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In the U.S., national security news can feel far away from daily life. Distant wars, murky conflicts, diplomacy behind closed doors on our new show, Sources and Methods. NPR reporters on the ground bring you stories of real people, helping you understand why distant events matter here at home. Listen to sources and methods on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Halisa Kautau. Hamas has agreed to negotiate the release of all Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, but says it's not agreeing to all aspects of the U.S. brokered peace deal. The response comes just hours after President Trump issued an ultimatum, as NPR's Kerry Khan reports.

In a statement on its official social media channels, Hamas says it agrees to release all hostages held in Gaza, both living and dead, as well as handing over power in the territory to an independent Palestinian body. Hamas thanked Trump for his efforts to end the war. However, Hamas stated that further consultation and negotiation is needed on other points in the plan, including Gaza's future, which it says it will be a part of. Israel has accepted Trump's proposal, but both Egypt and Qatar, key negotiators, have said elements require further negotiation and clarifications. Trump gave Hamas a Sunday deadline to respond if they did not, Trump threatened that, quote, hell would break out against Hamas. Carrie Khan, NPR News, Tel Aviv. The Trump administration has activated 200 Oregon National Guard

troops to support federal immigration and customs enforcement agents, but it isn't clear when their deployment will take place pending a judge's ruling possibly Saturday. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice announced it will investigate the Portland Police Bureau. after a conservative online journalist and influencer was arrested in South Portland on Thursday during an alleged clash outside an ICE facility. I just spoke with the president about this, and he has directed his team here at the White House to begin reviewing aid that can potentially be cut in Portland. We will not fund states that allow anarchy.

There will also be an additional surge of federal resources to Portland immediately, including enhanced CBP and ICE resources. That was White House Press Secretary. Secretary Caroline Levitt. Hip-hop mogul Sean Combs has been sentenced to 50 months in prison. Combs was convicted in July on two counts of transportation for prostitution, as in Pears Isabella Gomez Sarmiento reports. Federal judge Arunza Bermanian sentenced Sean Combs to over four years in prison,

citing his history of physical and emotional abuse. Earlier this summer, a federal jury acquitted Sean Combs of sex trafficking and racketeering, the most serious charges that he faced. But he was found guilty of transporting two of his ex-girlfriends across state lines to engage in prostitution with male escorts. Much of the trial centered on how Combs used power, violence, and manipulation to coerce the women into those acts. While delivering his sentence, Judge Subramanian told Combs that the harm he caused those women cannot simply be washed away, and there must be meaningful accountability for the abuse. Isabella Gomez-Armiento, NPR News.

This is NPR. Officials in Brazil are reporting a surge of poisonings from alcoholic drinks contaminated with methanol, an industrial alcohol that can be deadly. Six people have died from suspected methanol poisoning and dozens of others have been sickened. Julia Carnero has more from Rio de Janeiro. It's an unusual weekend for bars across Brazil, with a country under alert over the growing number of poisonings from methanol and alcoholic drinks. The Ministry of Health has warned the public to avoid drinking spirits if their source is uncertain.

Authorities are tracking adulterated beverages across the country and rushing to purchase antidotes for methanol from health agencies abroad, like the FDA. Alcohol bootlegging has exploded in the country recently. Brazil's Association to Combat Counterfeiting estimates that more than a third of the spirits sold here are adulterated and suggests links to organized crime. For NPR News, I'm Julica. in Rio de Janeiro. A French photo journalist was killed by a drone while on assignment in Ukraine's eastern

Donbass region. The European and International Federation of Journalists, as well as the French National Journalist Union, announced his death late Friday, adding that a Ukrainian journalist was also wounded during the same attack. The president of Ukraine's National Union of Journalists said, the main threat to journalists, as to all civilians, is Russian drones hunting. people. On Wall Street Friday, most U.S. stocks ticked higher, sending Wall Street to more records. I'm Dwa Lisei Kautel, NPR News.