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President Biden says he did not ask Israel to hold off on plans of a ground invasion into Gaza until there was a safe release of the hostages.

NPR's Deepa Chevron reports Biden says it's Israel's decision on how to move forward with getting hostages out.

Speaking in the Rose Garden, Biden said it's a guarantee the U.S. will continue to back Israel.

But he had critical words for Israeli attacks on the Palestinian people in the West Bank. Biden says it's like pouring gasoline on the fire.

This was a deal. The deal was made and they're attacking Palestinians in places that they're entitled to be. It has to stop. They have to be held accountable.

The President also expressed skepticism about the death toll of Palestinian civilians in Gaza because the numbers are coming from the health officials and the Hamas controlled territory.

The UN and other NGOs routinely cite those daily casualty counts. Biden did say he's sure that, quote, innocence have been killed.

Deepa Chevron, NPR News, the White House.

The American Civil Liberties Union is urging a judge to lift or revise a gag order she imposed against former President Donald Trump.

NPR's Carrie Johnson reports the Civil Liberties Group says the restrictions on Trump are too broad.

The ACLU sued former President Trump and his administration more than 400 times when he occupied the White House.

But now the group is siding with Trump in a legal fight over a gag order in his election interference case in Washington, D.C.

ACLU lawyers are filing court papers to argue Judge Tonya Chutkin's order is too vague and too broad.

And that Trump should be able to talk about prosecutors and potential witnesses so long as he doesn't incite violence against them.

The judge has paused the gag order while she hears legal arguments about it.

Trump's lawyers say it's an unconstitutional prior restraint that blocks him from talking on the campaign trail.

Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.

Alumni from Georgia's public historically black colleges are suing the state and its university system.

Comes after the Biden administration revealed a $12 billion gap in funding for land grant HBCUs across 16 mostly southern states.

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