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--:-- Janine Hurst: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. The clock has begun on what's expected to be the last hostage prisoner and detainee exchange in the war between Israel and Hamas that's set to begin on Monday.
--:-- Carrie Khan: NPR's Carrie Khan has more. Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza began making the long, arduous trek from south to Gaza City. NPR's Anas Baba there says people are on the move, assessing the devastation and searching for ways to rebuild.
--:-- Anas Baba: It feels like I'm witnessing a place being born again. But Gazans here, they don't wait for permission to live. They carry hope like oxygen.
--:-- Janine Hurst: In Israel, hospitals are preparing to care for and rehabilitate the 20 remaining live hostages to be returned. Dr. Mikhail Steinman heads nursing at Bellinson Hospital.
--:-- Dr. Mikhail Steinman: Welcome home. So glad to see you We here We take care of you
--:-- Janine Hurst: President Trump is expected in Egypt and Israel on Monday.
--:-- Carrie Khan: NPR News, Tel Aviv.
--:-- Janine Hurst: The government shutdown is making a bad situation worse for Midwestern farmers. Frank Morris of Member Station KCUR reports farmers are now cut off from government assistance and information, just as many struggle to stay in business.
--:-- Frank Morris: Most corn, wheat and soybean farmers are losing money. Shortages and tariffs have jacked up the price of fertilizer and farm equipment they have to buy, while trade wars are depressing the price of the grain they have to sell.
--:-- Richard Oswald: Normally in hard times, I would look to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a short-term loan. I've literally done this for 55 years. It's been something that has always been there. Not this year.
--:-- Frank Morris: The USDA is mostly shut down. President Trump has promised farmers a bailout, but that's delayed. And it's unclear how any assistance program would work absent a functioning USDA.
--:-- Janine Hurst: Economists expect farm foreclosures to rise. For Inferno News, I'm Frank Morris in Kansas City.
--:-- Janine Hurst: Officials say they found no survivors after a massive blast at a Tennessee explosive plant yesterday morning. Cynthia Abrams of Member Station WPLN reports several vigils are now taking place in the rural community.
--:-- Cynthia Abrams: Around 45 people gathered at a church in McEwen Tennessee on Saturday afternoon The congregation pastor said in his remarks that it would be hard to find anybody in the community that was untouched by the tragedy
--:-- Linda Sutton: I'm going to know more people when all the names come out, because this is small and I've lived here, you know, all my life.
--:-- Cynthia Abrams: The explosion occurred at Accurate Energetic Systems, which processes a variety of explosive products for the military, commercial demolition firms, and the aerospace industry.
--:-- Janine Hurst: Officials say the cause of the blast remains unclear. For NPR News, I'm Cynthia Abrams in Nashville.
--:-- Janine Hurst: You're listening to NPR News from Washington. At least 21 children in India are dead from cough syrup that was contaminated with industrial chemicals, and it sparked outrage in the country. But as NPR's Gabriella Emanuel reports, it's something that's happened periodically all over the world.
--:-- Gabriella Emanuel: Cough syrups use a liquid solvent, but in this case, it was replaced by a cheaper ingredient that looks similar but is toxic. This substitute, diethylene glycol, is meant to be used to manufacture brake fluids and antifreeze When ingested it causes acute kidney injury
--:-- Saifuddin Ahmed: This is not some sort of accident This intentionally done it to reduce the cost of the drug and to pocket more money.
--:-- Gabriella Emanuel: A new report from the World Health Organization puts blames on criminals, some of whom package this cheaper, toxic liquid in containers with the label of the safe solvent.
--:-- Janine Hurst: In the recent case in India, officials have arrested the owner of the drug manufacturer. Gabriela Emanuel, NPR News.
--:-- Janine Hurst: Former First Lady Michelle Obama is putting new funding behind efforts to ensure girls overcome educational barriers in some of the world's most economically disadvantaged areas.
--:-- Janine Hurst: The Obama's foundation, Girls Opportunity Alliance, is providing a total of two and a half million dollars for dozens of grassroots groups around the world that advance adolescent girls' education.
--:-- Janine Hurst: This amidst dark warnings from international aid groups, the global education budget cuts will roll back recent progress. I'm Janine Herbst in PR News.
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