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At present’s high tales
Israel and Hamas have agreed to the primary phases of a ceasefire deal that goals to finish the struggle in Gaza, which entered its third 12 months on Tuesday. The deal depends on the trade of Israeli hostages held by Hamas for Palestinians detained and imprisoned by Israel. This announcement comes simply hours after President Trump knowledgeable reporters on the White Home that he’s prepared to travel to the Middle East as early as this weekend.
Individuals journey a horse-drawn cart previous destroyed buildings alongside Al-Rasheed Road in west Gaza Metropolis on Oct. 7, 2025. Displaced Palestinians endure harsh situations with little entry to scrub water, meals, or shelter.
Abood Abusalama/Center East Photographs/AFP through Getty
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- 🎧 Inside 72 hours of signing the settlement, Hamas mentioned it’s going to launch all dwelling hostages, which is believed to be 20 individuals, NPR’s Carrie Kahn, who’s in Tel Aviv, tells Up First. Israel says it’s going to make a partial pullback within the territory, however will stay deep inside Gaza. Israel plans to launch 2,000 detainees and prisoners. However some main sticking factors nonetheless must be labored out past this part. In Gaza, individuals are relieved on the information of the settlement, however fear getting their hopes up. In Tel Aviv’s Hostage Sq., the place celebrations have been breaking out after the information, Kahn spoke to Dani Miran, the daddy of Omri, a hostage being held in Gaza. Miran says it’s a supreme feeling that he may see his son at any second now.
The Senate will vote as we speak on funding the federal government. To date, lawmakers have held six failed votes, and as we speak’s try is predicted to have the identical final result. The standstill stays because the GOP accuses Democrats of blocking the invoice due to stress from the Democratic base, says NPR’s Deirdre Walsh. Republican leaders say no deal on well being care will be reached except Democrats cooperate to cross a invoice that ends the shutdown.
- 🎧 The tip of the shutdown could also be influenced by stress from outdoors of Washington, Walsh says. Airports are dealing with delays as a consequence of staffing points with air site visitors controllers, and there are issues from each political events about navy pay. Troopers are prone to lacking a paycheck on Oct. 15. A bipartisan group of senators has been working to develop a compromise on well being care. These components may play an important function to find a decision to the shutdown.
Tons of of Nationwide Guard troops are stationed outdoors of Chicago at Trump’s request. This deployment is in response to current protests in opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations within the metropolis. The president has referred to Chicago as a struggle zone and has known as for the arrest of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson as a result of he says they don’t seem to be defending ICE officers.
- 🎧 Johnson says he’s defending the residents of Chicago and can fight the Trump administration over the deployment of the Nationwide Guard. NPR’s Sergio Martinez-Beltran sat down with Johnson yesterday, who mentioned that he’s additionally pushing again on the president’s declare that the town is harmful. This summer time, Chicago noticed the bottom variety of homicides for the reason that Nineteen Sixties. Based on the Census, round one in 5 Chicago residents is foreign-born. Now, these residents say they really feel unsafe in a metropolis the place immigrants have created a neighborhood and made large contributions.
- ➡️ The situations to legally justify troop deployments in Chicago do not exist, Illinois Lawyer Basic Kwame Raoul advised Morning Version. The state filed a lawsuit Monday in opposition to the Trump administration. Here is what Raoul had to say on the matter.
Life recommendation
Open enrollment season is upon us, and it is time to resolve on a medical health insurance plan for the following calendar 12 months. Whereas this process would possibly really feel a bit daunting throughout this spooky season, there’s excellent news: Life Equipment has consulted with specialists to simplify the method for you. Here is a cheat sheet to reference as making a decision:
- ➡️ Even in case you have had the identical plan for years, look over your plan’s newest abstract of advantages to see if something has modified.
- ➡️ Ensure that your most popular major care physician and prescription drugs stay coated by the insurance coverage. If they don’t seem to be, discover a plan that is going to cowl these issues.
- ➡️ Be taught what widespread medical health insurance phrases like “cost-sharing” and “CHIP” imply. It could actually empower you to raised perceive what you might be signing up for.
- ➡️ Even with a bare-bones plan with excessive deductibles, screening and different preventive providers ought to be included in your protection.
For tricks to get essentially the most out of your medical health insurance plan, listen to this episode of NPR’s Life Kit. Subscribe to the Life Kit newsletter for knowledgeable recommendation on love, cash, relationships and extra.
Image present
Followers, a lot of them carrying pink and cowboy hats, get off of the streetcar at Union Station earlier than the present. Chappell Roan, who exploded in reputation final summer time, solely picked three cities on her current pop-up American tour: New York Metropolis, Los Angeles and Kansas Metropolis, which is in her dwelling state of Missouri.
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Singer Chappell Roan stopped in Kansas Metropolis, Mo., over the weekend as a part of her pop-up tour, “Visions of Damsels and Different Harmful Issues.” The tour included solely three cities, making the Midwestern cease particularly vital because it was positioned in Roan’s dwelling state of Missouri. To have fun her arrival, the town went all out by lighting up many downtown buildings in pink, portray a mural of the “Midwest Princess” the place she noticed her first drag present, and creating particular menu objects at native bars and eating places. Photographer Katie Currid captured images of fans attending the tour stop and mentioned that the singer bringing pleasure to the Midwest’s queer neighborhood is deeply significant for the neighborhood.
3 issues to know earlier than you go
Twenty two new MacArthur Fellows had been introduced Wednesday. They embody, clockwise from high left, Tonika Lewis Johnson, Jeremy Frey, Heather Christian, Nabarun Dasgupta, Margaret Wicker Pearce, Ángel F. Adames Corraliza, Hahrie Han and Tommy Orange.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Basis
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John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Basis
- The record of 2025 MacArthur Fellows has been announced. Twenty-two recipients, together with a cartographer, a composer, a neurobiologist, and a novelist, will every obtain a no-strings-attached award of $800,000.
- Actors’ Fairness Affiliation, the union representing Broadway actors and stage managers, resumed negotiations yesterday in an effort to prevent a strike. Well being care is the primary sticking level in talks.
- Dozens of Bob Ross work, a lot of them created dwell on his PBS sequence The Pleasure of Portray, can be auctioned starting in November to assist public tv.
This article was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.
