Chapter 1: What recent developments have occurred in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire situation?
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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Vice President J.D. Vance says the U.S.-brokered Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza is holding despite recent violence. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reports on Vance's remarks in Israel today.
Over the weekend, Israel announced it had launched new strikes on Gaza, accusing Hamas of breaching the ceasefire. Hamas denied any involvement. Acknowledging the new violence, Vance accused some in the news media of having a, quote, desire to root for failure.
There's this inclination to say, oh, this is the end of the ceasefire.
Chapter 2: How is the U.S. federal government shutdown affecting farmers?
This is the end of the peace plan. It's not the end. It is, in fact, exactly how this is going to have to happen when you have people who hate each other, who have been fighting against each other for a very long time.
Vance also said that if Hamas does not cooperate in the ceasefire process, they will be, quote, obliterated. Vance was joined by Middle East Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, both of whom helped negotiate the ceasefire. Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR News.
The federal government's been shut down for 21 days now. The head of the Farm Action Fund, Joe Maxwell, says farmers are feeling it.
We have been farming for the last several years, and but for government subsidies, government programs, we would have been in the negative. So we rely on government to keep us in the black.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of the Ninth Circuit Court's ruling on the National Guard deployment?
Thousands of workers are not getting paid during the shutdown. As of yesterday, they included some 1,400 people at the agency that oversees the country's nuclear stockpile. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is siding with the administration's efforts to deploy the National Guard to Portland. Oregon Public Broadcasting's Conrad Wilson has more on yesterday's ruling.
The decision overturns one of two temporary restraining orders issued by a lower court judge blocking the federalization and deployment of the National Guard to Oregon. Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School, says the majority of the appeals court found the president's authority shouldn't be questioned over concerns such as an inability to carry out federal law.
What a majority of the panel concluded is that the district court judge had essentially substituted her judgment for the president's judgment in an inappropriate way.
In a dissenting opinion, an appeals court judge warned the majority was eroding constitutional protections, such as the right to protest the government and state sovereignty. For NPR News, I'm Conrad Wilson in Portland.
Chapter 4: What shocking news has emerged from the chess community?
People across the chess community are expressing shock online. It reports a 29-year-old American chess grandmaster, Daniel Naroditsky, has died. The Charlotte Chess Center in North Carolina, where Naroditsky was a head coach, announced his death yesterday in a social media statement. In a final video posted to his YouTube channel on Friday, Naroditsky told viewers he was back better than ever.
I've been sort of taking kind of a creative break, deciding future avenues of content,
cause of death is still unknown. The former child prodigy born to Jewish immigrants from Ukraine and Azerbaijan is being remembered today as a highly respected teacher and live streamer. From Washington, this is NPR News. Japan has chosen its first female prime minister. Her ruling party faces an uphill struggle to retain power.
Chapter 5: Who is Japan's first female prime minister and what challenges does she face?
And she has one week to prepare for a scheduled visit by President Trump. Here's NPR's Anthony Kuhn.
Japan's parliament voted 64-year-old Sanai Takeichi in as prime minister just weeks after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP, chose her as its president. Her predecessor, Shigeru Ishiba, quit after the LDP suffered two big electoral defeats, reducing the LDP to a minority in both houses of parliament. The LDP's longtime political ally, Komeito, walked out of their coalition.
The LDP signed a new coalition agreement with the opposition Japan Innovation Party. While Takeichi is a fan of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and has broken Japan's glass ceiling, she takes a traditional view of gender roles. Even for the conservative LDP, Takeichi's selection is widely seen as a hard swerve to the right. Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Seoul.
Former White House Press Secretary Corrine Jean-Pierre is out with a new book that addresses questions about former President Biden's cognitive health during his troubled re-election run, Democratic disunity, and, as she describes it, how her party failed black women.
Chapter 6: What insights does Corrine Jean-Pierre provide in her new book about American politics?
Jean-Pierre now identifies as an independent. She tells NPR's Morning Edition she did so to start a conversation about the direction of American politics. Her book is called Independent, A Look Inside a Broken White House Outside the Party Lines, published today. The Dow is up 270 points, roughly half a percent. The Nasdaq has lost 55 points and the S&P is off slightly. This is NPR News.