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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skiyavone. A federal judge in California has ruled President Trump's deployment of Marines at National Guard troops to Los Angeles earlier this year was illegal. Steve Futterman reports. In his ruling, federal judge Charles Breyer accuses Trump of creating a national police force with the president as its chief. That the judge said is a violation of the Posse Comitatis Act. The act which was enacted in 1878 greatly limits the military. military from being involved in any domestic or civilian law enforcement. The judge ordered the remaining troops still deployed not to take part in any arrests, apprehension, searches, seizures, traffic and crowd control. However, the order does not go into effect until September 12th to allow the Trump administration a chance to appeal. Around 300 National Guard troops remain in the L.A. area while the Marines were withdrawn earlier. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles. The White House is sizing up Chicago for the next National Guard deployment. President Trump today called Chicago,

quote, a hellhole. Dozens of shootings over the Labor Day weekend in Chicago left eight people dead and dozens hurt. The president declared today, we're going in. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker responded, a National Guard deployment is no solution. I refuse to play a reality game show with Donald Trump again. What I want are the federal dollars that have been promised to Illinois and Chicago for violence prevention programs that have proven to work. Chicago's mayor, Brandon Johnson, said that if the president wanted to help, he could stop the illegal flow of guns into his city. President Trump is moving U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama. And PR's Mara Liason reports. In an Oval Office event,

President Trump says he's reversing Joe Biden's decision to keep the command in Colorado. The Space Command oversees military space operations and the defensive satellites. This is not a new position for Trump. At the end of his first term, he also tried to move the command to Alabama from Colorado. But now he says the move will boost the economy in Alabama. This will result in more than 30,000 Alabama jobs and probably much more than that and hundreds of millions of dollars of investment. Trump says the Space Command will help the U.S. dominate the high frontier by building

the so-called Golden Dome, a missile defense system, for the U.S. and Canada. Mara Liason, NPR News. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is in Beijing at this hour for China's military parade, which on Wednesday marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Russia's Vladimir Putin will also attend. September was off to a week's start on Wall Street. The Dow lost 249 points, closing at 45,295. The NASDAQ lost 175 points.

This is NPR News in Washington. In a major antitrust decision, a federal judge has ruled that Google will be allowed to keep its Chrome browser, but will face other penalties stemming from an antitrust suit filed by the Department of Justice. Chrome is the world's most used webbed browser. More than 50 ships have set sail for Gaza from Mediterranean countries in the largest civilian attempt to symbolically break Israel's naval blockade on the Gaza Strip. And PR's Ruth Sherlock has the latest. Dozens of ships from Mediterranean seaports, including Barcelona and Spain and Italy's Genoa,

are sailing to Gaza with humanitarian aid for civilians there. The activists have raised hundreds of thousands of euros to purchase the boats and supplies. UN-backed food security experts have declared famine in parts of Gaza during Israel's nearly two-year offensive against Hamas there. Israel maintains a naval blockade on Gaza and has limited what aid can enter the strip. A representative of the Italian USB Labor Union has warned Israel that Italian dock workers will block all shipments

from January to the country should anything happen to the flotilla as it approaches Gaza. Ruth Sherlock, NPR News, Rome. A big corporate merger, which 10 years ago united two major food brands is about to split. Kraft Hines was created in 2015, becoming one of the world's largest food companies. Five years later, though, with Americans seeking different food options, the company's net worth began to decline. Under the new arrangement, there will be two separate

major groups. I'm Louise Skiyvone and PR News, Washington.