NPR News: 09-29-2025 5PM EDT
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🗓️ 29 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Is the American dream a scam? |
| 0:03.1 | Allegated Tears, a new memoir by Edgar Gomez, tackles that question. |
| 0:08.5 | Who are the people who are benefiting the most from this idea that we need to keep working, |
| 0:13.5 | that we need to keep, you know, our heads low, that we need to keep going out and risking our lives? |
| 0:18.2 | You can hear more about that on Code Switch from NPR wherever you get your |
| 0:22.8 | podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. President Trump has unveiled |
| 0:29.2 | what he calls a comprehensive plan to end the war in Gaza and promote broader peace in the region. |
| 0:35.2 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he accepts the plan. |
| 0:38.7 | Trump says he's now waiting on Hamas, NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports. |
| 0:42.5 | The 20-point plan calls for the release of all hostages within 72 hours and says Gaza will be a, quote, |
| 0:50.1 | de-radicalized terror-free zone. The UN and international aid groups will be able to bring in food |
| 0:56.3 | and humanitarian goods into Gaza, which will be run by a new transitional authority. President Trump |
| 1:02.7 | says the people of Israel want this war to end. They say two things. Please get the hostages back |
| 1:09.5 | and please end the war. They've had it. |
| 1:12.0 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the plan achieves Israel's war aims, |
| 1:17.3 | a Gaza that won't be run by Hamas or the Palestinian Authority. |
| 1:21.9 | Michelle Kellerman and BR News, the State Department. |
| 1:25.2 | Memphis is preparing for the deployment of National Guard troops this |
| 1:28.8 | week as part of President Trump's plan to fight crime in the city. They'll be joined by officials from |
| 1:33.1 | more than a dozen federal agencies, as NPR's Kat Lonsdorf reports. The deployment is backed by |
| 1:38.9 | Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, a Republican, while Memphis Mayor Paul Young, a Democrat, has been less enthusiastic. |
| 1:46.1 | Still, Mayor Young created a website to inform the public on what to expect, saying that the National |
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