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Technologist Paul Garcia is using AI to create photos of people's most precious memories. Paul Garcia How her mother was dressed, the haircut that she remembered. We generated tens of images and then she saw two images that was like, that was it. Shae Stevens Ideas about the future of memory. That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shae Stevens. President Trump is proposing a U.S. takeover and cleanup of Gaza while suggesting that displaced Palestinians should leave. At a press conference with Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu, Trump said that past Middle East policies have failed

and that it's time to try something new. As NPR's Deepa Sivaram reports, the president says he envisions a redeveloped Gaza that he said would be open to people of the world. Trump announced this plan or idea for the first time at the press conference. He said he would be putting out more information in the next couple of weeks. But just to be clear here, the president is talking about taking over a sovereign territory. And I say territory, not country, because the United States doesn't recognize Palestine as a country. It's referred

to as a territory. NPR's Steve Ashivaram reporting. The U.S. Senate has confirmed Pan Bondi as U.S. Attorney General. Bondi secured all Republican votes, plus one Democrat, Pennsylvania's John Fetterman. NPR's Ryan Lucas has more. Ryan Lucas, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News, NPR News,

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at both the DOJ and the FBI. Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington. The U.S. Postal Service has suspended inbound package shipments from China and Hong Kong. As NPR's John Rewich reports, the move comes after the Trump administration slapped tariffs on Chinese goods and eliminated a duty exemption for small or inexpensive shipments. The temporary package suspension started on Tuesday as President Trump's latest tariffs on China took effect. It's unclear how long it will last, but it appears to be an attempt to comply with the Trump administration's order to end what's known as the de minimis rule,

which exempted low value items and small quantities of goods from being hit with duties. There's been a surge of small packages coming into the U.S. in recent years, in part because e-commerce platforms and Chinese exporters have been using the de minimis rule to skirt duties. It's unclear how disruptive the shipment pause will be or how the surge of small packages will be assessed for duties now that the de minimis rule has been eliminated. John Ruech, NPR News, Beijing. The U.S. has flown a group of deported migrants to a holding facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Trump administration says it can house

up to 30,000 migrants there under the supervision of several hundred military service members. The policy is expected to face some legal challenges. U.S. futures are lower in after-hours trading on Wall Street. You're listening to NPR News. Almost all workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development are being placed on leave. You're listening to NPR News.

Almost all workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development are being placed on leave. The order takes effect at midnight Friday for U.S. aid workers in the U.S., while those overseas are being given 30 days to return home. The Trump administration has already laid off thousands of USAID workers and shut down the agency's programs as part of its effort to slash government spending. The FBI has complied with the Justice Department request for a list of Bureau employees who worked on the investigation into the January 6th Capitol riot.

A DOJ memo issued last week instructed the FBI to identify all current and former workers linked to the case and ordered the firings of several senior FBI officials. FBI agents have filed two separate lawsuits seeking to block any public disclosure of FBI workers or their personal data. Search crews have recovered the remains of all 67 victims from the mid-air collision near Ronald Reagan National Airport. As NPR's Joel Rose reports, crews are still working to remove debris. Federal investigators are still trying to piece together the events that led to the

collision of an American Airlines passenger jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter. The National Transportation Safety Board says data from an air traffic control display shows the helicopter was at 300 feet at the time of the collision, well above the 200-foot ceiling it was required to maintain. Investigators say they need more information from the wreckage of the helicopter, which they hope will be removed from the Potomac River later this week. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington. On Asia Pacific, market shares are mixed up a fraction in Tokyo. This is NPR. Extreme weather disasters like wildfires and floods can devastate communities. On the Sunday story from Up First, we ask, are there places that just aren't safe to live anymore?

People are going to die. They will be me and my neighbors, and I don't want that to happen. How we respond to disasters in an era of climate insecurity. Listen now on the Up First podcast from NPR.