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The Supreme Court has upheld birthright citizenship today, blocking in an executive order
“from President Trump, as NPR's Tamar Keith reports it's a big defeat for the president.”
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, quote, "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. Tamar Keith and PR news the White House.
Again, the Supreme Court erased limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and President, striking down a federal election law that's more than 50 years old. The court's 2010 citizens' united decision already opened the door to unlimited independent spending in federal elections.
“The push for spending limits was part of an effort to prevent large donors from scurting”
caps on individual contributions to candidates. The U.S. and Iran both say they have sent delegations to Qatar today, but as MPR's Ruth Sherlock reports, they will not be meeting each other. The White House says President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff 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 renegue on its commitments. Ruth Sherlock and Pian use Bay Route.
“The heat dome covering hovering over the Midwest will be moving east in the coming days,”
likely bringing record-breaking temperatures and PR's Scott Newman has more. 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 4th. Scott Newman and PR News.
U.S. stocks rose today. This is NPR News from Washington. Turquist President, Roger Type Erdogan, has dismissed and Israeli proposal to recognize violence against our minions 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 1.5 million Armenians were killed.
A legal filing by the Kennedy Center sheds light on how its board of trustees made decisions. It's related to Democratic Congresswoman Joyce Badey's lawsuit to have Trump's name, Trump's name, removed from the center, and PR's Elizabeth Blair reports. The Kennedy Center has long denied reporting by the Washington Post that ticket sales plummeted after President Trump became the center's board chair.
But in a legal filing Monday night, the center admits that by October 2025, nearly half of the center's tickets were going unsold. The Kennedy Center also admits that when the board voted to add Trump's name to the center, there was, quote, no discussion about potential risks or downsides of that decision. My law no additional memorials or plaques can be added to the Kennedy Center, which is
a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy. The center's lawyers had argued that if Trump's name were to be removed, the venue would stand to lose money from donors who support him. Elizabeth Blair and PR news, Washington. The largest digital camera ever built is beginning to capture images of unseen corners of
the universe in finer detail. Perched on a Chilean mountain top researchers hope the Varat C. Ruben Observatory will provide clues about puzzling concepts like dark matter and dark energy. This is NPR. This week on Wayway, John Telly, we talked to best-selling author, Caro Clare Burke about
how it feels to write the hip-book of the summer. "I've been very dissociative, so that's a problem for my future therapist." "Yeah, I say it." "Let's talk about the fact you're not in therapy, that's fascinating." "Don't miss our full conversation and the rest of our games, listen to the lightweight
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