Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson met with President Trump for several hours today. A day after Trump said he wouldn't sign a bipartisan housing bill unless Congress passes his stalled election security bill first. Now Johnson says he'll send the bill to the President's desk anyway. "Very productive, meeting.
We're on exactly the same page. He is wants to ensure that we stop any blockade in the House.
“Congress has worked to do, and that's what we're going to do.”
And so we'll be moving forward on all of that. We're transmitting the housing bill to the White House." Once Trump has the bill, it starts a 10-day clock for him to sign in. Vitoit or do nothing and allow it to become law. But if Congress is in in session when that 10-day period ends, the bill will be killed with
what's known in say, "Pocket Vito." And lawmakers are scheduled to be in recess, starting July 3rd. It's unclear whether a pocket veto can take place while Congress is in recess, and when Johnson will formally send the bill to the President.
The Trump administration has announced $150 million in aid for Venezuela after two powerful
earthquakes struck the country yesterday, and here's Fattment Tennis reports. The State Department says it's deploying search and rescue teams from Virginia and California to Venezuela to help locate survivors of the earthquake. The Virginia team will include 80 people and six dogs.
“Local authorities say they believe hundreds of people are still stuck under rubble.”
The 150 million from the U.S. is for aid groups and United Nations agencies. The State Department has also enlisted help from the Pentagon for logistics and delivery of urgent medical and other supplies. According to the UN nearly 8 million people in Venezuela were already in need of humanitarian support as the country has been in deep political and financial crisis for many years.
Fattment Tennis and PR News This Supreme Court has ruled six to three that the Trump administration can revoke temporary protected status. Houston Public Media's Andrew Schneider says the decision puts more than a million people from Haiti and Syria at imminent risk.
Hoseano Bakri is an attorney with the International Refugee Assistance Project representing the plaintiffs. Those people will be subject to arrest detention deportation by the Trump administration. And for the more than 1.3 million TPS holders around the country, those folks will be an
“imminent danger of the same depending on what the status of their case is.”
Writing for the majority just as Samuel Alito said that TPS functions at the discretion of the president. It is not subject to court review. He also wrote President Trump's past statements with respect to Haitians were policy-based and not racially discriminatory.
Just as Elena Kagan wrote in dissent that Trump's statements about Haitians were "so repellent and racially inflected that the majority declines to put them in print." For NPR News, I'm Andrew Schneider in Houston. The U.S. stock market drifted to a mixed finish today. Apple shares dropped after hiking prices on many products.
It's NPR. A deadly heat wave continues in Europe. The UK said a new record for its hottest June day with temperatures reaching nearly 97 degrees, and Pyrus Fatima Al Casabre reports. The record-breaking heat shows no signs of letting up.
Through the rare red extreme heat alert, now in place until the weekend, transport has been disrupted as railways buckle under the heat, thousands of schools of shut and several
hospitals have declared critical incidents as their machines fail.
Most buildings in the UK don't have AC, housing and climate groups, are warning that the UK is built for a climate that no longer exists. NPR's Fatima Al Casabre reporting, the FCC is considering changes to a program that has provided schools and libraries with internet service for decades, and Pyrus Sequoia Corrillo reports. The E-rate program is a federal initiative that provides discounted internet rates for
schools and libraries. It will undergo a period of reevaluation and public comment as the FCC decides whether the program should be "narrowed" or "reoriented." FCC chairman Brendan Carr said that students increased stream time and declining test scores as a reason to impose restrictions and seek public comment on whether E-rate funded networks
are being used for educational purposes. Commissioner Anna Gomez argues that weakening the program would quote "deep in educational inequities" and move us further away from digital equity, not closer to it. Sequoia Corrillo and Pyrus. Astronomers have uncovered a pair of super-puff planets, they're the size of Jupiter but have
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