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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. President Trump says he's rejecting an Iranian plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, NPR Zava Pukatch reports. Trump told reporters Saturday that the deal, quote, would not be acceptable. Iran made the proposal, which also called for resuming negotiations between the U.S. and Iran at the United Nations General Assembly meetings. Iran's foreign minister of Basarachi told reporters Friday that it was a, quote, concrete seven-day plan to reopen the street. He said the strait would be opened on the sixth day with negotiations on Iran's nuclear program starting the day after. The proposal is similar to a memorandum of understanding the U.S. and Iran agreed to in June. That deal collapsed shortly after due to disputes over the memo's vague wording, including language related to who would control the strait. The U.S. and Iran resumed strikes soon after.

Eva Pukatch, NPR News. A noreaster continues to affect New York City. with officials saying the worst is yet to come. Jessica Gould from member station WNYC reports. Governor Kathy Hokel has called for a state of emergency in New York City and surrounding areas, urging people to stay home. She says not to underestimate the storm following a calm stretch Saturday afternoon. Don't take this lightly. Don't tempt Mother Nature. Don't risk your life. The rain is expected to intensify overnight and through Sunday morning with gusty winds and coastal flooding. and officials say a full moon could worsen flooding.

Already, a few residents in coastal queens were kayaking through the streets. And videos show cars entirely underwater around a hotel in nearby Edgewater, New Jersey. Officials are encouraging New Yorkers to avoid all travel through late Sunday morning. For NPR News, I'm Jessica Gould in New York. The storm has left tens of thousands of customers without power along the northeast coast. Hurricane NOLO is expected to strengthen Sunday and become a major, hurricane, but it's no longer expected to make landfall on Hawaii, but strong and gusty winds and heavy rainfall are still expected in some areas. Hawaii's big island is expected to see as much as

20 inches of rain. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived home Saturday after three days of talks in Washington with President Trump. Much of the meeting was focused on pomp and circumstance, but trade was also on the agenda, including a two-month extension of a truce important to the U.S., as NPR's Emily Fang tells us. This trade truce is regarding rare earths. And this was a truce that was about to expire this November. And it had stopped China from cutting the U.S. off completely from rare earth elements, which China still dominates. Now, the U.S. in China have confirmed they've extended that by two months, so it expires in January. But this is far shorter than both sides were hoping for. And per my reporting,

it was because mutual distrust has scuppered the possibility of a longer extension. That's NPR's Emily Fang reporting. And you're listening to NPR News. The Pope has wrapped up the Paris portion of his four-day trip to France with a massive open-air mass in the center of the city. In accordance with France's strict separation of church and state, President Macron did not attend, and Piers Eleni Beardsley reports. One thousand choir singers from around France accompanied Pope Leo as he led the mass, which was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and included communion for 40,000 people. It was all broadcast on giant screacted. to the 800,000 people who had packed the chandelizier. The Pope called to deepen the quest for a meaningful life

instead of ceding to the siren call of consumerism. 70-year-old Parisian Sophie Parody was there. She says this Pope goes beyond religion in such troubled times. He's very important for the universe. He's a diplomatic pope also. Pope Leo is in the pilgrimage site of Lourdes Sunday before heading to the eastern city of Mest, to speak in front of European leaders Monday.

Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris. Russia's military is using missiles, glide bombs and drones and attacks on Ukraine this weekend. Officials say two women were killed in the town of Zaporizia while two other people were killed in Sumi. Ukraine's president is appealing for a stronger international response to the ongoing violence. Police in Pakistan say a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle

filled with explosives Saturday at a checkpoint in the northwestern part of that country. At least 12 people were killed and more than 30 others were wounded. The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for that attack. I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News.