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Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dua Lise, Kowtow. President Trump is threatening to send the National Guard to three more cities, even after a federal judge ruled his deployment of troops to Los Angeles illegal. NPR's Rachel Treasman reports. A federal judge said President Trump's use of National Guard troops in Los Angeles earlier this year violated a law that limits the use of military for local law enforcement duties. That ruling only applies to California, and Trump has since publicly waged sending the National Guard to Chicago and Baltimore. Democratic leaders in both cities oppose such a move and say they are prepared to take legal action if it happens.

Trump has also floated the idea of sending troops to New Orleans, an idea that Louisiana's Republican governor has embraced. But New Orleans, Democrats have not, pointing to a drop in crime and accusing Trump of politicizing public safety. Rachel Treisman and PR News. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says employers added 22,000 jobs in August. That's down from the nearly 80,000 jobs that economists were expecting to have been created. NPR Scott Horsley reports. Forecasters were already betting that Fed policymakers would cut interest rates by at least a quarter percentage point at their next meeting, which is in less than two weeks, to prop up the job market.

After today's report, some investors think the Fed could even go further, and order a supersized half-point rate cut. The reason the Fed has been keeping interest rates this high for this long is to fight inflation. And so long as the job market was holding up, you know, policymakers felt like they could take their time before making a change. Now, with these cracks appearing in the job market, the Fed is being pulled in two different directions, and that's not a comfortable place for the central bank to be. NPR Scott Horsley reporting. The Trump administration says the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Agency, or U.S.

USCIS will now have its own law enforcement agents who can make arrest and carry firearms. It's a shift for the agency, which reviews applications for immigrants to become naturalized citizens and issues green cards, as NPR's Jasmine Guards reports. USCIS has up until now been kept separate from making immigration arrests and enforcing deportations. Under the new rule, the agency will be able to add special agents who can carry firearms and execute search and arrest. warrants. In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security called it the dawn of a new era and said the rule will allow USCIS to, quote, thoroughly fulfill its national security, fraud detection, and public safety missions. The rule will go into effect after 30 days. Jasmine Garst and P.R. News, Washington. Heather Hall, a professor from the College of Charleston's

Department of Teacher Education, was among the 16 people killed in Wednesday's funicular railway crash in Portugal. This is NPR. M. Pox, previously known as Monkey Pox, is no longer a public health emergency of international concern. That's according to the World Health Organization. As NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports, the announcement comes as cases decline in the hardest hit countries in Africa. Over a year ago, the WHO rang its loudest alarm bell over a surge of cases of Impox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since then, outbreaks have emerged in 26 African countries, and the disease has popped up around the world. This year, there have been over 100,000 cases and 700 deaths. But in the past several months, the situation has improved. Here's WHO

Director General Tedros Adonam Gabriesus. This decision is based on sustained declines in cases and deaths. While Impox no longer represents an international emergency, a continent, Mental emergency remains in place for Africa. Jonathan Lambert, NPR News. Japan's Prince Hisahito, the son of Crown Prince Akashino and Crown Princess Kiko, is turning 19 Saturday, and because the university freshman is the first male to reach adulthood in 40 years, the imperial household officially released photos of ornate coming-of-age ceremonies from the palace.

The official rights, which included attendance placing an adult crown on Prince Hisahito, were delayed from last September when he turned 18 because of university entrance exams. The prince is studying biology and entomology. He's the second in line to Japan's chrysanthemum throne. I'm Dwali Saikautel, NPR News. This message comes from Wise, the app for using money around the globe. When you manage your money with Wise, you'll always get the mid-market exchange rate with no hidden fees. Join millions of customers and visit Wise

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