People in Lebanon are caught in a regional war, and don't know when they can ...
Their government made an agreement that leaves Israeli forces in charge of their towns. What would it take for that to change? I'm Steve Enskeep with Michelle Martin, and this is up first from NPR News. It's the last day of the Supreme Court's term. We expect a ruling on birthright citizenship. President Trump's administration sought to change the long-accepted meaning of the 14th Amendment.
So what are the implications? And it's primary day in Colorado. The race is there, could give a read on the national mood, a democratic socialist is on the rise. There's a scramble to win Latino votes, and rural voters say nobody in Washington is listening.
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podcasts. The United States and Iran both say they've sent delegations and cut our today. They are showing up for talks over a long-term peace agreement, although as we will hear it is not clear, they actually will talk with each other. The two sides have traded attacks in recent days, rather than words. We're joined now by NPR's with Sherlock in Beirut, Hello, Ruth. Hi, good morning.
So President Trump said the US and Iran had planned to meet the Iranians say they are not, so what can you tell us about what's actually happening? Well, the White House says President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Woodkov have gone to do so, but as you say, Iran says they're not there to meet them. Iran says this meeting is with Cateria officials on topics, including the release of billions of dollars of frozen assets.
That was in the memorandum of understanding this MU sign between the US and Iran.
Iran's president has said he expects around half $6 billion of these frozen assets in Cater,
to be released in this interim phase. You know, underpinning the hurry here is this fundamental lack of trust on both sides, but the Iranians in particular are worried that with all the back and forth and failed previous talks, the Trump administration would renege on its commitments. And, you know, as you mentioned, it's not been going well recently. The Iranians are also furious about a separate deal, the US broke out between Israel and Lebanon.
“So it's talk more about their deal. What are the Iranians unhappy with?”
Well, Israel is fighting has bullet the militia in Lebanon, which is heavily supported by Iran, and the deal says has bullet would be disarmed, and crucially it makes Israel's full withdrawal from the large amounts of land it's occupying now. Here, actually conditional on has
была first disarming, has below was never part of the agreement and has outright rejected it,
calling it a surrender of sovereignty. And this, though, has also been widely criticised by independent experts, who say the problem here is the Lebanese army who would disarm has bullet is quite weak and is simply unable to do this. And therefore, this agreement essentially sees Lebanese territory to Israel. You've also been speaking to some of the people displaced from these southern areas. What are you hearing from them? You know, people here told us they
feel sold out by the Lebanese government over this deal. Many are from areas that are now controlled by Israel. Israel says its weakened has bullet enough that the Lebanese army can now take over these southern border areas and oversee disarmament, but there is still support for his bullet in these areas by people who see them as a protector from Israel. Lebanon is a country of many religions with a long history of sectarian violence. I spoke with Ali Shaito,
he's a mechanical engineering student who's displaced, you know, lives in a tent in Beirut. And he wanted that if the Lebanese army tries to remove Hezbollah's weapons, it could push the country to civil war. To have a war between each other, not with another counter. No one could take the weapon of Hezbollah. Lebanon's president insists that the Lebanese army will deploy to the southern border. Israel's agreed to withdraw initially from a couple of
Towns in the south that are going to be called Pilate zones where the Lebanes...
and disarm as bullet. But as I said, many Lebanese are really worried about all this.
“That's NPR's with Sherlock joining us from Beirut. Ruth, thank you. Thanks, Michelle.”
This is the last day of the U.S. Supreme Court's current term and several major rulings are expected. Two cases involve bands on transgender athletes. The case attracting the most attention is about birthright citizenship and whether it should still be automatically granted to any child born in the United States. Here to tell us more about this is NPR immigration policy corresponded to him in a good morning. Good morning. So you have this had been considered a
settled issue. So how did it get before the court? And how might it go? President Trump signed
an executive order on his first day in office. Barring citizenship for children born in the U.S.
if parents entered the country illegally or are here on a temporary status like Avisa. It brings into question the 14th amendment to the Constitution that says "all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States."
“A decision-siting with Trump would up and over a century of legal precedent”
and raise several logistical challenges for millions of mixed status families. But if Trump loses in court, it would be a blow to one of his several immigration-related campaign promises. Hey man, even we're still sorting through the effects of immigration rulings that came last week, mainly one on temporary protected status or TPS. You've been following this very closely. How is that played out? Right. In that gave the administration more power to end TPS,
particularly for Haitians and Syrians. And that's a program that allows people to stay in the U.S. because their countries have been considered unsafe to return to. The administration is arguing they need to either find a way to adjust their status or leave. And now hundreds of thousands of people are waiting to see when they may lose permission to legally live and work in the U.S. You mentioned that the case was specifically about Haitians and Syrians, but other groups could
be affected next I take it. So who are they? Right. Officially, there are only four countries that still have TPS that has not reached an expiration date yet. That's Lebanon, El Salvador, Sudan, and Ukraine. And some Venezuelans still also have an active TPS. This all totals to more than a
quarter of a million people. And all of these designations will expire by the end of this year.
El Salvador, particularly, has had TPS since 2001. And I spoke with Todd Shulti of forward.us and immigrant advocacy group. And he says it's possible that by the end of the year, there's no one with TPS. These are people who have been building their lives here for over a quarter century. And there is no precedent in modern immigration history for revoking status, population like that. I asked the Department of Homeland Security who status they could
terminate next, but they didn't respond. And this administration has been a sharp critic of TPS. Are you in that the program is meant to be temporary? Overall then, how could the court end up shaping Trump's immigration policy? If you can put all this together from TPS to this birthright citizenship issue? For a lot of families, it's just all related. The administration wants to limit how people can legally be in the country. And TPS is one way. And citizenship by birth is another.
There are TPS recipients who have US citizen children at the center of the birthright ruling. And even if birthright is supported by the court, immigrant advocates say that families may need to continue to be making this decision of weather to stay together. And you know, there was a lot of focus on people here without legal status. And the administration's policies have been focusing more towards narrowing legal migration. And sending these cases to be litigated at the highest
court underscores that message. That is, and PR immigration policy correspondent, Hemena Bustillo. Hemena, thank you. Thank you. Primary elections in Colorado today could yield some clues about voter preferences nationwide. Yes, I'm national themes are emerging in races for governor and the senate and the house. There's a democratic socialist candidate, competition for Latino votes, and rural voters
worried they're being left out. Bentham Berkland with Colorado Public Radio is following all this. And she's with us now. Bentham Good Morning. Thanks for joining us. Thanks so much for having me. So these are primaries, which means you know parties are sorting out their candidates
“for the fall. So let's start with Congress. What are the key races there? In Denver,”
Democrat, Diana DeGat has held this congressional seat for three decades. And she's facing two
challengers. Maylock Curos is a 29-year-old first-time candidate and a Democratic socialist.
We will see if they can continue their momentum after wins in New York primaries. The other candidate is Wanda James, a University of Colorado Region. The winner in this race is the overwhelming
Favorite in November.
Are the challenges to get drawing like a generational contrast? Is that part of their campaign?
“Yes, it is part of their campaign. I think we are from a lot of voters dissatisfaction”
was what's happening at the national level and the push for fresh phases and younger candidates is plain into the race. There's also a race in what's considered a toss-up district that has a Republican game Evans incumbent now. Can you tell us about that? Yes, Evans doesn't have a Republican challenger, but two Democrats are vying to oppose him. Former State Lawmaker Shannon Bird, she builds herself as a bridge builder in this purple district, and current State Lawmaker
Mani Rootnell. He's leaning into his history as the child of an immigrant and in this heavily Latino district says Bird hasn't done enough to oppose ICE. You've also been reporting on rural voters who've been affected a lot by tariffs and energy prices and presumably that could
“impact some of these races. What are you hearing? We heard dissatisfaction with Washington.”
Caleb Mezner is 27. He works in construction. He voted for President Trump twice, but doesn't support the direction of the country and how expensive things are. Seems like we have kind of a ruling class that doesn't have to follow any of the rules anymore, and we just all kind of face the brunt of it. And I just don't think that's any way we're supposed to live. That's not the values our country was created on. Another voter, John Iononi,
is from Colorado's Eastern Plains. He's a data center engineer and farmer and an unafiliated voter. I'm furious that when I ran in another war, when they promised we weren't going to be in a war, the tariffs cost me a fortune. I was really upset about that. He said he reluctantly voted for
“Trump in the last election, but is not happy with how his second term is going. Okay,”
but Trump isn't on the ballot. So did you get the impression from these voters that they were going to take Trump's performance into account when making their decision about the congressional representatives? Certainly in some of the races, especially the Democratic primaries, Trump is front and center and all the ads, and a lot of the messaging is around how much candidates
have or will push pathogens to the Trump administration. And finally, Democratic government
Jared Polis, he's term limited, so who's looking to replace him? In the Republican primary, there are two state lawmakers, Scott Bottoms, who's also a pastor and Barbara Kirkmeyer, and there's a political outsider, Victor Marks. He served in the Marine Corps and says he's a high-risk humanitarian who's rescued people overseas, but opponents say he's lying. As a blue state, the stakes are especially high on the Democratic side. In that race, there's a well-known
name, U.S. Senator Michael Bennett, and Colorado Attorney General Phil Wiser. And while they have similar policy positions, both are trying to run on pushing back against the Trump administration. That's Colorado Policure. It has been to Berkland in Denver. Bent a thank you. Thanks so much.
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