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Windsor Johnston
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. The Supreme Court has denied an emergency request from Florida to let it implement a law which bar undocumented immigrants from entering the state. NPR's Jasmine Gardz reports. The law imposes criminal penalties on immigrants without papers.
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Jasmine Gardz
Florida officials have stated they hope to spearhead the Trump administration's immigration enforcement campaign. As part of that, this measure made it a state crime for unauthorized immigrants to come into Florida with a mandatory prison sentence. Two nonprofits, the Farm Worker association of Florida and the Florida Immigrant Coalition, sued to block enforcement of the law. The Supreme Court's order was brief. There was no written opinion. In recent years, several states have passed similar laws, including Texas, Oklahoma and Iowa. Four of those, including Florida, have now been blocked by lower courts who say they interfered with federal immigration law. Jasmine Garst, NPR News, New York.
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Windsor Johnston
The White House has made an abrupt turnaround on weapons to Ukraine. NPR's Tom Bowman reports. The move comes week after the Pentagon paused shipments of munitions.
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Tom Bowman
We really don't know. It might stem from Trump's frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his inability to bring the war to a close after more than three years. Remember, he said he can end the war in 24 hours. He said the Russian president is nice to us, but it turns out to be meaningless. Trump last week said he was very unhappy with his phone call with the Russian president, saying he wants to go all the way. Just keep killing people. It's no good.
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Windsor Johnston
That's NPR's Tom Bowman reporting. The CEO of the social media site X says she's stepping down. Linda Yaccarino did not say why she's leaving, but as NPR's John Ruich reports, her departure comes at a time of change for the platform.
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John Ruich
Yaccarino has a background in advertising and was brought in two years ago at a time when advertisers were fleeing following Musk's purchase of the platform formerly known as Twitter. In an announcement posted on X, Yaccarino did not explain why she was leaving, though she said she was proud of the X team and the business's turnaround. Her departure comes just days after Grok, the site's AI Chatbot, began spewing racist and anti Semitic content. That followed an update ordered by Musk that included instructions not to shy away from politically incorrect claims, quote, as long as they are well substantiated. Since leaving his role in the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge Musk, has been turning his attention back to his companies. John Ruich, NPR News.
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Windsor Johnston
Stocks traded higher today on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial Average was up 217 points at the close. The Nasdaq composite up 192. The S&P 500 rose 37. This is NPR News. A new kind of painkiller offers patients hope for an alternative to opioids, which come with a risk of addiction. But as NPR Sidney Lupkin reports, not everyone is able to get the Food.
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Sidney Lupkin
And Drug Administration approved a new non opioid drug earlier this year. It's a pill called Journavix, and it's for severe acute pain. Journavix works by blocking pain signals from where someone hurts. It was studied in patients after surgery, but insurance coverage has been slow. Dr. Jessica Burgess is a surgeon at Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Dr. Jessica Burgess
Surgeons we're very excited about the option to have a non opioid pain medicine for our patients. Unfortunately, I have yet to meet a surgeon that's been able to prescribe it.
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Sidney Lupkin
About 38% of people currently have insurance that covers it, according to the healthcare analytics firm mmit. Other doctors NPR spoke to said coverage has been steadily improving. Sidney Lupkin, NPR News.
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Windsor Johnston
Sanitation and municipal workers in Philadelphia are back on the job. Union leaders and the city have reached a tentative agreement ending a week long strike that resulted in trash piling up across the city. Union President Greg Bulwer says he's not happy with how the negotiations turned out.
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Greg Bulwer
That your union stood up and fought for you and we did the best we could with the circumstances we had in front of us.
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Windsor Johnston
Mayor Cherelle Parker is calling the agreement historic. In a statement, she says the contract increases worker pay by 14% over the next four years. This is NPR.
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