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--:-- Host (Dale Willman): 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.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): But Oregon Governor Tina Kotech 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.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): Police officials in Portland, meanwhile, also say there's no reason for the deployment.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): Hundreds of people marched in downtown Chicago Saturday. They were demanding that Illinois officials stand up against the Trump administration's immigration agenda.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): From member station WBEZ, Summer Van Betten has our report.
--:-- Summer Van Betten: No chumps! No chumps! Protesters ranged from babies in strollers to elders in wheelchairs. Cars honked in support. Some walking by even joined the march.
--:-- Summer Van Betten: Organizer Hussam Maraja with the U Palestinian Community Network and a co for the Chicago Coalition Against the Trump Agenda says the Trump administration is targeting blue cities who are making progressive change.
--:-- Hussam Maraja: 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.
--:-- Summer Van Betten: Protesters are demanding officials enact laws and policies to stop federal agencies from harming residents.
--:-- Summer Van Betten: For NPR News, I'm Summer Van Binten in Chicago.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): 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.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): Congress has not agreed on spending packages that would keep the government operating into the new budget year, which begins on October 1st.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): 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.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): NPR's Anas Baba reports from Gaza City that the closure leaves hundreds of thousands of people with almost no access to health care.
--:-- Anas Baba: Here in Gaza City, the sound of sirens and Israeli artillery is nearly constant.
--:-- Anas Baba: Midsasson Frontier decided to suspend its operations here after the organization said Israeli forces moved within hundreds of meters of its clinics.
--:-- Anas Baba: 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.
--:-- Anas Baba: MSF says its staff could no longer work safely or guarantee even basic treatment for patients with burns trauma wounds, or newborns in critical care.
--:-- Anas Baba: The organization is urgently calling for guarantees of safe access for humanitarian workers.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): Anas Babo, NPR News, Gaza City.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): And you're listening to NPR News.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): Tess 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.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): NPR's Frank Langford has this remembrance.
--:-- Frank Langford: Johnson roamed the streets and back alleys, cataloging French-style villas and neoclassical buildings that gave Shanghai its cosmopolitan face.
--:-- Frank Langford: 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.
--:-- Frank Langford: As she told me in 2016...
--:-- Frank Langford: Where else in the world would you find such a variety of buildings. Maybe New York City. And it was just enchanting really enchanting.
--:-- Frank Langford: With Chinese photographer Er Dongchang Johnston published more than two dozen books introducing a new generation to an architectural heritage that had largely been forgotten.
--:-- Frank Langford: As she put it, I'm grateful I could be here and see it as it was.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): Frank Langford, NPR News, Washington.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Berlin on Saturday. They called for an end to the fighting in Gaza and they demanded action against the continuing humanitarian crisis there.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): The demonstrators also called on Germany to stop arms exports to Israel and demanded European sanctions against Tel Aviv.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): Germany has historically been a strong supporter of Israel.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): The Danish Defense Ministry says more drones have been spotted this weekend over several defense facilities.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): Several drone sightings earlier this week led to a temporary shutdown of Danish airports.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): Media reports say one or more drones were seen near Denmark's largest military base.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): The sightings are creating growing concern over possible Russian aggression.
--:-- Host (Dale Willman): I'm Dale Willman, NPR News.
