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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 Shay Stevens. Large crowds took to the streets of Israel Thursday after the government signed off on phase one of a ceasefire plan for Gaza.

The U.S. drafted proposal includes the return of all hostages and Palestinian prisoners and a pullback of Israeli troops. President Trump says the proposal does not call for any further displacement of Palestinians. Nobody's going to be forced to live now. It's just the opposite. This is a great plan. This is a great peace plan. This is a plan that was supported by everybody. As I said, they're dancing in the streets of many, many countries right now. It's amazing. I've never seen anything like it. U.S. Central Command is to create a task force to oversee the ceasefire, but it is still unclear how Hamas will disarm in exchange for security guarantees and who will lead post-war Gaza. A federal grand jury has indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on a fraud charge. James calls the allegations baseless and a, quote, desperate weaponization of the justice system. NPR's Ryan Lucas reports that the indictment comes two weeks after President Trump publicly pressured the Justice Department to prosecute some of his critics.

New York Attorney General Leticia James has been charged with one count of bank fraud and one count of false statements to a financial institution. The indictment was handed up by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia, secured by the same interim U.S. attorney there who last month brought charges against another prominent Trump critic, former FBI director James Comey. As the Attorney General for New York State, James sued Trump and his company for inflating the value of some of its assets. James won that civil fraud case in a more than $450 million judgment, although an appeals court later tossed the financial penalty. Trump has long lashed out at James and publicly called for retribution, and last month directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to go after James and other perceived political foes. Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington. In Chicago, a federal judge has temporarily blocked the National Guard from being. deployed in Illinois. NPR Sergio Martinez Beltran has that report.

Federal Judge April Perry says deploying National Guard troops in Illinois would only add fuel to the fire. Under her ruling, the National Guard of the U.S. cannot be deployed within the state. The bloc will be in effect for 14 days. An appeal by the Trump administration is almost guaranteed. The Trump administration has said the National Guard is needed to protect an immigration processing facility outside of Chicago and protect ICE agents as they conduct arrests. Trump has said Chicago is a war zone, but protests have mostly been peaceful, and Judge Perry says the narrative of events presented by the Department of Homeland Security is, quote, simply unreliable.

Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Chicago. U.S. futures are flat and after hours trading on Wall Street following Thursday's losses. You're listening to NPR. The U.S. Senate has voted to repealed the 2002 resolution that authorized the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The measure was approved by the House last month. It restores the basic war power to Congress. An estimated hundreds of thousands of civilians

and U.S. troops were killed in a war that was based on false claims that Iraq was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. Election Equipment Company Dominion voting systems has been sold. The buyer is Liberty Vote, which is owned by a former Republican elections official. As NPR's Miles Parks reports,

Dominion has been at the heart of numerous conspiracy theories since the 2020 election. Dominion voting systems is maybe the starkest example of how 2020 upended the elections world. More than half of all states used their equipment to process votes, and there was never any evidence to support the bogies conspiracy theories pushed about Dominion by people like Trump campaign attorney Rudy Giuliani. Fox News settled the defamation lawsuit with the company in 2023 for close to $800 million. Still, many election experts said it was only a matter a time before the company would be sold since its reputation was so tarnished. The acquiring company, Liberty Votes, is run by a Republican former local election official who started a

separate company that makes the most widely used voting check-in equipment in the country. Miles Parks, NPR News, Washington. Lawmakers in Peru have voted to remove President Dina Bolwart from office as a crime wave grips the South American nation. Bowart was summoned to appear before Congress late Thursday to defend her policies. She blamed Peru's crime. wave on a spike in illegal immigration, she now faces an impeachment trial. This is NPR news. There are a lot of books out there. Big ones, small ones, smart ones, silly ones, ones that thrill and ones that are, well, kind of a bore. But NPR's Book of the Day podcast is here to help you find your favorites. Through our author interviews, you can find out if a book is

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