Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
President Trump today signed two new executive orders relating to birthright citizenship,
“which is enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.”
Trump's as the amendment was created after the Civil War, to ensure enslaved people and their children would be U.S. citizens. White Osayd Steven Miller's Trump's order expands the list of people who are in eligible for birthright citizenship. That includes, for example, alien enemies of the United States, members of foreign terrorist organizations, and large categories of people who love the
enact of a half of foreign governments. And so with taking this action, it ensures that large numbers of people who, wrongly, would be getting birthright citizenship will no longer be eligible for those benefits. The Supreme Court struck down Trump's earlier executive order, ending birthright citizenship, and then his administration missed the 25-day deadline to file for a re-hearing on the ruling.
The Trump administration wants to deregulate Head Start, the landmark early education
“program for low-income children and their families.”
And here's Joe Hernandez reports, critics warn that change could lead to a decline in quality among Head Start providers across the country. The proposal announced by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would leave it up to states, rather than the federal government to regulate things like student teacher ratios and background checks. It would also lower the amount Head Start providers
can spend on administrative costs. Officials estimate that would save over $2 billion,
which the administration has vowed to reinvest in the program to create more slots for kids. Head Start currently serves more than 700,000 children nationwide with child care, preschool, and more. Some supporters of the program say reducing federal oversight could lead to variations
in quality from one state to the next. The proposed rule changes will be open for public comment for 60 days. Joe Hernandez and PR News Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell says in a statement he was discharged from his rehabilitation facility today and will continue his recovery from home. Kentucky Public Radio's Sylvia Goodman has more. 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. From PR News, I'm Sylvia Goodman in Louisville, Kentucky. While straight lower by the closing bell, the Dow Down 464 points the Nasdaq down 15. This is in PR News. For new lawsuits have been filed against New York City by people who got sick and some
of the families whose relatives died in last summer's Legionnaires outbreak in Harlem. Those suits claim a breakdown in the city's testing that failed to warn residents. They could be exposed to it. The bacteria was traced to nearly a dozen cooling towers in the neighborhood. Seven people died. Lakisha Ploud and lost her husband Bruce Scott during the outbreak. She says it's been
a struggle. "It's very hard because I have to deal with it and I'm a single mother now. So we don't have her best friend and we don't have my soulmate anymore." Civil rights lawyer Ben Kromp is representing the patients.
“"A accountability is essential not only to provide justice for those who are harmed but”
to ensure that a tragedy like this never happens in Harlem or anywhere else in New York
in the future." Lawyers for the city say they're reviewing the lawsuits. Federal health officials say jalapenos are linked to a nationwide outbreak of Samanella. The CDC has issued a recall for the peppers grown in Mexico. The primarily distributed to Mexican-style restaurants in the United States, including Chipotle, which stopped serving
them immediately and also, were sold by wholesale. Most people who get Samanella get an upset stomach within a few hours to a week and most recover soon. I'm Janine Herbst and PR News. This week, unconcitor this. Virginia thought her criminal record would follow her forever until a few minutes with an AI app that told her she could clear her felonies.
"You'll never find a harder worker than someone who has something to prove to themselves
how AI could help millions of Americans with criminal records, find work."
