>> Live from MPR News, I'm Julyal Snyder, following the U.
to stay to reject President Trump's move to restrict a birthright citizenship.
“House Speaker Mike Johnson says Congress will have to deal with it, saying the 14th of”
Bement is being abused by people coming to the U.S. to have children. >> It's become a tourism, birthing tourism they call it, you know, a trend where people would just come and you just come on to the soil and have your child and then they're able to avail themselves of the welfare state and everything else. >> Justice Department issued a statement Tuesday saying it's directing federal prosecutors
to prioritize investigations of so-called birth tourism schemes. The directive posted on social media came after the Supreme Court issued its six to three decision striking down President Trump's day one executive order.
The court may have delivered to President Trump a defeat on birthright citizenship, but
MPR's Tamra Q3 reports that Trump is celebrating a separate decision. >> The Supreme Court ruled that states may ban transgender athletes from participating in girls and women's sports at publicly funded schools. In a social media post, President Trump wrote, quote, "big win." The United States Supreme Court just ruled against men playing in women's sports.
Wow, that takes that ridiculous situation off the table.
“Trump made banning transgender girls and women from competitive sports, a key part of his campaign”
in 2024, and has often used the issue as a wedge to argue Democrats have overreached. In recent years, 27 states have enacted similar bands.
Tamra Q3 and PR news the White House.
>> On Capitol Hill, the Republican led House started the fourth of July holiday break early. GOP leaders sent House members home after a group of hardliners blocked and annual defense bill, demanding Senate passage of President Trump's voter ID legislation known as a safe America act. As Rayleigh Airstrike killed a 23-year-old mother and her one-year-old daughter in Gaza late Monday. There are among dozens killed in the past week.
As Israel increases its attacks despite a ceasefire. And appears on our spot about reports. The mother and her baby were hit by sharp no longer tinted out half an hour away from the targeted
“site, just outside a panicful zone that had just been ordered evacuated by the Israeli military”
moments earlier. A missile from fighter jet targeted the vast displacement camp, triggering a massive fire that took four hours to extinguish as around 100 families lost their tents, their only shelter. These Rayleigh military did not respond to NPR's request for comment. Earlier that day, another Israeli Airstrike hit a tint on the coast in an area where people sit by the beach to relax.
Gaza's health ministry says two people was killed and 27 others were wounded. Israel's military says it targeted the Hamas militant without naming the individual. And a small but unfair news goes on. >> This is NPR. The humanitarian crisis unfolding in Venezuela following last week's back-to-back earthquakes,
aid groups are warning that the country's health care system is at its breaking point. Damaged hospitals are overwhelmed and thousands of people have been displaced. The government says a death toll now tops 1900. A legal filing by the Kennedy Center, Sheds Light, on how it's board of trustees made decisions. It's related to Democratic Congresswoman Joyce Batie's lawsuit to add President Trump's
name removed from the Center. Here's NPRC list with Blair. >> 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 centers 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. By 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 U.S. men's national soccer team is preparing to play Bosnia Herzegov and on Wednesday. It's around a 32 match-up star player, Christian Policic, says he is fit to start after playing off the bench in last week's lawsuit against Turkey. He had entered his left calf earlier in the tournament. I'm trial Snyder in PR News. >> Hi, it's Terry Gross, host of fresh air.
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