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Congress is considering a rescissions package from the White House that would claw back more than $1 billion of public media funding. Federal funding for all of public media amounts to about $1.60 per person per year. That helps bring you the news and podcasts you rely on from NPR. Please take a stand for public media today at GoACPR.org. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janene Herbst. President Trump has federalized the National Guard in California, sending 2,000 troops to Los Angeles, after days of clashes between immigration agents and protesters.

Trump calling what's happening a, quote, riot. This after dozens of people were detained by immigration agents Friday. Some 300 of the guard are already on the ground at three locations in LA. That's according to Governor Gavin Newsom, who is against Trump's actions. Speaking to reporters as he left New Jersey for Camp David today, Trump appeared to suggest protesters who spit on ICE agents without offering evidence will face consequences. And I told them, nobody's going to spit on our police officers. Nobody's going to spit on our military, which they do is a common thing. They get up to them this far away and then they start spitting in their face. That happens, they get hit very hard.

Trump says so far he doesn't think there's an insurrection. He also alluded to deploying more troops to cities in the U.S. The fallout between Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk continued today. Trump warned Musk that he would face, quote, serious consequences if he funded Democrats in upcoming elections. And here's Luke Garrett has more. President Trump said Saturday he has, quote, no intention of speaking to Elon Musk. Once a close advisor to the president, Musk has since called for Trump's impeachment and criticized his domestic policies, saying tariffs will cause a recession and his legislative agenda will drive the country into, quote, debt slavery.

During a phone interview with NBC News, Trump said he's allowed to cancel government contracts with Musk's companies, like SpaceX, which NASA relies on heavily. But the president said he hasn't given the action much thought. Musk donated more than a quarter of a billion dollars to Trump's reelection campaign in 2024, making him one of the nation's top political donors. When asked if his relationship with Musk was over, Trump said, quote, I would assume so.

Yeah. Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington. Health officials in Gaza say at least six Palestinians were killed today while trying to reach food aid sites run by private US contractors. Israel's military says it fired warning shots. In Piers, Danielle Estrin has more from Tel Aviv. The new food program in Gaza is backed by the US and Israel. It's meant to replace aid distributed by the United Nations and to isolate Hamas. But hunger remains severe in Gaza.

In the last two weeks, Gaza health officials say more than 100 people have been killed trying to access these food sites. The Israeli military warned civilians not to approach the sites before opening hours. But the food sites have had erratic opening hours. One site announced an early opening and crowds gathered early at another site. Military officials say troops fired warning shots a distance away from two aid sites Sunday as suspects approached troops. Gaza health officials report more than 100 people killed in Israeli strikes this weekend. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Tel Aviv.

And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. One famous image of the Vietnam War in 1972 galvanized the anti-war movement and won a Pulitzer Prize. But as NPR's Mondalee Del Barco reports, there are questions about who shot the photo of a nine-year-old Vietnamese girl and other children running from a napalm bomb attack. Kim Phuc often recounts the day 53 years ago when the South Vietnamese Army mistakenly bombed her village. The fire burned off all my clothes.

On the scene was Nick Ut, then a 21-year-old photographer for the Associated Press. I saw a girl with her arm running, screaming. Ut won a Pulitzer Prize and other awards for that photo, but a new documentary called The Stringer credits another Vietnamese man who was there that day with a camera. Utt's attorney, Jim Hornstein, says he's now preparing a defamation lawsuit. Nick Utt knows he took the picture. What we have here is a film that's based on an unreliable witness. In response to The Stringer, World Press Photo pulled Nick Utts' attribution, but the AP

and more than 400 photographers, including eyewitnesses, support Utts' photo credit. Mandelid Albarco, NPR News. It's the final day of World Pride 2025. This year's host city, Washington, D.C., thousands gathered under gray skies this morning at the Lincoln Memorial for a rally and protest march as the community gathers its strength for a looming fight under President Trump's second administration. The speech has targeted the administration of both parties, saying Democrats have wilted under the pressure of Republican control of the White House and both houses of Congress.

I'm Janene Herbst, NPR News.