Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
President Trump says he won't sign by partisan legislation designed to lower housing
costs.
“And Piers Franco, Ordonia's reports, Trump's withholding his signature to protest the Senate's”
failure to pass his sweeping elections bill. President Trump has pushed Republican leaders to press harder to pass his election overhaul the Save America Act, but the controversial bill doesn't have the votes to pass. The president made his announcement on the housing bill online and expressed his frustration
in an angry post calling Republicans dumb for allowing what he described as a horrible calamity to happen to the party. The move is likely to increase friction between Trump and Republican lawmakers who have been clamoring for any legislative accomplishment to be able to take back to voters ahead of the midterms.
But the bill is still likely to become law automatically over the weekend, unless Trump
vetoes it. Franco, Ordonia's NPR News, The White House
“Thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants with temporary protected status are losing their”
U.S. work permits. This after the Supreme Court last month ruled the Trump administration can terminate the designations. From member station WYSO, Katherine Mobley has more. And estimated 15,000 Haitian immigrants live in Springfield, Ohio.
News who came into the U.S. under TPS, no longer have that protection. This also means they no longer have a valid work permit and driver's license connected with that TPS.
Rose Thalmer Joseph is with the Springfield Haitian support center.
She says people are anxious. "They are asking what they are going to do. They are we all be able to feed their family if they don't have any work permit. We don't have the answer."
“Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security is offering $2,600 and a free flight home”
to those willing to self-deport. They can access it on the CBP Home Mobile app. For NPR News, I'm Katherine Mobley. European Union officials are demanding met-up make changes to the so-called addictive design of Facebook and Instagram.
And here's Bobby Allen reports the regulators say "features of the social media apps violate EU law." European officials are focusing on things like infinite scroll, auto-play, push notifications and how the algorithm works on the social media apps. After a two-year probe, EU investigators say those features are designed to hook users,
and they have to be scrapped or drastically changed, or risk-heavy fines. EU law allows for penalties of up to 6% of a tech company's global revenue. Meta intends to fight the changes, saying in a statement that the EU is not considering the steps meta has taken to protect teens. In its findings, EU regulators wrote that features like autoplay and hyper-personalized
recommendations, quote, "fuel the user's urge to keep scrolling and shift the brain into autopilot mode," Bobby Allen and PR News. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. In Nigeria, dozens of schoolchildren and teachers who were abducted by gunmen from a school almost two months ago have been freed, authorities say the group were rescued following
an operation by security operatives, and PR's dual-fright has more. As spokesperson for Nigeria's president says the children and their teachers were rescued by security operatives, following an operation that left several of their abductors dead. Details of the operation have done been released, but authorities say it kidnappers were arrested. A total of 39 school children, aged between 4 and 16, and 7 teachers were taken during
the abduction in May, and at least one teacher died in captivity. The abduction spots anger across Nigeria, and they're to several protests and strike actions by teachers across the country. School of abduction for ransom have become commonplace across Nigeria in recent years, amid a worsening security crisis in the country, dual-bright MPR News Lagos.
A fast-moving wildfire in Spain has left at least 12 people dead, around 2 dozen missing. Officials in Andalusia say the remote terrain and the lack of access for heavy machinery making it tough for firefighters, 16 aircraft are being used to help battle the blaze, dropping water. Wall Street, higher by the closing bell, the Dow was up 149 points that's up about
three tenths of a percent, the Nasdaq gained 74 points, yes, and p-500 up 31. I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News, in Washington. Nearly one year after Congress eliminated federal funding for public media, NPR remains committed to informing the public. But a free press doesn't just happen, it's something we must protect.
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