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It all starts with listening to the person in front of you and the person you'll never meet. To the person living a story and the journalist who helps you see it in a new light. The NPR network is built on listening with microphones in every region so where there any time a voice or sound demands to be heard. Hear stories in the first person, hear the bigger picture on NPR. Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. California Attorney General Rob Bonta is calling President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops and some 700 active duty Marines to Los Angeles unlawful.

He's suing the Trump administration over the move and he spoke to NPR in an interview conducted for Morning Edition. Having the Marines brought in, in addition to the National Guard being brought in, is only unfortunately inflaming the situation, creating additional tension and provocation. Meanwhile the National Guard troops are being pulled away from their duties to tackle wildfires and prevent fentanyl from flowing into California, important duties that they are now no longer doing while they are unnecessarily in Los Angeles. Bonta says the deployment's trample on California's sovereignty.

President Trump has authorized the deployment of an additional 2,000 National Guard members to LA. It appears to be the first time in decades that a state's National Guard has been activated without a request from the state's governor. California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom challenging President Trump to have him arrested. Following remarks from Trump's border czar Tom Homan, Homan says Newsom should be arrested over possible obstruction. He later spoke to CNN.

When they cross that line, we'll seek prosecution. And last count, we have just about 50 protesters who've been arrested, criminally being prosecuted for violating law. And when I'm asked, would that include politicians like Mayor Bass or Governor Newsom, I say, of course, it includes anybody. Speaking in a social media video Monday evening, Governor Newsom said he told President Trump to get his arrest over with an aid boat bound for Gaza has arrived at an Israeli port. The boat was trying to break Israel's long-standing blockade of Gaza, but it was seized by Israeli naval forces.

The activist Greta Thunberg was among those on board. The Congressional Budget Office extending its estimate of when the debt limit must be raised. As NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports, the new ex-state is set to begin in mid-August. The ex-state is essentially when the nonpartisan agency estimates that the measures being used to allow borrowing will be exhausted. Earlier this year, the CBO estimated the Treasury's ability to borrow might dry up by August 1st. But the agency now says the past few months of federal taxes collected means the ex-state won't hit until mid-August and will run through the end of September. Lifting the debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending, it just allows the U.S. to pay

its existing tab. This comes as Senate Republicans are working on a tax cut and spending bill that would include at least a $4 trillion increase in the debt limit. Barbara Sprint and Peer News, The Capital. Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines. He says he'll replace them with his own choices. Kennedy made the announcement in a press release Monday afternoon. And you're listening to NPR News.

A federal judge in Arizona has opened the door for the next round of legal wrangling over a massive copper mine project on land Native Americans consider sacred. Environmentalists and a group called Apache Stronghold are seeking to stop the federal government from transferring land for the project. On Monday, the judge in the case denied motions aimed at halting the transfer, but prevented the U.S. Forest Service from moving forward with it until 60 days after the service issues a required final environmental review. Funk music pioneer Sly Stone has died at the age of 82. He was the eclectic frontman of the influential band Sly and the Family Stone, as Brandon

Gates reports. Brandon Gates Sly Stone was born Sylvester Stewart in Denton, Texas to an ultra-religious family. When he was eight, he formed a gospel band with his siblings. In the 1960s, Sly Stone co-founded Sly and the Family Stone. Sly Stone was known for his innovative blending of psychedelic rock, soul, jazz, gospel, and Latin. His music reflected the cultural and social upheaval of the 1960s and early 1970s. The band broke up after producing more than a dozen hits.

Sly Stone became a recluse, but later in life performed in public, occasionally with his daughter. For NPR News, I'm Brandon Gates. This is NPR News. When hurricanes tear through communities, recovery isn't just about rebuilding. It's about preparing for the next storm. What's the plan here? There is no plan. People like to think there's a plan.

On the Sunday story from Up First, what happens when efforts to rebuild after floods leave communities vulnerable to more disasters? Listen now to the Sunday story from the Up First podcast from NPR.