hamas says its inability to find the bodies reflects the complex situation on the ground in Gaza as society attempts to rebuild.
Rob Schmitz and PR News, Tel Aviv.
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton is at a federal courthouse in Maryland this morning. He's been indicted on 18 counts of allegedly mishandling classified information. Bolton worked in the first Trump administration but is now a fierce Trump critic. President Trump has repeatedly denounced Bolton. Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Elliot Williams says that the case may involve Bolton's conduct, and the president's statements.
Two things can be true at the same time. Prosecutors could have put together an indictment that raises some damning allegations about John Bolton and his conduct, and at the same time, the president of the United States has impermissibly injected himself into a number of matters, including John Bolton's. I would say, if I were John Bolton's defense attorneys, that the president's repeated statements about John Bolton do cast at least some doubt on the indictment. He spoke to NPR's Morning Edition.
Stocks opened higher this morning as American Express reports strong demand for its new platinum credit card. NPR's Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose about 120 points in early trading.
With government data on consumer spending held up by the federal shutdown, analysts are watching for other clues, including the big credit card companies. American Express says its quarterly profits jumped 16 percent, thanks in part to robust spending by wealthy Amex cardholders. The company also says it's fielded half a million requests for its new perk-laden platinum card, despite raising the annual fee to nearly $900. And the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is suing the Trump administration over its plan to charge $100,000 for new high-tech visas. The lawsuit says the fee is unlawful and would harm U.S. businesses. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial averages up about 100 points at 46,057. This is NPR. The federal government is well into its third week of a shutdown, and today is the deadline for the Trump administration to give a federal judge a list of all federal government layoffs of employees. These include rifts that have already happened or those that are planned. The federal judge has temporarily blocked the layoffs in response to a lawsuit by federal employee unions. There was a debate last night among the candidates running for mayor in New York City. They included former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Democratic frontrunner Zorant Mamdani. NPR's Brian Mann has more.
Mamdani was the main target in the mayoral debate, facing blistering attacks from Cuomo, who's running as an independent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa. They criticized Mamdani's membership in the Democratic Socialists of America and his past calls to defund the NYPD.
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