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SHAY STEPHENS, MPR NEWS ANCHOR, WASHINGTON, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, TX, amendments, all of which have been defeated. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt says Trump is pressing Republicans to keep fighting.

The White House and the president are adamant that this bill is passed and that this bill makes its way to his desk. Republicans need to stay tough and unified during the home stretch, and we are counting on them to get the job done. Levitt says the president still wants a final bill on his desk by Friday. The Justice Department is suing Los Angeles and its Mayor Karen Bass over so-called sanctuary city policies. As Steve Futterman reports, DOJ alleges the city is thwarting the Constitution by hindering

federal immigration enforcement efforts. Los Angeles bars city resources from being used for immigration enforcement and local departments from cooperating with federal immigration officials. Los Angeles bars city resources from being used for immigration enforcement and local departments from cooperating with federal immigration officials. During the past month, Southern California has been the focal point of efforts to detain those in the U.S. without legal status. The lawsuit says L.A.'s policies have led to lawlessness, rioting, looting and vandalism. Mayor Bass has been critical of the ICE raids.

When you raid home depots and workplaces, you're not trying to keep anyone safe. You're trying to cause fear and panic. The lawsuit says L.A. is, quote, picking and choosing which federal laws will be enforced. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles. The Trump administration is opening a new immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades. White House press secretary Caroline Levitt says it will house 5,000 migrants and will be informally called Alligator Alcatraz. Levitt calls it the most efficient way to carry out the largest mass deportation in U.S. history. President Trump says a new buyer

for Chinese-owned video app TikTok will be announced in the next two weeks. As NPR's Bobby Allen reports, the focus is now on securing the approval of regulators in Beijing. President Trump said on Fox News on Sunday that he was confident China will accept a TikTok deal the White House has been putting together. Trump would now comment on what investors are involved, but a source close to the talks tells NPR that software giant Oracle will be taking a sizable stake. The proposal under discussion for months would have Oracle overseeing TikTok's data

practices and algorithm, but TikTok owner ByteDance would still control the algorithm. Under federal law, TikTok was supposed to shed its Chinese ownership in January, but Trump has repeatedly pushed off enforcing the law. The law requires TikTok to not be operationally controlled by a Beijing company and whether the new deal clears that bar remains unknown. Bobby Allen, NPR News. On Wall Street, U.S. futures are flat and after hours trading on Asia-Pacific markets, shares are mixed. This is NPR. Blue collar workers in Philadelphia walked off their jobs at midnight in a dispute over

pay and work rules. Local 33 of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal employees is demanding a roughly 30 percent wage hike over four years, plus work rule changes. The city is offering a 7 percent wage hike over three years. City officials say that trash pickup and other services will be affected by the strike, but that 911 emergency call centers will remain operational. State and federal prosecutors have charged more than 320 people allegedly involved in health care fraud schemes.

The Justice Department says the schemes resulted in $15 billion worth of false claims. For a second week, torrential rain has inundated southwestern China, causing massive flooding that's claimed at least six lives. NPR's Emily Fang reports that tens of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate. The flooding submerged streets and low-level houses in Guizhou's Rongjiang County. Eighty thousand people have been moved to higher ground in the second week of flooding. More than twice the normal amount of rain has fallen on that county, which sits at the intersection of three different rivers that are now overflowing their banks.

Meanwhile, farther east, southern China is experiencing an intense heat wave. China's meteorological data shows the average temperature in China has risen faster than the global average, and experts say that has reduced overall rainfall, but increased extreme rain events. Authorities are now warning of more flooding in China in the next few weeks. Emily Fang, NPR News. Again, U.S. futures are flat in after-hours trading. This is NPR News.