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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. Israel says it will expand its war in the Gaza's strip to take control of the region's major city, NPR's Ayabatraou, has more. The plan calls for the military to take control of all of Gaza City. This is where much of Gaza's 2 million people are sheltering after being pushed out of other areas. The UN says already 90% of Gaza is either under some kind of displacement order or held by Israeli troops. This decision also states that Israel will have full security over all of Gaza, where it already controls all the borders. And also, the prime minister's office says Israel will allow aid to

civilians outside of combat zones during the coming offensive, but that is unclear, again, just a sliver of Gaza's territories, not under Israeli occupation. The plan has come under immediate criticism with renewed international calls for an end of the fighting. Israel's heir and ground war in Gaza has already killed more than 61,000 people. President Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next Friday in Alaska. Other than at the United Nations, it will be the first time a Russian president will be on U.S. soil since 2011. And Perez Daniel Kurtzleben reports.

Trump set a deal to... end the war in Ukraine would involve some exchange of territory. It's very complicated, but we're going to get some back. We're going to get some switched. There'll be some swapping of territories to the betterment of both. But that could be tough to broker. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, for his part, has been adamant about not ceding territory.

Trump in the past bragged about his relationship with Putin. But amid Russia's attacks on Ukraine this year, Trump has grown increasingly willing to criticize the Russian leader. Danielle Kurtzleben and PR News, the White House. California Governor Gavin Newsom says he'll put a redistricting question to a state's voters in a special November election. He wants to add more U.S. House districts that favor Democrats. The move is in response to an effort in Texas to obey a call by President Trump to give the GOP the edge in five more Texas districts. A preseason football game between the Atlanta Falcons and Detroit Lions was suspended in the fourth quarter Friday,

night after one of the players was seriously injured. From member station, W.A.B.E. in Atlanta, Alex Helmick has more. Lion's safety, Maurice, Norris Jr. was hurt trying to make a tackle on a falcons running back. He took a hard hit to his head and neck area. As he laid motionless on the ground with medical staff attending to him, players from both sides knelt around Norris before he was taken by ambulance to a nearby Atlanta hospital. The preseason game was not resumed. Here's Lyons head coach Dan Campbell after the game giving an update on Norris. He's breathing, you know, he's breathing, he's talking.

That's good. He's got some movement, so, and now they're running more tests. Campbell said he and Falcons coach Rahim Morris agreed not to resume the game after Norris's injury. For NPR News, I'm Alex Helmick in Atlanta. And you're listening to NPR News. An Israeli air strike on Eastern Lebanon Friday killed several people. Among the dead was a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

In total, six people were killed and ten others were wounded. The raid was said to have taken place on Thursday at the border crossing of Masna. Israel has targeted Palestinian officials in Lebanon over the past two years. Heavy rains have triggered flash floods and at least one landslide in northwestern China. Chinese state media report 33 people are missing and at least 10 people have died after almost 8 inches of rain fell on that country's northwestern region. From Taipei, Jan Kamen-Brumbe has more. Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for all-out rescue and flood prevention

after heavy rains triggered floods and landslides across China's northwestern Gansu province. Heavy rains have destroyed communication and power lines across mountainous areas, leaving more than 4,000 people across four villages. villages stranded. The rain's calm after southern China was also hit with heavy downpours last week. Rescue efforts are ongoing with emergency services and medical teams deployed to evacuate residents and search for those missing. For NPR News, I'm Yang Kamsun-Rumbi in Taipei. Englishman Tommy Fleetwood had four straight birdies on the back nine on Friday for a 64, and that gave him the lead in the PGA event underway in Memphis this weekend. It was his second

straight day with four birdies in a row. Colin Morikawa and Akshay Batya are tied for second, four strokes off the pace. Rain caused a delay in some players will finish the round Saturday morning. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News. I'm Rachel Martin, host of Wildcard from NPR. I've spent years interviewing all kinds of people, and I've realized there are ideas that we all think about, but don't talk about very much. So I made a shortcut, a deck of cards with questions, that anyone can answer, questions that go deep into the experiences that shape us. Listen to the Wild Card podcast only from NPR.