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Wait, wait, don't tell me. Fresh Air, Up First, NPR News Now, Planet Money, Ted Radio Hour, Thru Line, the NPR Politics Podcast, Code Switch, Embedded, Books We Love, Wildcard, are just some of the podcasts you can enjoy sponsor-free with NPR+. Get all sorts of perks across more than 20 podcasts with the bundle option. Learn more at plus.npr.org. JANENE HERPST. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janene Herpst. Donald Trump is holding a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City tonight, touching on familiar themes. DONALD TRUMP. With your vote in this election, I will end inflation. I will stop the invasion of criminals coming into our country. And I will bring back the American dream.

We need the American dream. The rally started with a number of speakers with a list of racist remarks, vulgar insults and profanity. The Deep Blue State isn't a swing state, but Trump was born in New York. He claims he will take the state in the election in nine days, but he lost his home state by around 23 percentage points during the 2016 and 2020 elections. Kamala Harris, meanwhile, campaigned in the swing state of Pennsylvania again today, visiting several sites across the city of Philadelphia. Tomorrow, she returns to Michigan and Tuesday, she holds a rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to Michigan on Tuesday. She holds a rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Egypt has announced a proposal to end the war in Gaza. As NPR's Daniel Estrin reports

from Tel Aviv, U.S. and Israeli intelligence chiefs have met to try to jumpstart the ceasefire talks. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is proposing a two-day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and the release of four hostages held in Gaza in exchange for an unspecified number of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. And Egypt is proposing 10 days of negotiations in an effort to reach a permanent ceasefire. Hamas had no immediate comment and Israeli official told NPR Israel's Mossad spy chief met today with CIA chief William

Burns in Qatar to jumpstart ceasefire efforts. The official, speaking anonymously to discuss details of the closed-door efforts, says Israel sees an opportunity, this after having struck Iran Saturday and having killed the leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah recently. Danielle Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv. California's governor unveiled a proposal that's aimed at keeping entertainment productions in the state. Empire's Mondalee Del Barco reports

he wants to boost tax credits. Film and TV productions made in California have plummeted in the past few years, particularly with more reality shows and game shows relocating from LA to Atlanta or Canada. Some blame the pandemic, last year's strikes by Hollywood writers and performers, industry-wide layoffs and cost cutting. Add to that, other states and countries now offer producers tax breaks for

shooting on location. Hoping to keep productions in California or to lure them back, Governor Gavin Newsom has announced he'd like to more than double the state's current budget for tax credits to $750 million. If legislators pass his proposal, California would offer the second most generous incentive package after Georgia, which has given productions more than a billion dollars in tax credits this year. Mandelit Del Barco, NPR News. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. An old Norse saga tells of a dead man hurled into a well in the 12th century. Ari Daniels reports DNA now suggests what he may have looked like and where he came

from. Excavations of the well revealed a man's skeleton, possibly that of the person described in the saga. Archaeologists and evolutionary genomicists teamed up to extract enough DNA from the root of one of the teeth to sequence the individual's genome. Michael Martin is at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. We were able to deduce that he was a male. We could say that he was very likely to have blue eyes, blonde hair, and an intermediate skin tone,

and that his ancestry traces back to a very specific county in southern Norway. Martin says the genomic analysis adds new detail to the centuries-old saga, a story that may have its moments of exaggeration, but that is, overall, rooted in fact. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel. At the weekend box office, Venom, The Last Dance debuted in the top spot with an estimated $51 million in ticket sales. Internationally, the Sony Pictures' third Venom film took in $124 million. In second place, last week's number one film, the horror sequel, Smile 2, with $9 million, it faired slightly better overseas, collecting $12

million internationally. There was a tie for third place, Conclave, the papal thriller starring Ralph Fiennes and The Wild Robot, both with $6.5 million. U.S. futures contracts are trading higher at this hour. I'm Janene Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.