"Li from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivone.
The Supreme Court has voted 6-3 to greatly alter the landscape for people with temporary protected status that program known as TPS. The Justice has gave the Trump administration the green light to end that program and begin mass deportations of people who've been living and working legally in the U.S. for years.
17 countries have the designation. The Justice is ruled to overturn a jury verdict from Missouri men who claimed the weed killer round-up caused his cancer. NPR's Kerry Johnson reports they said state claims are preempted by federal pesticide law. 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 over rides 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 courthouse 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.
And as well as responding to the effects of two powerful earthquakes, at least 164 people
have died hundreds of injured Secretary of State Marka Rubio says the U.S. is sending search and rescue teams. That's the most immediate need right now is search and rescue efforts to have a much of collapse buildings. And so they'll need a lot of help in terms of digging through that.
The airport there is badly damaged, so we'll have to rely on the Department of War to deploy assets there.
“And we'll also help them with some overhead imagery, especially in coastal areas where they”
don't have full visibility over what the damage has been and what the impact has been. Secretary of State Rubio, the Army General leading U.S. forces in Europe and Africa will retire abruptly and PR's Quill Lawrence reports General Chris Donahue was the last U.S. soldier to leave Afghanistan in 2021. General Donahue is a combat decorated veteran of U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
He served in special forces and led the elite Delta Force. To the public, he may be best known from a blurry, night vision photograph of him as the last American soldier to the part Afghanistan during the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. forces under the Biden administration. Some critics on social media have blamed Donahue without evidence for the casualties during
that pullout. It appears Donahue's departure makes him the latest highly regarded general to be pushed out by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsev, who has blocked dozens of flag officers from promotion. In April, Hegsev angered lawmakers from both parties when he fired Army Chief of Staff
“General Randy George without explanation.”
Quill Lawrence and PR News. This is NPR. The National Park Service says a liner along the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was cut with his sharp knife or razor at some point this month. The statement comes from Park Service Deputy Director Frank Lans, in a court document,
filed in response to a lawsuit against the Reflecting Pool project, President Trump's
$16 million rehabilitation project has been controversial as the new paint peeled and
the pool quickly filled with algae. Some church congregations are deciding to return their poorly occupied buildings to indigenous people. From member station O.P.B. Johnny Audenland looks at one case.
Bethany Lutheran Church in Portland happened to win the lane for years, before closing in 2024. Church leaders decided they would return the land to the Native American Youth and Family Center, or Neha. Neha Executive Director Oscar Arana says the building will become affordable housing for
indigenous elders. What it comes down to it is it's about the power of relationships, the power of connections and building the trust to actually transfer something like this. It's also part of a growing trend. Churches in California and Wisconsin have also returned land to indigenous tribes in the name
of land back. For NPR News, I'm Jonny Audenland in Portland. Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Little Big Horn at that time several tribes joined forces in what's now Montana to defeat George Custer and his troops as they led the forces of Westward expansion across Native Occupied lands.
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