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Trump calls for jailing of Illinois governor and Chicago mayor in immigration standoff; AR seeks money to help health care systems navigate funding cuts; Planned WV plastics recycling facility could hurt economy, public health; IN lawmakers study ways to boost postpartum care.

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The Public News Service Daily Newscast, October the 9th, 2025.

I'm Mike Clifford.

President Donald Trump called for the jailing of Illinois officials, accusing them of not doing enough to ensure the safety of federal immigration officers who are conducting raids in Chicago.

That from the BBC.

They report the president wrote in a social media post that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, both Democrats, should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers.

The BBC notes that Trump spoke as hundreds of National Guard troops arrived in the city as part of his immigration crackdown.

Trump has previously called the city a war zone amid protests against immigration enforcement.

Pritzker has called the president's actions authoritarian.

Meantime, the state of Arkansas will apply for federal money that's available to help states make up for funding cuts to Medicare and Medicaid.

The Rural Health Transformation Program, included in the Budget Reconciliation Bill, includes $50 billion for states to use on rural health care initiatives.

Jennifer Wessel with the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement says funding is available in two $25 billion tranches.

One portion allocates at least 100 million dollars annually to each approved state and the other will provide funding based on a point system.

Based on your rural population, so like the number of residents, hospital types in the rural areas.

And then the second factor is going to be more technical factors and that's where they're going to start looking at policies and types of initiatives that states are doing.

The state has created an online portal for health care systems, nonprofits, and others to submit proposals for the application.

Submissions must be received by noon on Friday.

I'm Freda Ross reporting.

About 45 percent of folks in Arkansas live in rural areas and have less access to health care, worse health care outcomes, and more fragile health care systems than residents in urban areas.

West Virginia could soon be home to one of the few plastics recycling facilities in the nation.

A new report shows the economic impacts are slim and the potential for harming human health is high.

Veena Singala, senior scientist with the council, says these facilities emit cancer-causing chemicals.

Storing and shredding plastic waste can release VOCs, particulate matter, microplastics, as well as present fire risks.

Plastics are quite flammable and we've seen a number of fires at other similar facilities.

Neighboring communities would be impacted with increased exposure to toxic pollution, odors, and could face reduced home and property values.

This is Nadia Ramligan for West Virginia News Service.

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Lawmakers in Indiana are taking a closer look at how to improve postpartum care for Hoosier mothers.

Arjo Lurie explains.

The Interim Study Committee on Public Health is hearing from doctors and policy experts who want to see Indiana adopt more programs used in other states.

Kendall Spear with the National Conference of State Legislatures says other states have made progress by strengthening support for mothers after birth.

It has been projected that there will be a shortage of over 5,000 obstetrician gynecologists to meet demand by 2030.

States are looking to strengthen and support that OBGYN workforce while also bringing in other workers.

Some Indiana lawmakers say any changes must balance the cost of expanding coverage with long-term health benefits.

They note that proposals must go through a full debate in the next legislative session.

Next, consumer advocates in Massachusetts are calling on Microsoft to extend free support for its Windows 10 software.

The company plans to stop automatic security updates on October 14th impacting an estimated 400 million computers worldwide.

Nathan Proctor with a public interest research group says users will need to purchase new devices or risk exposing themselves to potential cyber attacks.

So many of the computers that are running it actually don't have the option to upgrade to Windows 11 and they're just kind of stuck.

Proctor says users wanting security updates will have to pay or enroll in other Microsoft services and that the costs for small businesses could quickly add up.

Microsoft has extended support for its European customers, but not in the US.

I'm Catherine Carley.

Finally, the Northern Blues Restoration Partnership is now five years into a 10-year project working to protect communities from wildfire, restore biodiversity, and reintroduce healthy fire to the landscape in Northeast Oregon.

Fire ecologists say over 100 years of aggressive logging paired with fire suppression in the West has set the stage for catastrophic wildfires.

But now, says Casey Radcliffe of The Nature Conservancy, with guidance from indigenous burning practices along with decades of research, the relationship to fire is shifting.

Land managers now are saying, well, we were trying to stop this thing, control it.

We actually need to welcome it back in a way that feels like it's safe for our communities. but really results in much better outcomes than we could do without it.

Made up of a coalition of tribes, state agencies, landowners, and NGOs, the Northern Blues Restoration Partnership is working on 10 million acres across 13 counties in Northeast Oregon and Southeast Washington.

I'm Isabel Charlet.

A study of Oregon's 2021 Bootleg Fire shows forest treated with mechanical thinning and prescribed burns significantly reduced fire severity.

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