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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, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Republicans and Democrats appear no closer to breaking an impasse as the government shutdown stretches into a sixth day. The Senate takes another vote this afternoon. House Speaker Mike Johnson urged Senate Democrats to back the short-term spending measure that pass the House. The ball is in the

court of the Senate Democrats. There's only a handful of people in the country who can solve this problem. There's 47 Democrats. Well, 46 and one who caucuses is an independent, I think. Last night, President Trump told reporters, federal workers were in the process of being fired. He had threatened dismissals instead of furloughs if Democrats did not drop their demands that the GOP restore health care spending affecting pandemic-era Affordable Care Act subsidies, Medicaid, and access to programs for immigrants in the U.S. legally. Negotiators from Israel and Hamas are holding talks in Egypt today on a possible end to the war in Gaza. It's been almost two years.

President Trump and Arab countries are urging both sides to reach a deal and soon. NPR's Kerry Kahn reports there are still major sticking points. President Trump warned Hamas if it doesn't cede power and release all 48 hostages, dead and alive, it faces, quote, obliteration. Trump also told Israel to pause its bombing of Gaza. Israeli airstrikes over the weekend killed dozens, according to Gaza health officials. Arab mediators are pressuring Hamas to negotiate at a time when it is facing great losses on the battlefield. Israel and the U.S. are demanding Hamas release all hostages quickly.

Hamas says it needs time to locate the dead. There are disputes over which Palestinian prisoners Israel release in exchange for the hostages, how Hamas will disarm and relinquish power, and over Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza. Carrie Khan, NPR News, Tel Aviv. The new parent company of CBS is hiring free press founder, Barry Weiss, is the editor-in-chief of its news division. Skydance media is also set to acquire her center-right news site known for its sharp criticism of the news media as liberal. NPR's David Fokinflik reports it's part of a move seeking to appeal to conservative viewers.

In recent months, the former and new ownership of CBS have announced a series of moves, the cancellation of Stephen Colbert's late night show, which often satirized President Trump, paying Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over a 60 minutes interview of then-Vice, Kamala Harris last year, naming a conservative former think tank chief to be an ombudsman. Now, Barry Weiss arrives as a top executive. She is to work in partnership with CBS News President Tom Zabrowski. She has no experience in broadcast and is unlikely to direct logistics, but Weiss is to have the remit to reshape journalistic sensibilities at the network of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite. David Fulkenflick and PR News.

The Dow is down 82 points. This is NPR. The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine have been announced today by Secretary General Thomas Perlman. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinski Institute that has today decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Mary Branco, Fred Ramstel and Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. The Nobel Assembly says the hope is to be able to treat or cure autoimmune diseases, provide more effective cancer treatments, and prevent serious complications after stem cell transplants. Tonight will feature the biggest, brightest moon of the year. And as NPR's Amy Hell tells us, it'll also start a season of super moons to close out the year. Super moons happen three or four times a year, but this first supermoon of 2025 ushers in a trio in the last three months of the year. It happens because the moon's 27-day orbit of Earth is not in a perfect circle, but more like an oval.

So when a full moon coincides with its closest approach to Earth, called the Perigee, about 225,000 miles away, that's a supermoon. It looks up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter. And does more than dazzle, the proximity can cause higher tides than usual. The name Supermoon was coined in 1979 and is seeing a star turn in the Internet age. periodically becoming a trending term. Amy held NPR News. At last check on Wall Street, the Dow is down more than 100 points. The NASDAQ was up 154 points. This is NPR News.