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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

President Trump says his administration has brokered it deal with Hamas to disarm, but

his empire's Franco Ordonia's reports Hamas is disputing that.

President Trump announced on social media that as Hamas disarms, Israeli forces will withdraw from Gaza, and that the international stabilization force will then work with a new Palestinian police force to take responsibility for Gaza, like so many of these things a lot comes down to the details and the execution of those details.

There appears to be disagreement over the order of ends and what comes first, whether

that's Israel pulling out of Gaza or Hamas handing over its weapons. A senior Hamas official told NPR that they would only give up their weapons if Israel withdraws from Gaza first. Franco Ordonia's NPR News. Two appeals courts yesterday ruled against the Trump administration's policy, mandating

those who enter the country without legal status, be placed in detention. And here's Hamas, who still reports the issue is expected to end up at the Supreme Court.

The decisions out of the 9th Circuit and 7th Circuit courts of appeals argue that the

administration is misunderstanding decades old immigration law.

The Trump administration wants anyone who entered the country illegally to be in immigration

detention while their cases play out in immigration court. Under previous administration, someone with autochriminal record would generally be allowed to seek a bond hearing while their immigration case was pending. The approach has resulted in the prolonged detention of people who, in some cases, have been living in the US for decades and a record number of people in detention.

The Supreme Court is expected to take up the issue in its next term. Humanibustillo and Pyrenees, Washington. Residents who were evacuated from dozens of communities around the southwest French city of Bordeaux are being allowed to return home. And Pyrenees owner beerously reports, firefighters say the blazes are largely under control,

but they warn that people need to be ready to evacuate again if they reignite. The fires ripped through 100,000 acres, some 250 houses were destroyed, but no civilian lives have been lost largely due to the preemptive evacuations. At the Bordeaux Convention Center evacuated C.V. Michele, who is with her dog and two cats, is still waiting for the green light to return home.

She said she never saw the fire, but felt its ominous presence.

It was a strong smell and the ashes were really in great numbers. So my car is white and she was all covered with ashes. She says it felt like Pompeii, comparing the situation to the ancient Italian city destroyed by a volcano, Eleanor Beardsley and Pyrenees, Bordeaux. You was future's contracts, or trading higher at this hour, less than 1/2 an hour to go

to the opening bell on Wall Street. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. The death toll from the powerful earthquake in southwestern Japan this week has climbed to at least 34, and officials say they expect that number to grow. Homes in a shopping center collapsed tens of thousands are without water and power as temperatures

sore to the upper 90s. Seattle's police chief is resigning after fallout from Sunday's shooting at a food festival near the space needle. One suspect has been charged in the killing of three people, but they're possibly multiple shooters still at large.

Scott Greenstone with Member Station KU-OW has more. Police chief Sean Barnes' resignation comes after days of mounting criticism over slow, sometimes conflicting communication about the police investigation into the shooting. Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said the decision to replace Barnes won't interrupt the investigation. "I would not have done this now if I thought that it would endanger that investigation

or the other on the ground work of the department. This to me was the moment where we needed to go in the direction." Barnes was out of town at a conference when the shooting under the space needle took place in the day since his frequent travel to Chicago to visit his wife and kids while in office also came under question for NPR News, I'm Scott Greenstone in Seattle."

A heat dome that baked the central and eastern U.S., moving back to the southwest, with triple-digit temperatures possible in places. The National Weather Service has extreme heat warnings across parts of southern California, Utah, Nevada, Oklahoma, and Arizona where dangerously hot weather is expected to last through the weekend.

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