Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. And I'm Amna Nawaz. On the news hour tonight, the United States

ends an exemption for low-cost imports, raising prices for online shopping. Debate and frustration

within Israel rises over the ongoing war in Gaza and the continued detention of hostages.

We are still not waking up from this nightmare, and so many people are getting hurt.

Our families are broken.

And 20 years after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, we hear from people who were forced

to leave their homes and their lives behind.

I will go to my grave being forever marked by the effects of Hurricane Katrina on my life, but on my family's life too.

I'm going to do. Welcome to the News Hour.

A dramatic move by President Trump tonight.

He's trying to single-handedly block nearly $5 billion in foreign aid already approved by Congress. And he's doing it by invoking a little

known power play called a pocket rescission, effectively cutting lawmakers out of the process.

That is when a president asks Congress to cancel funds so close to the end of the fiscal year

that Congress can't act on the request and the funds expire. In this instance, $3.2 billion would be cut from development assistance,

along with $838 million from peacekeeping efforts,

$520 million in contributions to the U.N.,

and $322 million from the State Department's Democracy Fund.

The Republican Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Susan Collins,

publicly criticized their request, writing in a statement that, quote,

any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval

is a clear violation of the law.

Missouri's Republican governor is calling lawmakers into a special session to redraw the state's

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