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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 Korova Coleman. President Trump has returned to the White House after election.

lightning trip to the Middle East. This comes after Hamas and Israel exchange hostages and prisoners and detainees. Trump met yesterday with Arab leaders in Egypt to start to discuss next steps for Gaza. NPRF reports before that Trump was welcomed by Israeli lawmakers in Jerusalem. Trump was given a generally rapturous reception at the Israeli parliament where he was called the greatest friend Israel has had. From there, he flew to the Egyptian resort of Charmel Sheikh to co-chair a peace summit. He noted that the 20 or so world leaders standing behind him had agreed to come on extremely short notice.

As a dealmaker, he said peace in the Middle East would be the biggest deal of them all. If you do anything about deals, that's all I've done all my life is deals. The greatest deals just sort of happen. And that's what happened right here. All was the businessman. He called on the wealthy countries

who had come to the summit to fund Gaza's multi-billion-dollar reconstruction. Jane Arath, NPR News, Amman. China and the United States are locked in a new trade standoff. President Trump is threatening to impose a 100% tariff on all Chinese imported goods starting November 1st. China is limiting the exports of its rare earth minerals used in key electronic goods. Now, China is sanctioning five U.S.-linked subsidiaries of a South Korean shipbuilding company. NPR's John Rewich explains. The companies are U.S. linked for,

under South Korea's Hanwa Ocean, one of the biggest shipbuilders in the world, organizations and individuals in China are prohibited from doing any business with the five firms, effective immediately. The measures come as the U.S. started imposing port fees and other measures on Chinese maritime logistics and shipbuilding entities. The ministry says in a statement the U.S. measures amount to protectionism and violate world trade organization rules and a U.S. China Maritime Agreement. The ministry says it's investigating U.S. acts that, quote,

in danger the secure and sound development of China's shipping, shipbuilding, and related industries, and China is imposing its own reciprocal port fees on U.S.-linked vessels. John Rewitch, NPR News, Beijing. The private company SpaceX has launched another of its mammoth starship rockets on a successful test flight. Three, two, one. We have liftoff, go, so. Super heavy. Go Starship. Thanks for all the historic flights pad on. The Starship launched from the southern tip of Texas yesterday. It carried out a number of

tests before successfully splashing down in the Indian Ocean. This year, three prior launches of the Starship failed, and a fourth Starship exploded on the ground during testing in Texas. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The federal government shutdown has now reached two weeks. weeks. Republican and Democratic lawmakers still don't see eye-to-eye on a spending bill to bring it to an end. The Senate is scheduled to vote again later today on a spending measure, but most observers expect it to fail. Meanwhile, thousands of government workers got layoff notices last week. The shutdown means that much of the National Park Service staff has been furloughed, but visitors

are still showing up. Maine Public Radio's Caitlin Bunyan reports that includes at Maine's Acadia National Park. The entrance to a Acadia National Park at the Hulls Co Visitor Center was packed this weekend with people looking to enjoy the iconic fall foliage. With the ongoing shutdown, there's a mix of services still open to the public. But Eric Stiles with the nonprofit Friends of Acadia says that isn't stopping people from making the trip. Turnout is really strong. So anecdotally looking at activities in the park, it would seem to be just as busy as Indigenous People's Day last year, which was the highest visitation in record. But the park can't collect entrance fees, style says,

so Friends of Acadia has set up a fund for visitors to donate the fee instead, hoping to make up some of the lost revenue for the park. For NPR News, I'm Caitlin Bedion in Bar Harbor, Maine. The founder of online platform Lending Tree died Sunday in an ATV accident at his North Carolina farm. That's according to the company, Doug Lebeda was 55 years old. He launched Lending Tree nearly 30 years ago. It was created to offer potential. borrowers and opportunity to search for loan offers online.

I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News, in Washington.