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--:-- Host (Giles Snyder): After the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and today's exchange of hostages and detainees. President Trump was in the Middle East today to take a victory lap, as MPR's Jaina Raff reports.
--:-- Jaina Raff: Trump was given a generally rapturous reception at the Israeli parliament, where he was called the greatest friend Israel has had. From there, he flew to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to co-chair a peace summit.
--:-- Jaina Raff: He noted that the 20 or so world leaders standing behind him had agreed to come on extremely short notice. As a dealmaker, He said peace in the Middle East would be the biggest deal of them all. If you do anything about deals, that's all I've done all my life is deals. The greatest deals just sort of happen. And that's what happened right here.
--:-- Jaina Raff: Always the businessman, he called on the wealthy countries who had come to the summit to fund Gaza multi dollar reconstruction.
--:-- Jay Naraf: NPR News Amman Unresolved issues remain for the ceasefire including Hamas disarmament and how Gaza should be governed.
--:-- Andrea Hsu: The federal government remains shut down, with Congress unable to come to a deal to resume funding. NPR's Andrea Hsu reports that some furloughed federal employees are finding ways to support each other.
--:-- Charlotte Slayman: Charlotte Slayman works for the Federal Trade Commission and is a member of the National Treasury Employees Union. She says federal workers need to take care of each other right now, given what they've been through. Seeing important work they've been doing denigrated or halted, being unable to do the jobs they were hired to do for the public.
--:-- Charlotte Slayman: I want us to turn that pain into strength and action. And I want Congress to fight for us.
--:-- Andrea Hsu: The White House continues to blame Democrats for the impasse. In a statement, spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said the administration was encouraging Democrats to, quote, stop the pain and reopen the government.
--:-- Rachel Miro: California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed one of the first laws to require law enforcement agencies in the state to disclose whether and how they used AI to write police reports.
--:-- State Senator Jesse Araguin: State Senator Jesse Araguin of the San Francisco Bay Area said he not opposed to law enforcement using AI He just wants transparency, accuracy, and accountability for the courts and the public. Because this is the official report, a legal document which is so essential in criminal legal proceedings that could decide the fate and the freedom of people.
--:-- Rachel Miro: While some law enforcement groups were opposed, Araguin said he amended the bill to address their concerns, including adding a provision that says only the final police report will be considered an officer's official statement.
--:-- Tana Weingartner: Space X's CAT Monday night's test launch of its huge Starship rocket with a splashdown in the Indian Ocean. The test flight was Starship's second consecutive apparent success after a string of failures. This latest test was aimed at demonstrating the vehicle's reusable design and its capacity to eventually take humans to the moon and Mars.
--:-- Heather Farrington: Scientists say the answer to a 180-year-old mystery surrounding a penguin-like bird called the Great Auk has been hiding in plain sight at a museum in Cincinnati.
--:-- Heather Farrington: The last two great aux were taxidermied and lost to time Now Cincinnati Museum Center curator of zoology Heather Farrington says scientists using tissue saved during the taxidermy process and other records confirm a specimen at the museum is the last female auk.
--:-- Heather Farrington: What they were trying to do was match soft tissues. They knew came from those two individuals to taxidermy mounts from museum collections around the world. And the male was found in a previous scientific study, but the female was not.
--:-- Tana Weingartner: The discovery continues an odd tradition. The world's last passenger pigeon died at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914 and was sent to the Smithsonian. Farrington says the last great auk will stay in Cincinnati.
--:-- Host (Giles Snyder): Cape Bird's soccer team is set to play in the World Cup for the first time. Cape Bird qualified Monday, securing one of nine automatic spots for Africa after beating Eswatini and finishing at the top of its African group qualifying.
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