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The Supreme Court is entering the final weeks of this term, with decisions in nearly two dozen cases expected before the end of the month.
“NPR's Kerry Johnson reports the biggest case of this term and the one most important”
President Trump involves immigration. Specifically, that executive order he signed on day one after he returned to the White House. Order would strip the guarantee of birthright citizenship to babies born on American soil. For more than a century, people have understood the 14th Amendment to ensure all persons
born here are Americans. At oral argument, the Trump administration had a rough go of things, even several of the conservative justices, cast doubt on the administration's position. NPR's Supreme Court correspondent Kerry Johnson, a few days ago the conservative majority cited with Republicans in Alabama to allow the state to use a map a lower court had
found to discriminate on the basis of race against black voters in the state, drawn fierce criticism from civil rights groups and many election lawyers.
A $70 billion immigration enforcement package headed to the House after narrowly passing
“the Senate Friday, and Piers' Windsor Johnson reports.”
The bill cleared the Senate after an overnight debate that stretched into the early morning hours on Friday. Supporters say the funding is needed to strengthen border security and expand immigration enforcement operations. Democrats oppose the measure arguing it lacks sufficient oversight and could lead to a significant
expansion of detention and deportation efforts. The debate was further complicated by controversy surrounding a separate fund critic said could benefit some Trump allies, though Republican leaders insisted the focus should remain on immigration enforcement. The House is expected to take up the measure next week.
Windsor Johnson and PR news, Washington. "Israel's Supreme Court has ordered the Israeli government to lift a ban on visits by the international red cross to Palestinian prisoners, from Gaza City and Piers' Anas Bamba has details" The Supreme Court ruled this week that boring prison visits by the international committee of the red cross, intervened Israeli and international low.
You and human rights experts have repeatedly concluded that Israel systematically subject spellasting and prisoners to torture and other abuse. Israel denies allegation of systematic abuse, but the ban on red cross visits has prevented indibended assessments. The prisoners include the prominent Gaza hospital director detained without charge since
2024, a lawyer for Dr. Hassam Abu Sophia tells NPR that he has now been placed in solitary confinement. Nasser Aouda saying, "His client was moved there after he petitioned Israel's high court to review the detention. Israel did not comment on the case, Anas Bamba and Pyrenees, Gaza City."
This is NPR. North West Charies are about to ship out across the globe.
This year, about 19 million boxes worth of sweet cherries have ripened up as Northwest
Public Broadcasts and a King reports. North West Charies are already coming off trees. It will be a good harvest, as long as it doesn't rain. Close to picking time, warm rain can pool in the divot near the stem. That can split the fruit, rendering it worthless.
Eric Patrick, the president of the Northwest Cherry Commission, says this year, Charies will be sent to at least 20 different countries. Canada is our largest export country, and then we go into Mexico, but then we also go into Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Japan. Chilean, Black Pearl, and coral champagne cherries are some of the varieties that ripened
first for NPR News, I'm Anna King, in Richland, Washington.
Police in police and anti-ice protesters clost again late Saturday night outside Delaney Hall, a New Jersey Immigration Detention Center in Newark. The National Immigration Advocacy Group, Kosecha, says detainees inside the private prison run by Geo Group, have been on a hunger strike since last month. When written letters shared by Kosecha show somewhere denied medication and given moldy
or expired food, President Trump and his Homeland Security Secretary deny there is a
“hunger strike, and Mark Wayne Mullins said the fact is we're giving them the calories”
they want. This is NPR. The surreal horror film "BackRooms" is a smash. The director is a 20-year-old YouTuber and it's based on his popular web series. Why is this online phenomenon taking off at the box office?
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