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I'm Jesse Thorne. On Bullseye, we'll talk with Eugenio Derbez. Did you know that he voices donkey in Shrek? In the Spanish language, Shrek. I feel that the donkeys are Mexican, basically. So it sounds more Mexican in Spanish. Derbiz, one of the most famous people in Mexico. It's on Bolzai for Maximumfund.org and NPR. Live from NPR news, I'm Lakshmi-Seng. The White House plans to Unile laterally pullback nearly $5 billion in foreign aid programs Congress had already approved. It's using what's known as a pocket rescission. The White House is acting late in the fiscal year, leaving Congress little time to respond before

foreign aid funding expires the fiscal year end, September 30th. Israel's military says it has recovered the remains of two more hostages, one of whom has been positively identified during a covert operation in Gaza. 48 Israeli hostages captured by Hamas remaining Gaza, 20 of the are believed to still be alive. And P.R. Jackie Northam reports from Tel Aviv. Israel's military says the recovered body has been identified as Elon Weiss, who was killed when Hamas militants attacked Israel October 7, 2023.

He was 56 years old. His body was taken into Gaza. His remains were discovered during a recent military operation. The remains of another Israeli hostage were also discovered. Its identity has not yet been made public. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under increasing. increasing public pressure to strike a ceasefire deal with Hamas to get the rest of the hostages home. Even so, Israel's military is pushing ahead with a major offensive in Gaza.

Jackie Northam, NPR News, Tel Aviv. Former Vice President Kamala Harris will no longer have secret service protection because it was revoked by President Trump this week. Here's NPR's Deepa Shivaram. It's typical that former vice presidents only have secret service protection for six months after they leave office. But in Harris's case, she received an extension of her detail. Now, President Trump is revoking that extension. So Harris will lose her detail that was extended past July of this year. This comes as Harris is about to embark on a nationwide tour to promote her new book, 107 days,

a recounting of her historically short run for president last year. Harris currently lives in Los Angeles, where she has been since she left Washington in January. Deepa Shiverum and PR News. Students were running a little late for their first mass of the school year at the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis Wednesday. Catherine Spandle tells NPR people were filing into the church minutes after the services scheduled start of 8.15 a.m. Worshers finished the psalm, you have searched me and you know me, Lord, when shots rang out. At the end of it, two children and eight and a 10-year-old were dead. 15 minors and three adults in their 80s were injured.

NPRS. Jason DeRose has more on the investigation into the shooter. Police say the shooter had no criminal history. and no other incidents that would have put them in law enforcement's radar. And they say there's no evidence that the shooter was radicalized, but did have a fascination with mass violence. That's NPR's Jason DeRose reporting the shooter was found dead later of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. At last check on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 156 points. You're listening to NPR News.

It marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina, which killed nearly 1,400 people. While much of the focus is on New Orleans, where federal levies failed and fled to the city, the hurricane also decimated the Mississippi Gulf Coast where it made landfall. And P.R.S. W. Eliot, reports... Katrina slammed ashore in Waveland, Mississippi, with a three-story storm surge. Former Mississippi Governor Haley Barber says the state's entire 70-mile coastline was devastated. When I flew over the coast in a helicopter after the hurricane, it looked like the hand of God had wiped away the coast. Utter obliteration.

Waibland is still trying to come back 20 years later, says Bernie Cullen with the city's aptly named Ground Zero Museum, noting that the downtown business district is still mostly empty. That sense of Main Street, USA, is missing. Debbie Elliott, NPR News, Wavelin, Mississippi. At an event in lacrosse, Wisconsin, Vice President J.D. Vance, question pushed back to elevated federal presence in cities such as in D.C. Why is it that you have mayors and governors who are angrier about Donald Trump offering to help them than they are about the fact that their own residents are being carjacked and murdered in the streets? It doesn't make an ounce of sense. Yesterday, Vance was visiting Wisconsin's third congressional. district. That's where Democrats see a shot at flipping a house seat. I'm Lakshmi Singh,

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