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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. Criticism from around the world continues to grow, following an announcement by Israel this week that it plans to take military control of Gaza City. That's the largest city in the Gaza Strip. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley has more from Tel Aviv. The foreign ministers of Australia, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, and Britain all strongly condemn the Israel's government's decision to launch a new large-scale military operation. They say it risks violating international humanitarian law. Germany, one of Israel's stanchest long-time supporters along with the U.S., obviously due to historical reasons, the Holocaust, said it will stop exporting military equipment to Israel that could be used in the Gaza Strip.

And Israelis I was talking to say that is huge. That's NPR's Eleanor Beardsley. Tens of thousands of Israelis, meanwhile, rallied Saturday in what Israeli media is calling one of the largest anti-government protests in months. And Gaza health officials say 11 adults have died of malnutrition in Gaza this weekend. A federal takeover of the Washington, D.C. police force has yet to materialize. President Trump said late this week that he was considering the move to fight crime in the nation's capital. But as NPR's Alano Wise reports, a ramp up may still happen this coming week.

Trump took to social media this weekend to announce a Monday press conference to address D.C.'s crime rate. He wrote that he planned to, quote, essentially stop violent crime in Washington. A spokesperson for the White House said they could not give additional details. on what Trump intended to announce. For years, Trump has criticized the nation's capital as being poorly run and afflicted by crime. But after a former staffer was injured this month and an attempted carjacking, Trump announced the week-long police ramp up. D.C. is unique in that it does have a local police force, but under special circumstances, federal agencies could take over. Alana Wise NPR News, Washington. Violent crime in the district, meanwhile, has dropped more than 20 percent

far this year, while the homicide rate is down more than 10% in the district. After a legal battle, the Uvaldi School District is going to release records from the school shooting that occurred back in 2022. Texas Public Radio's Jerry Clayton has more on that story. The district sent a letter on Friday morning confirming that the records would be released to several news outlets that sued for their release three years ago. The letter said that Uvaldi County also plans to release their records as well. The records may include body-worn footage 9-1-1 calls and communications between county and school district employees. The school district said the release of the materials was being done as part of their ongoing commitment to building trust and ensuring

transparency. The Texas Department of Public Safety is still fighting a lawsuit, demanding them to release their records of the 2022 incident, one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history. I'm Jerry Clayton in San Antonio. And you're listening to NPR News. While scientists have a pretty good grasp on how life works above water, it hasn't been all that clear how some animals can survive almost six miles under the ocean's surface. At least until now, NPR's Regina Barber, reports on a new study that explains why life can indeed thrive at those depths. The Hidal zone is the deepest part of the ocean, named for the Greek god of the underworld Hades. No sunlight reaches down this far.

And for a long time, scientists thought any life in the trenches here mostly survived off dead animal scraps falling from the surface. But after exploring life up close, researchers now think some deep-sea creatures may also get energy from chemicals seeping out of the ocean floor. Specifically, the researchers think that microbes inside the animals use those chemicals to make organic compounds that the animals then eat. Up next for the researchers, more trenches, and maybe more hope. from life thriving amid extremes. Regina Barber and PR News. Officials in Haiti say gang violence there is continuing to grow. Gangs now control much of that country's territory.

The government Saturday declared a three-month emergency for the nation's central region. The area known as Haiti's rice basket has been under attack in recent years, and more than 239,000 people have been displaced because of the violence. Tommy Fleetwood is barely hanging onto first place, going into Sunday's final round of the PGA golf event taking place in Memphis this weekend. Fleetwood had two bogeys on Saturday and shot a 69. Justin Rose is in second, just one shot behind, while world number one golfer Scotty Sheffler shot a 65 and is now just two strokes back. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.