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--:-- Shea Stevens: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stevens.
--:-- Deepa Shiburam: President Trump says the U.S. will disarm Hamas by force if the organization fails to do so voluntarily. As NPR's Deepa Shiburam reports, disarmament was a key stipulation in the ceasefire agreement that's still holding.
--:-- Deepa Shiburam: It's unclear how Trump would disarm Hamas and if it would involve U.S. personnel on the ground. 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 disarmed 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, quote, pretty quickly.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Deepa Shiburam, NPR News, the White House.
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--:-- Shea Stevens: The United States and China are imposing new fees on each other's ships amid rising tensions between the two economic superpowers. As NPR Jackie Northam reports the fees will be charged each time a ship docks at port.
--:-- Jackie Northam: President Trump followed through on his threat earlier this year to slap fees on any Chinese-owned or operated ship docking at an American port. It's part of a broader effort to turn the U.S. into a great shipbuilding nation again.
--:-- Jackie Northam: China currently produces more than half the world's vessels. The U.S., about 1%. But now China has followed suit, saying it will slap special charges on any U.S. owned, operated, flagged or built American vessel.
--:-- Jackie Northam: Analysts say the moves could cost larger shipping companies hundreds of millions of dollars and risk upending global supply chains and raising prices.
--:-- Shea Stevens: Jackie Northam, NPR News.
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--:-- Shea Stevens: Several news organizations are rejecting the Pentagon's new media restrictions. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave major media outlets until Tuesday to sign a pledge to cover only issues authorized by his team or lose access.
--:-- David Folkenflik: As NPR's David Folkenflik reports, the edict goes against what Hegseth promised when he was nominated. He came to office promising the most transparent Pentagon in American history, and it's been anything but.
--:-- David Folkenflik: He's only had a couple of briefings. You have almost no even background briefings by senior Pentagon officials expressing things. They have as I mentioned really tightened access to where people can go to just get background briefings have conversations where things are explained to them or unpacked for them not even secrets just saying well this is what that means or here what that is technically about about a certain development.
--:-- David Folkenflik: And you saw Hegseth, in fact, implement lie detector tests for senior Pentagon officials that he had thought had leaked information early in his tenure. So, this is an effort by the secretary really to consolidate and control information from getting out.
--:-- Shea Stevens: NPR's David Folkenflik reporting.
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--:-- Shea Stevens: U.S. futures are flat and after hours trading on Wall Street on Asia-Pacific market shares are higher, up 1%. This is NPR.
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--:-- Shea Stevens: President Trump says Republicans are eliminating programs that Democrats never should have set up. Trump says a list of the defunded programs will be released on Friday.
--:-- Shea Stevens: The president's remarks came as the government shutdown entered its third week. Republicans are insisting on passage of a bill to continue current funding levels through November 21st, while Democrats say they will not support a continuing resolution until their GOP colleagues restore the health care subsidies that will expire in two and a half months.
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--:-- Shea Stevens: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Saints has a new president for its 17 million members worldwide commonly called Mormons. 93 Dallin H Oaks is taking the helm at the church as KUER Sierra Hewlett reports.
--:-- Sierra Hewlett: The last president and prophet, Russell M. Nelson, died last month. His successor, Dallin H. Oaks, used to be a Utah Supreme Court justice.
--:-- Sierra Hewlett: Columnist Jana Reese says that background could influence his leadership. She says Oaks is concerned about the rise of political authoritarianism. He could serve as a reminder of justice and law and order and precedent and a lot of things that in America people have been throwing out the window.
--:-- Sierra Hewlett: Oaks has also long been outspoken about his beliefs against same-sex marriage. Reese says it's yet to be seen if he'll continue that trajectory as president.
--:-- Shea Stevens: For NPR News, I'm Ciara Hewlett.
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--:-- Shea Stevens: A truck exploded on a busy street in Ecuador Tuesday, killing one person and injuring two others. The attack occurred in the port city of Guayaquil. The cause is under investigation. This is NPR News.
