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--:-- Janine Herbst: Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
--:-- Janine Herbst: In a post on social media, President Trump says he's directing the Defense Department to issue paychecks to active-duty military next week during the government shutdown. Most other government workers won't be paid.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Meanwhile, NPR has learned the Trump administration laid off dozens of employees at the nation's main mental health agency.
--:-- Jeff Brumfield: Current and former employees at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration told NPR more than 100 staff have been laid off as part of a government-wide reduction in force.
--:-- Jeff Brumfield: The sources who were not authorized to speak publicly about the agency said the layoffs came late Friday as the nation's government shutdown dragged on.
--:-- Jeff Brumfield: The agency is responsible for overseeing the new 988 Suicide Prevention Hotline. It also gives out billions in grants for mental health and addiction services.
--:-- Jeff Brumfield: The mental health agency has not been a favorite of the Trump administration. Earlier this year Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr told Congress that he intended to fold its duties into a new program he calls the Administration for a Healthy America.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Most Americans don't approve of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement tactics. That's according to a recent survey by the New York Times and Siena University.
--:-- Piers Meg Anderson: Immigrant advocate groups in Chicago say some federal immigration officers are kicking in doors, dragging people out of cars, tear gassing and threatening them.
--:-- Ed Yonka: What we're seeing is a general escalation of violence and the use of excessive force by ICE officers.
--:-- Piers Meg Anderson: An ICE spokesperson told NPR their officers are, quote, highly trained and act accordingly with law and policy.
--:-- Piers Meg Anderson: The agency's most recent use of force policy notes that officers should only use force when, quote, no reasonably effective, safe, and feasible alternative appears to exist.
--:-- Janine Herbst: This weekend, the EU will be recording the biometric data of all non-EU visitors.
--:-- Terry Schultz: The EU entry system will replace the stamping of passports at the EU external borders creating digital records by scanning facial images and taking fingerprints.
--:-- Terry Schultz: The bloc is trying to reduce illegal migration identity fraud and the number of people who stay longer than the 90-day maximum allowed.
--:-- Terry Schultz: While there have been warnings that the initial rollout could result in long lines at borders, European Commission spokesman Marcus Lammert says it will eventually improve efficiency.
--:-- Terry Schultz: The new digital system will provide reliable data on border crossings and systematically detect overstayers and cases of document and identity fraud.
--:-- Terry Schultz: Visitors only have to provide the digital data once.
--:-- Janine Herbst: And it starts tomorrow. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Oscar-winning actor, producer, and director Diane Keaton has died. She was 79 years old.
--:-- Janine Herbst: Keaton appeared in dozens of movies and TV roles, acting in all genres of films, from quirky comedies and rom-coms to serious dramas.
--:-- Janine Herbst: She's best known for her roles in Annie Hall, for which she won an Oscar, The Godfather, First Wife's Club, and The Father of the Bride, among many others.
--:-- Janine Herbst: The cause of her death wasn't released.
--:-- Janine Herbst: On this World Migratory Bird Day, people are reminded to make their outdoor spaces bird-friendly by turning off the lights.
--:-- Amy Held: with native plants unraked leaves and turning off the lights at night
--:-- Amy Held: A new study examined birds during the eclipse and published in the journal Science showing just how light birds can be
--:-- Amy Held: And A dawn chorus of bird song makes clear birds respond to light
--:-- Amy Held: Now scientists who used the total solar eclipse of April 2024 as a backdrop say light may be the most important cue for birds.
--:-- Amy Held: Observing them when it was lights out midday, some species seemed unaffected.
--:-- Amy Held: But study co-author Kimberly Rosevall at Indiana University told the science podcast most were affected.
--:-- Amy Held: They treated it like even when night lasted for four minutes and came at the completely wrong time of day, when the sun came back on at the end of that, the birds who normally sing a dawn chorus, that's what they did.
--:-- Amy Held: It sheds light on just how attuned birds are to even short changes in light, affecting migration, feeding and breeding, as humans flood the night with light pollution.
--:-- Janine Herbst: And I'm Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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