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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The Department of Homeland Security announced it it is launching an immigration and customs enforcement operation in Illinois. President Trump has threatened federal intervention in multiple cities across the U.S. led by Democrats, including deployment of the National Guard. Over the weekend, he escalated threats toward Chicago. Yesterday, he walked them back, though,

saying he expects to launch federal action in Chicago and in other so-called sanctuary cities. week, but he declined to give specifics then. Illinois's Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker in response to Trump's post this weekend, wrote on exit, Trump was, quote, threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. End quote. The Supreme Court has paved the way for the Federal Trade Commission to once again remove its sole Democratic Commissioner for now. NPR's Andrea, she reports a decision as yet another win for President Trump as he seeks to expand his presidential powers. The order temporarily blocks the ruling from a lower court

judge that reinstated FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter. Trump fired Slaughter, along with another Democratic commissioner back in March, despite federal law that holds that commissioners can only be fired for cause. The president provided no such reason. Instead, in their cases and others, the Trump administration is arguing that the Constitution gives the president authority to remove anyone who wields executive power, that the president must be able to supervise those tasked with carrying out the agenda he promised to the American people. This decision is temporary. The Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments on this topic of presidential power soon. Andrea Shue in PR News. The French government has collapsed again, forcing French President Emmanuel Macron to find his

fifth prime minister in less than two years. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley has more. The French Prime Minister, Francois Bayou, has just lost his confidence vote that he called around his budget-cutting measures. He lost hugely 364 to 194. It's a clear rejection of President Emmanuel Macron's policies and of Francois Bayru, his prime minister, who will now have to give his resignation in the coming hours. He was the third prime minister that President Emmanuel Macron named a little over a year. None have been able to institute Macron's policies. Now the far right and the far left who have the biggest blocks in Parliament are calling for a complete and dramatic change in policies.

That's NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reporting. A double-decker bus collided with a freight train northwest of Mexico City this morning. Local authorities say at least eight people died and dozens more are injured. The cause of the collision is under investigation. At last check on Wall Street, the Dow was up slightly at 45,000. You're listening to NPR News. Radio host Howard Stern pranked listeners this morning in a publicly or publicity, rather, stunt after years of declining ratings. NPR's Netta Ulla B report, Stern had spent weeks teasing the idea that he might leave serious XM. In the stunt, designed for media attention, TV personality and TV.

Andy Cohen pretended to take over Stern's job on Stern's show. Later in the show, Stern revealed that nothing has actually changed, at least not yet. I've been thinking about retiring. Now I can't, because then they'll say I got pushed out. Here's the truth. Sirius XM and my team have been talking about how we go forward in the future. That's from a clip Sirius XM released on social media. Stern was once a huge cultural force with more than 200 million daily listeners. But that number has dropped, fewer than 200,000. people now regularly tune in. His page views are dramatically down. Howard Stern's latest deal is

currently up for renewal. Netta Ulippi, NPR News. Self-harm and suicide attempts with substances by children increase significantly from the year 2000 through 2023. That was according to a new study in pediatrics where researchers looked at data for more than one and a half million calls to prison centers. The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to resume immigration rates in the Los Angeles area. It didn't provide a reason why a lower court had ruled the operations targeted people based on race. This is NPR News.