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The U.S. Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship.
“NPR's Tamarky reports a decision announced today.”
"Block's President Trump's Executive Order." On the day he returned to office, January 20, 2025. President Trump signed an executive order, re-interpreting the plain language of the 14th Amendment to strip the guarantee of citizenship from the children of immigrants, either in the country illegally or with a temporary legal status.
The court stopped short of weighing the constitutional question, but ruled Trump's order violates federal law. Trump says in a social media post that the decision is "too bad for our country," and says Congress should pass a law banning birthright citizenship. It is unlikely such a law could pass or pass constitutional muster.
Tamarky and PR News the White House. In other rulings, the court barred transgender athletes from women's and girl sports
“and publicly funded schools and loosened campaign finance restrictions.”
New Jersey Congress spend time as Kane Jr. has returned to work after more than three months unexplained absence on the House floor today. He disclosed he was being treated for depression. "It is physical. It is emotional. And to you, experience it yourself is difficult to fully
understand how powerful this illness can be."
A heat dome hovering over the Midwest will be moving east in the coming days likely bringing record-breaking triple-digit temperatures to the Atlantic coast. Residents in the Midwest, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania, as well as New Jersey, Southern New England, New York, and the DC Baltimore region, are already seeing dangerously high temperatures as we head toward the 4th of July weekend.
Joe Wegman is a national weather service meteorologist. Probably 100 sites, probably on the very top end, mostly for the mid-Atlantic, especially on Thursday and Friday.
“Wegman recommends staying indoors, taking frequent breaks, and keeping hydrated.”
He says temperatures should taper off just slightly for the actual fourth. Scott Newman and PR news. The U.S. and Iran say they've sent delegation to Qatar, but it appears with Sherlock says they're not meeting each other. The White House says President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner,
and Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff have gone to Doha. Iran says it's meeting with Kateri officials on topics, including the release of billions of dollars in frozen assets that was in the memorandum of understanding the MOU, the U.S. and Iran signed.
Iran's president has said he expects around half, six billion dollars,
of its frozen assets in Qatar to be released in this interim phase. Underpinning the hurry here is a lack of trust on both sides, but the Iranians in particular are worried that with all the back and forth and failed previous talks, the Trump administration would remake on its commitments. It's NPR.
Immigration spurred mass protests in heavy police presence in South Africa today. Protesters marched down streets in major cities, including in Johannesburg, as recorded here by the Associated Press. After activists set today as the deadline for all unauthorized migrants to leave South Africa. Many blame the country's high unemployment in high crime,
largely on migrants in South Africa illegally, rising anti-immigrant sentiment in recent weeks, has prompted an exodus of African foreign nationals many from Zimbabwe, Malawi and Nigeria. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pushing to loosen restrictions on a handful of peptides touted for wellness and longevity, but that's running into resistance at the FDA. And Piers will stone explains.
The peptide therapies in question are not FDA approved and haven't been tested in rigorous clinical trials. The Biden administration placed restrictions on many of them due to safety concerns in a lack of evidence. Now Kennedy has said he'd like to undo that, so compounding pharmacies can legally offer them again. An advisory panel to the FDA is said to take up that proposal in three weeks and consider some of the most popular peptides with names like BPC-157 and TB-500.
But briefing documents posted ahead of the meeting showed that FDA scientists believe there is not enough evidence to make the changes. However, many of the panel members have ties to the peptide industry, will stone and PR news. U.S. stocks have ended the day higher. The NASDAQ closed up 1.5% or 393 points. The Dow is up 134 points. It's NPR news. Recently, cyber security researchers discovered a striking computer virus.
seemingly related to the conflict between the U.S. and Iran over Iran's nuclear program. Everything about this thing screams special. A cunning cyber weapon meant to gaslight nuclear scientists. Listen to Planet Money on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
