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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. The Pentagon has placed 1,500 active duty soldiers on standby

for possible deployment to Minnesota. NPR has confirmed. This comes as Minnesota Governor Tim

Wals mobilized the state's National Guard yesterday to help local law enforcement if needed. MPR's

Kat Lonsdorf has more. That official tells NPR that the troops

will be coming from Alaska, where they specialize in cold weather operations. It's very cold

in Minneapolis right now. Those troops have been placed on prepared to deploy orders in case the

situation here escalates. MPR reached out to the Pentagon to confirm. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said,

quote, the Department of War is always prepared to execute the orders of the commander-in-chief if

called upon. President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act last week. But the situation

on the ground has been relatively quiet the past few days, and local leaders have urged calm.

Kat Lansdorf, NPR News, Minneapolis.

President Trump is inviting world leaders to join the Board of Peace, a new body that will

help rehabilitate Gaza after the war.

Empires Daniel Estrin reports he's seeking broad international powers for the board and

billions of dollars from countries that join it.

The United Nations Security Council officially sanctioned the new Board of Peace to oversee the

reconstruction of Gaza. But Gaza is not mentioned once in the charter of the new Board of Peace

that President Trump will head. NPR has obtained a copy of the charter being distributed.

Trump seeks a broad mandate to secure peace in conflict zones, suggesting Trump may wish to use

it as a kind of alternative UN to handle other world conflicts in addition to Gaza.

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