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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Luis Skiyavone. President Trump says he is ready to deploy National Guard troops to the city of Chicago after a weekend where eight people died and 58 were wounded in gun violence. Chicago is a hellhole right now. Baltimore is a hell hall right now. Trump says Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker should ask him to send in troops. Pritzker told reporters he is not asking, but they're obviously ready to go. So in the absence of significant federal coordination, we've gathered information from unauthorized patriotic officials inside the government and from well-sourced reporters about Donald Trump's plan, which is to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago. National Guard troops have been on the ground in Washington, D.C. Republican Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa will not run for a third term next year. Iowa Public Radio's Catarina Sistaric has details.

Ernst says serving as a U.S. Senator has been the privilege of a lifetime, and it wasn't an easy decision to not run for re-election. Having been raised in a family who has given me so much love and support, now as our family ages and grows, it's my time for me to give back to them. Ernst didn't say what she'll do after her term is over. She was the first female combat veteran elected to the U.S. Senate and the first woman to represent Iowa in Congress. Two Iowa Republicans had previously announced they'd run for Senate, and at least one more is expected to get into the race. Five Democrats are running for the open seat. For NPR News, I'm Katerina Sistarik in Des Moines. The U.S. government continues to collect tens of billions of dollars in tariff revenue

each month, but as NPR Scott Horsley reports, some of that money may have to be refunded. A federal appeals court recently ruled that most of the import taxes imposed by President Trump this year are illegal. But the court left those tariffs in place for the time being, awaiting a final decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. That leaves many businesses that rely on imports in a kind of tariff limbo. Barton O'Brien will soon be placing an order for specialty dog products without knowing whether they'll have to pay a tariff when the goods are delivered next spring. We have no idea what the price is going to be. That's a really tough negotiation to have with customers who are trying to plan things out. The appeals court says Trump overstepped his

authority when he ordered tariffs ranging from 10 to 50 percent on nearly everything the U.S. imports. NPR News, Washington. A federal district court judge has ruled that Google will not have to sell its Chrome Web browser. The decision sent shares of Google Parent Alphabet up late this afternoon. In a complex decision, Judge Ahmed Mehta ordered Google to revamp its search engine, stopping short of taking the browser out of its hands. On Wall Street, the Dow lost 249 points closing at 45,295, The NASDAQ off 175, the S&P 500 lost 44.

This is NPR News. The Pentagon is poised to send as many as 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to help process a backlog of immigration cases. With heightened prosecution of illegal immigration, there's an estimated backlog of 3.5 million cases. One of the foremost fashion magazines in the world has announced a change in leadership, As NPR's Netta Ulibe reports, the longtime editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine has announced her successor. Rumors about Anna Wintour stepping down has been swirling for weeks. You can hear the new editor-in-chief of American Vogue in her previous role hosting Vogue magazine's podcast. This is the run-through. I'm Chloe Mal.

Mal also edited Vogue's website. 39 years old, she has worked at Vogue for 14 years. Mal is the daughter of Hollywood star Candice Bergen and French film director Louis Moll. Her new role might best be described as transitional. Anna Wintour is still her boss. Wintour remains as Chief Content Officer at Condé Nast that publishes Vogue. She's made it publicly known she is not yet moving out of her office. Mal has said she plans to keep Vogue relevant in a fading market, in part by publishing the magazine less frequently. NDA Ulippi, NPR News.

American Maritime Forces have recently boosted their presence in waters off the coast of Venezuela. Today, President Trump announced the U.S. had carried out a strike in the Southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela on the ex-platform Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the U.S. action as a lethal strike. I'm Luis Skiyvone and PR News, Washington.