President Donald Trump fires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, plus the Defense Department is set to lose more than 5 thousand personnel. Hamas releases 6 more living hostages as part of its ceasefire agreement with Israel. Corrections officers in NY protest working conditions and some walk off the job, prompting the governor to send in National Guard troops to secure some state prisons.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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Upheaval at the Pentagon.
President Donald Trump fires the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Top military lawyers are also out, as are more than 5,000 personnel. I'm Ayesha Roscoe.
And I'm Scott Simon, and this is Up First from NPR News.
Hamas frees more Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
The militant group has also returned the body of Sherry Bibas, whose remains were initially misidentified in an earlier handover. We'll have the latest.
And in New York State, the governor has deployed National Guard troops to help secure prisons.
That's amid protests by corrections officers. Some are on strike. Guards at two prisons walked off the job last week.
Stay with us. We have the news you need to start your weekend. Air Force General Charles Q. Brown Jr., the second African-American to serve as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is now out of a job.
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