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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. Israel says it opened fire in Gaza, even as a ceasefire deal remains in place between Israel and Hamas. NPR's Ruth Sherlock reports. The Israeli military said its troops opened fire on, quote, several suspects. It said these individuals were crossing the yellow line that marks the boundary Israeli troops have pulled back to in the first phase of the U.S. brokered peace plan for Gaza. The military asked Gaza residents not to approach troops in this area and said those individuals were violating the ceasefire agreement. Hamas in a statement said it was Israel who violated the truce and that a number of Gaza residents were killed as a result. Gaza's local health authority said six Palestinians have been killed in two separate events in the strip. Overall though, for now, the ceasefire is broadly still holding. Ruth Sherlock, MPR News. Jet Propulsion Laboratory are getting laid off today.

About 11% of the staff will be affected. As NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boise reports, these layoffs are not related to the government shutdown. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California is owned by NASA and managed by Caltech. It's been responsible for high-profile robotic space missions like the Voyager probes and Mars Rovers. It operates the deep space network used to communicate with faraway spacecraft and is currently working on missions like robotic probe that will go to an icy moon of Jupiter, Europa. The head of the lab, Dave Gallagher, says the layoffs are part of a reorganization that began in July, shortly

after he became the director. Positions are being eliminated across technical business and support areas. Approximately 550 people will lose their jobs. Nell Greenfield-Boyce, NPR News. The Federal Reserve has another interest rate decision to make in a couple of weeks, as NPR's Scott Horsley reports it may have to do so with limited information. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told a gathering of business economists today that the economic outlook doesn't appear to have changed much since he and his colleagues voted to cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point last month. The job market's a little softer, inflation's a little higher.

Powell notes some key economic reports are being delayed, however, by the government shutdown. We'll start to miss that data, and particularly the October data, if this goes on for a while, they won't be collecting. and it could become more challenging. This is the week when government number crunchers would ordinarily be telling the number of new jobs added, as well as the number of people who are unemployed. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington. Defense Secretary Pete Higgseth's former employer, Fox News, is joining nearly all news organizations,

including NPR, saying its reporters won't sign pledges to report only what the Pentagon has authorized. So far, only the conservative One America News Network says it will follow the rules. From Washington, this is NPR News. Madagascar President Ange Rojolin has been toppled in a military coup that capped weeks of youth-led protests. The country's parliament voted to impeach him today and he fled the country. Madagascar's armed forces are forming a council of military and police officers to appoint a new prime minister. Rajelin's office condemned the military announcement as a serious breach of the rule of law. The U.S. and China have introduced.

new fees on each other's ships each time they dock at port, the move comes as trade tensions between the two economic superpowers increases. NPR's Jackie Northam reports. President Trump followed through on his threat earlier this year to slap fees on any Chinese-owned or operated ship docking at an American port. It's part of a broader effort to turn the U.S. into a great shipbuilding nation again. China currently produces more than half the world's vessels, the U.S., about 1%. But now China has followed suit, saying it will slap special charges on any U.S. owned, operated, flagged, or built American vessel. Analysts say the moves could cost larger shipping companies hundreds of millions of dollars

and risk upending global supply chains and raising prices. Jackie Northam, NPR News. Instagram says it will restrict teenagers to only see PG-13 content and they won't be able to change their settings without a parent's permission. is also adding an even stricter setting that parents can set up for their children. Parent company Meta promises it won't show inappropriate content to teens like posts about self-harm, eating disorders, or suicide. This is NPR News.