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On the plus side, you get sponsor-free listening to over 25 NPR podcasts. On the minus side, you get fewer chances to tap fast forward on your podcast player. On the plus side, you get to support something you care about. On the minus side, you like challenges and think this makes it too easy. So why don't you join us on the plus side of things with NPR Plus? Learn more and sign up at plus.npr.org. Live from NPR news, I'm Dale Wilman. Israel's long-expected military push into Gaza City is now underway.

NPR's Daniel Estrin is in Tel Aviv with the latest details. Israeli ground troops are positioned in two neighborhoods on the outskirts of Gaza City. They have been engaged in heavy bombardment there. This is being presented by the military as the preliminary stages of the Gaza City assault. Israel has also stopped doing these daily 10-hour pauses in fighting. They have been doing that to allow trucks of food and aid into the United States. the Gaza City area, and Israel agreed to do that under international pressure to address starvation in Gaza, but they're not doing that anymore in the Gaza City area.

That's NPR's Daniel Estrin. Israel is also warning Palestinians living in Gaza City that they should leave, but Estrin says so far many people are remaining in their homes. The mayor of Chicago is limiting how much the city's police force can cooperate with federal law enforcement agents. As NPR's Joe Hernandez reports, it's in response to threats from the Trump administration to launch an immigration crackdown in that Midwest city. President Trump has criticized Chicago leaders for not doing enough to prevent crime, and now federal officials are suggesting they may ramp up immigration enforcement operations there, but on Saturday, Chicago's Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson, signed an executive order setting

limits on how the city's police department can be involved. It bars Chicago police from collaborating with federal officers conducting civil immigration enforcement operations or with U.S. military personnel on patrols. It also requires Chicago Police to wear their uniforms and refrain from wearing masks so they can be distinguished from federal agents. Johnson says he doesn't want the Chicago Police Department to be deputized by Trump. Joe Hernandez, NPR News. Police in New Hampshire are investigating a car crash involving former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. As New Hampshire Public Radio's Josh Rogers reports, police and Giuliani have different accounts. Police and Giuliani have

different accounts of the incident. A Giuliani spokesman says the accident that put the former lawyer for President Trump in the hospital with the fractured vertebra took place on Saturday evening. In Giuliani's version of events, the Ford Bronco in which he was a passenger pulled over on the highway to assist a woman involved in an incident of domestic violence. According to Giuliani, he called 911 and then drove off once assistance arrived. But state police say Giuliani's vehicle was pulled over on the office. opposite side of the multi-lane state highway, where it was rear-ended at high speed. New Hampshire

safety officials responded to domestic violence incident witnessed the crash. Giuliani was treated at an unidentified hospital. State police say the driver of the other car and Giuliani's driver were also injured. Earlier Saturday, Giuliani was seen attending a minor league baseball game in Manchester. For NPR News, I'm Josh Rogers in Concord. And this is NPR News. Former CBS News Radio White House correspondent Mark Nuller has died at the age of 73. He was known as a numbers guy. Listeners and later social media users counted on him for his meticulous record-keeping of the president's activity.

MPR's Amy Held has this remembrance. Born in Brooklyn in 1952, Mark Noler became known as the Wikipedia of the White House. Starting at CBS News in 1988, the network says he grew frustrated by the lack of a central database chronicling the president's daily actions. So he became an unofficial presidential statistician. Let me call up my numbers. A lot of numbers. How many trips the president made and where? Summits and golf outings. He tallied speeches and interviews. The minutia that make history. Noler reported across eight administrations and didn't mind the long hours, he told CBS's Katie Couric. I'm one of those lucky people that gets to work at something he loves doing.

Nola retired from the radio in 2020, but kept up on Twitter as a source of presidential news. Amy Held, NPR News. Weapons remains at the top of North American movie screens this holiday weekend. The thriller is brought in $10.2 million in ticket sales so far. Universal released a 50th anniversary version of Jaws this weekend, and it landed in second with $8.1 million. Caught stealing, meanwhile, landed in third with $7.8 million. and the sequel, Freak Your Friday, added another $6.5 million to its hall this weekend. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.

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