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Live from NPR News. In Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. Vice President Vance talks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today. Vance is working to support the U S. Brokered Gaza ceasefire. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected in Israel tomorrow. Israel has identified the bodies of two deceased Israeli hostages whom Hamas handed over to officials yesterday. NPR's Rob Schmitz reports from Tel Aviv.
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Authorities identified the bodies of 85 year old Arye Zelmanovich and 38 year old Tamir Adar. Police both had lived in the border kibbutz of Niroz. Zelmanovitch was one of the founding members of the kibbutz. He was abducted from his home on October 7, 2023 by Hamas militants and later killed while in captivity. Adar, a security guard at the kibbutz, was killed defending neraz. There are 13 remaining deceased Israeli hostages in Gaza and releasing the rest of them is part of the commitment Hamas made when it signed the ceasefire agreement more than a week ago. US Vice President J.D. vance, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump advisor and son in law Jared Kushner in Israel holding meetings to discuss the implementation of the US Brokered peace plan. Rob Schmitz, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is calling for a meeting with President Trump about the federal government shutdown. Trump says Democrats must first meet Republican demands to reopen the government. Court documents show the president plans to eliminate more than 2,000 jobs in the Department of the Interior. These jobs are found mostly in Western states. Officials say the Interior Department layoffs were planned before the shutdown started. But NPR's Kirk Siegler reports a federal judge has put those plans on hold temporarily.
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Former and retired federal land managers say the hundreds of jobs planned to be cut from agencies like the U.S. geological Survey and the Bureau of Land Management will hit rural America hard. But Steve Ellis says smaller agency staffs will also slow Trump's promised plan to boost logging and drilling on federal public land. Ellis retired in 2017 as the number two in charge at the federal BLM.
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Everything that's been done since Doge hit the Beltway, it's a distraction to these federal employees that just want to get the job done for the American public.
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In a court filing, a lawyer with the Interior Department says the agency plans to continue with its rif, or reduction in force plan if a higher court rules in its favor. Kirk Zigler, NPR News, Boise.
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Authorities in Washington, D.C. say a man is in custody after driving his car into a security gate at the White house last night. NPR's Giles Snyder tells us it's not clear if the crash was intentional.
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The Secret Service has not identified the driver. But in a statement, officials said he was immediately arrested by uniformed Secret Service officers and that investigators searched the car and found it to be safe. The incident happened late Tuesday night, just after 10:30.
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NPR's Giles Snyder prepared that report. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Arizona Attorney General Chris Mays is suing the House of Representatives. She's demanding the chamber swear in new Democratic Congresswoman elect Adelita Grijalva. The Arizona congresswoman elect, who joined the lawsuit, won a special election last month. House Speaker Mike Johnson says he won't swear her in until the shutdown is over. The artificial intelligence company OpenAI has launched an AI enabled web browser. NPR's John Ruich reports. This opens a new front in OpenAI's competition with Google.
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The new browser is called Atlas, and the company says it's built with the chatbot chatgpt at its core. Part of what it'll be able to do is remember past searches and context from those searches. The company says that'll make it easier to say, pull up previous results and work with them. It'll also be able to summarize and analyze content from websites. OpenAI launched the browser on Mac OS and says it'll be available on Windows, iOS and Android soon. Move takes the competition between so called AI answer engines and traditional search to new levels. Traditional search is dominated by Google and its Chrome browser, which is the world's most popular way to access the Internet. But ChatGPT has leapt in popularity as an information retrieval tool. Google's share price fell after the announcement. John Ruich, NPR News.
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A California company that makes weather balloons says it's checking whether one of its balloons collided with a United Airlines passenger jet last week. The National Transportation Safety Board says the jet made an emergency and safe landing in Salt Lake City. The jet's windshield was cracked, but there are no reports of injuries. I'm Korva Coleman, NPR News in Washington.