NPR News Now
NPR News Now

NPR News: 06-26-2026 2AM EDT

3h ago4:40775 words
0:000:00

NPR News: 06-26-2026 2AM EDTSee pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

Transcript

EN

Live from MPR News, I'm Giles Snyder.

Rescue teams in Venezuela are searching for survivors trapped in the rubble of collapsed

buildings following Wednesday evenings back to back earthquakes.

Hundreds are believed to be trapped in many remain on accountant for. Venezuela's health minister now says some 235 people are confirmed dead and another 4300 were injured hundreds of buildings have been damaged and thousands are homeless. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Thursday that the Trump administration can revoke temporary protected status.

Used in public media's Andrew Schneider says the decision puts more than a million people

from Haiti and Syria at risk. Jose Nel 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.

You also wrote President Trump's past statements with respect to Haitians were policy-based and not racially discriminatory. Just as Elena Cagan wrote and 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. "In a separate immigration case, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the administration to potentially revive an immigration policy, used to turn back migrants seeking asylum at the Southern border. The justices overturned a lower court's binding that the policy-violated federal law

that practice was dropped during the Biden administration." For out of five, Australian teens under age 16 say they're still using social media three months after a nationwide law banning them from it took effect. That's according to new research in the journal B.M.J. and P.R.S. Maria Gadoori reports."

Last December, Australia became the first country in the world to ban children under

16 from having accounts with many social media platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat. But a new observational study of 408 Australian teens found that in the early months since it passed, the law has had very little impact. And most teens continue to access social media with their own accounts.

Only a small minority of teens said they were required to provide official proof of age to use social media. And teens said they actively bypassed age restrictions by using fake accounts, other people's accounts, or other measures. The findings come as similar bands are in the works in other countries.

"You're listening to NPR news." Utah is seeing an unprecedented wildfire season. Fire officials say the state has already had more than 350 fires this year. As the governor did, she was state of emergency, banning fireworks statewide ahead of the Fourth of July holiday.

Sean Higgins with member station KUER has more. Governor Spencer Cox says unprecedented dry conditions following Utah's historically bad winter have combined to make this season especially dangerous. He warns their simply are not enough crews to respond to more fires. So if on July 3rd, 4th or 5th, we have multiple starts in this valley, we're screwed.

Okay? That's it. Nobody to respond, okay? So this is what I'm talking about. This is not just big government, this is like life or death stuff.

The order runs through July 5th. For NPR news, I'm Sean Higgins in Salt Lake City. The cottonwood fire is the largest in Utah, it's burned more than 70,000 acres, strong winds in the forecast for a Friday and Saturday with a national weather service warning of dangerous fire conditions.

U.S. men's national soccer team is closed down group stage play at the World Cup with a loss. The U.S. felt a turkey three goals to two in England, California Thursday night when Turkey scored a last minute goal in the eighth minute of second half stoppage time. The result did not matter for either team, the U.S. won its first two matches to advance

to the knockout round turkey eliminated after losing to Australia and Paraguay. This is NPR news. This is our glass. On this American life, when they mean like, it's a good mystery. Sometimes about really big things, but most times, the little mysteries are the best.

Our lost and found is currently filled with pants, I don't know what I've never seen

this happen, this is true. The mysteries of every size each week, this American life, wherever you get your podcasts.

Compare and Explore