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--:-- Ryland Barton: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Israel and Hamas are exchanging the remains of those killed in conflict as part of the Gaza ceasefire agreement. As NPR's Greg Meirey reports, the exchanges are not yet complete and have become a point of friction.
--:-- Greg Meirey: Israel handed over the remains of 45 Palestinians that were delivered to a medical complex in southern Gaza. Late at night, Hamas gave Israel four more bodies of dead hostages, bringing the total to eight in the past two days.
--:-- Greg Meirey: Under the ceasefire deal, Hamas is supposed to return all 28 dead hostages and Israel will return several hundred Palestinian bodies. Hamas says it needs more time to locate all the Israeli bodies due to the heavy fighting. Some may be buried under rubble.
--:-- Greg Meirey: Israel told the United Nations it is reducing the amount of aid going into Gaza on Wednesday because it believes Hamas is not doing enough to return the Israeli bodies.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Greg Meirey, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Active duty military members may be included in federal workers not getting paid this week. Wednesday marks the first payday since the federal government shutdown. Colorado Public Radio's Dan Boyce reports.
--:-- Dan Boyce: The Homefront Military Network in Colorado Springs connects service members to emergency financial assistance. Executive Director Kate Hatton says she's telling military families to be proactive.
--:-- Kate Hatton: By reaching out to their landlords, for example, or their lenders or their mortgage company, if they've got a car note to explain the situation and see if those lenders will work with them.
--:-- Dan Boyce: Some banks catering to service members are offering no interest loans to get service members through the shutdown. USAA, for example, says it has already offered at least $150 million in loans nationwide.
--:-- Ryland Barton: For NPR News, I'm Dan Boyce in Colorado Springs.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Atlanta's airport is among those refusing to play a new video of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blaming flight delays on Democrats. Melissa Fato from member station WABE has more.
--:-- Melissa Fato: A spokesperson for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport says it strives to maintain a neutral and welcoming environment for travelers, which it has a lot of as the busiest airport in the world.
--:-- Melissa Fato: Airports in Las Vegas, Charlotte, Phoenix, and Seattle are among those making the same decision.
--:-- Melissa Fato: Some authorities argue the partisan message in the DHS video may violate the 1939 Hatch Act, which restricts certain political activities by federal employees.
--:-- Melissa Fato: The government shutdown has left Transportation Security Administration employees and air traffic controllers working without pay, adding to mounting disruptions.
--:-- Ryland Barton: For NPR News, I'm Melissa Fatow in Atlanta.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says that a sharp slowdown in hiring poses a growing risk to the U.S. economy.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The comments suggest that the Fed will likely cut its key interest rate twice more this year.
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--:-- Ryland Barton: President Trump is threatening to withdraw assistance from Argentina if voters there don't align with his interests in upcoming elections. Argentine President Javier Malay faces midterm elections later this month. He visited the White House today.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The U.S. recently provided $20 billion in aid to Argentina's struggling economy.
--:-- Ryland Barton: President Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine says Russian airstrikes hit a hospital in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, wounding seven and forcing evacuations.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Zelensky is set to meet with President Trump in Washington on Friday to seek more military support, including air defense. Trump has warned Moscow may say he warned Moscow that he may send long Tomahawk cruise missiles for use by Ukraine.
--:-- Ryland Barton: The sales numbers for Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl are in, and the album is a record-breaking success. NPR's Hazel Sills reports.
--:-- Hazel Sills: This week, Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl reaches number one on the Billboard albums chart, and all of its songs top the Billboard Hot 100, including The Fate of Ophelia at number one.
--:-- Hazel Sills: It's her 15th number one album on the chart, which means she's now had more number one albums than Jay-Z and Drake, whom she was previously tied with.
--:-- Hazel Sills: She's also now the musical act who has the second most number one albums in the history of the Billboard chart, behind the Beatles.
--:-- Hazel Sills: Overall, the album has sold more than 4 million equivalent album units. That's the combo of sales and streaming that Billboard uses to rank albums each week.
--:-- Hazel Sills: And a whopping 1,334,000 copies on vinyl.
--:-- Ryland Barton: Hazel Sills, NPR News.
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