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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The Department of Homeland Security announced it is launching an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Illinois. President Trump has threatened federal intervention in multiple cities across the U.S. led by Democrats, including deployment of the National Guard. Over the weekend. He escalated threats toward Chicago. Yesterday. He walked them back though, saying he expects to launch federal action in Chicago and in other so called sanctuary cities this week, but he declined to give specifics. Then Illinois's Democratic Governor J.B. pritzker, in response to Trump's post this weekend, wrote on X that Trump was, quote, threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal, end quote. The Supreme Court has paved the way for the Federal Trade Commission to once again remove its sole Democratic commissioner. For now, NPR's Andrea Hsu reports. A decision is yet another win for President Trump as he seeks to expand his presidential powers.
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The order temporarily blocks a ruling from a lower court judge that reinstated FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter. Trump fired Slaughter along with another Democratic commissioner back in March, despite federal law that holds that commissioners can only be fired for cause. The president provided no such reason. Instead, in their cases and others, the Trump administration is arguing that the Constitution gives the president authority to remove anyone who wields executive power, that the president must be able to supervise those tasked with carrying out the agenda he promised to the American people. This decision is temporary. The Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments on this topic of presidential power soon. Andrea Hsu.
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In PR news, the French government has collapsed again, forcing French President Emmanuel Macron to find his fifth prime minister in less than two years. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley has more.
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The French Prime Minister Francois Bayroux has just lost his confidence vote that he around his budget cutting measures. He lost hugely. 364 to 194. It's a clear rejection of President Emmanuel Macron's policies and of Francois Bayroux, his prime minister, who will now have to give his resignation in the coming hours. He was the third prime minister that President Emmanuel Macron named in little over a year. None have been able to institute Macron's policies. Now the far right and the far left who have the biggest blocks in Parliament, are calling for a complete and dramatic change in policies.
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That's NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reporting. A double decker bus collided with a freight train northwest of Mexico City this morning. Local authorities say at least eight people died and dozens more are injured. The cause of the collision is under investigation. At last check on Wall street, the Dow was up slightly at 45,406. You're listening to NPR News. Radio host Howard Stern pranked listeners this morning in a publicly or publicity rather stunt after years of declining ratings. NPR's Netta Ullabi reports. Stern had spent weeks teasing the idea that he might leave SiriusXM.