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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump is warning there might not be back pay for some of the 750,000 federal workers furloughed during the government shutdown. That would be a reversal of a policy he himself signed into law in his previous term. Trump said some people, quote, don't deserve to be taken care of. Texas National Guard troops are in Chicago today to support federal immigration enforcement at the request of President Trump. Blaze Ganey reports from the Texas Newsroom. Governor J.B. Prisker condemned the move as an invasion and urged Texas Governor Greg Abbott to withdraw support, but Abbott has backed Trump's decision and posted photos of Texas Guard members boarding planes, calling them elite and ever-ready. Normally, governors control their National Guard

units, but the president can federalize them in rare situations. A power the Trump administration argues is justified by what they call rebellion against federal authority. The administration says the troops are needed to protect federal personnel and property. as immigration enforcement intensifies. I'm Blaise Gainey in Austin. Today is the second anniversary of Hamas' attack on Israel that led to Israel's war in Gaza. In Egypt, negotiators are meeting for a second day of talks aimed at ending the conflict. NPR's Daniel Estrin reports. Egypt's foreign ministers has talks in the Egyptian resort town of Sharma Sheikh continue involving Israeli and Hamas officials. He says the aim is to negotiate the first

phase of the deal, including an Israeli troop redeployment, to allow for the the release of hostages, delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, and the release of Palestinian prisoners. U.S. envoy Steve Whitkoff tells NPR he will join the talks in Egypt tomorrow. A Qatari government spokesman says mediators also want to work out the details of an international peacekeeping force deploying in Gaza. A person in the region close to the talks, not authorized to speak publicly, tells NPR a breakthrough is likely within a week or two. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv. Federal Reserve Board Governor Stephen Myron says keeping interest rates too high could pose a risk to the U.S. economy. NPR's Scott Horsley reports the Trump White House economist turned central banker spoke to a group of financial managers in New York today.

President Trump has been pushing the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates more aggressively, and his latest appointee to the Fed Governing Board has been echoing that view. Stephen Myron, who joined the Fed Board in September, cast the loan vote that month for a supersized rate cut. He also projected two more jumbo rate cuts by December, a forecast far more aggressive than anyone else on the Fed's rate-setting committee. One reason for why my, you know, sort of dot for 2025 sticks out so much from everyone else's is because I'm more sanguine on the inflation outlook than a lot of other people are. Myron says he expects housing costs to cool and he doesn't believe Trump's tariffs will cause much of a jump in prices. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington. This is NPR News from Washington. Officials say hello fresh subscription meal kits may contain spinach that's been contaminated with listeria.

The U.S. Agriculture Department is warning people not to eat the ready-made meals, including cheesy pulled pork pepper pasta and unstuffed peppers with ground turkey. The products were shipped directly to consumers' homes. This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three University of California scientists, Their work demonstrated the quantum mechanical effects in electrical circuits, NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boise reports. This could help develop better computers. The three researchers who won the prize are John Clark, Michelle Deverey, and John Martinez. In the mid-1980s, they did experiments that showed how a subatomic phenomenon, quantum

tunneling, can be observed on a macroscopic scale, involving many particles on a chip. At a press briefing, Clark said he was stunned that they won. We have not realized in any way that this might be the basis of a Nobel Prize. The Prize Committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said their advances could lead to the next generation of quantum technologies, including quantum cryptography and new kinds of sensors. Nell Greenfield-Boyce, NPR News. 30 Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned to support public TV stations. Ross died in 1995. He was famous for his permed hair and gentle demeanor on his joy of painting show, which ran for 11 years.

The programs had a resurgence of popularity during the COVID lockdowns. The auctions come as Congress cut $1.1 billion in public broadcasting funding. This is NPR News.