NPR News: 08-19-2025 6PM EDT
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🗓️ 19 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | There's a lot of news happening. |
| 0:02.3 | You want to understand it better, but let's be honest, you don't want it to be your entire life either. |
| 0:06.9 | Well, that's sort of like our show, here and now anytime. |
| 0:09.8 | Every weekday on our podcast, we talk to people all over the country about everything from political analysis to climate resilience, video games. |
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| 0:21.6 | podcast from NPR and WBUR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnson. A senior |
| 0:29.7 | Hamas official says it's accepted a ceasefire proposal for Gaza. The move comes as Israel is |
| 0:36.3 | gearing up for a major military offensive in the region. |
| 0:40.3 | NPR's Jackie Northam reports from Tel Aviv. Hamas came under heavy pressure from Egypt and |
| 0:45.7 | Qatar to accept a deal and said there would be rounds of negotiations if and when Israel accepts. |
| 0:51.8 | The terms of the proposal are similar to one recently put forth by President |
| 0:55.5 | Trump's special envoy, Steve Wickoff. It included the redeployment of some Israeli troops and more |
| 1:01.3 | humanitarian aid going into Gaza. Israel had previously agreed to it, but since then, the government |
| 1:07.4 | has been preparing for an offense of into Gaza city. An anonymous person in Israel familiar with the negotiations told MPR, the government has been preparing for an offense of Indigaza City. An anonymous person in Israel |
| 1:12.2 | familiar with the negotiations told NPR the government received Hamas' response from mediators |
| 1:17.6 | and is studying it and would respond. Jackie Northam, NPR News, Tel Aviv. U.S. Citizenship and |
| 1:24.6 | Immigration Services is stepping up its screening process. |
| 1:28.5 | NPR's Jasmine Guards reports the agency has updated its policy manual to ramp up scrutiny of immigration benefit requests with new focus on anti-American and anti-Semitic activity. |
| 1:41.9 | Certain benefit requests require an immigration officer's discretion, |
| 1:45.7 | requests like adjustment of status and certain employment authorizations. Starting on Tuesday, |
| 1:51.5 | the agency has said a primary focus will be reviewing evidence of an applicant's endorsement |
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