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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. U.S. space commands relocating to Alabama. President Trump announced his decision a short time ago to take the headquarters out of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Alabama leans heavily Republican, but President Trump says that did not influence his decision. He later noted that one of the big problems he had with Colorado is the state's embrace of mail-in-voting, which he has criticized without providing evidence as a source of why. widespread fraud. Trump took questions about the controversial presence of National Guard troops in D.C. and whether he has plans to do the same in Chicago. Well, we're going in. I didn't say

when, we're going in. Trump says crime will fall in Chicago as it has in the District of Columbia, thanks to what he has done. But local and federal data in D.C. show crime had already fallen by double digits in recent years. This summer in Southern California, the president sent in the military to counter protests over his illegal immigration crackdown. KQAD's Marissa Lagos reports that today, the public learned that a federal judge ruled that what Trump did was illegal. Judge Charles Breyer is ordering the Trump administration to stop using the hundreds of National Guard troops to engage in a number of policing activities, including arrest, searches, security patrols, traffic, and crowd control. Breyer wrote the evidence at trial clearly established the armed soldiers were being used to conduct those kinds of police. functions in violation of an 1878 law passed by Congress prohibiting the military from being used

against civilians. Breyer noted in his decision that since this case was filed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in June, the president has also sent troops to Washington, D.C., and threatened to dispatch them to other cities, including Oakland and San Francisco. The ruling won't take effect until September 12th. For NPR News, I'm Marisa Lagos in San Francisco. Two days after an earthquake devastated parts of Afghanistan rescuers are still trying to reach victims. NPR's D Hadid reports authorities say the death toll has so far surpassed 1400. The epicenter was in a remote mountainous area where drone footage showed collapsed mud-brick homes perched on hills overlooking narrow green valleys. One aid worker tells NPR that one remote village called Jugal appears to have been

wiped out. Abraham Ahmed is with the Islamic Relief Aid Group. They are taking those injured people walking for three hours until they arrived to the first point close to to Dugal where Islamic relief was one of the first respondents. The earthquake comes as aid groups are already stretched thin after President Trump suspended most funding to Afghanistan amid claims that the Taliban was siphoning off some of it. The United Nations is now appealing for emergency funds. Dear Hadid, NPR News, Mumbai. Aftershocks continue in Afghanistan today, a magnitude 5.2 tumbler struck

It's NPR News. Another threat of a government shutdown faces members of Congress, as lawmakers returned this week from their August recess. Also back this week, bipartisan pressure on the administration to grant access to the Epstein files. A House Oversight Committee planned to meet with several people who accuse a late finance here of sex trafficking. More than a billion people worldwide live with a mental disorder, according to a new report, from the World Health Organization. NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports most of these people live in low or middle-income countries. Mental health is a growing problem for the globe. According to the WHO, where the last decade the number of people living with mental health disorders increased at a

faster pace than the population as a whole. Deaths by suicide, however, are down 35 percent since the year 2000, but still claim hundreds of thousands of lives each year. Depression and anxiety are the most common conditions and cost upwards of $1 trillion each year from productivity losses, the report estimates. On average, governments allocate a tiny fraction of their health budgets to mental health, putting treatment out of reach for many. Jonathan Lambert, NPR News. Kraft Heinz is decoupling. A decade after merging, the food powerhouse is splitting into two companies. One will move on with brands such as Heinz, Philadelphia, Cream Cheese, and Kraft Mac and Cheese. And the other takes Oscar Meyer, Maxwell House.

craft singles and lunchables. Kraft Heinz signaled in May, the split was coming, and it is expected to be finalized later next year. The Dow's closed down 250 points. It's NPR.