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For every headline, there's also another story about the people living those headlines. On weekdays, Up First brings you the day's biggest news. On Sundays, we bring you closer with a single story about the people, places, and moments reshaping our world. Your news made personal every Sunday on the Up First podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. The long-awaited ceasefire is now in effect in Gaza. The ceasefire began after a nearly three-hour delay, bringing a pause to a war that's killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and hundreds of Israeli soldiers. NPR's Ayah Petravi reports.

Israelis expect to welcome home three hostages today, the first of several who will be freed from Gaza as this complex deal between Israel and Hamas rolls out in the coming weeks. But in a sign of how fragile the deal is, Israel reported a delay in receiving the names of hostages to be freed by Hamas, which jeopardized the start of the ceasefire.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces backlash over the deal from hardliners in his coalition. In televised remarks last night, he emphasized the ceasefire is temporary and said Israel has the right to resume combat if the second phase of talks are ineffectual. Ayah Batraoui, Ampere News, Dubai. Israel's hardline national security minister, Yatamar Ben-Gavir, and two other ministers from his party have resigned from Prime Minister Netanyahu's cabinet over the ceasefire deal, but he has said he will not try to bring down Netanyahu's government.

Chicago officials say that word that the incoming Trump administration plans to start mass deportations of undocumented immigrants in the city is turning fears into concrete reality. Sarah Karp from Member Station WBEZ reports. BHS Ponce de Leon is the deputy mayor for immigration. We acknowledge that it's a range of emotions. You know, on the one hand, some surprise. On the other hand, anger, sadness, concern, but also hope because we are a city where people have protected immigrants in the past. Ponce de Leon says the city has been working to make sure departments and sister agencies

like police, parks and schools know that the Welcoming City ordinance prohibits them from working with immigration officials. She stressed these agencies don't know residents' legal status and won't share it. Also, she says community organizations have been holding no-year-rights sessions across the city. For NPR News, I'm Sarah Karp in Chicago. President-elect Trump's border czar Tom Holman says the incoming administration is now rethinking its plans for immigration raids in Chicago after he said word of them leaked.

But Holman told the Washington Post in an interview this weekend that no decision has been made. With firefighters reporting progress on the Palisades Fire in Southern California, fire analyst Dennis Burns says the region can expect another Santa Ana wind event tomorrow. The red flag warning has been issued by Oxnard. We're on track to see those winds ramp up Monday afternoon through the evening, probably strongest overnight. Burns spoke at a community meeting this weekend.

Officials say crews have reached 49% containment of the Palisades fire, thanks to low clouds and favorable humidity levels. This is NPR News. favorable humidity levels. This is NPR News. The popular video sharing app TikTok is no longer operating in the United States. TikTok went dark hours before the law requiring the app's Chinese owners to sell or face a ban took effect today.

President-elect Donald Trump told NBC this weekend that he is considering a 90-day extension. Donald Trump is in Washington D.C. arriving last night for a series of events ahead of his inauguration tomorrow. He is to visit Arlington National Cemetery today and hold a downtown rally. Tomorrow's ceremony will be held indoors at the U.S. Capitol because of the expected plunge in temperatures. The NFL's Kansas City Chiefs have a chance to win an unprecedented third consecutive Super Bowl after defeating the Houston Texans in yesterday's divisional playoff game. But one of the favorites to reach the big game, the Detroit Lions, instead lost big to the Washington Commanders 45-31.

Quinn Klinefelter, Member Station WDET reports. Much was made of the Lions' rise to a number one playoff seed, but it was the commanders who reached the NFC Championship game for the first time in three decades behind the mistake-free play of rookie quarterback Jaden Daniels. Detroit head coach Dan Campbell says the Lions could not overcome four interceptions and a lost fumble. You turn the ball over five times, it's just too much. It's too hard against a team like that to come back and we tried we just couldn't quite get

over the hump. The NFL playoffs continue today as the Los Angeles Rams face the Philadelphia Eagles and the Baltimore Ravens take on the Buffalo Bills. For NPR News I'm Quen Klinefelter in Detroit. And I'm Joel Snyder this is NPR News. After the election the economy feels like one big huh? Good thing there's the filter in Detroit.