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Korva Coleman
In Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. President Trump says Israel and Hamas have accepted the first phase of his plan for ending the war in Gaza. A ceasefire is supposed to start later today, however, Hamas is to release Israeli hostages. Israel will free a number of Palestinian prisoners and detainees. Many world leaders are praising this news, but NPR's Aya Batra reports some Palestinian reactions are muted.
Aya Batra
There were sporadic celebrations overnight after Trump's announcement, but the past two years of war in Gaza are a nightmare that continues. Ahmed Eid says he doesn't have faith that this is the beginning of a lasting peace, as Trump says. He says, how can he be happy after all the blood that's been shed? How can he be happy when he's still living in a tent with his children displaced from their home? Aid says he's lost more than 150 relatives in Israeli attacks on Gaza and that people are living on the streets without food or water. Under the plan, Israel must lift restrictions to allow hundreds of trucks of aid in per day. Ariel Botraui, NPR News, Dubai.
Korva Coleman
The fight over whether President Trump can send National Guard troops into two American cities continues today in federal court. State and local officials from Portland, Oregon, and from Chicago, Illinois, are fighting the troops deployments. NPR's Jacqueline Diaz has more.
Jacqueline Diaz
Just yesterday, a three judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary ruling. The National Guard can stay under federal control but may not enter Portland. The court said it will issue a broader legal ruling after today's hearing. President Trump has said National Guard deployments to American cities like Portland and Chicago are needed to protect the work of immigration agents and to reduce crime. But local officials from those cities say troops are completely unnecessary. A federal judge will hear arguments in the Chicago case this afternoon while the 9th Circuit panel reconvenes on the Portland, Oregon, case. Jacqueline Diaz, NPR News.
Korva Coleman
This year's Nobel Literature Prize has been awarded to Hungarian novelist Laszlo Krasna Horkai. His first novel, Satan Tango, published in 1985, is considered his breakthrough work. It's about a group of poor residents in rural Hungary living on an abandoned collective farm. Steve SEM Sandberg is with the Nobel Prize Committee.
Steve SEM Sandberg
It is Las Lukersna Hoka's artistic gaze, which is entirely free of illusion and which sees through the fragility of the social order, combined with his unwavering belief in the power of art that has motivated the academy to award him this prize.
Korva Coleman
The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded tomorrow on Wall street and premarket trading. Dow futures are trading higher. This is npr. This is the ninth day of the federal government shutdown. It can't end until Republicans and Democrats come to terms on a spending bill. No agreement is in sight. The Senate is expected to take another vote on a spending measure today. Meanwhile, federal workers are not going to be paid. That includes members of the military. They will miss their first paycheck on October 15th. A new study in the journal JAMA Psychiatry finds that the legalization of cannabis has caused more people with psychosis to use the drug. As NPR's Ritu Chatterjee reports, people with psychotic illnesses are more vulnerable to the negative effects of cannabis.
Dr. Andy Hyatt
Dr. Andy Hyatt is a psychiatrist at the Cambridge Health alliance near Boston.
Colleague of Dr. Andy Hyatt
Me and many of my colleagues have been seeing over the past several years just a marked rise in the rates of cannabis use among people with serious mental illness.
Dr. Andy Hyatt
Most of his patients have schizophrenia, which can cause psychosis. And Hyatt and his colleagues wanted to know they were seeing in their clinics represented a national trend. So they looked at a national data set of more than 50,000 adults that scientists had followed from 2014 to 2022. More than 1,800 of those were individuals with psychosis. After states legalized recreational cannabis past month, use of the drug in people with psychosis went up by more than 9% compared to only 3% for the general population. Ritu Chatterjee, NPR News.
Korva Coleman
The National Hurricane center says Tropical Storm Jeri could create trop storm conditions in some of the Caribbean islands today. It is not yet clear if Jerry will make landfall. I'm Korva Kuhlman, NPR News.
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Host: Korva Coleman
Date: October 9, 2025
Episode Theme:
A concise roundup of the morning’s top headlines: progress toward a ceasefire in Gaza, US National Guard deployments to cities, Nobel Prize news, government shutdown updates, research on cannabis use and psychosis, and a tropical storm alert.
Timestamps: 00:15–01:24
President Trump announced Israel and Hamas have "accepted the first phase" of his proposed plan to end the Gaza conflict.
Reporting from Dubai, Aya Batra (00:41):
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The delivery is rapid-fire, factual, and even-handed—hallmarks of NPR’s news briefings. Direct testimony from those affected by global and domestic issues lends an air of immediacy and gravity, while careful presentation of science and public policy balances the broadcast.