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dot org. Live from npr news Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The Biden administration is

planning to send an additional 90 million dollars in aid to help get aid

to those who desperately needed in war-torn Gaza.

That announcement coming today from Samantha Power, the administrator for the U.S. Agency for

International Development, during an interview with NPR's all things considered power says along with the aid the

administration continues to call for a pause in fighting.

What the president has laid out is something that would pause the fighting, you know, it would

address some of these concerns that aid workers have about moving around

not just their safety but the delays and the blockages at checkpoints and so forth you know all

of that presumably would melt away and we would be able to flood the zone with the kinds of food

and shelter that are needed and as President Biden has said paved the way for a permanent end of

hostilities because this just can't go on.

The effort to increase aid to Palestinians in Gaza comes at a time it's estimated roughly

half of the population there faces the threat of hunger.

Former President Trump's trial on charges of mishandling classified documents has likely been further delayed.

NPR's Greg Allen reports Judge Aline Cannon has set a hearing to discuss prosecutors' request that she ordered Trump to not make

disparaging comments that could endanger FBI agents.

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