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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. After several failed attempts this week, the Senate is giving it another go. Lawmakers are voting on a short-term funding bill that would reopen the government as the shutdown stretches into a third day. Just a short time ago, House Speaker Mike Johnson took aim at the Democratic holdouts in the upper chamber. And all the Democrats who are voting against it in the Senate right now, every single one of them, I've given impassioned speeches about how you must pass continued resolutions. You must pass CRs. You should never shut down the government because it's dangerous and destructive and selfish and wrong.

Well, suddenly they've changed their tune. Democrats are demanding that the short-term funding bill include an extension of federal health care subsidies under Obamacare. Republicans are pushing for a clean stopgap bill, arguing that health care issues can be worked out in later negotiations. After months in federal custody, a journalist based in Atlanta who documented immigration raids has been deported. Emily Wu Pearson, a member station WABE reports he was arrested in June while covering an anti-Trump protest. Mario Guevara is known for live streaming, ICE, and other law enforcement activity, often after getting tips from community members. He came to the U.S. from El Salvador legally in 2004. He applied for asylum in 2005 and was denied, but appealed that decision.

Court documents state the Department of Homeland Security didn't address the appeal and it was administratively closed until his arrest this summer. This week, a federal appeals court denied Gavar's request to temporarily pause his deportation. The court indicated Gavar did not have the proper paperwork filed at the right time to stay in the U.S. Gavar's lawyers say he's being punished for his work as a journalist. For NPR News, I'm Emily Wu Pearson in at least. The Israeli military is refusing to identify what or who it was targeting during a deadly strike on a humanitarian group in Gaza. NPR's Emily Fang reports the strike killed an employee of doctors without borders and injured for other people.

Israel said they were aiming at a Hamas target but would not elaborate further. The airstrike killed Omar Hayek, the 14th employer of Doctors Without Borders or MSF in Gaza. Just two weeks before, his colleague Hussein Al-Najar was killed. in a strike on his tent. MSF shut down all of its Gaza City operations in the north of the enclave last week, saying Israeli expanded ground defensives there were making it too unsafe for its staff to work. They've moved their staff south, but the United Nations main humanitarian aid agency reported intense strikes in recent days in Daryl Balach, one of the places where Israel's military has told people to move. Emily Fang and Pier News, Tel Aviv. President Trump says

Hamas has until Sunday to accept a U.S. brokered peace deal. This is NPR news in Washington. Recovery crews in Indonesia have pulled more bodies from the rubble of a school that collapsed Monday. At least 10 people are confirmed dead and more than 50 students remain missing. Rescuers who had been digging by hand turned to heavy equipment after finding no further signs of life. The Church of England has named a woman as its spiritual leader. NPR's Lauren Frere reports a former nurse term bishop, Sarah Mulali, will be the next Archbishop of Canterbury. Since St. Augustine in the year 597, more than 100 men have held the role of Archbishop of Canterbury.

Sarah Mulali will be the first woman. Speaking at Canterbury Cathedral, she pledged to help the church heal from a child abuse scandal that prompted her predecessor's resignation. My commitment will be to ensure that we continue to listen to survivors, care for the vulnerable, and foster a culture of safety and well-being for all. Her role is both spiritual and political. The Church of England runs some public schools here and some of its bishops sit in the Upper House of Parliament. Lauren Freyer, NPR News, London. The Supreme Court will take up a challenge as to where people can carry guns in Hawaii. The Trump administration is urging the judge.

to hear the case saying the law conflicts with a 22 ruling that affirmed the right to carry firearms in public under the Second Amendment. Hawaii's law bans guns in places like beaches, parks, bars, and restaurants that serve alcohol. I'm Windsor Johnston, NPR News, in Washington.