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This message comes from Wondery. Kiki Palmer is that girl, and she's diving into the brains of entertainment's best and brightest to have real conversations on her podcast, Baby This Is Kiki Palmer. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Israel says the ceasefire in Gaza is over. NPR's Kat Lonsdorf reports Israel has launched devastating air strikes, which killed more than 400 people and injured at least 500 others across Gaza. Israel says these strikes were targeting senior Hamas officials and that this new offensive is to pressure Hamas to accept a proposal by President Trump's special envoy, Steve Wittkopf, for the release of more Israeli hostages.

Just to be clear, the Wittkopf plan that they're pushing is different than the original deal that both sides agreed to back in January. The first phase of that deal expired at the beginning of this month. Hamas has been pushing to go to the second phase of that plan, but Israel is now demanding the Wittkopf plan. Senior Hamas official says Netanyahu's decision amounts to a death sentence for remaining hostages. In mid-January, Israel and Hamas agreed to an initial ceasefire of six weeks, in which Hamas released more than 30 Israeli and foreign hostages, some living, some dead. In exchange, Israel released close to 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.

President Trump today called for the impeachment of a federal judge who ordered a two-week halt to his efforts to deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang. More from MPR's Nina Totenberg. Chief Judge James Boesberg halted the deportation for two weeks after Trump, in a highly controversial move, used the 1798 Enmi Aliens Act to deport the alleged gang members. Reacting to the temporary ruling, Trump said that Boesberg, a former prosecutor with a history of bipartisan support, should be impeached, labeling the judge crooked, lunatic, and a troublemaker and agitator. In response, the normally reserved Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, issued a statement of his own.

For more than two centuries, he said, it's been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreements concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington. Living in extreme heat can age your DNA as fast as smoking. That's a finding from a new study published in the journal Science Advances. More from NPR's Alejandro Burunda. Scientists and doctors have known for years that going through a heat wave can hurt and even kill people. But researchers at the University of Southern California

have now identified how living through intense, long-lasting heat over the long-term could actually be taking a silent toll at the cellular or the molecular level in our body. That's Nyeong Chae. She's a researcher at USC and led the new research. Heat exposure in older adults is linked to changes in their DNA. Those changes lead to premature biological aging. For people living in extremely hot places like Phoenix, the aging impacts are similar to smoking. Alejandra Burunda, NPR News. Stocks lost ground on Wall Street today.

The Dow fell 260 points. The Nasdaq dropped 304 points. This is NPR. Speaking at the start of the developers conference today, the head of chipmaker NVIDIA says AI is currently going through an inflection point. NVIDIA founder Jensen Huang telling attendees that demand for GPUs from the top four cloud service providers

is surging, and that he expects Nvidia's infrastructure revenue to reach the $1 trillion mark by 2028. He also announced automaker General Motors will integrate Nvidia technology into its new fleet of self-driving vehicles. Hungarian lawmakers have passed legislation to ban the annual Pride March in Budapest, as Azmi Nicholson explains, crowds have taken to the streets

to protest the decision. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's ruling Fidesz party fast-tracked their bill to ban Pride in the Hungarian capital by arguing that it could prove harmful to children. It is part of a government crackdown on what it calls gender madness and on the LGBTQ plus community, already targeted by legislation that prohibits the depiction or promotion of homosexuality to under-18s. Pride attendees risk being fined if identified by authorities now permitted to use facial recognition tools.

Budapest Pride organizers call the law fascism, not child protection, and say they will go ahead with their celebrations as usual. For NPR News, I'm Esme Nicholson in Berlin. The last known surviving pilot to take part in the Battle of Britain has died, according to the Royal Air Force John Paddy Hemingway, who was just 20 years old when he and Carmbaz took the disguise to fight off a wave of Nazi aircraft in the summer and fall of 1940. Royal Air Force officials say he died at home in Dublin, Hemingway, was 105 years old. I'm Jack Spear, NPR News in Washington. Following the news out of Washington, D.C. can be overwhelming. I'm Scott Detro, and NPR has a podcast that can help.

It's called Trump's Terms, stories about big changes the 47th president is pursuing on his own terms. Each episode is short, usually around five minutes or so. We keep it calm and factual. We help you follow what matters and we leave out what doesn't. Listen to Trump's Terms from NPR.