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The Supreme Court rejected President Trump's attacks on state laws that deal with mail-in ballots today.
“The decision leaves in place laws in more than half the states in Washington, D.C.”
that permit mail ballots to be counted after an election, as long as they're postmarked by election day, and P.R.'s Ashley Lopez has more on the decision. In a five-four ruling where two conservative justices, Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts cited with the liberal wing of the court, they said that Mississippi's law isn't violating federal statute, just as Barrett's authored this opinion, she wrote that states
have the right to maintain some latitude in how they run their elections, which includes how they run their mail-in ballot programs, and while this might be out of step with President Trump and some GOP officials, this is actually historically a pretty conservative principle. The majority also said in clear language that voting is happening when voters fill out a ballot, not when ballots are making their way through the mail.
NPR's Ashley Lopez reporting in the Supreme Court rejected President Trump's push to
throw out a jury's $5 million finding that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll at
a New York City department store in the mid-1990s, and later defamed her the decision
“in the civil case, comes about two years after the court granted Trump brought immunity”
from criminal prosecution. President Trump says he hasn't decided whether he'll sign a bipartisan housing bill in P.R.'s esteemed Stephen Bassaha reports. Speaking with reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump dismissed the housing bill as "unimportant."
The Save America Act is Trump's election overhaul bill that would mandate strict proof of citizenship requirements. Trump said last week he wants that bill passed first. Republicans and Democrats in Congress overwhelmingly voted in favor of the housing bill last week, the legislation aims to encourage homebooting across the country to lower costs.
Stephen Bassaha and P.R. News.
The Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco has agreed to pay $395 million settlement with
clergy, sex abuse survivors, and P.R.'s adjacent to rose reports the move comes after almost
“three years after the San Francisco Archdiocese filed for chapter 11th bankruptcy protection”
due to the number of abuse claims. The settlement involves more than 500 people who credibly claim either a pre-store or other church employees sexually abuse them. The agreement also involves non-monetary terms, including an abuse survivor selected by a survivor's committee serving on the Archdiocese's independent review panel.
Victims being released from confidentiality agreements and the creation of an anonymous reporting form on the Archdiocese's website. The nearly $400 million settlement is the latest result of a California law enacted in 2020 that expanded the statute of limitations for civil lawsuits involving childhood sexual assault.
Jason D'Arose and P.R. News. This is N.P.R. News. Recreational marijuana sales are set to begin next year in Virginia five years after it became
the first southern state to legalize possession of the drug under a new state law passed
today up to 350 cannabis shops can open across the state and will be able to sell to adults over age 21 beginning July 1st, 2027. In May of last year, Secretary of State Marco Rubio testified before Congress about the termination of U.S.A.I.D., he said, "No children are dying on my watch, but there are those who dispute that claim as our Daniel reports."
Last August, in Nairobi, Kenya, 16-year-old purity-womboy fell ill. It took weeks before she was diagnosed with tuberculosis. By this point, the infection had taken its toll, she passed away within days. There had been numerous community health workers visiting families where they may have caught purity's TB sooner.
But Tabitham Ugueru, one of those health workers, says they were paid with funds that came from USAID. "Most of them stopped working when USAID is a drug ASAP." Had they reached purity earlier, she says maybe the teenage girl would still be alive. The State Department told NPR an appointment that the Trump administration has a new
aid agreement with Kenya that supports in-part TB programs. For NPR News, I'm Ari Daniel. "Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica tucked in a drawer. It was discovered in 1985 and recorded as belonging to a large reptile. Now scientists have confirmed it comes from the tale of a long-necked plant-eating dinosaur
called Titanosaur. This is NPR News from Washington." One of the world's most famous art detectives was on the hunt for a stolen van Gogh. He turned to an unlikely source for help. "You have born stuck a place, born Titus, born policeman, I'm a born burglar."
On the Sunday Story, how an art thief and an art detective set out to recover a missing masterpiece. Listen now to the Sunday Story from the Up First Podcast on the NPR app.
