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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, on Kouravukulman, Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a seat.

fire, it's supposed to go into effect later today. Israel is to free thousands of Palestinian prisoners and detainees. Hamas is to release all 20 living hostages in days. NPR's Kerry Khan reports Israelis are celebrating. In a downtown Tel Aviv Plaza where families and supporters of hostages held in Gaza have gathered for more than two years of the war, crowds flooded in to celebrate. Many are praising President Trump. One man waving huge American and Israeli flags called Trump the eighth wonder of the world. Another person dressed as Trump posed for selfies with many. Danny Miran, the father of Omri, a hostage in Gaza, said he is on top of the clouds.

It's a supreme feeling. I feel like I'm about to see my son any moment now like he has reborn. He says, Kerry Kahn, NPR News, Tel Aviv. A federal judge will hear arguments today about whether President Trump can deploy National Guard troops in Illinois. Trump says he'll use them to fight crime, but Illinois officials object and sued him. They say there's no national emergency and the troops are not needed. Federal immigration agents are still operating in the Chicago area. Protesters, including Leonardo Jimenez, gathered in Chicago last night.

It's just terrifying, you know, and my sister. You know, who can be targeted? You know, I don't want to carry my passport around. Separately, a federal appeals court today will take up the issue of Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Oregon. The appeals court panel ruled yesterday that Trump can keep the National Guard troops from Oregon and Texas under his federal control. But at this moment, he cannot deploy them on the streets of Portland, Oregon. Japanese automaker Honda is relying more on Canada instead of the United States to make. cars that Honda can export overseas.

The automaker is trying to avoid U.S. tariffs. Stephen Bissaha of the Gulf State's newsroom has more. Honda's still building cars in the U.S., but those factories are now focusing on making vehicles for Americans rather than for exports. Lamar Whitaker is the head of Honda's Alabama plant, and he said that's allowing the car company to still meet demands. Without passing on the cost of tariffs to our customers. David Fernandez runs the Mazda Toyota plant in Alabama.

and said several of their models are setting sales records. But the industry is still dealing with uncertainty. Supply chain for at least our products is pretty stable right now. But it's just the lack of visibility to know what's going to happen in the future. Meaning they don't know if President Donald Trump will make sudden changes in trade policy like he's done before. For NPR News, I'm Stephen Besaha in Huntsville, Alabama. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. This year's Nobel Literature Prize has been awarded to Hungarian novelist Laslo Krasna Horkai.

He's known for books such as The Melancholy of Resistance. One of the recipients of this year's MacArthur Genius Grants is a scientist who researches street drugs. Nabroon Dasgupta helped develop programs to reduce fatal overdoses. NPR's Brian Mann has more. Dasgupta, a researcher at the University of North Carolina, was one of the first scientists to detect a hope drop in fatal overdoses in the U.S. He also developed a system to help spot deadly new drugs being sold on the streets, and he's helped distribute huge amounts of naloxone, the medication that reverses opioid

overdoses. Does Gupta's work is being honored at a time when the Trump administration is hoping to defund harm reduction efforts like Disguptus that offer health care to people still using drugs? Does Gupta describe the MacArthur Genius grant as validation? I don't think the universe could send a clearer signal that I should keep going in the direction we're going in. The Scoopta says there's more work to be done. Tens of thousands of people in the U.S. still die from overdoses every year. Brian Mann, NPR News. The MacArthur Foundation is a financial

supporter of NPR. Researchers have discovered the remains of the world's oldest shoe and in a very strange place. The shoe fragment was from a sandal and it's 675 years old. The researchers founded in the nest of an endangered vulture in Spain. The researches found in the nest of an endangered vulture in Spain. The researchers say the nest is old, too, and that prior vultures probably used the shoe fragment to help build it. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News.