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The Supreme Court has handed the Trump administration to major victories on immigration and
a pair of closely watch cases. In one decision, the justice is cleared the way to block asylum seekers from entering the United States before they can apply for protection. In another six to three decision, the court allowed the Trump administration to begin ending temporary protected status or TPS for thousands of migrants who have been living and
working legally in the U.S. Beyond immigration, the Supreme Court ruled to overturn a jury verdict for a Missouri man who claimed the weed killer round-up caused his cancer. NPR's Kerry Johnson reports the court's conservative majority says those state claims are pre-empted by federal pesticide law.
The justice Brett Kavanaugh delivered the 72 court ruling which hands a victory to Montsanto and its new owner, Bayer. The company had been facing billions of dollars in claims over life the state.
“The key ingredient in its popular weed killer.”
The court majority says federal law overrides lawsuits and state courts over the company's alleged failure to warn about the product. Plain of lawyer said the Supreme Court's now given a shield to corporate America and slam the court house doors on people's sick and bypassed decides. The Trump administration sided with Bayer in the case.
Consumer advocates worry the ruling will shift power from states trying to protect residents when federal regulations fall short. Kerry Johnson and PR news. In another Supreme Court ruling, the justice is struck down a gun law in Hawaii that required people to get permission from property owners before bringing fire arms onto
private land. The 63 ruling said the requirement placed in unconstitutional burden on the right to keep and bear arms.
The Trump administration says it's sending assistance to Venezuela after a pair of powerful
“earthquake struck the nation last night and PR's Michelle Kaliman reports the United”
Nations is also gearing up the response. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he's spoken with Venezuela's interim president and says the country needs a lot of help digging through the rubble. The US is sharing satellite imagery and sending rescue teams from Virginia and California. Those are the acute like short term needs over the next 48 to 72 hours because in search
and rescue, you're trying to get to people while you can still save their lives. They're buried under rubble. The UN's top humanitarian official Tom Fletcher says his office is coordinating the deployment of teams from around the world. Even before the earthquakes he writes nearly 8 million people in Venezuela were in need
of humanitarian support. Michelle Kaliman and PR news Washington, stocks retreating higher on Wall Street at the South. The Dow is up 586 points. This is NPR News.
“China says it has a right to target people outside of its borders if they breach the country's”
new ethnic unity law. NPR's Jennifer Pack reports Beijing is refuting overseas criticism of the move. China's ethnic unity law comes into effect July 1. It includes a clause that people and groups overseas will be held legally accountable for undermining China's ethnic unity or engaging in ethnic separatism.
Human Rights Watch says this new law gives China more legal justification to repress the country's 55 ethnic minorities, including Tibetans and weegers. There are also concerns that the law could be used against people in Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own. But China's Vice Minister of Justice says certain Western media, which he did not name,
had distorted the overseas provision, saying it was justified, lawful, and necessary. Jennifer Pack and PR News Beijing. Europe remains in the grip of a dangerous heat wave with record-breaking temperatures and France and the United Kingdom. France has expanded its highest level heat alerts as temperatures climbed above 104 degrees
while Britain recorded its hottest June day on record. Officials are urging people to stay indoors as hospitals brace for more heat-related illnesses. The extreme heat has also disrupted transportation and for some tourist attractions to shorten the hours. Stocks continued to trade higher on Wall Street at the power that Dow was up 592 points
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