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hold a mid-term convention in Dallas this September.
“The Texas Newsrooms blaze Gainey explains its weeks away from when voters will begin”
casting ballots for several statewide elections. Texas has been a red state for all of the 21st century, but polls show the U.S. Senate race at a gridlock between Democrat James Tallarico and Republican Ken Pexton. John Taylor is the Department Chair of Political Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
He believes that contest is playing a big part and why Trump wants to bring the Republican Party to the state. They've seen the public polls out there showing Tallarico with the slight leader of Ty and such like that. My guess they're internal polling is staring them.
Taylor says the move is a last ditch effort by Republicans to try and swing things in their favor ahead of a significant mid-term election. I'm Blaze Gainey, in Austin. This Supreme Court struck down President Trump's efforts to end birthright citizenship
“and response the Justice Department says it's turning its attention to visitors suspected”
of coming into the country to give birth, and PRS Jacqueline Diaz has more. The U.S. Justice Department wants its prosecutors to go after people taking part in something called birth tourism. In the U.S., that means one of four national comes into the country just to give birth, and to get their child American citizenship.
Opening Attorney General Todd Blanche is setting his sights on birth tourism operations. The Justice Department wants to go after those people coming to the U.S. under "false pretenses," pregnant women, and those involved in their travel could face charges like visa fraud or money laundering. Jacqueline Diaz and PR News
President Trump took his maiden voyage on a new Air Force one today, the retrofitted 747 where $400 million was gifted from Qatar. It's no longer light blue, instead has a navy blue belly and red and gold stripes. Millions of people from the Midwest to the East Coast are dealing with sweltering heat and humidity, which is forecast the last through early next week.
In Chicago, officials are still taking lessons from a deadly 1990s heat wave as Alex Degment from Member Station WBEZ reports. This heat wave quickly came to Chicago after weeks of below average temperatures. They brought back memories of July 1995 when 739 people died from heat over the course of a week.
Chicago Fire Department Commissioner Annette Nance Holt was a field supervisor at the time. She says she wishes more was done.
"I always somebody would have been with him.
I always somebody would have called for him instead of us finding him like that alone." Now, Holt says well-being checks have greatly increased. The Department gets daily heat emergency reports and can allocate resources on the fly. In building codes now require certain apartment buildings to have air conditioning. Still, it's very hot, and it will be through at least the end of the week.
For NPR News, I'm Alex Degment in Chicago. This is NPR. A breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics has directly defied Pope Lear the 14th by consecrating four bishops without his consent. The society of St. Pius, the 10th, is dismissing the resulting excommunications and schism
by declaring it was a sacred duty to defend the Catholic faith. The group opposes the modernizing reforms of the Catholic Church. Today marks the official opening of a program that allows federal dollars to go towards
short-term workforce training programs, but NPR is a list of not-warning reports that at first,
very few existing programs will qualify. 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. However, lots of community colleges, existing workforce training programs, don't fit these narrow qualifications just yet.
Carrie Warexmith oversees federal policy at the association of community college trustees.
“I think the reality that's 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. Let's not warning, NPR News. Village People Co-Founder Victor Willis has died.
He performed dressed as a police officer and co-wrote some of the disco group's biggest hits, including YMCA and Macho Man. The group announced his death on Facebook citing a short-put-aggressive illness Victor Willis was 74 years old. This is NPR.
This week on Wayway, Don't Tell me we talked to best-selling author Carrow Clare Burke about how it feels to write the hit book of the summer. I've been very dissociative, so that's a problem for my future therapist. Yeah, I say. Let's talk about the fact you're not in therapy, that's fascinating.
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