Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryan Barton, the Supreme Court upheld b...
citizenship today, rejecting President Trump's executive order declaring that children
“born to people in the U.S. illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.”
The decision relied on a long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment and more recent federal laws. The ruling means anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen with only limited exceptions. Trump's restrictions had already been blocked by lower courts. The transgender advocates are calling today's Supreme Court ruling on school sports participation
a narrow loss, as NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin reports. Two transgender student athletes, Lindsey Hikauks of Idaho and Becky Pepper Jackson of West Virginia, challenged their state's bands on transgender participation in sports. The Supreme Court justices rejected their arguments, and said that the state's cans set the rules around girls' sports to exclude trans students.
This was a loss, but it was a narrow loss. Even though the decision was 6-3, Joshua Bloc of the ACLU told reporters the majority opinion was targeted to these cases.
“It didn't say that other states couldn't make a different policy choice and allow”
transgender girls to participate with cisgender girls. Many states do allow trans students to play sports, but the Trump administration has been pressuring states to stop, Selena Simmons-Duffin and Pyrenees, Washington. The House voted down a resolution today, directing President Trump to remove armed forces from hostilities in Lebanon.
It was sponsored by Michigan Democrat Rashida Tolib, one of the House members seeking to push the party further left, and PR's Eric McDaniel has more. More than 20 Democrats joined with nearly all Republicans to defeat the measure. Israeli forces have occupied much of Southern Lebanon as they go after Iran backed Hezbollah,
in a conflict that has displaced more than a million Lebanese residents and left thousands
of civilians dead. Representative Tolib is the child the Palestinian immigrants and has been Congress's most outspoken critic of the Israeli military.
“The U.S. government is the primary financial supporter of Israel's military, providing at least”
174 billion since the country was founded in 1948. Trump has repeatedly expressed frustration over Israel's ongoing campaign in Lebanon. As he seeks to secure an end to the U.S.-Israel Iran War, Eric McDaniel and Pyrenees Washington. New Jersey Republican Congressman Tom Kane Jr. says he was being treated for depression during
his four-month absence from Congress, and his speech on his first day back to work he suggested he remained silent about his condition until now, because he's 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 Bedminster Gulf Club, and he's facing a challenge from Democratic nominee Rebecca Bennett this fall.
U.S. stocks rose today, the S&P 500 gained more than three-quarters of a percent that doubt added a quarter of a percent. This is NPR news from Washington. Aid groups are warning that Venezuela's health care system is at its breaking point after last week's earthquakes damaged hospitals are overwhelmed and conditions in the disastrous
zone are worsening. The government death toll, the government death toll surpassed 1,700 with more bodies being found. Thousands have been displaced and are living in unsanitary conditions. A deadly heat wave has abated in much of France, but as NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports
thousands of Parisians are without power for a second day after high temperatures damaged
electricity cables. The temps have dropped to the mid-80s, but Paris' old stone and brick buildings heated up in the week of more than a hundred degree days and hot nights, without air conditioning, which is rare here they've retained their heat. The city seems to stagger along as people anxiously await the next heat wave set to arrive
this weekend. "It's not because today we have big problems in Paris, and there are 6,000 logements. "It's very hard," says Paris Taxi Driver, Murad Killian. People don't sleep and they're exhausted and on-edge, scientists say that Europe warmed by the oceanic and atmospheric currents of the Gulf Stream is heating faster than
any other place on the planet. This taxi driver says dealing with the evermore frequent extreme temperatures is going to be very complicated, Eleanor Beardsley and Piano's Paris." A young eastern imperial eagle from Serbia named Felix has been retrieved during a daring mission after being caught by poachers in the Middle East.
He was sold illegally after setting off on his first migratory flight, his year-long
ordeal highlighted the widespread illegal animal trade. This is NPR News from Washington.
