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Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Halisa-Countel. In the Chicago suburb of Elgin, police say a federal agent was involved in a car crash, and later at least seven people were treated for exposure to chemical irritants during a Saturday morning immigration operation. Christina Chandler describes what she saw outside her home during a nearly one-hour standoff.
I've seen ICE drag people to the ground. I saw ICE spray people in the face. I saw ICE, I mean, they literally took the smoke bomb right in front of my house.
Chandler and another local, Christina Castro, told ABC News the immigration raids are striking fear among locals. Castro said they just need to go home and go away. The U.S. is planning to announce before the end of the year the leaders who will sit on a so-called Board of Peace. chaired by President Trump. They'll be overseeing the next steps in Gaza's future, as NPR's Alia Bouchari reports.
A U.S. official tells NPR President Trump's team is pushing to move to the second phase of the fragile ceasefire in Gaza. He spoke anonymously because the announcement hasn't officially been made yet. The U.S. is also pushing for the creation of an international stabilization force comprised of Muslim and Arab forces to be deployed in Gaza early next year. But it's unclear which countries will join and what their role will be. Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdel-Ati said at the Doha Forum in Qatar that the force needs to be deployed as soon as possible.
What happened during the immigration operation in Elgin, Illinois?
We need international forces to be deployed alongside the yellow line in order to verify and to monitor the upholding of the ceasefire.
He says the troops should act as a buffer between Hamas and Israeli forces still inside Gaza. Aya Batraoui, NPR News, Qatar.
President Trump's new national security strategy is critical of Europe in several ways, one of them being its support for Ukraine. We get more from Terry Schultz in Brussels.
The strategy says Europe is in economic decline and faces impending civilizational erasure. It blames the European Union in part for undermining political liberty and sovereignty, including freedom of speech. It says within a few decades, certain NATO countries will become majority non-European due to excessive immigration. The German Marshall Fund's Ian Lesser says the document is unlikely to be widely appreciated.
But... The hard right and those who share that view about migration and replacement theories and things of that nature will find in this some common cause.
On X, former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt notes, Europe seems to be the only part of the world where the new security strategy sees any threat to democracy, which he calls bizarre. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
In the West Indian state of Goa, officials there say at least 23 people have died after a fire engulfed a popular nightclub in Arpora village along the coast. You're listening to NPR News. This day is the 84th anniversary of one of the darkest days in U.S. history, when the Empire of Japan sent fighter planes and sea forces to surprise attack the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in 1941, ultimately killing or wounding more than 3,500 Americans, including civilians. Today, only a dozen survivors of the Greatest Generation remain, and all of them are centenarians. This year, not one can travel to attend this year's remembrance ceremony in Honolulu. Americans' attention to the news has been dwindling for more than a decade, and no one is tuning out more than young people.
That's according to a new study from Pew Research Center, as in Perezneta Ulibi reports.
Pew says people between the ages of 18 and 29 are far more likely to say they feel scared or confused by the news, which they are far more likely to get from social media influencers like, for example, Hasan Piker on TikTok.
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