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--:-- Windsor Johnston: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: President Trump is expected to meet with top congressional leaders at the White House today. Lawmakers are facing a critical deadline on Tuesday to pass a temporary spending bill.
--:-- Barbara Sprunt: NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports if Congress fails to reach a bipartisan compromise, the government could partially shut down at midnight tomorrow.
--:-- Barbara Sprunt: The meeting is somewhat of a redo. Top Democrats were supposed to meet with President Trump last week to negotiate a path forward and avoid a shutdown, but the president canceled that meeting.
--:-- Barbara Sprunt: The Oval Office meeting today will come hours before the Senate is expected to vote on a House-passed continuing resolution to fund the government through late November.
--:-- Barbara Sprunt: Senate Democrats previously blocked that from advancing. They want to negotiate with Republicans to address expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies that expire at the end of the year.
--:-- Barbara Sprunt: Republicans are pushing to pass the stopgap bill first and then negotiate.
--:-- Barbara Sprunt: Barbara Sprint NPR News Washington
--:-- Emily Fang: President Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House today
--:-- Emily Fang: NPR's Emily Fang reports the meeting comes amid increasing pressure to end the war in Gaza.
--:-- Emily Fang: U.S. Middle East Envoy Steve Witkopf told reporters that there might be a breakthrough on the plan in the coming days, but we reached out to Hamas negotiators who say they have not yet received any kind of written proposal of this plan.
--:-- Emily Fang: And so the question now is, is there enough pressure on the U.S. and Hamas, on Israel, to overcome fundamental disagreements which have sunk previous ceasefire proposals?
--:-- Emily Fang: That's NPR's Emily Fang reporting from Tel Aviv.
--:-- Emily Fang: President Trump told Axios on Sunday that negotiations on a possible peace deal are at their final stages.
--:-- Emily Fang: Trump and Netanyahu are expected to hold a joint press conference at the White House following today's meeting.
--:-- Alex McLennan: Authorities in Michigan say two bodies have been recovered from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc.
--:-- Alex McLennan: They were among at least four people killed Sunday morning when a man drove his pickup truck into the building and opened fire.
--:-- Alex McLennan: Law officials say Thomas Jacob Sanford a 40 military veteran crashed his truck into the church before opening fire on the Mormon congregation and setting the building ablaze
--:-- Alex McLennan: Police neutralized Sanford shortly after in a church parking lot.
--:-- Alex McLennan: FBI acting special agent in charge Ruben Coleman says the attack is being investigated as a targeted act of violence.
--:-- Alex McLennan: This act of violence has no place in our state or anywhere else in our country.
--:-- Alex McLennan: No motive for the attack has been given.
--:-- Alex McLennan: Michigan police say they've responded to a number of bomb threats in the community following the grand blank attack.
--:-- Alex McLennan: For NPR News, I'm Alex McLennan in Detroit.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
--:-- Christopher Blank: A new crime-fighting task force backed by local, federal, and National Guard troops is launching in Memphis this week.
--:-- Christopher Blank: In a city known for both high crime and civil rights activism, residents and local leaders are divided over the deployment.
--:-- Christopher Blank: For Rachel Spriggs and scores of activists who protested the task force over the weekend, federal help has a checkered history in this majority black city.
--:-- Christopher Blank: Because here help has meant harm. Here help has meant harassment
--:-- Christopher Blank: But many locals including city council members such as Yolanda Cooper Sutton say the tough measures are a consequence of previous failed crime interventions
--:-- Christopher Blank: What are you going to do about it What solutions do we have in place
--:-- Christopher Blank: For Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, the solution is a surge of law enforcement from 13 federal agencies and state troopers.
--:-- Christopher Blank: The National Guard, he said Friday, will neither be armed nor make arrests.
--:-- Christopher Blank: It will work with Memphis police as the department focuses on violent crime.
--:-- Christopher Blank: For NPR News, I'm Christopher Blank in Memphis.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: Officials in Oregon are suing the Trump administration to block the deployment of National Guard troops to Portland.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: The state argues the president's description of the city as, quote, war ravaged is pure fiction.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: Over the weekend, the Pentagon ordered 200 members of the National Guard into federal service, effective immediately for a 60-day deployment.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: Stocks closed mixed across Asia today.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: Markets in China and Hong Kong posted gains, while shares fell sharply in Japan.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: I'm Windsor Johnston, NPR News in Washington.
--:-- Windsor Johnston: Thank you.
