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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. New York City Mayor Alex Zoran Mamdani visits President Trump at the White House this hour with affordability and public safety issues expected on the agenda. NPR's Elena Moore reports. This meeting is a reminder of the big shift that Momdani has to make in these next few weeks as he takes on this job. He's got a background as an activist. But being mayor of New York City is a totally different. role. So today may be a test for him, you know, on balancing the policy priorities that got him elected and maintaining the political diplomacy required as mayor. NPR's Elena Moore reporting for months. Trump has warned that his hometown stances suffer under Mamdani's policies. Mumdani, a

Democratic socialist, says he's not worried Trump might use the face-to-face to embarrass him. The U.S. Supreme Court is meeting in private today and could disclose as soon as Monday if it'll hear President Trump's challenge of birthright citizenship. He wants to adjust this to overturn lower court rulings that struck down his order to block automatic citizenship for children, born on U.S. soil to parents who are in the country temporarily or illegally. The UN Climate Conference is wrapping up its final days of negotiations. NPR's Julia Simon reports from Belain, Brazil, that the draft deal released early today does not mention fossil fuels. More than 20 countries have written a letter rejecting the draft. They say

they cannot support an outcome that does not include a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels, the single biggest driver of global warming. The country's calling for fossil fuel wording include France, Germany, and Panama. Juan Carlos Monterey is Panama's special representative for climate change. Every year, we try to rethink a pathway to a green economy, but we try to avoid talking about fossil fuels. It's really, really stupid. It's like trying to deal with a patient that has COVID, but not treating the patient for COVID. Negotiations are supposed to end today, but delegates expect delays. Julia Simon, NPR News, Belain, Brazil.

The Israeli military still occupies a little more than half of Gaza. The military says it's focusing on Hamas Tunnels. Here's NPR's Anas Baba. As part of the current phase of the ceasefire, Israeli troops are positioned in eastern Gaza along a so-called yellow line. This line is outlined on paper on President Trump's ceasefire plan, but it's not clearly demarcated in the ground. So Israeli forces have been placing yellow concrete blocks

down to physically mark the dividing line between territory itocubis and the rest of Gaza, where two million Palestinians are squeezed. But Palestinians in eastern Gaza City say they awoke Friday to find Israeli forces had grabbed more land by moving these yellow blocks by several hundred feet, forcing them to flee their homes. The military which declined to comment says

Palestinians cannot cross or approach the yellow line. people who have done so unwittingly have been killed in the ceasefire. Anas Baba, NPR News, Gaza City. It's NPR. Foxcon and NVIDIA are investing in an AI supercomputing cluster that's scheduled to come online in Taiwan by next year. NPR's Emily Fang reports. The 1.4 billion-dollar data center will be Taiwan's most powerful configuration of what are called GPUs,

a type of semiconductor designed for applications like artificial intelligence. The chips come from NVIDIA, founded by Taiwanese American Jensen Huang. NVIDIA is now valued at around $5 trillion, making it the world's most valuable company. Taiwan is also where many of NVIDIA's chips are made, but NVIDIA's biggest market is the U.S. and China, which says it wants to take over Taiwan one day. That has put Taiwan in an awkward spot. It's been investing in its own computing centers, like the Foxcon 1, to boost its own computing capabilities. Meanwhile, Foxcon is also partnering with Open AI to build parts for new data centers in the U.S., according to an announcement yesterday.

Emily Fang and Pier News. Eddie Murphy's getting a life achievement award from the American Film Institute. The AFI's Board of Trustees made the announcement today. At 64, Murphy has been in entertainment most of his life, and many fans were introduced to him when he was on Saturday Night Live. Who could that be? Let's see. He took the entertainment industry by star. in stand-up on films such as the Beverly Hills Cop franchise and in music,

younger generations got to know him and his versatility playing multiple characters through The Nutty Professor, Shrek's Donkey, and Dreamgirls, for which he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. This is NPR News.