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In the U.S., national security news can feel far away from daily life. Distant wars, murky conflicts, diplomacy behind closed doors on our new show, Sources and Methods. NPR reporters on the ground bring you stories of real people, helping you understand why distant events matter here at home. Listen to sources and methods on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jail Snyder. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker says the Trump administration is turning Chicago into a war zone. They want mayhem on the ground. They want to create the war zone so that they can send in even more troops. Now they're claiming they need 300 of Illinois's National Guard. Well, we didn't need them before they showed up.

Pritzker speaking to CNN this morning a day after the White House confirmed plans to deploy members of the Illinois Guard to Chicago. Details remain unclear. But the administration, is citing ongoing violence and lawlessness. Yesterday, Border Patrol agents shot and injured a woman. Exactly what happened there is also not clear. The Homeland Security Department says she was part of a group who ram their cars into vehicles used by ICE agents. The shooting led to a face-off between protesters and federal agents. Federal judge in Oregon has temporarily blocked President Trump when sending National Guard troops to Portland.

From Oregon Public Broadcasting, Joni Audenland reports. President Trump has said that violent. protests outside the Portland Ice Building left the city, quote, war ravaged and threatened the safety of federal employees. But Judge Karen Immigate, a trip appointee, said on her ruling that protest had generally been peaceful since June, with fewer than 20 protesters on average. Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield celebrated the decision in a press conference and called it a healthy check on the president's power. No president is allowed to make up facts or rely on social media trolling or posts when deploying the United States military in our cities.

The judge could extend a restraining order on October 17th. For NPR News, I'm Joni Audenland in Portland, Oregon. President Trump asks Israel to stop bombing Gaza after Hamas appeared to accept his plan to end the war. But as impurezanaas Baba reports, deadly Israeli airstrikes continue to hit Gaza. For a few hours in Saturday, residents in Gaza, The city walked the streets with a sense of relative safety, after Israeli forces pulled back several hundred meters from the city center. But the calm did not last long.

An air strike like this one overnight had the Abdel Aal family home without warning, killing 18 people there and injuring more than 70 according to hospital records. The military says it was targeting a Hamas militant who posed a threat, but they didn't name the target or response to NPR's inquiry for more information. formation. Israeli drones, artillery, and gunfire have resumed around Gaza City. The military says the city remains under an evacuation order. And the city is still cut off from the south as displaced families wait for real ceasefire to return home. Anas Baba and PR News, Gaza. Special envoy Steve Whitkoff is to lead an American delegation to Egypt for indirect talks tomorrow.

This is NPR News. The ruling party of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia is claiming victory in this weekend's local elections, despite a boycott by the opposition and a huge protest in the Capitol that led to clashes with riot police. Typhu Mahtmo strengthened before making landfall in southern China today. Local media showing video of large waves, washing seawater onto roads in a coastal village. Matmo is battering China after striking the Philippines on Friday, as Michael Sullivan reports. Matmos strengthened after leaving the Philippines with sustained wind speeds nearing 100 miles per hour as it neared southern Guangdong province, according to China's National Meteorological Center.

That prompted authorities to issue a red-level typhoon warning, the nation's highest, and to evacuate more than 150,000 people in the typhoon's path. Hanan province, which is also in the pathway of the storm, canceled flights and shut down public transport and businesses starting Saturday, in preparation for Montmo's arrival. China's Yunnan province and parts of northern Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand are also expecting heavy rain as the storm moves inland. For NPR news, I'm Michael Sullivan in Shanghai.

Tropical storm Priscilla is off the Pacific coast of Mexico this morning and the National Hurricane Center in Miami says the storm is slowly gaining strength. Forecasters say Priscilla will likely become a hurricane by early tomorrow. A tropical storm watch is in effect for parts of the southwestern Mexican coast. I'm Jail Snyder. This is NPR News. Listen to this podcast sponsor-free on Amazon Music with a prime membership or any podcast app by subscribing to NPR NewsNow Plus at plus.npr.org.

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