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--:-- Louise Schiavone: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: President Trump has now arrived in Egypt, where President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will host talks about the next stage in a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: The day's historic events opened early with the release of all living Israeli hostages held by Hamas, 20 men in all.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: With those hostages released, Trump addressed the Knesset, Israel's parliament, with a note of optimism.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: And as the dust settles, the smoke fades, the debris is removed, and the ashes clean from the air, the day that breaks on a region transformed and a beautiful and much brighter future appears suddenly within your reach.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: This is now a very exciting time for Israel and for the entire Middle East.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: An invitation to the day's talks in Egypt was extended to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but his office said he was turning down the invitation due to time constraints ahead of a Jewish religious holiday this evening
--:-- Louise Schiavone: As part of the exchange and ceasefire deal Israel is releasing more than 1 Palestinians taken from Gaza who'd been imprisoned during the war.
--:-- Aya Batrawi: Dr. Hossam Abul Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, is on the list of detainees set to be released back to Gaza, according to a person briefed by Israeli officials who spoke anonymously in order to discuss the matter.
--:-- Aya Batrawi: Dr. Abul Sefea was detained 10 months ago after weeks of sustained Israeli attacks on his hospital that killed patients and staff and wounded him.
--:-- Aya Batrawi: He became a prominent figure in the war for refusing to leave his patients or the hospital grounds, even after his son was killed in an Israeli drone strike and buried in the hospital's courtyard.
--:-- Aya Batrawi: Israel had been holding him without charge after raiding the hospital, which is among several now destroyed.
--:-- Aya Batrawi: The World Health Organization and prominent rights groups had called for his release and that of several hundred other Palestinian medics.
--:-- Aya Batrawi: I'm Aya Batrawi, NPR News, Dubai.
--:-- Stephen Fowler: Thousands of federal workers received layoff notices Friday as the government shutdown continues into day 13.
--:-- Stephen Fowler: At least some of those intended firings have already been walked back.
--:-- Stephen Fowler: NPR's Stephen Fowler has more.
--:-- Stephen Fowler: About 4,000 people from at least seven agencies received these reduction in force notices Friday That includes places like the IRS the Education Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development
--:-- Stephen Fowler: A quarter of those layoffs were with the Department of Health and Human Services, with hundreds of firings slated for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
--:-- Stephen Fowler: But on Saturday, some CDC employees started learning their layoff notices were reversed.
--:-- Stephen Fowler: That includes some of the so-called disease detectives who work on investigating outbreaks.
--:-- Stephen Fowler: I'm Stephen Fowler, NPR News, Atlanta.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: The Dow is up 417, the Nasdaq up 324, the S&P 500 up 70.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: This is NPR News in Washington.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: President Trump is talking about sending Tomahawk long-range missiles to Ukraine.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: Speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said that if Moscow doesn't settle its war in Ukraine soon, he would not rule out sending what he called an incredible and offensive long-range weapon.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: The comments to reporters Sunday came after an earlier phone call with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.
--:-- Ritu Chatterjee: A new study finds that 9- and 10-year-olds who spent increasing amounts of time on social media scored lower on reading and memory tests compared to kids who don't.
--:-- Ritu Chatterjee: NPR's Ritu Chatterjee reports Researchers used data from a study following more than 6 kids through adolescence
--:-- Ritu Chatterjee: By the time the kids were 13 37 used social media for an hour a day About 6 used social media more than three hours a day
--:-- Ritu Chatterjee: Even the low social media users scored one or two points lower in learning and memory tests than kids who used little or no social media over the years.
--:-- Ritu Chatterjee: And the high-level social media users scored four to five points less.
--:-- Ritu Chatterjee: Study author Dr. Jason Nagata is a pediatrician at the University of California, San Francisco.
--:-- Ritu Chatterjee: These differences can also build over time. So even one to two points in this two-year period can snowball over a decade.
--:-- Ritu Chatterjee: That can really be a big difference in this critical learning period.
--:-- Ritu Chatterjee: I'm Ritu Chatterjee, NPR News.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: China is reporting its exports to the United States fell 27 percent in September compared to the year before.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: China's exports to the U.S. have fallen for six straight months.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: I'm Louise Schiavone, NPR News, Washington.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: On the ThruLine podcast from NPR, what it takes to report on war.
--:-- Louise Schiavone: Great sleep deprivation. There's no privacy. How far can I go with this?
--:-- Louise Schiavone: When journalists are silenced, the truth is going to be buried with them.
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