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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 Washington, I'm Nora Rom. Talks will be held in Egypt tomorrow with representatives from Israel, Hamas, and the U.S. on the U.S. proposal to end the war in Gaza. President Trump said this morning, it's good for everyone.

It's a great deal for Israel, and it's a great deal for everybody, and you want to get your hostages back, right? Do you want it back or do you not want it back? And it's a great deal for Israel. It's a great deal for the entire Arab world, Muslim world, and worlds. But there are many provisions not yet settled. Israel wants Hamas to disarm by diplomatic means or military means. Hamas wants more information on when and how Israel will withdraw its forces from Gaza. Meanwhile, the Israeli strikes in Gaza continue.

NPR's Anas Baba reports. For a few hours on Saturday, residents in Gaza City walked the streets with a sense of relative safety. After Israeli forces, built back several hundred meters from the city center. But the calm did not last. lung. An air strike like this one overnight hid the Abdel Aal family home without warning, killing 18 people there and injuring more than 70 according to hospital records. The military says it was targeting a Hamas militant who posed a threat, but they didn't name the target or response to NPR's inquiry for more information.

Israeli drones, artillery and gunfire have resumed around Gaza City. The military says the city remains under an evacuation order. And the city is still cut off from the south as displaced families wait for real ceasefire to return home. Anas Baba, NPR News, Gaza. The Trump administration is continuing its push to deploy National Guard troops to some Democratic-run American cities. But as NPR's Joe Hernandez reports, it's facing some obstacles along the way. A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from sending the National Guard to Portland, Oregon. The ruling on Saturday found that the government had not met the threshold for declaring that recent protests at an ice facility in Portland constituted a rebellion.

Meanwhile, the White House says Trump has authorized the deployment of 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. On Saturday, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker said the Defense Department had told him to activate the state's National Guard or the Trump administration will. Pritzker, who has said Chicago does not need any troops, called the threat, quote, absolutely outwe. outrageous and un-American. The Trump administration has already deployed National Guard members to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. this year. Joe Hernandez, NPR News. A new Supreme Court term opens tomorrow. A number of cases deal with presidential power. President Trump is being challenged on his attempts to fire members of independent regulatory agencies and to limit birthright citizenship. This is NPR News in Washington.

Alabama police are investigating a shootout in downtown Montgomery last night. They say rival gunmen began shooting at each other in a crowded nightlife district. Two people were killed, at least 12 others were wounded. No arrests have been announced. British police and the British government are tiring of what had become weekly demonstrations of civil disobedience. Vicki Barker reports from London they're being given more power to restrict certain protesters. Once again, on Saturday, London police officers carry demonstrators from their silent sit-in, supporting the banned group Palestine action, to sympathetic applause. It takes five officers to carry away each protester, each protester trying to make the process of arrest as slow and laborious as possible.

Now, forces in multiple cities say their officers are exhausted and spread thin with security beefed up outside synagogues and Jewish schools. following last week's synagogue attack. So the British government says it's going to give police more powers to put conditions on repeat protests, possibly moving them to more containable locations. For NPR News, I'm Vicki Barker in London. Rescue efforts are underway to reach nearly a thousand people trapped in camps on Mount Everest,

the eastern slope on the Tibetan side. A blizzard has blocked roads to the region. The snow began Friday evening and continued through yesterday. Hundreds of local villagers and rescue teams are working to clear the snow. I'm Nora Rahm, NPR News, in Washington.