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--:-- Louise Schiavone: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. Meeting at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump released a new framework for peace, acknowledging the toughness of the challenges ahead, aimed at establishing a de-radicalized region, and the release of hostages taken at the start of the conflict, President Trump promised to stand by Israel.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: Israel would have my fallback in to finish the job of destroying the threat of Hamas, but I hope that we're going to have a deal for peace. As part of the talks at the White House, Trump and Netanyahu spoke by phone with Qatar's Prime Minister Al Thani, during which Netanyahu apologized to Al Thani for Israel's missile strike on Hamas targets in Qatar.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: The White House said in a statement that he further expressed regret that in targeting Hamas leadership during hostage negotiations Israel violated Qatari sovereignty and affirmed that Israel will not conduct such an attack again in the future. The question remains though how will this play politically among the many and varied parties in the conflict NPR's Daniel Estrin has more.
--:-- Daniel Estrin: The political reality in Israel right now is that on the one hand, most of the Israeli public wants the war to end. A new poll says 66 percent of Israelis want the war to end. And on the other hand, if Netanyahu does end the war like Trump wants him to, he could lose his government.
--:-- Daniel Estrin: His key political partners in his coalition are far-right, ultra-nationalists. They do not want the war in Gaza, and yet they want the total defeat of Hamas instead.
--:-- Daniel Estrin: NPR's Daniel Estrin reporting.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: A White House office is giving federal agencies more time to get in line with changes to how the government produces statistics about race and ethnicity that are used to redraw voting maps and enforce civil rights protections. As NPR's Hansi Lo Wang reports, the changes to future census forms and federal surveys were approved during former President Joe Biden's administration.
--:-- Hansi Lo Wang: The White House's Office of Management and Budget is now giving agencies until March to submit public action plans for complying with the revised standards by September 2029. Those standards require federal forms to ask about race and ethnicity in one question instead of separating the two while allowing you to check more than one box.
--:-- Hansi Lo Wang: And there are supposed to be two new checkboxes one for Hispanic or Latino and another for Middle Eastern or North African a category the U government no longer automatically classifies as white. Research suggests these changes could allow many people of MENA descent and Latinos to more accurately report their identities.
--:-- Hansi Lo Wang: OMB has not explained why it's extending deadlines, but sent a statement that the changes, quote, continue to be in effect.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: The probe continues in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, where a gunman killed four people, injured several others, and set a church ablaze on Sunday. The Dow is up three. This is NPR.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: The defense team for Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old man charged with the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, has asked for and received more time to study the evidence in the case. At a brief hearing today in Provo, Utah, a few miles away from the scene of the killing, Robinson's lawyers asked for more time to review a mass of evidence in the case before deciding if they will seek a preliminary hearing.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: The judge has now set the next hearing for October 30th. Prosecutors have charged Tyler Robinson with aggravated murder, and they plan to seek the death penalty.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: The battle over next year's federal education budget for grades K through 12 has begun, And NPR's Cory Turner has more.
--:-- Cory Turner: The White House Senate and House Republicans have all proposed Education Department budgets for fiscal year 2026 The bipartisan Senate plan would largely fund the status quo Not so the other two. The Trump budget would end all funding to help schools teach English language learners and scale back funding for rural schools and things like teacher training.
--:-- Cory Turner: The House Republican budget would cut $4.7 billion from the pot that directly supports high-poverty schools. Multiple data analyses from liberal-leaning think tanks estimate both proposals would cut more funding from the nation's lowest-income schools than from its wealthiest.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: Torrential rain from Tropical Storm Imelda has led to extensive closings and evacuations in the Bahamas. In Cuba, amid drenching rain, one man is known to have died after a landslide. On Wall Street, the Nasdaq is up 120 points.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: I'm Louise Schiavone, NPR News, Washington. The Trump administration has moved fast to change U.S. policy, but much of the country is still trying to catch up. Business likes a stable environment, so uncertainty does cause a little bit of pain.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: On the Sunday story from Up First, a road trip across the country to hear how Trump's policies are impacting everyday Americans. Listen now to the Sunday story on the Up First podcast from NPR.
