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now over President Trump and his administration have a lot of wins, and some high-profile losses."
“NPR's Tamerkeeth reports Trump is celebrating an expansion of presidential power.”
The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship and earlier in the term blocked the President's sweeping tariffs, but had also delivered wins for him and his party, allowing Trump to strictly limit even legal immigration and making it easier for red states to redraw congressional district lines in favor of Republicans. In a social media post-assessing the court's term, Trump crowed that the decision clearing
the way for Trump to fire commissioners at federal agencies, quote, "give's tremendous additional power back to the presidency," where it belongs. He adds, "The Republican Party was treated very fairly by the United States Supreme Court." Tamerkeeth and PR news, the White House.
Colorado held its primary election yesterday results are coming back. In one upset, a Democratic socialist and political newcomer, Maylott Kiros, defeated longtime Democratic Congresswoman Diana DeGett, from Colorado Public Radio, Caitlyn Kim, has more on the Denver area contest.
“"Maylott Kiros is a 29-year-old Democratic socialist.”
She's a lawyer who got fired for a post-she wrote that criticized Israel over its actions and Gaza, and she hasn't apologized for that, you know, making several comments, ending propality to the activists." So after that experience, she decided to challenge Democratic Congresswoman Diana DeGett, who's been her representative for her entire life.
Now, Denver is a deep, blue district, and she's expected to have a smooth glide path to Congress. "It's Caitlyn Kim reporting. The U.S. is heading for another record low murder rate, and PR's Martin Constee reports violent crime has been falling quickly, since the pandemic." Crime statistician Jeff Asher clicked data from a sampling of police departments so he
can project national trends ahead of the FBI's national numbers. He says the first months of this year suggest the national murder rate is about 18% lower than the same period last year, which was already near a record low.
"We've reached a point where we've never seen violence this low in terms of murder, and
that's fantastic," you could alternatively say. "Hey, we're still talking about 13 or 14,000 murders, so that's 13 or 14,000 to many, but the progress that has been made against this issue is just incredible." "The rates of other kinds of crimes are also on a downward trajectory, following the crime spike of the pandemic years."
Martin Constee and PR news. "The U.S. has sent representatives to Qatar from meetings, so has a run, but officials from both countries will not hold direct talks." Qatar says it's discussed an interim peace deal with U.S. on-voys, Iran says it's telling Qatar that Israel must fully withdraw from Lebanon.
This is NPR. The government of Venezuela says the earthquake death toll is now well past 1900 people, tens of thousands of others are still missing. It's been weeks since double earthquakes rocked northern Venezuela. It's feared the full death toll will not be known.
Today marks the official opening of a program that lets federal dollars go toward short-term
workforce training programs, but as NPR's Alyssa Nadmwarny reports, at first, very few
existing programs will qualify. "It's an expansion of the Federal Pellgram program, which helps low-income students pay for college. To qualify, programs have to be in an in-demand field, demonstrate high earnings, and be the right-length between eight and 14 weeks, and between 150 and 599 instructional hours.
But for lots of community colleges, existing workforce training programs don't fit these narrow qualifications just yet." There is still a great amount of optimism. Kerry works myth overseas federal policy at the Association of Community College Trustees.
“"I think the reality that setting in is that July 1 is not a floodgate.”
It is a start point of the marathon." She expects most students will have to wait until at least next spring to get those federal dollars. Alyssa Nadmwarny and Pernus. Three more teams are advancing to the next round in the World Cup, Mexico, which beat
Ecuador yesterday, France, which beat Sweden, and Norway, which defeated Ivory Coast. The U.S. plays later today, and will face Bosnia, Herzegovina. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News.
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