NPR News: 09-28-2025 12AM EDT
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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. President Trump says he's expanding his controversial deployment of National Guard troops to other cities. In a social media post Saturday, he says he'll send troops to Portland, Oregon to handle domestic terrorists. But Oregon Governor Tina Kotek says the deployment would be an abuse of power by the president.
There is no insurrection. There is no threat to national security, and there is no need for military troops in our major city.
Police officials in Portland, meanwhile, also say there's no reason for the deployment. Hundreds of people marched in downtown Chicago Saturday. They were demanding that Illinois officials stand up against the Trump administration's immigration agenda. From member station WBEZ, Summer Van Betten has our reports.
No Trump! No troops! Protesters ranged from babies in strollers to elders in wheelchairs. Cars honked in support. Some walking by even joined the march. Organizer Hussam Maraja with the U.S.-Palestinian Community Network and a co-chair for the Chicago Coalition Against the Trump Agenda says the Trump administration is targeting blue cities who are making progressive change.
What is the president announcing about deploying National Guard troops to Portland and other cities?
The precedent that he's setting is that you're going to make progress and you're going to have these progressive mayors and progressive cities that come from unions and working class people, then we're going to punish you.
Protesters are demanding officials enact laws and policies to stop federal agencies from harming residents. For NPR News, I'm Summer Van Benton in Chicago.
As a possible government shutdown grows closer, President Trump has scheduled to meet Monday with the four top congressional leaders. The meeting will take place at the White House. Congress has not agreed on spending packages that would keep the government operating into the new budget year, which begins on October 1st. The medical group Doctors Without Borders is suspending all of its operations in Gaza City. Officials say they have no choice because the group's facilities are surrounded by Israeli military forces. NPR's Anas Baba reports from Gaza City that the closure leaves hundreds of thousands of people with almost no access to health care.
Here, in Gaza City, the sound of sirens and Israeli artillery is nearly constant.
How are Oregon and Portland officials responding to proposed federal troop deployments?
Midsasson Frontier decided to suspend its operations here after the organization's Sayyid Israeli forces moved within hundreds of meters of its clinics. That makes 28 health centers which have shut down or suspended operations in Gaza City this month. Among them, the only functioning pediatric hospital because of Israel's latest ground offensive there. MSF says its staff could no longer work safely or guarantee even basic treatment for patients with burns, trauma wounds, or new bones in critical care. The organization is urgently calling for guarantees of safe access for humanitarian workers. Anas Babo, NPR News, Gaza City.
And you're listening to NPR News. Test Johnston. Johnston, a retired American Foreign Service officer who had a second career documenting and celebrating the colonial architecture of Shanghai, died this month in Washington, D.C. NPR's Frank Langfitt has this remembrance.
Johnston roamed the streets and back alleys, cataloging French-style villas and neoclassical buildings that gave Shanghai its cosmopolitan face. It was a race against the wrecking ball as China's boom fueled the mass demolition of colonial architecture in favor of modern high-rises.
As she told me in 2016, Where else in the world would you find such a variety of buildings? Maybe New York City. And it was just enchanting, really enchanting.
With Chinese photographer Erdong Chang, Johnston published more than two dozen books introducing a new generation to an architectural heritage that had largely been forgotten.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:25
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What is the president announcing about deploying National Guard troops to Portland and other cities?
1:25–2:32
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How are Oregon and Portland officials responding to proposed federal troop deployments?
2:32–4:15
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Why did hundreds march in Chicago to protest the federal immigration agenda?
4:15–4:55