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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago are suing to block the Trump administration from deploying federalized national guard troops on the streets of Chicago. Governor J.B. Pritzker accuses Trump of using service members in other Democratic-led jurisdictions as political props to enforce an immigration agenda. zip tied and detained for hours, including especially U.S. citizens and legal residents of our state. But President Trump argues he's targeting high crime areas and says he has the authority to federalize local law enforcement. Israel is approaching the second anniversary of the Hamas-led attack.

The anniversary itself is falling on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. NPR's Emily Fang reports commemorations for the victims of the October 7th attack, and the 48 hostages still being held in Gaza are already starting. Here in the kibbutz of near Oz, just miles from the border with Gaza, Hamas-led militants killed 47 people, a devastating blow for the tiny agricultural community. The new chairman of the kibbutz, Zika Tesla, has been tasked with rebuilding. And he says there's tension among the kubis. Roots as residents over what to do with the burned and bullet-ridden husks of homes the Palestinian

militants left behind. Some residents want to leave the ruins. Others want to live, he says, and demolish them. And even as Hamas and Israeli negotiators head to Egypt this week to hammer out details of a potential end to the war for near-Az residents where nine of their community members remain hostages in Gaza, they say the healing has yet to begin. Emily Fang and peer news near Oz. The Trump administration has named a new person to oversee day-to-day operations at the IRS. NPR, Scott Horsley reports he already has another job, running the Social Security Administration. Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano will add the new title of CEO at the IRS, while Treasury Secretary Scott Besson continues to serve as acting IRS commissioner.

Bessons held that role since August when the former IRS Commissioner, Billy Long, was fired. The Treasury Department said in a statement that the time, tax collection agency and Social Security share many of the same goals for technology and customer service, making Bisignano a natural choice to run both sprawling agencies. The critics warrant Bisignano is likely to be stretched too thin. They say social security recipients deserve a full-time commissioner, and they warn his split role does not bode well for a smooth tax filing season next year. Scott Horsley-NPR News, Washington. From Washington, this is NPR News.

The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine have been announced today by Secretary General Tomas Burleman. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinski Institute that has today decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Mary Branco, Fred Ramstel and Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. The Nobel Assembly says the hope is to be able to treat or cure autoimmune diseases, provide more effective cancer treatments, and prevent serious complications after stem cell transplants. Tonight will feature the biggest and the brightest moon of the year. That is NPR's Amy Hill tells us it will also start a season of super moons to close out the year. Super moons happen three or four times a year, but this first supermoon of 2025 ushers in a trio in the last three months of the year. It happens because the moon's 27-day orbit of Earth is not in a perfect circle, but more like an oval. So when a full moon coincides with its closest approach to Earth, called the Perigee, about 225,000 miles away, that's a supermoon.

It looks up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter. And does more than dazzle, the proximity can cause higher tides than usual. The name supermoon was coined in 1979 and is seeing a star turn in the internet age. periodically becoming a trending term. Amy held NPR News. The Dow's closed down 63 points. S&P was up 24 and the NASDAQ was up 161. It's NPR.