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Live from NPR News, I'm lakshmi Singh. The U.S. supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship. NPR's Tamara Keith reports. A decision announced today blocks President Trump's executive order.
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On the day he returned to office, January 20, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order reinterpreting the plain language of the 14th Amendment to strip the guarantee of citizenship from the children of immigrants either in the country illegally or with a temporary legal status. The court stopped short of weighing the constitutional question, but ruled Trump's order violates federal law. Trump says in a social media post that the decision is, quote, too bad for our country and says Congress should pass a law banning birthright citizenship. It is unlikely such a law could pass or pass constitutional muster. Tamara Keith, NPR News, the White House.
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In other rulings, a court barred transgender athletes from women's and girls sports in publicly funded schools and loosened campaign finance restrictions. New Jersey Congressman Thomas Kane, Jr. Has returned to work after more than three month unexplained absence. On the House floor today, he disclosed he was being treated for depression.
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It is physical, it is emotional, and until you experience it yourself, it is difficult to fully understand how powerful this illness can be.
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Cain stepped away in the middle of his re election campaign. He won an uncontested GOP primary earlier this month. A heat dome hovering over the Midwest will be moving east in the coming days, likely bringing record breaking triple digit temperatures to the Atlantic coast. Here's npr.
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Scott Newman, Residents in the Midwest, Tennessee and Pennsylvania, as well as New Jersey, southern New England, New York and the D.C. baltimore region are already seeing dangerously high temperatures as we head toward the Fourth of July weekend. Joe Wegman is a National Weather Service meteorologist. Probably 105, probably on the very top
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end, mostly for the Mid Atlantic, especially on Thursday and Friday.
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Wegman recommends staying indoors, taking frequent breaks and keeping hydrated. He says temperatures should taper off just slightly for the actual fourth. Scott Newman, NPR News.
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The U.S. and Iran say they've sent delegations to Jakarta, but NPR's Ruth Sherlock says they're not meeting each other.
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The White House says President Trump's son in law, Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff have gone to Doha. Iran says it's meeting with Qatari officials on topics including the release of billions of dollars in frozen assets. That was in the memorandum of understanding the MOU the US And Iran signed. Iran's president has said he expects around half of its frozen assets in Qatar to be released in this interim phase. Underpinning the hurry here is a 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 commit.
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It's npr. Immigration spurred mass protests and heavy police presence in South Africa today. Protesters marched down streets in major cities, including in Johannesburg, as recorded here by the Associated Press, after activists set today as the deadline for all unauthorized migrants to leave South Africa. Many blame the country's high unemployment and high crime, largely on migrants in South Africa illegally. Rising anti immigrant sentiment in recent weeks has prompted an exodus of African foreign nationals, many from Zimbabwe, Malawi and Nigeria. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Is pushing to loosen restrictions on a handful of peptides touted for wellness and longevity, but that's running into resistance at the fda. And Pierre's Wollstone explains the peptide therapies
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in question are not FDA approved and haven't been tested in rigorous clinical trials. The Biden administration placed restrictions on many of them due to safety concerns and a lack of evidence. Now Kennedy has said he'd like to undo that so compounding pharmacies can legally offer them again. An advisory panel to the FDA is set to take up that proposal in three weeks and consider some of the most popular peptides with names like BPC157 and TB500. But briefing documents posted ahead of the meeting show that FDA scientists believe there is not enough evidence to make the changes. However, many of the panel members have ties to the peptide industry. Will stone, NPR News.
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U.S. stocks have ended the day higher. The Nasdaq closed up 1 1/2 percent, or 393 points. The Dow is up 134 points. It's NPR News.
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