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--:-- Nora Rahm: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm.
--:-- Nora Rahm: President Trump said today he's directing the Defense Department to provide troops to be sent to Portland, Oregon, to protect the city and ICE facilities.
--:-- Nora Rahm: On his Truth Social account, he said he's acting at the request of the Secretary of Homeland Security and is authorizing full force if necessary.
--:-- Nora Rahm: The Pentagon has not indicated troops are being sent.
--:-- Nora Rahm: The State Department says it will revoke the visa of Colombia's president after he called for U.S. soldiers to disobey President Trump.
--:-- Amy Held: NPR's Amy Held reports he was speaking at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York City yesterday.
--:-- Amy Held: In a post on social media, the State Department called the actions of Colombian President Gustavo Petro reckless and incendiary.
--:-- Amy Held: He was in New York City for the UN General Assembly.
--:-- Amy Held: Online video shows him addressing protesters outside with a megaphone.
--:-- Amy Held: He says, "I ask all soldiers in the US Army not to point their guns at humanity. Disobey Trump order."
--:-- Amy Held: Petro has been a vocal critic of Israel's war in Gaza and President Trump.
--:-- Amy Held: In March, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced anyone engaging in activities counter to U.S. national interest or foreign policy would have their visas revoked.
--:-- Amy Held: On social media Saturday, Petro said he's back in Bogota and does not care he no longer has a visa, writing, "humanity must be free all over the world."
--:-- Nora Rahm: For the first time since his show returned, Jimmy Kimmel Live was broadcast on all ABC affiliates last night.
--:-- Steve Futterman: Steve Futterman has more.
--:-- Steve Futterman: On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, Kimmel's show was broadcast on most ABC stations, but close to 70, owned by a pair of broadcast groups, Nextstar and Sinclair, refused to put the show on the air.
--:-- Steve Futterman: Yesterday, Nextstar and Sinclair announced a change of heart. Kimmel would be back on.
--:-- Steve Futterman: Kimmel's show has been surging in the ratings.
--:-- Steve Futterman: On Tuesday, it drew more than 6 million viewers.
--:-- Nora Rahm: British customers of Facebook and Instagram are being offered the option of paying to go ad-free.
--:-- Vicki Barker: Vicki Barker reports from London.
--:-- Vicki Barker: Parent company Meta says UK users will be offered subscriptions starting at about a month to go ad-free on their smartphones or PCs.
--:-- Vicki Barker: That follows its out settlement earlier this year of a lawsuit brought by a British privacy campaigner who argued that Meta's use of her personal data breached UK data protection laws.
--:-- Vicki Barker: Her argument was backed by British regulators, who have now pronounced themselves pleased with Meta's decision.
--:-- Vicki Barker: But a similar arrangement, already in place in Europe, is being challenged by regulators there.
--:-- Vicki Barker: They argue customers shouldn't have to pay to enjoy their fundamental right to data protection.
--:-- Nora Rahm: This is NPR News in Washington.
--:-- Nora Rahm: The medical group Doctors Without Borders is suspending all its operations in Gaza City, saying it can no longer work safely because of Israel's ground offensive.
--:-- Nora Rahm: This leaves hundreds of thousands of people with almost no access to health care.
--:-- Kirk Ziegler: NPR's Kirk Ziegler reports.
--:-- Kirk Ziegler: More than three dozen former national park superintendents are pleading with the Trump administration to close all parks if there is a government shutdown.
--:-- Kirk Ziegler: In a letter to the president's Interior Secretary, Doug Burgum, 40 retired superintendents at parks ranging from Denali to Big Ben to Shenandoah urged that all parks be closed if the Republican Congress can pass a budget and there a government shutdown.
--:-- Kirk Ziegler: They say past shutdowns in which parks stayed open with a skeleton staff resulted in increased vandalism and habitat destruction and other public safety risks.
--:-- Nora Rahm: The Interior Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the possible shutdown comes amid a major strain facing America's and its staff, just as many reported record visitation this summer.
--:-- Nora Rahm: Meteorologists are watching two tropical storm systems in the Atlantic.
--:-- Nora Rahm: Hurricane Umberto is not expected to hit the U.S. mainland, but it may affect a developing and so far unnamed system that could become a tropical storm tonight.
--:-- Nora Rahm: Umberto could move it to the east, pull it apart, or merge with it.
--:-- Nora Rahm: Another possibility is a rare dance when two storms dance together, swirling around a spot in the middle. It's called the Fuji-whirl effect for the Japanese scientist who discovered it 100 years ago.
--:-- Nora Rahm: I'm Nora Rahm, NPR News.
