NPR News: 10-08-2025 5PM EDT
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Support for NPR comes from NPR member stations and Eric and Wendy Schmidt through the Schmidt Family Foundation, working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all. On the web at theschmidt.org. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton. An appeals court is allowing President Trump to federalize Oregon's National Guard for now, but a lower court order that blocked Trump from deploying guard troops to Portland remains in effect. The rulings come from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. President Trump says Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson should be arrested for, quote, failing to protect ICE agents. NPR's Sergio Martinez Beltran reports.
Trump's comments on social media came after Mayor Johnson signed an executive order prohibiting immigration and customs enforcement from using city-owned space to conduct operations. Mayor Johnson says this is Trump's mode of operating.
This is not the first time Trump has accused or insisted on a black man being arrested.
Hundreds of National Guard troops have been deployed to Chicago at Trump's behest, who has called the city a war zone, despite its homicide rates reaching their lowest levels since the 1960s. Johnson says he will fight what he calls Trump's attacks on his city via policy, in the courts, and in the streets. Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Chicago.
There's still no insight to the government shutdown. Federal worker union leaders are pushing Congress to do its job. Military troops are preparing to go without paychecks. and flight delays are happening nationwide. Republicans like House Speaker Mike Johnson are pushing to temporarily reopen the government.
What recent legal rulings are affecting President Trump's actions in Oregon?
We just need a stopgap measure to give us a little more time to get the job of Congress done. They refuse to do it because they're playing politics, and real Americans are paying the price for it. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries says Republicans could reopen the government if they just agree to fund health insurance subsidies.
These extremists don't even want to show up to work when they're requiring... hardworking federal employees to show up to work without pay because of the Republican shutdown.
Democratic and Republican-backed plans to fund the government both failed again today. The Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates last month was not quite the slam dunk that the voting tally might have suggested. NPR's Scott Horsley reports on newly released minutes from the Fed's September meeting.
All 12 voting members of the Fed's rate-setting committee voted to lower the Fed's benchmark interest rate last month. Eleven voted for a quarter-point cut, which carried the day. The newest member of the committee, White House economist Stephen Myron, voted for a bigger half-point cut. Minutes reveal that a few Fed policymakers wanted to hold interest rates steady, or at least would have supported that position, out of concern over stubborn inflation. The central bank's walking a tightrope as it tries to both tamp down prices and prop up the sagging job market. Fed policymakers cast another vote on interest rates in three weeks, and thanks to the government shutdown, they may have to do so without the benefit of updated information on the job market or inflation.
Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
Wall Street got back to rising today. The S&P 500 climbed six-tenths of a percent a day after snapping a seven-day winning streak. This is NPR. The U.S. Marshals say the last inmate who was still on the run after breaking out of a New Orleans jail in May has been caught. Ten men escaped from the jail after squeezing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a barbed wire fence. The Nobel Prize for Chemistry has gone to three scientists who created new materials that can store energy and scrub toxins from air or water. NPR's John Hamilton has more.
In 1989, Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne, Australia, showed how to make molecular structures that resembled porous diamonds. But these structures, called metal-organic frameworks, tended to collapse until two other scientists found better assembly methods.
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