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tried to bar citizenship for babies born in the U.S. if their parents entered the country
“illegally or were only living here temporarily, the Supreme Court ruled against him today.”
But NPR's marginalized and says Trump succeeded in making birthright citizenship a political issue. Trump has really succeeded in pushing the overton window, in other words, changing the parameters of the debate. Before this birthright citizenship was outside the parameters, it was a settled matter. Now it's inside, and even though the Supreme Court reaffirmed
the executives control over immigration policy in other cases, they drew the line at birthright citizenship. And in a weird way, that could be a political boon for him. Because if they had ruled for him, there would have been a tremendous amount of chaos to sort out which babies were citizens and which were not. And now, he can just keep the message without the headaches of implementation.
“NPR's Marlias and Reporting, the Supreme Court upheld state laws barring transgender girls”
and women from playing on school athletic teams. The court's conservative majority has repeatedly ruled against transgender Americans in the past year. The decision said state bands and Idaho and West Virginia don't violate the Constitution or the federal law known as Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in education. More than two dozen other Republican led states have adopted bands on female transgender athletes. The U.S. is heading for another
record low murder rate, as NPR's Martin costume reports violent crime has been falling quickly since the pandemic. Crime statistician Jeff Asher collects data from a sampling of police departments so he can project national trends ahead of the FBI's national numbers. He says the first months of this year suggest the national murder rate is about 18% lower than the same period last year, which was already near a record low. We've reached a point
“where we've never seen violence this low in terms of murder. And that's fantastic. You”
could alternatively say, hey, we're still talking about 13 or 14,000 murders. So that's 13
or 14,000 to many. But the progress that has been made against this issue is just incredible.
The rates of other kinds of crimes are also on a downward trajectory following the crime spike of the pandemic years. Martin costume and PR news New Jersey Republican Congressman Tom Kane Jr. says he was being treated for depression during his lengthy absence from Congress in his speech on his first day back to work. He suggested he remained silent about his condition until now because he is a private person by nature after the speech Kane left
the Capitol quickly without answering questions from reporters. Kane represents a battleground district that includes President Trump's bed minister golf club and he's facing a challenge from Democratic nominee Rebecca Bennett this fall. US stocks rose today. The S&P 500 gained more than three quarters of a percent. The Dow added a quarter of a percent and the NASDAQ climbed one and a half percent. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Turkish President
Rudgip Type Erdogan has dismissed and Israeli proposal to recognize violence against Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I as genocide. Erdogan turned the allegation back at Israel by pointing to Palestinian deaths in Gaza. Turkey has long lobbied against recognizing the
Armenian deaths as genocide. Historians estimate up to one and a half million Armenians were killed.
The educational testing service, the nonprofit behind major standardized tests like the GRE is acquiring a major college admissions exam and Pira's Alyssa Natwarni has more. ETS administers a number of exams already. The GRE for graduate admissions and the TOEFL an English language test taken by many international students and now they'll take over the ACT. More than a million students take the ACT each year as part of college applications and to get their
high school diploma. More than a dozen states include taking the ACT as a requirement to graduate. ETS has struggled in recent years with layoffs and biodes. It was historically the administrator of the SAT, another college admissions test that rivals the ACT, but in 2024 the college board which owns the SAT took the administration over. Alyssa Natwarni and Pira News. Polarizing Harvard astronomer Avilob has been appointed to lead a White House panel studying
UFOs. The new science advisory council is tasked with finding the origin of unidentified objects spotted by military pilots and others. Lobs theories of one praise in UFO circles but put it at odds with other astronomers who say he jumps to exotic conclusions. It's NPR. Each story you hear on planet money starts with a question. What happens if we refund tariffs? Why are groceries so expensive? An NPR we stand for your right to be curious because the forces
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