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--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza is largely holding, but President Trump, who brokered the agreement, says if Hamas fails to disarm, "we will disarm them."
--:-- Deepa Shiburam: Disarmament was a key stipulation in the ceasefire agreement. It's unclear how Trump would disarm Hamas and if it would involve U.S. personnel on the ground.
--:-- Deepa Shiburam: Trump has said Hamas told him it would, in fact, disarm, though he later clarified that message was not directly to him, but to White House officials.
--:-- Deepa Shiburam: We have told them we want disarm and they will disarm. And if they don't disarm, we will disarm them. And it'll happen quickly and perhaps violently. But the president didn't put a timeline on disarmament. He says it has to happen in a reasonable period of time, "pretty quickly."
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: The president hosted the president of Argentina Javier Millet today. He says Argentina election results would affect his administration plans for a bailout package for the country, saying he will only support Millet.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Trump compared the political fight in Argentina to the mayor's race in New York City. Without naming him, Trump called Democratic candidate Zoran Mamdani a communist and said he was, "down and dirty."
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Trump similarly said he would not support New York if Mamdani won the race in November.
--:-- Pete Hegseth: At the White House, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended his new policy restricting press access to the Pentagon.
--:-- Pete Hegseth: It used to be, Mr. President, the press could go anywhere, pretty much anywhere in the Pentagon, the most classified area in the world. Or also that if they sign on to the credentialing, they're not going to try to get soldiers to break the law by giving classified information.
--:-- Pete Hegseth: So it's common sense stuff, Mr. President. We're trying to make sure national security is respected and we're proud of the policy.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: However, a number of major news organizations, including NPR and Hegseth's former employer Fox News, are declining to sign on to the Pentagon's new restrictions.
--:-- Dan Boyce: Tomorrow marked the first federal payday missed since the start of the current government shutdown.
--:-- Dan Boyce: Hundreds of thousands of federal workers received a reduced paycheck last Friday. Congress has voted to pay the military during shutdowns in previous years. President Trump has vowed to use Defense Department funding to do that again this time around.
--:-- Dan Boyce: But it's unclear where that money would come from and if it can actually happen.
--:-- Kay: There's a lot of panic. It starts to affect your mental health. It affects your stress levels. It affects the behavior at home. You know, as you start to worry about how are we going to pay these bills.
--:-- Kay: Kay says her family has enough savings to miss two pay periods. Others, she knows, aren't as lucky.
--:-- Dan Boyce: For NPR News, I'm Dan Boyce in Colorado Springs.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: This is NPR News.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: Grammy-winning artist D'Angelo has died. The revered R&B singer, whose real name was Michael Eugene Archer, passed away following a prolonged battle with cancer.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: His family says D'Angelo leaves a legacy of extraordinarily moving music. One of the most notable moments was D'Angelo's video of "How Does It Feel" in 2000, which touched off conversations around sexuality and vulnerability and representation.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: D was 51 years old.
--:-- Corey Turner: When it comes to reading, the nation's third through eighth graders are still mired in a pandemic slump according to new testing data.
--:-- Corey Turner: The data comes from NWEA, a K-12 testing and research organization, and its spring 2025 MAP Growth Assessment, a suite of tests taken by millions of students in thousands of schools across the U.S.
--:-- Corey Turner: In reading, students across most grade levels are still performing at or even below pandemic lows. NWEA said this stagnation is consistent regardless of race, ethnicity, or school poverty level.
--:-- Corey Turner: In math, the news was only slightly better. Achievement either held steady or, in some grades, improved slightly, though nearly all grades remain behind the performance levels of kids in those same grades back in 2019.
--:-- Corey Turner: For NPR News, I'm Corey Turner.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: The Dow has closed up 200 points to end at 46,270.
--:-- Lakshmi Singh: It's NPR News.
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