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President Trump has signed two executive orders targeting birthright citizenship and so
called birth tourism.
“NPR's Julianne Kim reports Trump says the White House is adjusting its approach after what”
he called and unfortunate Supreme Court ruling. Trump tried to restrict birthright citizenship last year through an executive order. That one targeted babies born to parents in the U.S. illegally or on temporary visas. The order was quickly challenged in the courts and this June the nation's highest court struck it down, reaffirming that birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.
And it's why some legal experts expect Thursday's executive order to also face legal challenges. NPR's Julianne Kim reporting. The federal communications commission has voted to wipe away limits on how many Americans any one company can reach through the local TV stations it owns.
Congress said a limit at 39% of Americans to preserve a range of editorial voices and sensibilities in local TV.
“NPR's David Folkanflick reports, some lawmakers and advocates say the commission's action”
is unlawful. FCC Chairman, Brendan Carr, says the local TV business is under pressure from streaming, and he says local TV companies need to bulk up to fight back networks like ABC and CBS and NBC. Carr has launched investigations of major broadcast networks, eggdone by President Trump.
The vote on limits filled two to one along party lines. The loan Democrat on the commission says the vote was illegal that only Congress can change or erase those limits. But executives at next-art hailed the decision, next-art owns more TV stations than anyone. This acquisition of a big rival would let it reach 80% of the nation, but that take
over is on hold as a major antitrust lawsuit plays out. David Folkanflick and PR News Patients and medical researchers are calling on prediction market sites to ban betting on clinical trials. NPR's Bobby Allen reports, calcium and poly-market say the market's offer valuable information. Prediction market sites, calcium, poly-market, are facing a backlash for allowing
better to wage your money on the outcome of clinical trials. The company say the betting can keep patients ahead of the latest medical breakthroughs, but Joshua Pederson sees it differently. His 12-year-old son is a cancer patient in a clinical trial, and he says betting against
“the trial's success is effectively trying to make money on his sick child.”
One of the things that has struck me about these platforms is that they're flashy and they're gamified in such a way that you're often kind of distanced from the real cost. Drug researchers have started an online petition asking that the platform's ban such markets, but the companies claim they could make the opaque drug discovery process more transparent, Bobby Allen and PR News.
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Britain has approved a paramount $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. discovery.
Paramount agreed to protect editorial independence and maintain investment in British programming. The deal would bring CBS CNN, HBO Max, and Paramount Plus under one corporate owner. The takeover is still facing an anti-trust lawsuit from California and 11 other US states. The summer marks the first time in 60 years that no original members of the grateful dead are touring.
In their plays, other musicians are keeping the dead's music alive. NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmyanto reports. Graham Lash was literally born into the grateful dead. His dad, Phil Lash, was the band's basis. This summer, Graham Lash has been playing dead tribute shows across the country.
Lash is one directed herder of the dead's legacy, but he doesn't want to be its solitary keeper. He says the hundreds of grateful dead cover bands across the country give him hope for the future. What we can do is sort of bring all these other musicians in and provide a place for them to be in the band and to take the music and then maybe go out and spread the good word.
That way, hopefully the music will never stop.
Isabella Gomez Sarmyanto and PR News. The Labor Department will release its July jobs report this morning. Economists expect hiring to have picked up modestly after employers added just 57,000 jobs in June. This is NPR News.
This week, on Consider 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.
