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President Trump is officially moving space command from Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama.

Pat Duggins of Alabama Public Radio has more.

Republicans in Colorado, like Lauren Beaubbard Jeff Cranks, say moving space command could

harm national security. And moving space command to Alabama's so-called Rocket City could mean

jobs at Colorado's expense. Alabama Republicans, like Senator Tommy Tuberville and House

Member Robert Adderholt, joined Trump in the Oval Office to support

the move. Space Command is in charge of the nation's space-related assets. That's different from Space Force, which is an arm of the U.S. military. Huntsville is home to NASA's Marshal Space Flight Center, which has tested spacecraft engines going back to the Apollo moon landings. For NPR News, I'm Pat Duggins in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker

says he has no plans to ask President Trump to send National Guard troops to Chicago, despite

the President's declaration that the Labor Day weekend's gun violence demonstrated that Chicago is,

quote, a hellhole. Trump told reporters that he wouldn't say when, but in his words,

we're going in. A new count finds little change in Washington, D.C.'s homeless population,

since the president vowed to banish it three weeks ago. NPR's Jennifer Lutton reports that

hundreds of federal agents have been deployed to help city police clear people out of tents.

When he federalized D.C.'s police force to crack down on crime, Trump also decried the city's,

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