Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
The Trump administration has instructed federal officers with immigration and customs enforcement
“to suspend most vehicle stops around the country.”
As NPR's Meg Anderson reports, the change comes after ICE officers shot and killed two men in their cars, one in Texas and one in Maine over the last week. Maine Senator Angus King's office confirmed the policy shift to NPR, though it's still unclear what it will look like in practice. The change is temporary, but will continue until ICE officers receive more training
on how to safely make a traffic stop. Jillian Snyder, a former police officer and lecturer at John J. College, says the evidence suggests immigration officers do need that. "If you're looking at all these incidents that have been happening, they're all related to car stops."
She says immigration enforcement used to focus on targeted operations, looking for a specific person, stopping people on the street, Snyder says, "is an entirely different scenario." Meg Anderson and Beer News.
“The sister of former Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has been sworn in, becoming the”
first woman to represent South Carolina in the U.S. Senate.
Darling Graham will finish the rest of her late brother's term, which expires in January. And Pierre Sam Greenglass has more. Graham was sworn in three days after her brother's unexpected death. The Graham siblings were especially close, Lindsey became Darling's guardian after their parents died.
He later adopted her, so she could access his military benefits from serving as an air force lawyer. Senate Protem Chuck Grassley of Iowa administered the oath of office. "Do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the United States?"
In a soft voice, Graham said she would.
“Graham is commissioner of the South Carolina Commission for the blind.”
She is not sad if she'll run in the August 11th Republican primary for a full term, Sam Greenglass and Pierre News, Washington.
The number of pedestrians killed on U.S. roads has declined for the third year in a row.
But as then Pierre's Joel Rose reports, fatalities are still well above pre-pandemic levels. Drivers struck and killed just over 6,700 people last year. The drop of 7% from the year before, according to a report from the governor's highway safety association, California alone accounted for more than half of the drop. 2025 marked the third straight year that the number of pedestrian fatalities has declined
since peaking in 2022. Last year's number is still 10% higher than the total from 2016. The report also looked at why and when pedestrians are killed and found some familiar patterns. SUVs, pickup trucks, and vans account for more than half of pedestrian deaths and more than
three-quarters of fatalities happen after dark. Joel Rose and Pierre News, Washington. Wall Street higher by the closing bell, you're listening to NPR News. In men's World Cup soccer, Spain beat France this hour, two-nil to advance to the finals.
It's Spain's second trip to a World Cup final and they will play the winner of the other
semi-final game today between England and Argentina, that game takes place tomorrow. It's best still day in France where people are battling soaring temperatures that are putting limits on some celebrations. But President Emmanuel Macron still presided over his tenth and final military parade in Paris. And Pierre Zelner beer's report, this year's procession, is meant to showcase unity with
Ukraine and European allies. Macron stood alone on the Plastela Concord as the Republican guard played the Marseilles. Groups marched down the Shanzli's Ae, Ukrainian soldiers were among them, while President Volodymyr Zelensky stood nearby, so did 25 other European leaders who met yesterday in Paris to pledge their solidarity with Ukraine as the war with Russia goes into its fifth
year. Thousands of people lined the parade route despite the heat. The annual Bastille Day military parade marks the 1789 storming over the Bastille Fortress during the French Revolution. The Federal Government is running a bigger deficit this year than it did last year.
Federal tax collections are up this year, but federal spending is growing even faster. The Treasury Department says nine months into the fiscal year, the government is more than $1.3 trillion in the red. I'm Janine Herbst and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
