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NPR News: 09-29-2025 7PM EDT

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🗓️ 29 September 2025

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0:00.0

For world-renowned cellist Joshua Roman, long COVID caused an identity crisis.

0:04.9

That was probably the lowest point.

0:06.9

No confidence in my ability to recover crisis of faith about what music meant.

0:14.6

On the TED Radio Hour, how he found his way back to music and a new sense of self.

0:23.6

Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. Google's video platform,

0:30.3

YouTube, has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by President Trump.

0:36.2

Trump sued when his account was suspended following the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

0:41.7

It's the latest tech company settlement with Trump.

0:44.1

In January, META agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit over his 2021 suspension from Facebook.

0:51.4

President Trump announced a plan to end Israel's war in Gaza after a meeting with Israel's

0:55.7

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The question now is whether Hamas will agree. As NPR's Daniel

1:01.2

Kurtzleben explains, the proposal demands the militant group effectively surrender. There are 20 points,

1:07.3

and among those are a plan for governing Gaza. It would be headed by a committee of

1:12.1

what the plan calls qualified Palestinians and international experts. And that committee itself

1:17.6

would be overseen by what's called a Board of Peace, which would be chaired by President

1:22.6

Trump. And Hamas would have no role in this. Besides that, all hostages still held by Hamas would be returned,

1:28.8

and in turn, Israel would return a number of prisoners and detainees that it has been holding.

1:33.9

NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben reporting.

1:36.1

Police say all people have been accounted for as they work to clear the burned-out Mormon church in Grand Blank, Michigan.

1:42.1

It comes after a gunman killed four people and set the church

1:45.2

ablaze. Alex McClendon of Member Station WDET reports. The suspect, 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford,

1:52.7

was killed at the scene. He was a Marine veteran who law enforcement say had been arrested in the

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