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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What recent actions have been taken regarding the National Guard in Oregon?
A federal judge Sunday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon. Trump was sending California Guard members to Portland after the same judge blocked the use of Oregon Guard members. The Pentagon also says it's called up at least 300 members of the Illinois National Guard for federal service.
The news comes from a Pentagon memo, and Paris Tom Bowman has more.
This memo obtained by NPR calls for troops to deploy for 60 days to Chicago. The troops are expected to deploy sometime this week. No idea exactly when. And Hegseth's Saturday memo says the troops are there to protect facilities where, quote, violent demonstrations are occurring or could occur. based on threat assessments. Now, Illinois Governor J.B.
Pritzker has refused to deploy his guard to Chicago, saying it's not necessary. So President Trump took over the National Guard by federalizing them.
That's NPR's Tom Bowman. The ongoing federal government shutdown means the government cannot release key economic data, as NPR's Rafael Nam reports, that could be a big problem for the Federal Reserve.
The Federal Reserve is an independent government agency that is not impacted by the shutdown. But Fed officials will no longer have access to government data in a critical period for the economy. The Fed lowered interest rates at its last policy meeting in September and will need to decide what to do next later this month.
Investors will be keen to see what the Fed officials make of the economy at a time when they may be flying partly blind with only access to data from non-government sources. Fed Chair Jerome Powell is set to deliver a pre-recorded message at a community banking conference on Thursday. Rafael Nam, NPR News.
President Trump has asked Israel to stop bombing Gaza after Hamas appeared to accept his plan to end the war there. But as NPR's Anas Baba reports, deadly Israeli airstrikes are continuing to hit Gaza this weekend.
For a few hours on Saturday, residents in Gaza 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 airstrike like this one overnight hit the Abdelal family home without warning, killing 18 people there and injuring more than 70, according to hospital records.
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