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Members of the U.S. Senate returned to Capitol Hill late Wednesday after President Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had accepted the first phase of a Gaza peace plan. Under the deal, the two sides will pause their fighting, Hamas will release all remaining hostages, and Israeli forces are to pull back to an agreed-upon boundary line. Here's reaction from Pennsylvania Democrat John Futterman, an outspoken advocate for Israel. For all of us that are horrified of the condition of Gaza, But I blame Iran and Hamas for these things. They could have done so much different. They could have just surrendered and disarmed two years ago. But now, here we are.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he'll hold a cabinet meeting on Thursday to approve the deal. Hundreds of National Guard troops are in the city of Chicago to quell anti-ice protests and to protect federal property. NPR Sorheo Martinez Beltran has the story. 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. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has indicted eight people accused of providing illegal abortions. The case is linked to the earlier arrest of a midwife, as Houston Public Media's Sarah Grunow reports. The indictments accuse eight people affiliated with the clinics of practicing without medical licenses. Court documents shared with Houston Public Media show that only one of those defendants,

is accused of performing an abortion. In a press release, Paxton called the group a, quote, cabal of abortion-loving radicals who are not allowed to operate in the state of Texas. The announcement of more arrest in the case comes a month after Maria Rojas, a Houston-area midwife who operated the clinics, was indicted on 15 felony charges stemming from allegations that she performed illegal abortions at the Waller County clinics. Rojas became the first person to be arrested under the state's near-total abortion

ban that was enacted in 2022. She has pleaded not guilty. I'm Sarah Grunow in Houston. Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy says he's concerned about creeping partisanship on the high court. 89-year-old Kennedy tells the Associated Press that the tone of recent court decisions troubles him more than the outcome of the cases. This is NPR.

In Southern California, authorities have made an arrest in connection with the Palisades fire last January. 29-year-old Jonathan Rindernecht is accused of setting a small blaze that smoldered underground for days before re-igniting. Rindernecht was arrested Tuesday in Florida and made his first court appearance Wednesday in Orlando. A hearing is set for October 17th. A new study finds that more people with psychosis are using marijuana since the legalization

of cannabis. As NPR's Ritu Chatterjee reports, people with psychotic illnesses are more vulnerable to the negative impacts of marijuana. Dr. Andy Hyatt is a psychiatrist at the Cambridge Health Alliance near Boston. Me and many of my colleagues have been seeing over the past several years. It's just a market rise in the rates of cannabis use among people with serious mental illness. Most of his patients have schizophrenia, which can cause psychosis.

And Hyatt and his colleagues wanted to know if what they were seeing in their clinics represented a national trend. So they looked at a national data set of more than 50,000 adults that scientists had followed from 2014 to 2022. More than 1,800 of those were individuals with psychosis. After states legalized recreational cannabis, past month use of the drug in people with psychosis, went up by more than 9% compared to only 3% for the general population.

Rithu Chatterjee, NPR News. U.S. futures are virtually unchanged in after-hours trading on Wall Street following Wednesday's mixed clothes, the Dowel edged a point lower. On Asia-Pacific markets at this hour, shares are mixed down a fraction in Hong Kong. This is NPR News. In the U.S., national security news can feel far away from daily life.

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