NPR News: 09-08-2025 3PM EDT
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
What immigration and customs enforcement operation did DHS launch in Illinois?
The Department of Homeland Security announced it is launching an immigration and customs enforcement operation in Illinois. President Trump has threatened federal intervention in multiple cities across the US, led by Democrats, including deployment of the National Guard. Over the weekend he escalated threats toward Chicago.
How is President Trump threatening federal intervention in sanctuary cities like Chicago?
Yesterday he walked them back though, saying he expects to launch federal action in Chicago and in other so called sanctuary cities this week. But he declined to give specifics, then? Illinois Democratic governor J.B. Pritzker, in response to Trump's post this weekend, wrote on X that Trump was quote, threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke.
Why is the Supreme Court allowing the FTC to remove its Democratic commissioner?
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. In Pierre'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. 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 Shu in PR News.
What led to the collapse of France’s government and the resignation of Prime Minister François Bayrou?
The French government has collapsed again, forcing French President Emmanuel Macron to find his fifth prime minister in less than two years. NPRs Eleanor Beardsley has more.
The French Prime Minister, Francois Bayrou, 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 Bayrou, 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 in little.
That's NPR's L.
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.
What was Howard Stern’s recent prank involving Andy Cohen and why did it generate media buzz?
The cause of the collision is under investigation. At the last check on Wall Street, the Dow was up slightly at forty five thousand four hundred six. 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. In PR's Neto Ula B report, Stern had spent weeks teasing the idea that he might leave serious XM.
In the stunt, designed for media attention, T V personality 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 uh my team have been talking about how we go forward in the future.
That's from Eclipse 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.
What does the new pediatric study reveal about the rise in child self‑harm and suicide attempts?
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. Nada Ulibi. NPR News.
Self harm and suicide attempts with substances by children increased significantly from the year two thousand through twenty twenty-three. That was according to a new study in pediatrics where researchers looked at data from more than one and a half million calls to prison centers. The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to resume immigration raids in the Los Angeles area.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–0:04
2
What immigration and customs enforcement operation did DHS launch in Illinois?
0:04–0:22
3
How is President Trump threatening federal intervention in sanctuary cities like Chicago?
0:22–0:42
4
Why is the Supreme Court allowing the FTC to remove its Democratic commissioner?
0:42–1:44
5
What led to the collapse of France’s government and the resignation of Prime Minister François Bayrou?
1:44–2:46
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What was Howard Stern’s recent prank involving Andy Cohen and why did it generate media buzz?
2:46–3:52
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What does the new pediatric study reveal about the rise in child self‑harm and suicide attempts?
3:52–4:39