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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 on Corvick-Holman, the state of Illinois, and the city of Chicago, are suing the Trump administration,

they're trying to stop the deployment of National Guard troops from Illinois and from Texas to Chicago. President Trump says it's needed to fight crime. He suggested he could invoke the Insurrection Act. Well, I do it if it was necessary. So far it hasn't been necessary. But we have an insurrection act for a reason.

If I had to enact it, I'd do that. If people were being killed and courts were holding us up or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure, I do that. I mean, I want to make sure. the people aren't killed. We have to make sure that our cities are safe. But Trump has been blocked by a federal judge in Oregon from deploying any National Guard troops to Oregon. And Oregon, Governor Tina Kotech says there is no national emergency in her state to address. Utah lawmakers

have picked a new congressional map as ordered by a federal judge. From member station KUER, Hugo Ricard Bell reports the new map is one favored by Republican lawmakers. is undergoing a redistricting process after a judge ruled its maps were unconstitutional. Map C won in a 56 to 17 final House vote in a special legislative session, but Democrat and Senate Minority Leader Luz Escamilla told the state Senate, she is unimpressed. I do believe in this specific map does not follow redistricting standards and requirements of Prop 4. In an email sent out to its members, the state's Republican Party

described MAPC as, quote, needed to stop the Democrats. But redistricting committee co-chair and Republican Senator Scott Sandal also said it is the option that best follows the law. For NPR News, I'm Hugo Ricard Bell in Salt Lake City. This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three University of California scientists. Their work demonstrated quantum mechanical effects in electrical circuits. NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boise explained. this could aid the development of future quantum technologies, such as better computers. The three researchers who won the prize are John Clark, Michelle Deverey, and John Martinez.

In the mid-1980s, they did experiments that showed how a subatomic phenomenon, quantum tunneling, can be observed on a macroscopic scale, involving many particles on a chip. At a press briefing, Clark said he was stunned that they won. We have not realized in any way that this might be the basis of a Nobel Prize. The Prize Committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said their advances could lead to the next generation of quantum technologies, including quantum cryptography and new kinds of sensors. Nell Greenfield-Boyce, NPR News. On Wall Street in pre-market trading, Dow futures are slightly higher. This is NPR.

This is the seventh day of the federal government shutdown. It's affecting air traffic controllers who were not getting paid. There were no controllers at the Burbank Airport near Los Angeles last evening, although the airport said it was still open. A pilot's organization in India is asking the Indian government to check Boeing's Dreamliner jets. Last weekend, an Air India Dreamliner jet suddenly deployed an emergency power system while it was in flight. It landed safely. The incident comes months after another Boeing Dreamliner,

owned by Air India crashed. 260 people aboard were killed. Costco shoppers can now add something new to their carts, the Blockbuster Obesity Drug Wagovi. They can get it at the Costco pharmacy or online for around $500 a month. And P.R. Sidney Lubkin has more. Discounted Wagovi is now available to Costco members,

as long as they're not using their health insurance. With insurance, however, the drug's co-pay is often less expensive. The discount program is similar to what the drugs maker, Novo Nordisk, already offers on its website. The company launched discounted Wagovi on its direct-to-consumer platform NovoCare and partnered with several telehealth companies last spring. That allowed Novo Nordisk to compete with telehealth companies offering compounded obesity drugs during the Wagovi shortage. The compounded medicines, which aren't usually covered by insurance, were available for a fraction of Wagovi's sticker price of around $1,400 a month. Sydney Lopkin, NPR News. And I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News, from Washington.