"Live from MPR News, I'm Jial Snyder.
targeting birthright citizenship. The signing comes on month after the Supreme Court rejected
“Trump's earlier order aimed at ending the practice as MPR's Franco-ordonia's reports."”
Earlier this summer, the Supreme Court rejected President Trump's previous attempts to stop birthright citizenship, ruling the executive order ran a foul of the 14th Amendment, which has long been interpreted to give birthright citizenship to almost anyone born in the U.S. In signing the order as Trump charged that the high court's decision hurt the country. "We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright
was closed, but a very, very unfortunate decision. So we're making adjustments." One order takes aim at what he calls birth tourism, which is a form of visa fraud that's already illegal, and like the previous effort, these new executive actions are expected to be challenged in the courts on similar grounds. Franco-ordonia's MPR News, the White House.
Now, to Kentucky, where Senator Mitch McConnell was discharged from a rehab facility today,
“his office says he will continue recovery from home following a 53-day absence from Congress.”
From Kentucky Public Radio, Sylvia Goodman reports. In a short statement, McConnell says he will continue a quote intensive regimen of physical therapy from home on the advice of his doctors. Speculation and conspiracy theories about the 84-year-old Senator's health have crowded social media. Public officials, including Democratic Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, have repeatedly
called on him to be more transparent about his fitness to serve. McConnell has not made any public appearances since his June hospitalization, and has missed more than 50 Senate roll call votes. He said he was hospitalized after falling and developed a mild case of pneumonia in the hospital. For MPR News, I'm Sylvia Goodman, in Louisville, Kentucky.
Patients with alcohol and drug-related illnesses are struggling to get medical care in the
“U.S. bias among health workers, a major hurdle, as MPR's Brian Man reports.”
Addiction is one of the most common treatable illnesses in the U.S., but federal
data shows more than 80 percent of people with substance use disorders never get treatment.
If you are interviewed more than a dozen medical experts in reviewed research and found that many doctors and nurses are uncomfortable treating these patients. Dr. Judy Chirtak studies addiction care at the University of Pennsylvania. It's so charming that that is accepted by so many. That role data shows roughly 250,000 U.S. deaths every year are linked to alcohol and
street drugs, prescription medications proven to help reduce substance use are available. Research shows the vast majority of U.S. clinicians never offer patients those treatments. Brian Man and PR News. And you're listening to NPR News. California Governor Gavin Newsom is declared a state of emergency in Calabaris County.
A wildfire there has destroyed several structures, including a home where authorities say a dead body was found. A 65 year old man has been arrested in connection with the fire authorities believe it was accidentally started by sparks from a chain saw and spoke and Washington crews reporting progress fighting flames on three major fires. Justice Department says it's reviewing a contemporary furrow against Dr. Anthony Fauci,
a Senate committee voted Thursday to hold Fauci and contempt over his refusal to answer questions at a hearing on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The vote was a long party lines. Slime may be useful, according to new research about how snails mix the same ingredients and different proportions to produce a range of mucus. Here's NPR is our annual reporting.
The Brown-Lipped Snail produces a lubricant mucus, adhesive mucus and more. Researchers analyze samples of each type to determine their composition and found they all contain similar proteins, but the concentrations vary. Plus distinct amounts of calcium along with differences and how the slimes were secreted give rise to each of the mucus types. The more collagen and calcium were present, the stiffer, more cohesive and sticky than
mucus became. Mariella Gobler is a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, and she says there are numerous applications, including developing a slime that might help steal a wound or deliver a drug. Ari Daniel NPR News
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