>> Live from NPR News, I'm Jial Snyder, President Trump says he expects a neg...
team led by Vice President J.D. Vance to return to Pakistan, but it's not clear when
“the team would leave for Islamabad, but a two-week ceasefire with Iran is set to expire”
on Wednesday. I mean, while a new United Nations study estimates Gaza need $71 billion for reconstruction and recovery, and Piersayah Petrary reports a study says a third of that is needed immediately
to rebuild critical infrastructure.
>> A new assessment by the UN World Bank and European Union notes that more than $370,000 in Gaza were destroyed or damaged in Israeli attacks, leaving more than a million people without homes. Most people in Gaza now live in makeshift tents made out of sticks and plastic tarps. Israeli troops, meanwhile, occupy around half of Gaza and have leveled thousands more
homes there, they say, to dismantle Hamas tunnels. The study also says around 75% of all people in Gaza who were employed before the war are now without jobs, relying on aid to survive. It notes Gaza has the lowest levels ever recorded globally on the human development index,
“which measures life expectancy standards of living and access to education, Ayah Petrary”
and Piers News, Dubai.
>> New Army regulations that took effect Monday raise the maximum enlistment age to 42 and also
drop a waiver requirement for recruit to have a single conviction for marijuana possession. Jay Price reports. >> That new maximum age is up from 35. It brings the Army into line with the Navy and Air Force, which have similar limits. The changes come against a backdrop of societal shifts, including the widespread legalization
of marijuana. Military branches have also eased restrictions on tattoos in recent years. The Army had suffered recent major recruiting shortfalls, but it exceeded its targets for the past two years, and part because it created preparatory courses to help potential recruits raise their entry test scores and drop weight to meet basic requirements.
For MPR News, I'm Jay Price. >> Business owners now applying for tariff refunds after the Supreme Court ruled that most of President Trump's tariff from last year were unconstitutional. The government has launched a portable claims as impairs the need to sell your reports. >> Virginia Business owners, Sarah Wells, logged on to the portal before it was even
supposed to be open. >> I sort of took the early bird catches the worm approach. >> She makes backbacks and accessories for new moms, and she applied for a refund of $20,000 for tariffs she paid on two shipments from China and Cambodia. >> There were a lot of hours leading up to today, and a lot of cumbersome parts of this,
but today was actually pretty quick. >> That prep process is still difficult for many businesses, especially smaller ones. U.S. customs is not saying how many companies did submit claims so far, but the initial phase is meant to cover refunds of some $127 billion dollars, which is the majority. Ileena Seluh and Pierre News.
>> This is MPR News. Singer-songwriter David Burke pleaded not guilty in an L.A. courtroom Monday to murder charges in the death of a 14-year-old girl missing for a year, Steve Futterman reports. >> It began as a missing person investigation, immediately the focus centered on 21-year-old David Anthony Burke, a Lake County District Attorney Nathan Hawkman.
>> On April 23, 2025, Celeste went to Mr. Burke's house in the Hollywood Hills.
She was never heard from again.
>> Last September, it turned into a murder investigation. >> Or dismembered, and decomposed remains. We're found inside of a far registered to Mr. Burke. >> Prosecutors believe the motive was to prevent Celeste's leave us from revealing possible criminal acts involving Burke, attorneys for Burke say he is innocent.
For MPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles. >> American Library Association says bookbands and attempted bans remain at near record highs, saying that many challenges now come from government officials and activists rather than concerned parents. The ALA on Monday released its annual list of the most challenged books in US schools and
libraries, Patricia McCormick sold top the list. It's about sex trafficking in India. The ALA recorded challenges to more than 4,200 different works, nearly matching last year's record. Following Monday's retreat on Wall Street shares mixed in Asia, stocks in Japan, South Korean,
Hong Kong, or advancing, but they're losing ground in mainland China. I'm Dryl Snyder, MPR News. >> What happens when our political party becomes the prism through which we see every other aspect of our identities?
“>> What we're living through, I think, is really the two parties taking opposite sides on”
whether we want to keep making this type of social progress or whether we want to go back in time. >> This is the MPR's coach podcast in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcast.
