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Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theshmit.org. Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Hurst. Illinois leaders say they're still unclear on when President Trump will deploy federal agents and national guard troops to Chicago. Maui Ekbal from Member Station WVEZ has more. Governor J.B. Pritzker is vowing to sue President Trump as soon as the National Guard or other military forces entered the city. Piskker says he can't enact any state laws that would override Trump's plans, but he says the courts will be on his side. That's going to be our first line of defense is getting a court to issue a TRO or other injunction against that activity. Prisker says he believes immigration and customs enforcement or ICE agents will likely hit the,

the streets of Chicago by this weekend. Meanwhile, organizers of a popular two-day celebration of Mexican Independence Day are postponing the festival to November. For NPR News, I'm Mawa Iqbal in Springfield, Illinois. President Trump's nominee to fill an open seat on the Federal Reserve's governing board tell senators, if confirmed, he will not be Trump's puppet. And Pierre Scott Horsley reports Senate Democrats weren't convinced. Stephen Meyer insists he will not simply follow orders from President Trump in setting interest rates, but Senate Democrats like Elizabeth Warren are skeptical. Warren accused the president of waging a month's long campaign to seize control of the central bank, and she warned that kind of political meddling has backfired in the past.

It happened in the 1970s when President Nixon bullied the Fed into keeping rates too low for too long and led to years of stagflation where both unemployment and inflation stayed high. With widespread support from Senate Republicans, however, Myron appears headed for confirmation, possibly in time, to attend the next Fed meeting in less than two weeks. Scott Horsley, MPR News, Washington. The Trump administration is ending a program offering temporary protected status to Venezuelan nationals in the U.S. who face humanitarian crises in their home country. MPRs Tovia Smith has more.

Temporary protected status or TPS for Venezuelans started in the Biden administration, allowing eligible individuals to work in the U.S. and shielding them from deportation. But the Trump administration says conditions in Venezuela no longer warrant the program, and they say it's become a magnet for irregular migration. Some 256,000 Venezuelans could now be deported, and several thousand applications in process shut down. Immigrant advocates say the move will tear families apart and put Venezuelans in danger. The Trump administration has also been trying to terminate TPS

for people from several other nations. Tovia Smith, NPR News. New applications for jobless benefits rose last week. The Labor Department says initial claims were up 8,000 to a seasonally adjusted $237,000. A more complete look at the job market comes tomorrow when the government releases the monthly unemployment report for August. You're listening to NPR News.

New research suggests that the psychedelic drug LSD can relieve a common form of anxiety. And peers John Hamilton has more on a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study involved 198 people with generalized anxiety disorder, which affects about 10% of adults in a given year. Dr. David Fifle of Kadima Neuropsychiatry Institute in San Diego says LSD clearly helped participants who got one of the two higher doses. By the next day, the drug for all intents and purposes was out of their system and yet the patient's average anxiety was greatly reduced. And this improvement lasted for the duration of the 12-week study. People who got higher doses also had less depression. The form of LSD used in the study is called

MM-120. It comes from the company MindMed, which has already started two larger studies that should be completed next year. John Hamilton and PR News. Legendary fashion designer Giorgio Armani has died. He was 91 years old. No cause of death was given, but Armani had been sick for some time and canceled his appearance at Milan's Men's Fashion Week in June. He founded his company in 1975 and three years later. He designed the outfit Diane Keaton wore to the Oscars in 1978 when she won Best Actress for her role in Annie Hall.

But his breakout came in 1980 when he designed the suits Richard Gear wore in American Gigolo. After that, his company expanded into a global empire, selling everything from haute couture to street war to eyeglasses, shoes, and homewares. I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington. This message comes from Wise, the app for using money around the globe. When you manage your

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