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--:-- Host (Dua Halisa Ikaotau): Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Halisa Ikaotau.
--:-- Guest (Deepa Shivram): President Trump says he believes Hamas is now ready for a lasting peace after the organization responded to the White House's ceasefire deal released earlier this week.
--:-- Host (Dua Halisa Ikaotau): NPR's Deepa Shivram reports.
--:-- Deepa Shivram: Trump posted on social media that Israel, quote, must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza. His post came shortly after Hamas released a statement saying that it would agree to release Israeli hostages.
--:-- Deepa Shivram: Hours earlier, Trump set a deadline of 6 p.m. on Sunday for Hamas to agree to the ceasefire deal, or he said hell would break out for Hamas.
--:-- Deepa Shivram: That deal was released on Monday when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the White House.
--:-- Deepa Shivram: Israel already agreed to the deal, which stipulates an immediate end to the war in Gaza, with Israel allowing more aid into Gaza and Hamas releasing the remaining Israeli hostages.
--:-- Deepa Shivram: NPR News, the White House.
--:-- Host (Dua Halisa Ikaotau): A new poll published today finds that a large majority of the public thinks Congress should extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act health plans.
--:-- Guest (Selena Simmons-Duffins): NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffins reports.
--:-- Selena Simmons-Duffins: More than three-quarters of people across the political spectrum say Congress should extend the enhanced ACA tax credits that are set to expire at the end of the year.
--:-- Selena Simmons-Duffins: That's according to a poll from KFF, the nonpartisan health research organization.
--:-- Selena Simmons-Duffins: It also found most Republicans support extending the subsidies.
--:-- Selena Simmons-Duffins: Ashley Kersinger of KFF says people who have these plans are worried about their rates doubling.
--:-- Selena Simmons-Duffins: Seven in 10 say they wouldn't be able to afford that coverage, and four in 10 say that that means that they would go without health insurance coverage in 2026.
--:-- Selena Simmons-Duffins: The Congressional Budget Office estimates millions of people will become uninsured if the subsidies aren't extended.
--:-- Selena Simmons-Duffins: NPR News, Washington.
--:-- Host (Dua Halisa Ikaotau): The U.S. Secretary of Defense says they destroyed another boat off the coast of Venezuela.
--:-- Guest (Ada Peralta): NPR's Ada Peralta reports this is the fourth boat targeted by the U.S. since early September.
--:-- Ada Peralta: Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth said the attack killed four men whom he accused of being, quote, narco.
--:-- Ada Peralta: President Trump alleged the boat was loaded with enough drugs to kill up to 50 people but the White House has offered no evidence of that.
--:-- Ada Peralta: Venezuela says these are provocations by the U.S. which is intent on toppling the leftist authoritarian government of President Nicol Maduro.
--:-- Ada Peralta: Venezuela Minister of Defense Vladimir Padrino, said they had also detected five American F-35s flying very close to Venezuelan territory on Thursday.
--:-- Ada Peralta: This is a threat against the security of the nation, he said.
--:-- Ada Peralta: NPR News, Mexico City.
--:-- Host (Dua Halisa Ikaotau): The Justice Department says it is launching an investigation into the Portland Police Bureau following the arrest of a conservative journalist and influencer.
--:-- Host (Dua Halisa Ikaotau): You are listening to NPR News from New York.
--:-- Host (Dua Halisa Ikaotau): A district judge in New York has sentenced hip-hop mogul Sean Diddy Combs to four years and two months in prison and a fine of $500,000 for transporting his girlfriends and male escorts across state lines for sexual encounters that often involve drugs.
--:-- Host (Dua Halisa Ikaotau): The judge told Combs, who looked visibly emotional and downcast in court, quote, you were no John. You were more than that, even if your currency was satisfying your sexual desires instead of money.
--:-- Host (Dua Halisa Ikaotau): But Combs' attorneys claimed the sex involved was consensual they planned to appeal.
--:-- Host (Dua Halisa Ikaotau): This week number one album comes with a twist It was certified platinum on the day of its release
--:-- Guest (Pierre Stephen Thompson): Typically, it takes time for a hit album to be certified platinum. It sells a lot of copies and racks up streams in the days and weeks after its release.
--:-- Pierre Stephen Thompson: But Am I the Drama by the rapper Cardi B was already platinum the moment it came out.
--:-- Pierre Stephen Thompson: That's because two of its songs were colossal hits four or five years ago, the chart-toppers WAP and UP.
--:-- Pierre Stephen Thompson: Those songs had never appeared on an album before. Now that they are on Am I the Drama, the record gets retroactive credit for billions of song streams.
--:-- Pierre Stephen Thompson: Am I the Drama also features loads of new songs. 16 of them hit this week's Hot 100 singles chart, and the album itself debuts at number one.
--:-- Pierre Stephen Thompson: NPR News.
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