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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. The Israeli security cabinet E's meeting today will decide whether to once again expand its military offensive in Gaza targeting Hamas. NPR's Aya Batrawe reports. Israeli media say Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is weighing the possibility of a full military occupation of the Gaza Strip. The U.N. says already nearly 90% of Gaza is under displacement orders with, quote, no safe place for people to go. Netanyahu's office says he's convening the security. cabinet to direct the military on how to achieve the objectives of releasing hostages and ensuring that, quote, Gaza will never again threaten Israel. The nearly two-year-long war has killed

tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza. Poles show Israelis are divided over the war. Many want Israel to occupy Gaza and expel Palestinians from it. Yet there are growing calls in Israel demanding Netanyahu and the war, including from among hundreds of former generals and top security officials. Ayabatrawi, NPR News. President Trump's new tariffs took effect overnight on dozens of countries. Some countries are paying 15 percent. Other countries are paying much more. There have been scenes of angry constituents this year at town halls confronting lawmakers. This week, Nebraska Republican Congressman Mike Flood held his town hall and discussed his support for President Trump's spending bill.

Flood was jeered and booed. At times, he could barely be heard over the crowd. Flood says it is not satisfying. when people are upset. I do think it's my job to be there. And here's one thing, I don't know if I get credit for it or not, but I know some people that will never vote for me, come to these things. I think it's somewhat cathartic for them to be able to have the opportunity to address their representative of government. And I tell the police before I start, I don't want anybody drug out of here. This is part of the deal. This is the way people feel right now. Let's let them do their thing and keep going. Congressman Flood spoke to NPR's morning edition. Immigration agents conducted a fresh raid in Los Angeles yesterday. They jumped out of a rental truck in the parking lot of Home Depot. Libby Raney from L.A. as reports, 16 people were detained. Federal officials called it Operation Trojan Horse.

Video shows men in U.S. Border Patrol vests emerging from the back of a Penske box truck and running into the parking lot of Home Depot. The operation comes after weeks of aggressive immigration enforcement across the L.A. area led a judge to issue a temporary restraining order. against indiscriminate sweeps. The ACLU says the action at the Home Depot may have violated that order. Jorge Mario Cabrero, with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, agreed. The video and witness testimonies indicate that there was no mention of a warrant. For us, that is called racial profiling.

The Department of Homeland Security responded by saying that its action was targeted. For NPR News, I'm Libby Rainey in Los Angeles. This is NPR. President Trump is calling for a new census that does not include people who are illegally in the country. The U.S. Constitution says the whole number of persons in each state has to be included to determine each state's share of U.S. House seats and electoral college votes. A trailblazer in Latin music has died. Pianist, composer, and band leader Eddie Palmieri died yesterday at his New Jersey home after a long illness.

That's according to a family state. statement on his official Facebook page. As NPR's Felix Contreras reports, the 88-year-old Palmyeri was widely respected for infusing progressive jazz harmonies into the music, known as salsa. Eddie Palmyi connected the dots between two eras of Afro-Caribbean dance music in New York, between the old-school big bands of musicians like Tito Puente and Machito to a sound of his own that was influenced by the cutting-edge jazz of John Coltrane and Miles Davis. He was born in New York City, Spanish Harlem in 1936,

and after forming his first band La Perfecta in 1961, Pamieri purposely created tension within his music, then delivered a musical release that eventually challenged and stretched the genres of Latin jazz and salsa with a sound that was as impressive musically as it was danceable. Felix Contreras, NPR News. NASA says it's SpaceX, capsule is set to undock from the International Space Station in a few hours.

Four crew members are set to return home after five months in space. I'm Corfa Coleman, NPR News.