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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 Corvick-Holman. This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

has been awarded to three scientists. Mary Brunco, Fred Ramsdale, and Shimon Sakaguchi. They're being honored for work discovering how the body's immune system is regulated, so that it typically does not attack our own organs. Late last night, a federal judge in Oregon issued a second order blocking President Trump from deploying any National Guard troops to Oregon. Over the weekend, the same judge first blocked Trump from deploying Oregon National Guard troops around ICE facilities in Portland. After she ruled, Trump then told some National Guard troops from California and Texas to go to Oregon.

The federal judge was flabbergasted, asking why the president wasn't directly contravening her order. Oregon governor Tina Kotech is also shocked at Trump's orders. We cannot normalize the approach he is taking with the military in our own country. It's not warranted. It is unlawful. It is not American. Trump has also ordered about 400. National Guard troops from Texas to go to Illinois. The government may be shut down, but the federal courts are still working. That includes the U.S. Supreme Court. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports the justices open a new term today. The court's docket includes many muscular assertions of presidential

power, assertions that likely will have a willing audience at a court dominated by a majority more conservative than at any time since the early 1930s. Bottom line, the court could end up overturning a nearly century-old decision that established independent regulatory agencies with fixed terms and barred the president from firing agency directors except for misconduct. Also on the docket is a challenge to Trump's massive tariffs, as well as a case that could end what's left of the landmark Voting Rights Act. In addition, Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship is also back before the court. Nina Totenberg and PRN. News, Washington. Negotiators from Israel and Hamas are set to hold indirect talks today in Egypt

about ending the war in Gaza, and Pierre's Kerry Khan has war. 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. You're listening to NPR. There's political turmoil in France today. the country's new prime minister has quit after less than a month on the job. His new government was supposed to meet for the very first time today. The Utah legislature is scheduled to meet in special session today. One item is a redistricting issue. A Utah state judge struck down a prior state congressional map saying Utah lawmakers had disregarded the intent of voters. This effort has been

underway in Utah for several years. It began before President Trump started pushing Republican states to redraw their voting maps to favor GOP candidates. Pop star Taylor Swift is once again topping the charts. This time it's at the box office with the film compliment to her 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl. And Pierre's Ava Poucatch has more. The official release party of a showgirl took an estimated. needed $33 million at the domestic box office for the three-day event. The film featured personal reflections from Swift, lyric videos, behind-the-scenes footage, and premiered the music video for The Fate of Aphelia, the first single off the album.

This was Swift's second partnership with AMC theaters, the first, the first, the concert, film of her heiress tour is the highest grossing concert film of all time. Eva Pugatch and PR News. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.