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Live from NPR News in Washington on Rylan Barton, Haitian refugees, living in...

to figure out what comes next after the Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration

to strip tens of thousands of people of temporary protected status, George Shilkock, a

member, stationed W.O.S.O.S.U. has more. Mark Fickier with Columbus's Haitian community networks says more than 30,000 Haitians call Central Ohio home, including roughly 18,000 who are here through the TPS program. He says he is telling those now at risk being deported to get their affairs in order. And legal documents ready.

Going back home to Haiti is that an option, or it's really the very last option people are looking at. To some people, it's that nation going back there because a lot of people sold and left everything they had. Ohio's Republican governor Mike DeWine says removing Haitians is a mistake and could hurt

the refugees and Ohio's economy. For NPR News, I'm George Shilkock and Columbus. And the Supreme Court today signed with the Maker of Roundup Weed Killer, blocking thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn users the product could cause cancer, the decisions

of victory for the Trump administration, but could complicate relations with allies who

want to limit pesticides use. Lawyers for those pursuing claims say the ruling quote "wrongly slams the courthouse door on Americans" sickened by pesticides. President Trump is welcoming farmers to a dinner in the White House, rose garden tonight, part of what appears to be a White House effort to give farmers special attention.

MPR's Daniel Kurt Slaven reports earlier this month, Trump went to Wisconsin for a farmer roundtable. This week, the administration proposed a new idea in negotiations with Tehran to force Iran to use unfrozen assets to buy U.S. crops. However, Iran quickly responded that they and only they would control their assets.

The White House also this week requested an additional $11 billion in far-made from Congress.

That's on top of $12 billion in direct aid dispersed earlier this year. This all has come amid problems caused by Trump actions. Tehran's made equipment more expensive. The President's trade wars have severely hurt the soybean market. And the war in Iran made fertilizer and diesel more costly.

Daniel Kurt Slaven and PR news the White House. Local authorities have raised the death toll in Venezuela to at least 188 after a pair of deadly earthquakes yesterday. Scientists say it was a geologically unusual event and appears Katie Riddle reports. Backspack earthquakes are not unheard of, but they're not typical, according to those

who study them. This unusual timing is in part what made this event so uniquely catastrophic, according to William Barnhart. He's a geophysicist at the U.S. geological survey. The combination of those having them on land and then having them close to major population

centers as we're starting to see is proving to be absolutely devastating. Barnhart says the U.S. G.S. is analyzing satellite imagery in order to understand exactly what faults were involved in these earthquakes. Katie Riddle and PR news. U.S. stock market drifted to a mixed finish today.

This is an NPR news from Washington. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he's in favor of reopening embassies in Iran and Venezuela that his predecessors closed. Carney cited the example of the two earthquakes in Venezuela where Canada could be providing more immediate assistance.

Canada suspended operations at its embassy in Caracas in 2019, saying the regime of then Venezuela and President Nicolas Maduro would not renew visas for its diplomats.

Olivia Rodriguez' third album is only her latest to debut at number one, and PR Stephen

Thompson has more. Olivia Rodriguez career as a pop star has produced a remarkable run of successes. Her very first single, Drivers License debuted at number one back in 2021. Both of her first two albums, Sauer and Guts also debuted at number one, and now Rodriguez new record, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, becomes her third to debut at

top the Billboard albums chart. Every song on the new album lands inside the top 30 of this week's Hot 100 singles chart, and Olivia Rodriguez latest single, Stupid Song. It debuts at number three. David Thompson and PR News.

Some Native American tribes are today marking the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Greasy Grass, known to many as the Battle of Little Big Horn, it comes to be celebrated as a simple of resistance and resilience tribes come together on a sweltering day in June 1876 to defeat Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and more than 200 of his troops. This is NPR News from Washington.

This week on Consider This in New York, Big Primary Wins for Congressional candidates back by New York City Mayor's Ron Mombani, a Democratic Socialist.

Does his brand of politics offer a new blueprint for Democrats?

For far too long, we haven't been able to answer what we're fighting for, only who we're fighting. And now we have the answer. So Ron Mombani, on Consider This, listen on the NPR app, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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