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Tuesday marks a final opinion day for the U.S. Supreme Court.
“The court has four cases left to decide, including President Trump's challenge to”
birthright citizenship. A Monday the court's conservative majority invalidated nearly a century's worth of law, striking down almost all the limits at Congress and the courts had established to protect the independence of regulatory agencies. It appears need to total burglary ports.
The court reversed a 91-year-old precedent that had until now protected multi-member agency heads from being fired, except for misconduct or malfeasance in office. The decision potentially opens the door as well to allowing presidents to fire and not just agency leaders, but potentially lower-level government experts.
But in a second decision, the court took a contrary position when it came to the Federal Reserve
Board and Trump's attempt to fire one of the board's democratic appointees, Lisa Cook. Trump accused her of mortgage fraud, though subsequent reporting has strongly suggested those charges are without merit. And today the Supreme Court sent the case back to the lower courts instructing that they
“examine whether the charges are pretextual.”
Nina Tottenberg and PR News Washington. White House press secretary Caroline Levitt says top Trump administration on voice will be heading to the Middle East this week. Iran has requested a meeting this week, so special envoy Whitkoff and Jared Kushner will be flying to Doha for high-level meetings this week as we continue to discuss the
memorandum of understanding on the sidelines of those high-level talks will be the technical talks.
Levitt's speaking to Fox News on Monday after President Trump said Iran had requested a meeting
set for Tuesday, however talks are on certain Iran's foreign ministry says its delegation is heading to Qatar, but denied a meeting had been scheduled. The announcement Monday came after week into attacks in the Persian Gulf, but after four days of trading, strikes both sides appear to oppose their attacks. Arizona Democratic Senator Rubin Gallego has been cleared of a misconduct complaint by the
Senate Ethics Committee, Republican Congresswoman Ann Uplina Luna, champion the case against
“Gallego, alleged in campaign, finance, and sexual misconduct.”
Here's empires, Claudia Rosales. In April, Senator Gallego told reporters he had regrets about a long friendship with California representative Erick Swallwell, who was facing a wave of allegations that eventually forced his resignation.
However, Gallego told reporters there was no wrongdoing on his part, a stance he's maintained.
"I'm not a victim here. I am however being targeted by a lot of right-wing operatives using this horrible situation." The Senate Ethics Committee said, "It found no evidence Gallego violated federal laws and it rules or related standards of conduct. The panel is led by a Republican chairman with a total of three Republicans and three
Democrats." You're listening to NPR News. President Trump is calling a bipartisan bill aimed at making housing more affordable a big yon. Speaking in the Oval Office Monday, Trump said he has yet to decide whether he will sign
the measure. Last week, Trump canceled a signing ceremony to pressure Republicans to pass his voting bill. The so-called "Safe America Act" would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and create a national voter database using state registration records.
In Paraguay, the government has declared a national holiday today after what's being called the biggest upset of this summer's World Cup. Paraguay knocked Germany out of the tournament and a penalty shootout, Katherine Osborne reports. Germany is a four-time World Cup champion. Paraguay had not won a game outside of the group stage of the tournament in 16 years, but
when the two teams met on Monday afternoon in Foxboro, Massachusetts, a scrappy Paraguay fought Germany to a one-one tie. They held the tie in extra time and then won on penalty kicks, triggering celebrations across the South American country and in Paraguay and communities throughout the United States.
Paraguay's president Santiago Pena decreed a national holiday was needed to mark what he called an epic triumph. For NPR news, I'm Katherine Osborne in Rio de Janeiro. Also, at the World Cup, another penalty shootout on Monday, Morocco beat the Netherlands three goals to two on penalties on Monday.
To reach the last 16 after the match ended in a one-one-time following extra time. Morocco's victory sets up a meeting with Canada and Houston on Saturday. I'm Dreil Snyder, NPR News. This week, surewave is answering all your questions about Ebola. And how cuts to global health funding have made it harder to contain.
When you no longer have your front line, eyes and ears on the ground, very easy, poor, an outbreak to spread very quickly. By the current Ebola outbreak in Africa could rival the worst on record. Listen to surewave in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
