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This message comes from Click Here. Erased is a four-part investigation into how China is wiping Uyghur culture from existence. Erased uncovers an authoritarian regime's campaign to delete a culture. Listen to Click Here wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump says Israel and Hamas have signed off on the first phase of a peace plan and says he'll travel to the region in the coming days. It comes two years after Hamas's surprise attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people. That sparked Israel's war in Gaza, which has killed at least 67,000 Palestinians and destroyed much of the enclave. Netanyahu says he spoke with Trump a short while ago. He says he'll convene the Israeli government tomorrow to approve the peace plan. Hamas called on Trump and mediators to ensure that Israel implements all the provisions agreed upon without delay or changes.

NPR's Franco Ordonez has more on what's in the day. deal. Trump did say that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first phase of the peace plan, and that does include the release of all remaining hostages, 20 of whom are believed to still be alive. Now, Israel would in turn release more than 2,000 Palestinian detainees. It also means that Israel would partially withdraw its troops from Gaza to an agreed-upon kind of line. NPR's Franco-Ordonia's reporting. Hundreds of National Guard troops have arrived in the city of Chicago. That's after President Trump mobilized them to quell protests against immigration enforcement in the city.

NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran reports. Many Chicago residents have three questions. Why is the National Guard in town? Do people need to protect themselves? And what can the City of Chicago do to block the National Guard from assisting ICE in the city? The Trump administration has said the Guard troops have orders to protect federal functions, personnel, and property. specifically ICE operations. Mayor Brandon Johnson says he will do whatever it takes to protect the residents and fight what he calls a federal invasion. Meanwhile, President Trump has called for

the arrest of Johnson. Trump accused the mayor of failing to protect ICE officers. Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Chicago. There's still no end in sight to the government's shutdown. Federal worker union leaders are pushing Congress to do its job. Military troops are preparing to go without paychecks and flight delays are taking place nationwide. Republicans like House Speaker Mike Johnson are pushing to temporarily reopen the government. We just need a stopgap measure to give us a little more time to get the job of Congress done. They refuse to do it because they're playing politics and real Americans are paying the price for it. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries says Republicans could reopen the

government if they just agree to fund health insurance subsidies. These extremists don't even want to show up to work when they're requiring hardworking federal employees to show up to work without pay. President Trump says he'll work with Democrats on health care, but only if they vote to reopen the government, Democratic and Republican-backed plans to fund federal agencies both failed again today. This is NPR News from Washington. The United Nations is slashing its peacekeeping force, evacuating thousands of soldiers from conflicts across the globe. Officials say the overhaul is due to U.S. funding cuts to the world body. The U.S. has scaled back its U.N. funding to align with President Trump's America First

Vision. Up to 14,000 of more than 50,000 peacekeepers will be sent back to their home countries. The MacArthur Foundation has announced the annual winners of its genius grants. The 22 awardees of the $800,000 grant include artists, biologists, and archaeologists. and an atmospheric scientist. As NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boise reports, one of the winners has been called the Black Hole Destroyer. Kareem Elbadri is an astrophysicist at Caltech. In a video put out by the MacArthur Foundation, he explains that he focuses on binary star systems. Half of all stars the universe are not single like the sun is, but they're orbiting another star. These orbiting companions interact and can affect each other's evolution, leading to radically different

outcomes than you'd have for a single star. As part of his work, he's found that several purported black holes were not, in fact, black holes at all, but stars that had been stripped of an outer layer and appeared abnormally bright. Nell Greenfield's voice, NPR News. The MacArthur Foundation is a financial supporter of NPR. An NCAA rulemaking committee voted to allow student athletes to bet on professional sports. It's a provisional move, but it would be a major shift in policy that's been difficult to enforce with the spread of legal sports betting. This is NPR News. This message comes from Wise, the app for using money around the globe.

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