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12 Nov 2025

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My country, 'tis of thee,
sweet land of liberty,
of thee I sing:
land where my fathers died,
land of the pilgrims' pride,
from every mountainside
let freedom ring!

No more shall tyrants here
With haughty steps appear,
And soldier bands;
No more shall tyrants tread
Above the patriot dead—
No more our blood be shed
By alien hands.

Let music swell the breeze,
and ring from all the trees
sweet freedom's song:
let mortal tongues awake,
let all that breathe partake;
let rocks their silence break,
the sound prolong.

Samuel Smith
1831

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The New York Times

JOE RENNISON
Reporting

The Dollar Has Its Worst Start to a Year Since 1973
The dollar is off to its worst start to a year in more than half a century. The United States' currency has weakened more than 10 percent over the past six months when compared with a basket of currencies from the country's major trading partners. The last time the dollar weakened so much at the start of the year was 1973, when the United States made a seismic shift and ended the linking of the dollar to the price of gold. This time the seismic event is President Trump's efforts to remake the world order with an aggressive tariff push and a more isolationist foreign policy.

The Associated Press

MARK SHERMAN
Reporting

Supreme Court Takes Up a Republican Appeal to End Limits on Party Spending in Federal Elections
The Supreme Court will take up a Republican-led drive, backed by President Donald Trump's administration, to wipe away limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president. The justices said Monday they will review an appellate ruling that upheld a provision of federal election law that is more than 50 years old, ignoring pleas from Democrats to leave the law in place. The Supreme Court itself upheld it in 2001. But since Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court in 2005, a conservative majority has upended a variety of congressionally enacted limits on raising and spending money to influence elections.

The Guardian

EDWARD HELMORE
Reporting

Trump's Justice Department Issues Directive to Strip Naturalized Americans of Citizenship for Criminal Offenses
A Justice Department memo, published June 11, calls on attorneys in the department to institute civil proceedings to revoke a person's U.S. citizenship if an individual either "illegally procured" naturalization or procured naturalization by "concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation." At the center of the move are the estimated 25 million U.S. citizens who immigrated to the country after being born abroad. It lists 10 different priority categories for denaturalization. Immigration attorneys are concerned that denaturalization via civil litigation strips some rights from the individual, including rights to an attorney as well as lowering the threshold of proof and speeding up the denaturalization process. "It is kind of, in a way, trying to create a second class of U.S. citizens," said Sameera Hafiz, policy director of the Immigration Legal Resource Center, to NPR.

NPR Morning Edition

LUKE GARRETT
Reporting

Republican Leaders Struggle to Find Balance on Reconciliation Bill
Republican leaders must find a fragile balance on their reconciliation bill between senators seeking to protect programs for the most vulnerable and those who want deeper deficit reductions.

NPR Morning Edition

MICHAEL COPLEY
Reporting

Solar Manufacturing Is Booming. Advocates Say It Could Go Bust Without Incentives
Congressional Republicans are on the verge of rolling back clean-energy tax credits as part of a huge tax-and-spending bill that's a cornerstone of President Trump's second-term agenda. On the chopping block are incentives that encourage solar developers to buy American-made products, like solar panels and components. Abruptly unwinding the incentives would threaten a decade-long push to onshore solar manufacturing and challenge China's dominance of the sector, according to industry executives and analysts.

NPR Morning Edition

BRENDEN CANTWELL
Michigan State

The Impact of UVA's President Resignation on Public Higher Education
The University of Virginia's President resigned under pressure from the Trump administration. Leila Fadel asks Professor Brenden Cantwell at Michigan State about the impact on public higher education.

The Associated Press

PHILIP MARCELO
TED SHAFFREY
Reporting

NYC, San Francisco and Other U.S. Cities Cap LGBTQ+ Pride Month With a Mix of Party and Protest
The monthlong celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride reached its rainbow-laden crescendo Sunday as huge crowds took part in jubilant, daylong street parties from New York to San Francisco. Pride celebrations typically weave politics and protest together with colorful pageantry, but this year's iterations took a decidedly more defiant stance as Republicans, led by President Donald Trump, have sought to roll back LGBTQ+ friendly policies. The theme of the festivities in Manhattan was, appropriately, "Rise Up: Pride in Protest." San Francisco's Pride theme was "Queer Joy is Resistance," while Seattle was simply "Louder."

NPR

JUDE JOFFE-BLOCK
MILES PARKS
Reporting

The Trump Administration Is Building a National Citizenship Data System
The Trump administration has, for the first time ever, built a searchable national citizenship data system. The tool, which is being rolled out in phases, is designed to be used by state and local election officials to give them an easier way to ensure only citizens are voting. But it was developed rapidly without a public process and some of those officials are already worrying about what else it could be used for.

The New York Times

BRAD PLUMER
Reporting

G.O.P. Bill Adds Surprise Tax That Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power
Senate Republicans have quietly inserted provisions in President Trump's domestic policy bill that would not only end federal support for wind and solar energy but would impose an entirely new tax on future projects, a move that industry groups say could devastate the renewable power industry. The tax provision, tucked inside the 940-page bill that the Senate made public just after midnight on Friday, stunned observers. "This is how you kill an industry," said Bob Keefe, executive director of E2, a nonpartisan group of business leaders and investors. "And at a time when electricity prices and demand are soaring."

The New York Times

MARGOT SANGER-KATZ
Reporting

G.O.P. Bill Has $1.1 Trillion in Health Cuts and 11.8 Million Losing Care, C.B.O. Says
Republicans' marquee domestic policy bill that is making its way through the Senate would result in deeper cuts and more Americans losing health insurance coverage than the original measure that passed the House last month, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office. According to a report published late Saturday night, the legislation would mean 11.8 million more Americans would become uninsured by 2034. Federal spending on Medicaid, Medicare and Obamacare would be reduced by more than $1.1 trillion over that period -- with more than $1 trillion of those cuts coming from Medicaid alone.

NPR Weekend Edition

SCOTT HORSLEY
Reporting

Looking Forward to July 4 Fireworks? Tariffs May Take the Spark Out of Your Fun
Americans will soon be celebrating the Fourth of July with cookouts, parades and, of course, fireworks. But those fireworks may be more costly and harder to come by this year, as a result of President Trump's tariffs. Fireworks got a pass from the U.S.-China trade war the last time Trump was in office. But not this year. Like almost everything the U.S. buys from China, fireworks were hit with double- and even triple-digit tariffs this spring. Some importers simply halted deliveries to avoid the import taxes.

NPR Weekend Edition

DAVID BIER
Cato Institute

Trump's Mass Deportation Policy Could Cost the Economy
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Cato Institute immigration expert David Bier how much the Trump administration's mass deportation program could cost.

NPR Weekend Edition

AYESHA RASCOE
Reporting

How U.S. Strikes on Iran Could Impact Nuclear Non-Proliferation Across the World
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, about how U.S. strikes on Iran could impact nuclear proliferation globally.

The Associated Press

MAKIYA SEMINERA
Reporting

Protesters Line Highway in Florida Everglades to Oppose 'Alligator Alcatraz'
A coalition of groups, ranging from environmental activists to Native Americans advocating for their ancestral homelands, converged outside an airstrip in the Florida Everglades Saturday to protest the imminent construction of an immigrant detention center.

Living on Earth

RICHARD LAZARUS
Harvard Law School

EPA Ignores Climate Dangers
This June the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed eliminating regulations that limit climate changing gases from power plants, about a quarter of U.S. emissions. Harvard Law Professor Richard Lazarus, an environmental and constitutional law scholar and author of The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court, speaks with host Steve Curwood about the perils of the broader Trump administration effort to weaken federal environmental protections.

NPR Weekend Edition

REBECCA HERSHER
Reporting

Defense Department Will Stop Providing Crucial Satellite Weather Data
For more than 40 years, the Defense Department has operated satellites that collect information about conditions in the atmosphere and ocean. A group within the Navy, called the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, processes the Raw data from the satellites and turns it over to scientists and weather forecasters who use it for a wide range of purposes including real-time hurricane forecasting and measuring sea ice in polar regions. This week, the Department of Defense announced that it would no longer provide that data, according to a notice published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA. The Navy did not respond to questions about why it has stopped sharing the data with scientists and forecasters.

NPR Weekend Edition

SELENA SIMMONS-DUFFIN
Reporting

CDC Grant Funding Is Moving So Slowly Layoffs Are Happening
Health departments around the country have noticed there's something strange happening with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: It's not showing up on schedule and there's been no communication about why. According to two CDC staff members with knowledge of the agency's budget, the CDC has yet to receive its full funding for the 2025 fiscal year. The Department of Health and Human Services did not answer NPR's questions for this story.

Here & Now

KALYN BELSHA
Reporting

SCOTUS Sides With Parents Trying to Opt Kids Out of School Lessons
The Supreme Court sided on Friday with parents trying to opt kids out of certain school lessons that conflict with their religious beliefs. We learn more about what this means for schools, parents and educators with Kalyn Belsha, national education reporter at Chalkbeat.

PBS News Hour

DEEMA ZEIN
Reporting

Communities Fight Back Against States Banning Pride Flags on Government Buildings
This year marks a decade since same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide. But in several Republican-led states, efforts are underway to ban Pride flags from public schools and government buildings, sparking a wave of local resistance.

PBS News Hour

LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press

Pentagon Strips Harvey Milk's Name From Ship
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that the USNS Harvey Milk will be renamed after a World War II sailor who received the Medal of Honor, stripping the ship of the name of a slain gay rights activist who served during the Korean War. The decision is the latest move by Hegseth to wipe away names of ships and military bases that were given by President Joe Biden's Democratic administration, which in many cases chose to honor service members who were women, minorities, from the LBGTQ community and more. Hegseth's announcement comes during Pride Month -- the same timing as the Pentagon's campaign to force transgender troops out of the U.S. military. The USNS Harvey Milk was named in 2016 by then-Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who said at the time that the John Lewis-class of oilers would be named after leaders who fought for civil and human rights.

NPR Morning Edition

OBED MANUEL
Reporting

U.S. Marine Veteran Says Father's Violent Arrest by Immigration Agents Was 'Inhumane'
Alejandro Barranco threw his phone to the ground after watching how a masked federal immigration agent repeatedly punched his father in the head and neck during a workplace raid. The scene in Santa Ana, Calif. was captured in a now-viral video that shows Alejandro's father, Narciso Barranco, pinned to the floor by three federal agents on June 21. In the video, Barranco does not appear to be resisting arrest when the agent strikes him. Alejandro, a 25-year-old U.S. Marine veteran whose two younger brothers are active duty Marines, said in an interview with Morning Edition that the agents' actions were "unprofessional and uncalled for." "I don't think it represents our law enforcement officers, anything like that. I was really, really mad when I saw that. I couldn't believe it," Alejandro added. "The way they treated him, like, so inhumane."

NPR Morning Edition

DARIAN WOODS
Reporting

Cuts Under the Trump Administration Have Gutted the PEPFAR Program
In 2003 George W. Bush set up the global health initiative PEPFAR in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Over the last couple of decades, it's saved millions of lives for relatively little money. But cuts under the Trump administration have gutted the program. An estimated 70,000 people have died already due to the cutbacks. Journalist Jon Cohen visited Eswatini and Lesotho to learn about the suspended program's effects on the ground.

The Guardian

JOSEPH GEDEON
Reporting

U.S. Supreme Court Limits Judges' Power on Nationwide Injunctions
The U.S. supreme court has supported Donald Trump's attempt to limit district judges' power to block his orders on a nationwide basis, in an emergency appeal related to the birthright citizenship case but with wide implications for the executive branch's power. The court's opinion on the constitutionality of whether some American-born children can be deprived of citizenship remains undecided and the fate of the U.S. president's order to overturn birthright citizenship rights was left unclear. The decision on Friday morning, however, decided six votes to three by the nine-member supreme court bench, sides with the Trump administration in a historic case that boosts tested presidential power and judicial oversight in the second Trump administration.

PBS News Hour

LISA DESJARDINS
Reporting

Who Gains and Who Loses Under Trump's Big Budget Bill
President Trump's big budget bill faces a significant test as the Senate prepares to start voting as soon as Friday. It comes as the Senate parliamentarian ruled that some major Medicaid changes in the bill do not qualify for the budget process Republicans are using. Lisa Desjardins reports on where the bill stands and who could gain or lose from it.

PBS News Hour

GEOFF BENNETT
Reporting

Trump's Former Surgeon General Raises Concerns About Vaccine Panel Overhauled by RFK Jr.
A shift in a key vaccine advisory committee has raised alarms among public health experts. The ACIP routinely makes recommendations to the CDC. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired every prior member of the panel and appointed seven new ones. They just finished a two-day meeting pushing for a new direction. Geoff Bennett discussed more with former Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams.

All Things Considered

CHLOE VELTMAN
Reporting

Asked to Flag 'Negative' National Park Content, Visitors Gave Their Own Two Cents Instead
Signs installed earlier this month in national parks across the country asking visitors to share feedback on "any signs or other information that are negative about past or living Americans" are eliciting all sorts of reactions. But comments viewed by NPR don't provide the requested feedback. Linda Mosinian from Milwaukee, Wis. wrote: "I think this is a waste of time."

All Things Considered

AMANDA ARONCZYK
Reporting

Trump Says Anti-Bribery Laws Are Crippling U.S. Businesses, So He's Changing the Rules
President Trump has said anti-corruption law is crippling American businesses. Since taking office, his administration has reduced the number of investigators, killed some cases and changed the rules.

The Guardian

Reporting

U.S. Citizen Arrested During ICE Raid in What Family Describes as 'Kidnapping'
U.S. citizen was arrested during an immigration raid in downtown Los Angeles this week in what her family described as a "kidnapping" by federal immigration agents. Andrea Velez, 32, had just been dropped off at work by her mother and sister, the pair said, when they saw agents grab her. "My mom looked at the rear mirror and she saw how my sister was attacked from the back," Estrella Rosas told ABC7. "She was like: 'They're kidnapping your sister.'" Witnesses told media, including CBS Los Angeles, that the agents never asked Velez for identification and that she did nothing wrong. "The only thing wrong with her ... was the color of her skin," Velez's mother, Margarita Flores, told CBS Los Angeles.

The Guardian

JESSICA GLENZAE
Reporting

RFK Jr.'s New Vaccine Panel Votes Against Preservative in Flu Shots in Shock Move
A critical federal vaccine panel has recommended against seasonal influenza vaccines containing a specific preservative -- a change likely to send shock through the global medical and scientific community and possibly impact future vaccine availability. The panel was unilaterally remade by health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a vaccine skeptic who has urged against the use of thimerosal despite a lack of evidence of real-world harm. "There is a very big difference between what was shared at the meeting vs. what is reality," said Dr Sean O'Leary, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases. "The science on thimerosal is settled and the rhetoric being used to suggest otherwise is misleading and harmful."

The New York Times

MINHO KIM
MEGAN MINEIRO
Reporting

Trump Urges Congress to 'Kill' Voice of America as Its Leader Defends Gutting It
Kari Lake urged Congress on Wednesday to gut the Voice of America and other federally-funded news organizations she oversees, as lawmakers of both parties expressed concern about the move. In a hearing on Capitol Hill that grew testy at times, Lake defended proposed cuts to the global news organizations, while Democrats and some Republicans warned that they could make it impossible for the United States to disseminate information to countries with limited press freedoms, such as Iran, China and Russia.

NPR Morning Edition

CLAUDIA GRISALES
Reporting

Senate Republicans Stall on Trump's Spending Package Over Medicaid Cuts
Senate Republicans have hit a roadblock in their quest to pass Trump's sweeping domestic agenda by July 4.

NPR Morning Edition

JUDE JOFFE-BLOCK
Reporting

The Trump Administration Is Making an Unprecedented Reach for Data Held by States
The Trump administration's push to rapidly amass sensitive personal information about hundreds of millions of people living in the U.S. is extending to troves of databases run by states. In some instances, the data could be leveraged to enhance the federal government's immigration enforcement efforts, a break with longstanding norms and practices that also raises legal questions. "Every week we're seeing new examples of this administration demanding or sharing sensitive government data for unprecedented uses," said Nicole Schneidman, who heads the technology and data governance team at Protect Democracy. Schneidman said Americans should understand "the data that they have entrusted to state governments right now is truly a target."

The Guardian

EDWARD HELMORE
Reporting

Trump's Justice Department Sues Entire Bench of Maryland Judges Over Order Restricting Deportations
Donald Trump's justice department has sued the federal judiciary in Maryland over an order that bars the government from deporting undocumented immigrants for at least one day after they file a legal challenge to their detention. The complaint alleges that Maryland's chief judge, George Russell, issued an "unlawful, antidemocratic" order granting a two-day stay of deportation to any detainee in immigration custody who files a petition alleging wrongful detention. But the move to sue an entire bench of federal judges in a single district illustrates pressure coming from the Trump administration on the judiciary to fall in line with the administration's policies.

The Guardian

JOANNA PARTRIDGE
Reporting

Dollar Falls to Three-Year Low After Report Trump May Name Next Fed Chair Early
The dollar has fallen to a three-year low following a report that Donald Trump is considering bringing forward the announcement of his choice to succeed the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell. Trump has repeatedly clashed with Powell, accusing the central bank chief of being too slow to cut interest rates, calling him "very dumb" on Tuesday. Powell's term runs another 11 months, until next May, and the announcement of a successor traditionally comes three or four months in advance. However, the Wall Street Journal reported Trump was considering announcing Powell's replacement in September or October, sending the dollar down 0.5 percent against a basket of other currencies to its weakest level since the start of March 2022.

The Guardian

CARTER SHERMAN
Reporting

Supreme Court Paves Way for South Carolina and Other States to Defund Planned Parenthood
The U.S. supreme court has paved the way for South Carolina to kick Planned Parenthood out of its Medicaid program over its status as an abortion provider, a decision that could embolden red states across the country to effectively "defund" the reproductive healthcare organization. The case in front of the supreme court did not directly deal with the question of whether South Carolina could legally remove Planned Parenthood from Medicaid. Instead, the justices were asked to weigh in on a highly technical question: do Medicaid beneficiaries have the right to sue if they believe their right to a free choice of provider has been violated? In a 6-3 decision joined by every member of the court's conservative supermajority, the justices ruled that, essentially, individuals do not possess that "enforceable right." These technicalities cloaked the potentially sweeping consequences of the case. If people can't sue when they believe a state is violating Medicaid, it is far harder to stop states from discriminating against controversial care, such as abortion, Nicole Huberfeld, a health law professor at Boston University's School of Public Health, told the Guardian ahead of oral arguments.

PBS News Hour

LISA DESJARDINS
Reporting

Senate Committee Hears White House Request to Claw Back Foreign Aid, Public Media Funding
On Capitol Hill, senators questioned President Trump's budget director over the administration's request to claw back funds for foreign aid and public media

PBS News Hour

CARRIE JOHNSON
Reporting

Trump Judicial Nominee Faces Scrutiny for Willingness to Defy Court Orders
A top Justice Department official nominated by President Trump to serve as a federal judge faced tough questions from Senate Democrats. Emil Bove has faced intense scrutiny for some of the DOJ's most aggressive actions in recent months, including the firing of prosecutors and FBI agents who investigated the president and Jan. 6. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Carrie Johnson of NPR.

All Things Considered

STEVE WALSH
Reporting

Stripping the Harvey Milk Name From a Navy Ship Is a Gut Punch, Gay Sailor Says
The Pentagon is looking to rename ships named after civil rights icons, including the gay rights leader Harvey Milk. For LTBTQ sailors who saw the Navy as a refuge, it feels like a betrayal.

All Things Considered

CAMILA DOMONOSKE
Reporting

Judge Orders Trump Administration to Resume Distributing Money for EV Chargers
A federal judge in Washington state has ordered the Trump administration to resume distributing money to build EV chargers to 14 states, which had sued to challenge the ongoing freeze on those funds.

The New York Times

STEPHANIE NOLEN
Reporting

Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support
A breakthrough preventive drug, lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injection that offers total protection from H.I.V., was to be rapidly rolled out across eastern and southern Africa. The main target: young women. About 300,000 of them were newly infected with the virus last year -- half of all new infections worldwide. Every one of these plans has been derailed by the Trump administration's slashing of foreign assistance.

The Guardian

SAM LEVIN
Reporting

The Alarming Rise of U.S. Officers Hiding Behind Masks: 'A Police State'
Across the country, armed federal immigration officers have increasingly hidden their identities while carrying out immigration raids, arresting protesters and roughing up prominent Democratic critics. Mike German, a former FBI agent, said officers' widespread use of masks was unprecedented in U.S. law enforcement and a sign of a rapidly eroding democracy. "Masking symbolizes the drift of law enforcement away from democratic controls," he said. The practice could erode trust in the U.S. law enforcement agencies: "When it's hard to tell who a masked individual is working for, it's hard to accept that that is a legitimate use of authority," he noted.

NPR Shots

PIEN HUANG
Reporting

RFK Jr.'S Picks for CDC Vaccine Advisers Meet This Week Amid Controversy
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which helps craft federal vaccine policy and recommendations for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, begins a two-day meeting in Atlanta Wednesday. The committee meets over the objections of Senators Bill Cassidy, R-La. and Patty Murray, D-Wash., chair and former chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, who have both called for the meeting to be postponed over concerns about the new committee members. Many of the panel's eight new members don't have deep, current expertise in vaccines. Some rose to prominence in recent years by spreading false claims about them.

NPR Morning Edition

MICHEL MARTIN
Reporting

Rep. Mike Quigley on Intel Suggesting Limited Damage to Iran's Nuclear Program
NPR's Michel Martin asks Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley of Illinois about a cancelled congressional briefing on Iran and intelligence suggesting limited damage to Iran's nuclear program from U.S. strikes.

NPR Morning Edition

A MARTÍNEZ
GREG MYRE
Reporting

Intelligence Assessment Says Iran's Nuclear Program Was Only Set Back 'A Few Months'
New intelligence suggests U.S. strikes only set Iran's nuclear back by months, contrary to claims by President Trump, repeated at today's NATO press conference, that the strikes demolished key nuclear enrichment facilities.

PBS News Hour

SEUNG MIN KIM
Reporting

Trump Says Commitment to NATO Mutual Defense Guarantee 'Depends on Your Definition'
President Donald Trump on Tuesday injected some uncertainty over whether the U.S. would abide by the mutual defense guarantees outlined in the NATO treaty as he headed to its summit -- comments that could revive long-standing concern from European allies about his commitment to the military alliance. "Depends on your definition," Trump told reporters as he was headed to The Hague, where this year's summit is being held. "There's numerous definitions of Article 5. You know that, right? But I'm committed to being their friends." Asked later aboard Air Force One to clarify, Trump said he is "committed to saving lives" and "committed to life and safety" but did not expand further, saying he didn't want to elaborate while flying on an airplane. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, later pressed by reporters, said that he has no doubt about the U.S. commitment to NATO and its Article 5 guarantee, which says an armed attack on one member is an attack on all.

PBS News Hour

MATTHEW DALY
Reporting

Republican Plan to Sell Millions of Acres of Federal Lands Found to Violate Senate Rules
A plan to sell more than 2 million acres of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans' big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined the proposal by Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee would violate the chamber's rules.

PBS News Hour

GEOFF BENNETT
Reporting

Sen. Warner Questions Administration's Delay of Iran Strike Briefing
On Capitol Hill, planned briefings from intelligence officials on the rapidly changing situation in the Middle East were postponed. The Senate briefing is now set for Thursday and the House briefing on Friday. Geoff Bennett discussed the White House's reason for pushing back the briefings with Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The Guardian

ROBERT TAIT
Reporting

Man Wrongfully Deported to El Salvador Must Be Returned to U.S., Court Rules
An appeals court has ordered the Trump administration to return a man wrongfully deported to El Salvador to the U.S. and to explain how it is complying in a ruling apparently designed to break a pattern of apparent government defiance of judicial orders. The U.S. court of appeals for the second circuit in New York also required the government to provide a declaration of the current whereabouts and custodial status of Jordin Melgar-Salmeron, who was deported on 7 May less than half an hour after the court had expressly barred his removal.

Here & Now

LIZZY LAWRENCE
Reporting

Top FDA Drug Regulator to Retire, Adding to Long List of Agency Departures
The top drug regulator at the Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that she's retiring in July. Her departure is the latest in a series of top leaders leaving the FDA since President Trump took office. Lizzy Lawrence, FDA reporter at STAT, joins us to discuss.

Here & Now

ERNEST MONIZ
Former Energy Secretary

Former Energy Secretary on the State of Iran's Nuclear Program
President Trump insists that the U.S. attack over the weekend destroyed Iran's nuclear enrichment program, hitting one underground site -- Fordo -- with bunker-busting bombs. Former Energy Secretary and Iran nuclear deal negotiator Ernest Moniz shares what he knows now about Iran's nuclear program days after U.S. missiles struck its main sites and whether he thinks diplomacy can set limits on its redevelopment.

Here & Now

JULIAN ZELIZER
Princeton University

Question About Presidential War Powers Resurface
President Trump's authorization of strikes against Iran without congressional approval has irked some on Capitol Hill. Princeton University historian Julian Zelizer joins host Peter O'Dowd to discuss exactly how much power the president has when it comes to declaring war and the history of when that power has -- and has not -- been used.

The New York Times

ANTONY J. BLINKEN
Former Secretary of State

Antony Blinken: Trump's Iran Strike Was a Mistake. I Hope It Succeeds.
"The strike on three of Iran's nuclear facilities by the United States was unwise and unnecessary. Now that it's done, I very much hope it succeeded."

The Guardian

CECILIA NOWELL
Reporting

Trump Rescinds Protections on 59m Acres of National Forest to Allow Logging
The Trump administration will rescind protections that prevent logging on nearly a third of national forest lands, including the largest old growth forest in the country, the agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, announced on Monday. The announcement will be followed by a formal notice rescinding the "roadless rule," a nickname for the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, in coming weeks, the Associated Press reports. The rule prohibits road building and logging on all national forest land without roads, accounting for about 59m acres (24m hectares) of U.S. national forest land

The Guardian

CALLUM JONES
Reporting

Federal Reserve Chair Defends Holding Interest Rates After Fresh Trump Attacks
The Federal Reserve is well placed to wait and see how tariffs affect U.S. prices before cutting interest rates, its chair, Jerome Powell, insisted, defying renewed demands from Donald Trump. The U.S. president has disregarded the central bank's longstanding independence to repeatedly call for rate cuts to spur economic growth and launch a series of personal attacks on Powell. On Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Powell reiterated that Trump's tariffs were "likely" to increase prices -- potentially challenging the Fed's years-long effort to bring down U.S. inflation. He noted, however, that the administration's policies frequently shift.

The Guardian

MICHAEL SAINATO
Reporting

'People Are Going to Die': How Medicaid Work Requirements Cost People Their Health Insurance
Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" will cut Medicaid across the U.S. by 7.6 million to 10.3 million people, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates, with the majority of the cuts as a result of work reporting requirements, increasing barriers for enrollment and renewal of Medicaid coverage and limiting states' ability to raise state Medicaid funds through provider taxes. Medicaid recipients and advocates are warning of the negative impacts of work reporting requirements, pointing to the examples of the two states to have already tried work requirements for Medicaid, Georgia and, briefly, Arkansas.

NPR Morning Edition

LEILA FADEL
Reporting

A Journalist Known for Covering Immigration Is Arrested by ICE
A journalist originally from El Salvador, known for covering immigration in the U.S., was detained by U.S. Immigration officials after covering a protest in Georgia. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Katherine Jacobsen of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

NPR Morning Edition

ANDREA HSU
Reporting

Trump Loves Saying 'You're Fired.' Now He's Making It Easier to Fire Federal Workers
Five months into his second term, Trump is changing long standing norms around hiring and firing federal employees as he seeks to assert far greater control over those tasked with carrying out his agenda. A key part of this makeover is the Office of Personnel Management's proposed rule "Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service." It would allow the administration to move tens of thousands of civil servants into a new category of employees who would serve at the pleasure of the president. The president's critics say Trump is politicizing the civil service and they warn of consequences for the American people.

NPR Morning Edition

SACHA PFEIFFER
Reporting

Trump Said He'd Send 30,000 Migrants to Guantánamo. He's Sent About 500
When NPR sent the Trump administration a list of 13 questions asking how it's using Guantánamo for its migrant removal efforts, the Department of Homeland Security emailed a brief reply saying, "This story is Fake News." However, a congressional delegation that toured Guantánamo in March has supplied glimpses of what's happening there. The average daily cost of holding a migrant at Guantánamo, for example, is about $100,000. For comparison, it costs about $165 a day to keep a migrant in ICE detention in the U.S. Following the trip, Democratic Michigan Sen. Gary Peters and Democratic California Sen. Alex Padilla sent a letter to President Trump decrying the "egregious use of taxpayer dollars" being spent on holding migrants at Guantánamo and requesting a breakdown of costs, among other information.

Here & Now

PETER O'DOWD
Reporting

What Options Does Congress Have to Shore Up Social Security?
A new report finds cuts to Social Security benefits could be triggered in less than a decade if Congress doesn't make legislative changes to the program. Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd learns more with Jill Schlesinger, a CBS News business analyst and host of "Jill On Money."

All Things Considered

WAYNE SCHUTSKY
Reporting

Immigration Officials Are Going After People Seeking Asylum
President Trump promised to carry out the most deportations in U.S. history, focused on criminals. But now, immigration officials are going after asylum seekers who say they're fleeing persecution.

The Associated Press

JACK BROOK
Reporting

ICE Detains Marine Corps Veteran's Wife Who Was Still Breastfeeding Their Baby
Marine Corps veteran Adrian Clouatre doesn't know how to tell his children where their mother went after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained her last month. His wife, Paola, is one of tens of thousands of people in custody and facing deportation as the Trump administration pushes for immigration officers to arrest 3,000 people a day. "I'm all for 'get the criminals out of the country,' right?" he said. "But the people that are here working hard, especially the ones married to Americans -- I mean, that's always been a way to secure a green card."

The Guardian

CARTER SHERMAN
Reporting

Abortions in the U.S. Are on the Rise Three Years After Roe v Wade Was Overturned
Three years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, erasing the national right to abortion and paving the way for more than a dozen states to ban the procedure, the number of abortions performed in the U.S. is still on the rise -- including in some states that ban the procedure. "We were really surprised to see the numbers go up over time," said Ushma Upadhyay, a University of California, San Francisco professor who serves as co-chair of the #WeCount steering committee. "Abortion bans haven't really stopped people from needing abortion care. It's just made it harder for them to be able to get them."

The Guardian

JESSICA GLENZA
Reporting

Republican Senators' Proposed Medicaid Cuts Threaten to Send Red States 'Backwards'
Advocates are urging Senate Republicans to reject a proposal to cut billions from American healthcare to extend tax breaks that primarily benefit the wealthy and corporations. "With the text released earlier this week, somehow the Senate made the House's 'big, bad budget bill' worse in many ways," said Anthony Wright, the executive director of Families USA, a consumer healthcare advocacy group, in a press call. The Senate's version makes deeper cuts to Medicaid and so-called Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) plans, "both by expanding paperwork requirements and making it harder for states to fund Medicaid coverage for their residents," said Wright.

NPR Morning Edition

A MARTÍNEZ
Reporting

National Park Service Struggles With Staff Shortages and Possible Budget Cuts
As many parks enter their busiest season, the National Park Service struggles with staff shortages and potential budget cuts. NPR's A Martinez went to Joshua Tree to speak to those feeling the impact.

NPR Morning Edition

LEILA FADEL
Reporting

Mahmoud Khalil Speaks After ICE Release
Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil spoke about his arrest, his time in detention and why he believes the government targeted him for protesting U.S. support for the war in Gaza. "It felt like kidnapping, to be honest," he said. "For almost 30 hours, until I arrived in Louisiana, I was fully disconnected from the world."

NPR Morning Edition

MICHEL MARTIN
OBED MANUEL
Reporting

Trump's Strikes on Iran a Gamble With 'No Endgame in Mind,' Says Sen. Mark Kelly
President Trump's decision to strike three nuclear sites over the weekend in Iran is a gamble with "no endgame in mind," according to Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz. In an interview with Morning Edition, Kelly, who serves on the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committees and flew missions as a naval aviator in the Gulf War, said he worries the strikes leave the U.S. in a "dangerous" moment.

NPR Morning Edition

STEPHEN FOWLER
Reporting

Trump Administration Defends Iranian Strikes as Some Lawmakers Question Its Legality
The Trump administration is defending a precision strike on Iranian nuclear sites Saturday that was carried out without congressional approval or notifying top Democratic lawmakers ahead of time. In television interviews Sunday morning, top administration officials repeatedly said the attack was a limited, targeted engagement to disrupt Iranian nuclear capabilities and not indicative of plans for longer involvement in the war between Iran and Israel. Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky co-authored a bipartisan War Powers Resolution with California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna last week that sought to prevent the U.S. from "unauthorized hostilities" with Iran.

NPR Morning Edition

GEOFF BRUMFIEL
ALYSON HURT
Reporting

Satellites Show Damage to Iran's Nuclear Program, but Experts Say It's Not Destroyed
U.S. officials say that strikes conducted on three key Iranian nuclear sites have devastated its nuclear program, but independent experts analyzing commercial satellite imagery say the nation's long-running nuclear enterprise is far from destroyed. "At the end of the day there are some really important things that haven't been hit," says Jeffrey Lewis, a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, who tracks Iran's nuclear facilities. "If this ends here, it's a really incomplete strike."

PBS News Hour

JOHN YANG
Reporting

Former National Security Adviser Analyzes U.S. Airstrikes on Iran
The Trump administration said "Operation Midnight Hammer" severely damaged or destroyed Iran's Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites. For more analysis of the strikes, John Yang speaks with retired Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, a Hoover Institution senior fellow who served as national security adviser during Trump's first term.

The New York Times

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Foreign Affairs Columnist

How the Attacks on Iran Are Part of a Much Bigger Global Struggle
To my mind, Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, with the sole aim of wiping its democracy off the map and absorbing it into Russia and the attacks on Israel in 2023 by Hamas and Iran's proxies in Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq, were manifestations of a global struggle between the forces of inclusion and the forces of resistance. That is a struggle between countries and leaders who see the world and their nations benefiting from more trade, more cooperation against global threats and more decent, if not democratic, governance -- vs. regimes whose leaders thrive on resisting those trends because conflict enables them to keep their people down, their armies strong and their thieving of their treasuries easy.

The Guardian

TIMOTHY PRATT
Reporting

ICE Detainee Dies in Transit as Experts Say More Deaths Likely
A 68-year-old Mexican-born man has become the first ICE detainee in at least a decade to die while being transported from a local jail to a federal detention center and experts have warned there will likely be more such deaths amid the current administration's "mass deportation" push across the U.S.. Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado's exact cause of death remains under investigation, according to Ice, but the Guardian's reporting reveals a confusing and at times contradictory series of events surrounding the incident.

NPR Weekend Edition

DAN SHAPIRO
Former Ambassador to Israel

Former U.S Ambassador to Israel Discusses U.S. Bombing of Iran
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Dan Shapiro, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, about the regional impact of American strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.

The Guardian

EDWARD HELMORE
Reporting

Democrats Say They Were Left in Dark About Plans for U.S. Strikes on Iran
Senior Democrats have claimed they were left in the dark about operation Midnight Hammer, the U.S.'s highly coordinated strike on Saturday on Iran's nuclear enrichment program. Neither Mark Warner, a U.S. senator of Virginia, nor Jim Himes, a representative of Connecticut, both top Democrats on the Senate and House intelligence panels, were briefed before the attack, according to reports. But that came amid claims that Republican counterparts were given advance notice of the operation. The U.S. attack of Iran came as most Democrats had left Washington for the Juneteenth holiday -- but the apparent lack of forewarning to lawmakers on intelligence committees is striking. Top lawmakers are typically informed of military operations in advance.

NPR Weekend Edition

STAFF
Reporting

Trump Announces the U.S. Has Bombed Iran's Nuclear Sites
President Trump ordered the U.S. military to bomb three Iranian sites he said were crucial to that nation's nuclear ambitions. Two B2 bombers with 30,000 pound bombs and a submarine with missiles attacked three Iranian nuclear sites.

The New York Times

RICHARD FAUSSET
Reporting

A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.
Preston Damsky is a law student at the University of Florida. He is also a white nationalist and antisemite. Last fall, he took a seminar taught by a federal judge on "originalism," the legal theory favored by many conservatives that seeks to interpret the Constitution based on its meaning when it was adopted. In his capstone paper for the class, Damsky argued that the framers had intended for the phrase "We the People," in the Constitution's preamble, to refer exclusively to white people. From there, he argued for the removal of voting rights protections for nonwhites and for the issuance of shoot-to-kill orders against "criminal infiltrators at the border." At the end of the semester, Damsky, 29, was given the "book award," which designated him as the best student in the class.

The New York Times

JONAH E. BROMWICH
LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ
Reporting

Detention Is Over for Students Trump Seeks to Deport. Not His Crackdown.
Masked immigration agents seizing a graduate student on a suburban street. Officers marching into campus housing and arresting another, ignoring his distraught wife as she asks where he is being taken. They have been among the defining images of President Trump's second term. But with Mahmoud Khalil's release on bail from federal detention on Friday, the early phase of the Trump administration's high-profile crackdown on international students who have spoken out in favor of Palestinian rights appears to have ended for now. The release of a small group of students is a welcome reprieve for them and their supporters, but the reality is that the Trump administration has broadened its efforts, moving aggressively to curb the number of all foreign students in the country as it seeks to expel immigrants in general.

The Associated Press

MICHAEL R. BLOOD
Reporting

Vance Blames California Dems for Violent Immigration Protests and Calls Sen. Alex Padilla 'Jose'
Vice President JD Vance on Friday accused California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass of encouraging violent immigration protests as he used his appearance in Los Angeles to rebut criticism from state and local officials that the Trump administration fueled the unrest by sending in federal officers. Vance also referred to U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, the state's first Latino senator, as "Jose Padilla," a week after the Democrat was forcibly taken to the ground by officers and handcuffed after speaking out during a Los Angeles news conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on immigration raids. "I was hoping Jose Padilla would be here to ask a question," Vance said, in an apparent reference to the altercation at Noem's event. "I guess he decided not to show up because there wasn't a theater. And that's all it is."

The Guardian

The Associated Press

Court Strikes Down Louisiana Law Requiring Display of Ten Commandments in Schools
A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state's public school classrooms is unconstitutional. The ruling on Friday marked a major win for civil liberties groups who say the mandate violates the separation of church and state -- and that the poster-sized displays would isolate students, especially those who are not Christian. Louisiana's attorney general, Liz Murrill, said she would appeal the ruling, including taking it to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.

The Guardian

SAM LEVIN
Reporting

DHS Accuses Critics of Assaulting Officers When Videos Say Otherwise
After New York City comptroller Brad Lander this week became the latest prominent Democrat to be arrested while monitoring and protesting U.S. immigration authorities, the Trump administration trotted out a familiar refrain to justify his detention. The mayoral candidate had "assaulted" law enforcement, the Department of Homeland Security asserted, warning "if you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will face consequences." The accusation, which DHS has also recently leveled against a member of Congress and a high-profile union leader, have sparked consternation, particularly as videos of the incidents did not show the officials attacking officers and instead captured officers' aggressive behavior and manhandling of the officials.

NPR Weekend Edition

ANDREA HSU
Reporting

Trump's Makeover of the Civil Service Has Made It Easier to Fire People, Critics Say
President Trump is changing how the government hires and fires workers. His critics warn he's politicizing the workforce, with negative consequences for the American people.

NPR Weekend Edition

SCOTT SIMON
Reporting

From Tragedy, Words of Wisdom
Sophie and Colin Hortman suffered a grievous loss last weekend. And this week, they gave words of grace to the world. Their parents, former Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were murdered in their home in the Minneapolis suburbs in the early morning hours, a week ago today. "They were the bright lights at the center of our lives," Sophie and Colin Hortman, who are 28 and 30, said of their parents in a statement. "Their love for us was boundless. We miss them so much." They continued, "Hope and resilience are the enemy of fear. This tragedy must become a moment for us to come together. Hold your loved ones a little closer. Love your neighbors. Treat each other with kindness and respect. The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else."

PBS News Hour

GEOFF BENNETT
Reporting

Carla Hayden on Her Time as a Pioneering Librarian of Congress and Getting Fired by Trump
Dr. Carla Hayden, a trailblazing librarian of Congress, was fired by President Trump in May. Geoff Bennett recently spoke with her about being blindsided by the decision, the administration's ongoing efforts to reshape key institutions and why she intends to keep speaking out.

PBS News Hour

The Associated Press

Iowa Announces Measles Outbreak as U.S. Tops 1,200 Confirmed Cases
The U.S. logged fewer than 20 measles cases this week, though Iowa announced the state's first outbreak Thursday and Georgia confirmed its second Wednesday. There have been 1,214 confirmed measles cases this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. Health officials in Texas, where the nation's biggest outbreak raged during the late winter and spring, confirmed six cases in the last week.

The Guardian

JOSEPH GEDEON
Reporting

Trump Administration Almost Totally Dismantles Voice of America With Latest Terminations
The Trump administration has terminated 639 employees at Voice of America and its parent organization in the latest round of sweeping cuts that have reduced the international broadcasting service to a fraction of its former size. The mass terminations announced Friday rounds out the Trump-led elimination of 1,400 positions since March and represents the near-complete dismantling of an organization founded in 1942 to counter Nazi propaganda, whose first broadcast declared: "We bring you voices from America."

The Associated Press

PHILIP MARCELO
Reporting

Judge Orders Columbia Protester Mahmoud Khalil Freed From Detention
A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. government to free former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from the immigration detention center where he has been held since early March while the Trump administration sought to deport him over his role in pro-Palestinian protests. Ruling from the bench in New Jersey, U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz said it would be "highly, highly unusual" for the government to continue to detain a legal U.S. resident who was unlikely to flee and hadn't been accused of any violence. "Petitioner is not a flight risk and the evidence presented is that he is not a danger to the community," he said. "Period, full stop."

The New York Times

CHRISTINE CHUNG
Reporting

Airlines and Trump Administration Backpedal on Protections for Travelers With Wheelchairs
A new rule adopted by the federal government meant that airlines would expand support for disabled passengers throughout their trips and enhance training for employees who assist them and carriers would be compelled to replace wheelchairs that were lost or damaged and offer loaners promptly, among other changes. But shortly after President Trump was inaugurated, the Transportation Department moved to delay enforcement of the rule -- initially until March, then until August -- and now, airlines are challenging one of its provisions in court.

Politico

JENNIFER SCHOLTES
Reporting

White House Floats a New Funding Trick -- and GOP Lawmakers Grimace
White House budget director Russ Vought has been persistently touting the virtues of "pocket rescissions," a tactic he has floated as a way to codify the spending cuts Elon Musk made while atop his Department of Government Efficiency initiative and which the federal government's top watchdog says is illegal. "Pocket rescissions are illegal, in my judgment," Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) said in a brief interview this week, "and contradict the will of Congress and the constitutional authority of Congress to appropriate funds."

NPR Morning Edition

CHRIS ARNOLD
QUIL LAWRENCE
Reporting

Trump's VA Cut a Program That's Saving Vets' Homes. Republicans Have Questions
Last month, out of fear of the potential cost, the VA abruptly did away with its low-interest-rate mortgage program. It was the latest development in a VA mortgage saga that has whiplashed veterans between various enacted and cancelled programs and left thousands in fear of losing their homes. There are about 80,000 vets in the U.S. behind on their mortgages and heading toward foreclosure, according to data from ICE Mortgage Technology. Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress are questioning this move by the VA. And NPR has heard from more than 50 veterans around the country in recent weeks who say they are upset.

NPR Morning Edition

BOBBY ALLYN
Reporting

A Former DOGE Employee Gives His Account of Working for the Operation
What did the Department of Government Efficiency actually accomplish under Elon Musk? And what might change now that Musk is out? One former DOGE worker is going public and sharing what he learned.

The Guardian

OLIVER MILMAN
Reporting

Fuel Firms Can Challenge California's Emission Limits, Supreme Court Rules
Fossil fuel companies are able to challenge California's ability to set stricter standards reducing the amount of polluting coming from cars, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a case that is set to unravel one of the key tools used to curb planet-heating emissions in recent years. "The government generally may not target a business or industry through stringent and allegedly unlawful regulation and then evade the resulting lawsuits by claiming that the targets of its regulation should be locked out of court as unaffected bystanders," conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the majority. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the decision.

The Guardian

STAFF
Reporting

U.S. Court Allows Trump to Keep Control of California National Guard While Lawsuit Proceeds
A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based ninth U.S. circuit court of appeals on Thursday extended a pause it had placed on U.S. district judge Charles Breyer's 12 June ruling that Trump had called the national guard into federal service unlawfully. Breyer's ruling was issued in a lawsuit against Trump's action brought by the California governor, Gavin Newsom.

The Associated Press

DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Reporting

Trump Is Silent About Juneteenth on a Day He Previously Honored as President
President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. He even claimed once to have made it "very famous." But on this year's Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the usually talkative president kept silent about a day important to Black Americans for marking the end of slavery in the country he leads again. No words about it from his lips, on paper or through his social media site.

The Guardian

TOM HALS
Reuters

Judge Blocks Trump Plan to Tie States' Transportation Funds to Immigration Enforcement
A federal judge on Thursday blocked Donald Trump's administration from forcing 20 Democratic-led states to cooperate with immigration enforcement in order to receive billions of dollars in transportation grant funding. Chief U.S. District Judge John McConnell in Providence, R.I., granted the states' request for an injunction barring the Department of Transportation's policy, saying the states were likely to succeed on the merits of some or all of their claims. The Trump administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Guardian

VICTORIA BEKIEMPIS
Reporting

Los Angeles Dodgers Deny ICE Agents Entry to Dodger Stadium
The Los Angeles Dodgers said on Thursday they denied U.S. immigration enforcement agents access to the parking lot at Dodger Stadium earlier in the day. "This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots," the team said in a post on X. "They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization. Tonight's game will be played as scheduled."

PBS News Hour

SARAH KLIFF
The New York Times

How Republicans' Massive Budget Bill Impacts the Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act faces significant rollbacks if President Trump's big spending and tax cut bill is approved by the Senate. The proposed changes could affect many of the 24 million Americans enrolled in that insurance marketplace and could leave millions of people without coverage. Sarah Kliff, health policy reporter with The New York Times, joins Geoff Bennett for more.

NPR Morning Edition

STEVE INSKEEP
Reporting

Democratic Rep. Adam Smith Discusses U.S. Policy on the Israel-Iran Conflict
NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, about U.S. policy on the conflict between Israel and Iran.

NPR Morning Edition

STEVE INSKEEP
Reporting

KPMG Chief Economist Diane Swonk Discusses the State of the U.S. Economy
The Fed held interest rates steady on Wednesday. NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG, about the state of the U.S. economy and what it means for consumers.

NPR Morning Edition

TAYLOR HANEY
Reporting

Despite New Challenges, Juneteenth Event Organizers Are Unbowed
Today is Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when U.S. Army troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform some of the last enslaved Americans that they were free. Various events were planned across the country and some took the current politically and racially charged climate into account.

PBS News Hour

AMNA NAWAZ
Reporting

Homeland Security Official on the Trump Administration's Immigration Policy Changes
As the Trump administration continues to escalate immigration enforcement operations around the country, Amna Nawaz speaks with Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs for the Department of Homeland Security, to learn more.

The New York Times

SAMANTHA WILLIAMS
Reporting

My Daughter Was at the Center of the Supreme Court Case on Trans Care. Our Hearts Are Broken.
I had hoped that these justices, who had the ability and the responsibility to protect us from the capricious, narrow-minded attacks of our own state government, would rise to the occasion. I had hoped they would acknowledge we are being denied medical care based on our child's sex.

The New York Times

ABBIE VANSICKLE
Reporting

Sotomayor Writes the Court 'Abandons' Transgender Children to 'Political Whims'
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that the court had retreated from "meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most," adding that "the court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims." Justice Sotomayor also took the rare step of reading her dissent from the bench during the opinion announcement on Wednesday, a move typically reserved to emphasize a justice's extreme displeasure with a decision. Justice Sotomayor pointed to landmark Supreme Court cases that pushed back against discriminatory laws and policies. Although justices often include "respectfully" in the essay explaining their dissents, Justice Sotomayor wrote only this: "In sadness, I dissent."

The New York Times

APOORVA MANDAVILLI
Reporting

Why a Vaccine Expert Left the CDC: 'Americans Are Going to Die'
In 13 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Fiona Havers crafted guidance for contending with Zika virus, helped China respond to outbreaks of bird flu and guided safe burial practices for Ebola deaths in Liberia. More recently, she was a senior adviser on vaccine policy, leading a team that produced data on hospitalizations related to Covid-19 and respiratory syncytial virus. To the select group of scientists, federal officials and advocates who study who should get immunizations and when, Dr. Havers is well known, an embodiment of the C.D.C.'s intensive data-gathering operations. On Monday, Dr. Havers resigned, saying she could no longer continue while the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., dismantled the careful processes that help formulate vaccination standards in the United States. "If it isn't stopped and some of this isn't reversed, like, immediately, a lot of Americans are going to die as a result of vaccine-preventable diseases," she said in an interview with The New York Times, the first since her resignation.

The New York Times

KATIE GLUECK
Reporting

Images of Handcuffed Democrats Start to Pile Up in Trump's Crackdown
As Democrats struggle to push back against the administration, federal agents have arrested or clashed with a growing number of the party's elected officials. The scenes of chaos reflect the tinderbox nature of this political moment and the expanding national battles over due process, the rule of law and the system of checks and balances. "This is executive authority, especially in the Department of Homeland Security, running out of control," said Senator Tina Smith, a Minnesota Democrat. "Do the members of Congress need security details to defend themselves from the executive branch? God, I hope not."

The Guardian

CARTER SHERMAN
Reporting

U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Ban on Youth Gender-Affirming Care
A Tennessee state law banning gender-affirming care for minors can stand, the U.S. supreme court has ruled, a devastating loss for trans rights supporters in a case that could set a precedent for dozens of other lawsuits involving the rights of transgender children. All six of the supreme court's conservative justices joined in at least part of the decision to uphold the law, although several also wrote their own concurring opinions. In his majority decision, Chief Justice John Roberts emphasized that the ruling primarily rested on the justices' finding that the law did not violate the equal protection clause, rather than on an ideological opposition to trans rights.

The Guardian

DAN SABBAGH
Reporting

Trump's Yemen Bombings Killed Nearly as Many Civilians as 23 Previous Years of U.S. Attacks, Analysis Shows
The U.S. bombing campaign of Yemen under Donald Trump led to the deaths of almost as many civilians in two months as in the previous 23 years of U.S. attacks on Islamists and militants in the country. An analysis of Operation Rough Rider by the monitoring group Airwars has concluded that 224 civilians were killed between March and the end of the campaign in May, compared with 258 between 2002 and 2024. Deliberately targeting civilians in a manner that is considered not proportional to any military advantage gained is considered a war crime according to the Geneva conventions, though the doctrine has been stretched in recent conflicts, most notably Israel's assault on Gaza, where there have been individual incidents of more than 100 civilians killed.

The New York Times

TONY ROMM
Reporting

House Policy Bill Would Add $3.4 Trillion to Debt, Swamping Economic Gains
House Republicans' sprawling package to cut taxes and slash federal safety-net programs would add about $3.4 trillion to the debt, according to nonpartisan congressional analysts, who reported on Tuesday that the minor gains in economic growth under the bill would not offset its full fiscal impact. The updated findings from the Congressional Budget Office amounted to yet another dour report card for the president's signature legislation, which passed the House last month but now faces the prospect of significant revisions to its core components in the Senate.

The Guardian

ROBERT MACKEY
Reporting

Trans People Can Obtain U.S. Passport That Aligns With Their Gender Identity, Judge Rules
A federal judge in Boston has ruled that transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity, in a rebuke to an executive order from the Trump administration that said passports must conform to the sex citizens were assigned at birth. U.S. district judge Julia Kobick issued a preliminary injunction that expanded an earlier order she issued in April that had stopped the U.S. state department from enforcing the policy in the case of six people, after finding the order was likely unconstitutional. The judge's new order means that all trans citizens will be able to update their gender markers on their passports as the case against Donald Trump's order proceeds.

PBS News Hour

CYNTHIA MILLER-IDRISS
American University

Understanding the Root Causes and Possible Solutions for Rising Political Violence
Violence has become an unwelcome reality in American politics -- from this weekend's murders in Minnesota to the congressional baseball practice shooting to the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. To better understand violence and its root causes and potential solutions, William Brangham speaks with Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Professor at American University and an expert on violent extremism.

PBS News Hour

GEOFF BENNETT
Reporting

Pastors Share How Immigration Crackdowns Are Affecting Their Communities
Two pastors share how the Trump administration's hardline immigration enforcement is affecting the communities they serve. Geoffrey Bennet speaks with Rev. Sam Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference and Rev. Carlos Malave, president of the Latino Christian National Network.

PBS News Hour

LISA DESJARDINS
Reporting

Can Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Make It Through the Senate?
It's crunch time in Congress as Republican Senate leaders try to shape the president's so-called "big beautiful bill" into a compromise that can pass. Lisa Desjardins joins Amna Nawaz to unpack the latest proposed changes to health care, tax and energy policy -- and the political sticking points between the GOP and a legislative victory.

Here & Now

DAN KATZ
American Homefront Project

Why 7 Military Bases Are Being Renamed for Confederate Soldiers
The Army is reverting the names of several military bases back to their original names that honor Confederates. The Trump administration's decision circumvents a ban Congress passed two years ago that prevents military bases from being named after anyone with ties to the Confederacy.

The Guardian

JOSEPH GEDEON
Reporting

Trump Orders ICE Raids on Farms and Hotels After Pausing Them Days Earlier
Donald Trump has abandoned his brief immigration and customs enforcement reprieve for farm and hotel workers ordering the agency's raids in those sectors to resume after hardliners crushed a pause that lasted just four days. The whiplash reversal, first reported by the Washington Post, exposes the dysfunction gripping the president's deportation agenda, where competing advisers battle over policy while Trump lurches between contradictory positions. The flip-flop also follows Trump's erratic pattern on major policies -- from threatening then retreating on mass global tariffs to wavering on federal spending cuts -- as different factions fight for his ear.

All Things Considered

ERICA CHENOWETH
Kennedy School of Government

The Strategy Behind Nonviolent Protest Movement in the U.S.
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Harvard Kennedy School of Government political scientist Erica Chenoweth about whether protests like those against President Trump change minds or policies.

All Things Considered

SELENA SIMMONS-DUFFIN
Reporting

Medicaid Keeps Getting More Popular as Republicans Aim to Cut It by $800 Billion
"We actually are seeing a pretty significant uptick in Medicaid popularity," says pollster Ashley Kirzinger, who is director of survey methodology for health research organization KFF. According to a poll published Tuesday, 83 percent of the public have favorable views of Medicaid. Just a few months ago, in January, that figure was 77 percent of the public. "The largest uptick we saw in favorability of the past couple of months was among Republicans," Kirzinger adds. Three in 4 Republicans now say they view Medicaid favorably. That popularity boost comes as many more people are hearing about Republican cuts to Medicaid in the news.

All Things Considered

FRANCO ORDOÑEZ
Reporting

Trump Threatens Iran's Supreme Leader, Escalating His Rhetoric About the Conflict
President Trump escalated his rhetoric against Iran on Tuesday, issuing a threat on social media against its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and taking credit for having "complete and total control of the skies over Iran." "We know exactly where the so-called 'Supreme Leader' is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there -- We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now," Trump said in a post -- one in a series of statements he made before meeting with his national security team in the White House Situation Room about the conflict.

The Guardian

The Associated Press

California Bill Proposes Misdemeanor for Officers Who Cover Their Face on Duty
Local, state and federal law enforcement officers who cover their faces while conducting official business could face a misdemeanor in California under a new proposal announced Monday. The bill would require all law enforcement officials show their faces and be identifiable by their uniform, which should carry their name or other identifier. It would not apply to the national guard or other troops and it exempts Swat teams and officers responding to natural disasters.

NPR Morning Edition

STEVE INSKEEP
Reporting

Former Secret Service Agent Discusses Lawmaker Safety After Minnesota Shootings
In the wake of the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers, what can be done to protect others in the same position? NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with former Secret Service agent Bill Gage.

NPR Morning Edition

STEVE INSKEEP
Reporting

Partnership for Public Service Names David Lebryk as Federal Employee of the Year
The nonprofit group Partnership for Public Service has named David Lebryk, former fiscal assistant secretary at the Treasury Department, as federal employee of the year.

The Associated Press

LAURAN NEERGAARD
Reporting

Judge Rules Some NIH Grant Cuts Illegal, Saying He's Never Seen Such Discrimination in 40 Years
A federal judge ruled Monday it was illegal for the Trump administration to cancel several hundred research grants, adding the cuts raise serious questions about racial discrimination. U.S. District Judge William Young in Massachusetts said the administration's process was "arbitrary and capricious" and did not follow long-held government rules and standards when it abruptly canceled grants deemed to focus on gender identity or diversity, equity and inclusion. In a hearing Monday on two cases calling for the grants to be restored, the judge pushed government lawyers to offer a formal definition of DEI, questioning how grants could be canceled for that reason when some were designed to study health disparities as Congress had directed. Young, an appointee of Republican President Ronald Reagan, went on to address what he called "a darker aspect" to the cases, calling it "palpably clear" that what was behind the government actions was "racial discrimination and discrimination against America's LGBTQ community." After 40 years on the bench, "I've never seen government racial discrimination like this," Young added. He ended Monday's hearing saying, "Have we no shame."

The New York Times

JENNIFER MEDINA
Reporting

'I'm an American, Bro!': Latinos Report Raids in Which U.S. Citizenship Is Questioned
They swept into the Southern California car lot last Thursday at 4:32 p.m. -- masked and armed Border Patrol agents in an unmarked white S.U.V. One agent soon twisted Jason Brian Gavidia's arm and pressed him against a black metal fence outside the lot where he runs an auto body shop in Montebello, a working-class suburb east of the Los Angeles city limits. Another officer then asked him an unusual question to prove whether he was a U.S. citizen or an undocumented immigrant. "What hospital were you born at?" the Border Patrol agent asked. Gavidia, 29, was born only a short drive from where they were standing, in East Los Angeles. He did not know the hospital's name. "I was born here," he shouted at the agent, adding, "I'm an American, bro!"

The New York Times

ALEXANDRA BERZONNICHOLAS NEHAMAS
TARA SIEGEL BERNARD
Reporting

The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE's Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
Throughout the early months of this Trump presidency, Musk and his allies systematically built a false narrative of widespread fraud at the Social Security Administration based on misinterpreted data, using their claims to justify an aggressive effort to gain access to personal information on millions of Americans, a New York Times investigation has found. Their work has led to the departures of thousands of employees, thinning an already overstretched work force and setting off a wave of public anxiety over the state of an agency administering politically sacrosanct retirement benefits that Trump has vowed to protect. This account of DOGE's Social Security takeover is based on interviews with more than 70 current and former employees, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation and a review of hundreds of pages of internal documents and court records.

The Guardian

Reporting

Nezza Sings National Anthem in Spanish at Dodgers as Protest Against Immigration Raids
Singer Vanessa Hernández says she chose to sing the Spanish version of the U.S. national anthem at Dodger Stadium on Saturday as a protest against recent immigration raids. Hernández, who performs under the name Nezza, says she was warned by a member of the Dodgers staff before the team's game against the San Francisco Giants to perform the anthem in English. "I didn't think I would be met with any sort of 'No,' especially because we're in LA with everything happening," said Hernández whose parents are from the Dominican Republic. "I've sung the national anthem many times in my life, but today I could not. I'm sorry ... I just could not believe, when she walked in and told me 'No,' but I just felt like I needed to do it, para mi gente [for my people]. "My parents are immigrants. They've been citizens my whole life at this point, they got documented really early, but I just can't imagine them being ripped away from me, even at this age, let alone a little kid. Like, what are we doing?"

The Guardian

AARON GLANTZ
Reporting

'Extremely Disturbing and Unethical': New Rules Allow VA Doctors to Refuse to Treat Democrats, Unmarried Veterans
Doctors at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals nationwide could refuse to treat unmarried veterans and Democrats under new hospital guidelines imposed following an executive order by Donald Trump. The new rules, obtained by the Guardian, also apply to psychologists, dentists and a host of other occupations. They have already gone into effect in at least some VA medical centers. Medical staff are still required to treat veterans regardless of race, color, religion and sex and all veterans remain entitled to treatment. But individual workers are now free to decline to care for patients based on personal characteristics not explicitly prohibited by federal law.

NPR Morning Edition

MICHEL MARTIN
Reporting

A Look at Political Violence in the U.S. Following the Minnesota Shootings
Following the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers, NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Matthew Dallek, a historian and professor at George Washington University, about political violence in America.

NPR Morning Edition

MILES PARKS
JUDE JOFFE-BLOCK
Reporting

Trump's DOJ Makes Its Most Sweeping Demand for Election Data Yet
On May 12, the Justice Department asked Colorado's secretary of state to turn over "all records" relating to 2024 federal elections, as well as preserve any records that remain from the 2020 election -- a sprawling request several voting experts and officials told NPR was highly unusual and concerning, given President Trump's false claims about elections. "What they're going to do with all this data, I don't know," said Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat. "But I'm sure they will use it to push their ridiculous disinformation and lies to the American public."

NPR Morning Edition

XIMENA BUSTILLO
Reporting

Trump Administration Reshaping Federal Workforce, Including at Immigration Courts
The Trump administration has rehired a conservative immigration judge, which raises questions about the neutrality of these judges and the direction the administration is headed.

The Guardian

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Reporting

Photos of Anti-Trump 'No Kings' Demonstrations Across the U.S.
Demonstrators gathered in parks and plazas across the U.S. to protest against President Donald Trump. The "No Kings" rallies were organized in nearly 2,000 locations nationwide, including cities, towns and community spaces.

The Guardian

STAFF
Reporting

Millions Across U.S. Turn Out for 'No Kings' Protests Against Donald Trump
As tanks and soldiers paraded through the streets of Washington on Saturday, several million people around the country turned out to protest against the excesses of Donald Trump's administration. The protests, dubbed "No Kings," took place at about 2,100 sites nationwide, from big cities to small towns. A coalition of more than 100 groups joined together to plan the protests, which are committed to a principle of nonviolence.

The Guardian

ANDREW ROTH
Reporting

Gathering Stormclouds Can't Wipe Smile From Trump's Face as Long-Held Dream of Military Parade Is Realised
It may have been billed as a military parade to celebrate the American military's history, but it said even more about the country's present and future under Donald Trump. Soldiers, tanks and even robot dogs paraded along Constitution Ave. on Saturday, as paratroopers swooped in from overhead and military aircraft buzzed past the Washington Monument for the first major military parade held in the U.S. capital since the victory after the first Gulf War of 1991. Or was this all a celebration for Trump's 79th birthday?

NPR Weekend Edition

AYESHA RASCOE
Reporting

A Doctor Fired by RFK Jr. From the National Vaccine Advisory Board Speaks Out
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all the people serving on a national vaccine advisory board. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Edwin Asturias, one of the doctors who was sacked.

PBS News Hour

LISA GILBERT
Public Citizen

Millions Turn Out Nationwide for 'No Kings' Protests Against Trump Administration
Protesters held rallies across the country opposing Trump's agenda on the day of the president's military parade. They cap a week of demonstrations against immigration raids that began in Los Angeles and spread nationwide. Saturday's 'No Kings' protests were organized by a coalition of groups. John Yang speaks with Lisa Gilbert, the co-president of one of them, Public Citizen.

PBS News Hour

RICHARD KOHN
Military Historian

Military Historian Discusses the Message Trump's Military Parade Sends to the World
There's a big parade in Washington, D.C. Saturday evening. On the streets: tanks and thousands of soldiers. In the air: flyovers and parachute jumps. And for taxpayers, a big price tag: as much as $45 million. It's all to honor the Army's 250th anniversary, which is also President Donald Trump's 79th birthday. Military historian Richard Kohn joins John Yang to discuss.

The Guardian

RACHEL LEINGANG
Reporting

Two Democratic Lawmakers Shot, One Fatally, in 'Politically Motivated Assassination' in Minnesota
A prominent Democratic state lawmaker in Minnesota and her husband have been killed and another Democratic state lawmaker and his wife were shot, in the early hours of Saturday. State representative Melissa Hortman has died, as has her husband, Mark, the state's governor, Tim Walz, confirmed at a press conference on Saturday. He said the shooting "appears to be a politically motivated assassination." Hortman was the top Democrat in the Minnesota house and the former speaker. "They did drive a vehicle that looked exactly like an SUV squad car," Brooklyn Park's police chief, Mark Bruley, said at a press conference. "It was equipped with lights, emergency lights, that looked exactly like a police vehicle and yes, they were wearing a vest with Taser, other equipment, a badge very similar to mine, that, no question, if they were in this room, you would assume that they are a police officer."

The New York Times

HAMED ALEAZIZ
ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS
Reporting

Trump Shifts Deportation Focus, Pausing Most Raids on Farms, Hotels and Eateries
The Trump administration has abruptly shifted the focus of its mass deportation campaign, telling Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to largely pause raids and arrests in the agricultural industry, hotels and restaurants, according to an internal email and three U.S. officials with knowledge of the guidance. The decision suggested that the scale of President Trump's mass deportation campaign -- an issue that is at the heart of his presidency -- is hurting industries and constituencies that he does not want to lose.

NPR Weekend Edition

DEBBIE ELLIOTT
SARAH KARP
Reporting

A Look at Today's No Kings Protests
No Kings protests will be held across the country. The protests are the same day as a military parade in Washington to celebrate the Army's 250th birthday which coincides with Trump's 79th birthday.

NPR Weekend Edition

SANDHYA DIRKS
Reporting

Who's Welcome in the U.S.?
President Trump's immigration executive orders issued since January are telegraphing a massive shift in who is welcome in America.

The Associated Press

LEA SKENE
Reporting

Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Firing of Consumer Product Safety Commission Members
A federal judge has blocked the terminations of three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission after they were fired by President Donald Trump in his effort to assert more power over independent federal agencies. The commission helps protect consumers from dangerous products by issuing recalls, suing errant companies and more. Trump announced last month his decision to fire the three Democrats on the five-member commission. They were serving seven-year terms after being nominated by President Joe Biden. After suing the Trump administration last month, the fired commissioners received a ruling in their favor Friday; it will likely be appealed.

The Guardian

RACHEL LEINGANG
Reporting

Millions in U.S. Expected to Join 'No Kings' Protests Against Trump
Millions of people are expected to protest against the Trump administration on Saturday at roughly 2,000 sites nationwide in a demonstration dubbed "No Kings," planned for the same day as the president's military parade and birthday. Interest in the events has risen since Trump sent national guard and U.S. Marine Corps troops to Los Angeles to tamp down mostly peaceful protests against ramped-up deportations. "We've seen hundreds of new events on the No Kings Day map since the weekend," said Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, one of the groups behind the "day of defiance." "We've seen hundreds of thousands of people register for those events."

The Guardian

MARINA DUNBAR
Reporting

U.S. Marines Detain Civilian in First Known Instance Since Trump Deployed Troops to LA
U.S. Marines deployed to Los Angeles on Friday temporarily detained a civilian, the U.S. military confirmed, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by Donald Trump. Marines took charge of the Wilshire federal building earlier on Friday in a rare domestic use of U.S. troops after days of protests over immigration raids. Reuters images showed Marines apprehending a civilian, restraining his hands with zip ties and then handing him over to civilians from the Department of Homeland Security. Asked about the incident, the U.S. military's northern command spokesperson said active-duty forces "may temporarily detain an individual in specific circumstances." "Any temporary detention ends immediately when the individual(s) can be safely transferred to the custody of appropriate civilian law enforcement personnel," a spokesperson said.

The Associated Press

KIMBERLY KINDY
AMANDA SEITZ
Reporting

Trump Administration Gives Personal Data of Immigrant Medicaid Enrollees to Deportation Officials
President Donald Trump's administration this week provided deportation officials with personal data -- including the immigration status -- on millions of Medicaid enrollees, a move that could make it easier to locate people as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown. An internal memo and emails obtained by The Associated Press show that Medicaid officials unsuccessfully sought to block the data transfer, citing legal and ethical concerns. Nevertheless, two top advisers to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the dataset handed over to the Department of Homeland Security, the emails show. Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services were given just 54 minutes on Tuesday to comply with the directive. The dataset includes the information of people living in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington, D.C., all of which allow non-U.S. citizens to enroll in Medicaid programs that pay for their expenses using only state taxpayer dollars. CMS transferred the information just as the Trump administration was ramping up its enforcement efforts in Southern California.

The Associated Press

CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY
Reporting

Judge Blocks Trump's Election Executive Order, Siding With Democrats Who Called It Overreach
Judge Denise J. Casper of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts locked President Donald Trump's attempt to overhaul elections in the U.S., siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who challenged the effort as unconstitutional. Trump's March 25 executive order sought to compel officials to require documentary proof of citizenship for everyone registering to vote for federal elections, accept only mailed ballots received by Election Day and condition federal election grant funding on states adhering to the new ballot deadline. The attorneys general said the directive "usurps the States' constitutional power and seeks to amend election law by fiat." The White House defended the order as "standing up for free, fair and honest elections" and called proof of citizenship a "commonsense" requirement. "The Constitution does not grant the President any specific powers over elections," Casper wrote. Casper also noted that, when it comes to citizenship, "there is no dispute (nor could there be) that U.S. citizenship is required to vote in federal elections and the federal voter registration forms require attestation of citizenship."

NPR Morning Edition

TERESA ROMERO
United Farm Workers President

Trump Administration Ramps Up Immigration Raids in Farms
NPR's A Martinez talks to Teresa Romero, president of United Farm Workers, about the Trump administration's expanding immigration enforcement raids on farms.

NPR Morning Edition

DAVID FOLKENFLIK
STEVE INSKEEP
Reporting

House Votes to Eliminate Federal Funding for Public Media Outlets
The House of Representatives narrowly approved legislation Thursday to eliminate the next two years of federal funding for public media outlets, including NPR and PBS.

NPR

LAURA FITZGERALD
Reporting

Appeals Court Blocks Earlier Ruling, Allows Trump to Command California Guard for Now
Just a couple hours after a federal judge had ordered President Trump to relinquish control of the California National Guard saying he had violated the U.S. Constitution, an appeals court put the order on hold until a hearing on an appeal can be held Tuesday. The appeals court did not address the merits of the case or the judge's ruling earlier in the day. But it was a stunning turnaround in northern California courts that will play out on Los Angeles streets.

PBS News Hour

RON NIRENBERG
San Antonio Mayor

'We Stand Up for Our Neighbors,' San Antonio Mayor Says of Protests Against ICE Raids
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said 5,000 National Guard members have been deployed throughout that state ahead of planned protests. Several mayors are pushing back on that move, including San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg. He joined Geoff Bennett to discuss why.

The Associated Press

LOLITA C. BALDOR
TARA COPP
Reporting

Hegseth Says the Pentagon Has Contingency Plans to Invade Greenland if Necessary
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to acknowledge that the Pentagon has developed plans to take over Greenland and Panama by force if necessary but refused to answer repeated questions at a hotly combative congressional hearing Thursday about his use of Signal chats to discuss military operations. Democratic members of the House Armed Services Committee repeatedly got into heated exchanges with Hegseth, with some of the toughest lines of questioning coming from military veterans as many demanded yes or no answers and he tried to avoid direct responses about his actions as Pentagon chief. "It is not your testimony today that there are plans at the Pentagon for taking by force or invading Greenland, correct?" said Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio. As Hegseth started to repeat his answer about contingency plans, Turner added emphatically, "I sure as hell hope that is not your testimony."

The Associated Press

OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
Reporting

Judge Says Trump Illegally Deployed National Guard to Help With LA Protests, Must Return Control
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday directing President Donald Trump to return control of the National Guard to California. The order, which takes effect at noon Friday, said the deployment of the Guard was illegal and both violated the Tenth Amendment and exceeded Trump's statutory authority. The White House had no immediate comment on the ruling, but the federal government immediately filed an appeal with the Ninth Circuit court.

The Associated Press

KRYSTA FAURIA
MICHAEL R. BLOOD
LISA MASCARO
Reporting

Sen. Padilla Is Forcefully Removed From Noem's News Conference on Immigration Raids and Handcuffed
Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla on Thursday was forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference in Los Angeles and handcuffed by officers as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and around the country. Video shows a Secret Service agent on Noem's security detail grabbing Padilla, who represents California, by his jacket and shoving him from the room as he tried to interrupt Noem's news conference in Los Angeles. "I'm Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary," he shouted in a halting voice. Scuffling with officers outside the room, he can be heard bellowing, "Hands off!" He is later seen on his knees and then pushed to the ground and handcuffed in a hallway, with several officers atop him. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said what he saw "sickened my stomach."

The Guardian

OLIVER MILMAN
DANI ANGUIANO
Reporting

Newsom Calls Trump a 'Stone Cold Liar' as LA Protests Against Ice Raids Continue
Gavin Newsom, California's governor, has called Donald Trump a "stone cold liar," condemned the federal deployment of troops in Los Angeles as "theater" and "madness" and even questioned the president's mental fitness, as protests over immigration raids in the city continue. (A more developed report of the live update below. -- Editor)

The Guardian

ANDREW GUMBEL
Reporting

Troops and Marines Deeply Troubled by LA Deployment: 'Morale Is Not Great'
California national guards troops and marines deployed to Los Angeles to help restore order after days of protest against the Trump administration have told friends and family members they are deeply unhappy about the assignment and worry their only meaningful role will be as pawns in a political battle they do not want to join. Three different advocacy organisations representing military families said they had heard from dozens of affected service members who expressed discomfort about being drawn into a domestic policing operation outside their normal field of operations. The groups said they have heard no countervailing opinions.

The Guardian

LUCY CAMPBELL
Reporting

Newsom Says Trump Use of Troops Is 'Theater, Madness' Before California Court Challenge
Gavin Newsom has called Donald Trump a "stone cold liar" as the federalization of national guard troops didn't come up when he spoke with the president on the phone last Friday night. "He never brought it up. Period. Full stop. He lied about that," Newsom said on Thursday morning in an interview with the New York Times podcast The Daily. He said there were "about 315 [federalised national guard] who were mission-tasked, the rest were sitting around, about 1,700, for days, you saw them sitting quite literally on the ground, with out fuel, without food, without training." All the while it is law enforcement making arrests, not the national guard, Newsom said.

NPR Morning Edition

DOMENICO MONTANARO
Reporting

A Look at Public Opinion Polling on Trump's Immigration Policies and How It's Changed
NPR takes a look at where President Trump stands when it comes to public opinion polling on immigration and how that has shifted over time.

NPR Morning Edition

STEVE INSKEEP
Reporting

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace Discusses Trump's Response to Immigration Protests
NPR speaks with Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina about her bill to defund "lawless cities" and about President Trump's deployment of troops following protests against immigration raids.

The Associated Press

MEG KINNARD
LINLEY SANDERS
Reporting

Most U.S. Adults Say Trump's Military Parade Is Not a Good Use of Money, a New AP-NORC Poll Finds
As Washington prepares for a military parade this weekend to honor the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, a new survey finds that U.S. adults are more likely to approve than disapprove of President Donald Trump's decision to hold the festivities, which officials have said will cost tens of millions of taxpayer dollars. But about 6 in 10 a.m.ericans also say that Saturday's parade is "not a good use" of government money, including the vast majority of people, 78 percent, who neither approve nor disapprove of the parade overall, according to the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The survey found that about 4 in 10 U.S. adults "somewhat" or "strongly" approve of the parade, while about 3 in 10 "somewhat" or "strongly" disapprove. About 3 in 10 neither approve nor disapprove.

The Guardian

WILL STONE
PIEN HUANG
Reporting

RFK Jr. Names New Slate of Vaccine Advisers After Purging CDC Panel
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has unveiled eight people he has chosen to serve on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel -- just two days after taking the unprecedented step of removing all 17 sitting members. The new members are Dr. Joseph R. Hibbeln, Martin Kulldorff, Retsef Levi, Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Cody Meissner, Dr. Michael A. Ross, Dr. James Pagano and Vicky Pebsworth. "Kennedy did not pick people with strong, current expertise in vaccines," says Dorit Reiss, a professor at UC Law, San Francisco, who studies vaccine policy. "It tells me that Kennedy is setting up a committee that would be skeptical of vaccines and possibly willing to implement an anti-vaccine agenda."

STAT

CHELSEA CIRRUZZO
Reporting

HHS Reverses Hundreds of CDC Firings
The Trump administration has reversed the firings of hundreds of staffers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including those who work in divisions that handle cruise ship safety, sexually transmitted infection prevention and global health. A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC, confirmed to STAT that the Atlanta-based agency will bring back more than 450 personnel who were initially fired as part of a department-wide reorganization.

The Guardian

GRAHAM PARSONS
Former West Point Professor

Trump's Remarks at Fort Bragg Blur Line Between Military and Partisan Politics
President Trump's remarks at Fort Bragg on Tuesday added to concerns over his military deployment in California. Breaking longstanding rules and regulations barring active duty military from participating in partisan events, the president reportedly curated a friendly crowd, encouraged soldiers to engage in political speech and sold MAGA merchandise. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Graham Parsons.

The Guardian

OLIVER MILMAN
Reporting

Trump's EPA Announces Major Rollbacks to Power Plant Pollution Limits
U.S. power plants will be allowed to pollute nearby communities and the wider world with more unhealthy air toxins and an unlimited amount of planet-heating gases under new regulatory rollbacks proposed by Donald Trump's administration, experts warned. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a plan on Wednesday that would repeal a landmark climate rule that aims to mostly eliminate greenhouse gases from power plants by the 2030s and would, separately, weaken another regulation that restricts power plants' release of hazardous air pollutants such as mercury.

The Guardian

MAYA YANG
Reporting

Judge Rules Trump Administration Can No Longer Detain Mahmoud Khalil on Claims He's a Threat to Foreign Policy
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration can no longer detain Columbia University graduate and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil on the basis of federal claims that he is a threat to U.S. foreign policy. In his order on Wednesday, Judge Michael E Farbiarz said that the ruling will go into effect at 9.30am on Friday, adding: "This is to allow the respondents to seek appellate review should they wish to." Khalil, who has not been charged with a crime, had been deemed a threat to U.S. foreign policy by secretary of state, Marco Rubio, prompting federal authorities to detain him in March. In his ruling, Farbiarz wrote: "The petitioner's career and reputation are being damaged and his speech is being chilled -- and this adds up to irreparable harm."

The Guardian

MAANVI SINGH
Reporting

Families Arrested in LA ICE Raids Held in Basements With Little Food or Water, Lawyers Say
As federal agents rushed to arrest immigrants across Los Angeles, they confined detainees -- including families with small children -- in a stuffy office basement for days without sufficient food and water, according to immigration lawyers. One family with three children were held inside a Los Angeles-area administrative building for 48 hours after being arrested on Thursday immediately after an immigration court hearing, according to lawyers from the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef), which is providing non-profit legal services in the region. The children, the youngest of whom is three years old, were provided a bag of chips, a box of animal crackers and a mini carton of milk as their sole rations for a day. Agents told the family they did not have any water to provide during the family's first day in detention; on the second day, all five were given a single bottle to share. The one fan in the room was pointed directly toward a guard, rather than toward the families in confinement, they told lawyers.

PBS News Hour

GEOFF BENNETT
Reporting

LA Mayor Says Military, National Guard Presence 'Provoke the Population'
The city of Los Angeles has been the center of protests against federal immigration raids. Mayor Karen Bass and more than two dozen other California mayors have asked President Trump to end the sweeps. Bass joined Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest.

PBS News Hour

JOSHUA BARAJAS
Reporting

Hegseth Reacts to Concern That Trump Administration Applies Double Standard to Protests
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth would not directly answer a question from a Democratic lawmaker Wednesday about whether he supported the decision to activate the National Guard during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The Guardian

ERIC HOLTHAUS
Reporting

Major U.S. Climate Web site Likely to Be Shut Down After Almost All Staff Fired
Climate.gov, the gateway Web site for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa)'s Climate Program Office, will imminently no longer publish new content, according to multiple former staff responsible for the site's content whose contracts were recently terminated. "The entire content production staff at climate.gov (including me) were let go from our government contract on 31 May," said a former government contractor who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. "We were told that our positions within the contract were being eliminated."

The Guardian

STAFF
Reporting

Mass Arrests in LA After Protesters Defied Overnight Curfew
Late on Tuesday night local time, the LAPD wrote on X that "multiple groups" continued to congregate within the designated downtown curfew area. "Those groups are being addressed and mass arrests are being initiated," it said. The mayor, Karen Bass, had announced a 10-hour curfew for the area of downtown where demonstrations against Immigration and Customs Enforcement have continued. The curfew was to run from 8pm to 6am, Bass said. The LAPD said it had carried out more than 300 arrests of protesters in the last two days.

NPR Morning Edition

JONATHAN LAMBERT
Reporting

Trump Administration Cuts Program That Was Developing a Promising New HIV Vaccine
For nearly 15 years, Dennis Burton worked on creating an HIV vaccine considered to be one of the leading vaccine efforts. In late May, he learned the Trump administration was ending the project.

NPR Morning Edition

MOLLY ASHFORD
Reporting

Immigration Raid at Omaha Meatpacking Plant Spurs Protests, Stokes Fear in the City
An immigration raid at a meatpacking plant in Omaha, Nebraska, spurred protests and stoked fear. Officials said it was the largest immigration enforcement action in Nebraska under this administration.

The Associated Press

BEN FINLEY
Reporting

Veterans Are Divided Over the Army's Big Parade, Being Held on Trump's Birthday
Until recently, the Army's long-planned birthday celebration did not include a big parade. Added under the Trump administration, the event, featuring hundreds of military vehicles and aircraft and thousands of soldiers, has divided veterans. Some liken it to the military chest-pounding commonly seen in North Korea, a step toward authoritarianism or a perverse birthday party for Trump. Others see it as a once-in-a-lifetime accounting of the Army's achievements and the military service of millions of soldiers over centuries. The parade is not about Trump, they say, but the public seeing the faces of soldiers when so few Americans serve. The Army expects up to 200,000 people could attend and says the parade will cost an estimated $25 million to $45 million.

PBS News Hour

DR. TOM FRIEDEN
Former CDC Director

Former CDC Director Reacts to RFK Jr.'s Firing of Entire Vaccine Advisory Panel
The abrupt removal of all of the members of the CDC's vaccine advisory panel by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has sparked outrage and worry among many public health experts. That includes the American Medical Association which called for a Senate investigation into Kennedy today.

PBS News Hour

GEOFF BENNETT
Reporting

Retired Military Leaders Analyze Trump's Deployment of Marines and National Guard in LA
For perspective on the Trump administration's deployment of active duty Marines to Los Angeles and the federal call-up of the National Guard, Geoff Bennett spoke with James McPherson, an under secretary of the Army during the first Trump administration and retired Maj. Gen. David Baldwin, the top military commander of National Guard forces in California from 2011-2022.

PBS News Hour

MARCIA BIGGS
Reporting

Troops Deployed in LA as Immigration Raids Stir Fear and Protests
After a night of scattered protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles, about 700 Marines and an additional 2,000 National Guard troops began arriving Tuesday. Gov. Gavin Newsom and California's attorney general asked a court to block further intervention from the Trump administration as the President gave no sign of backing down. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs reports.

The Guardian

JOSEPH GEDEON
ROBERT TAIT
Reporting

Trump Administration to Cut All USAID Overseas Roles in Dramatic Restructuring
The Trump administration will eliminate all USAID (United States Agency for International Development) overseas positions worldwide by 30 September in a dramatic restructuring of remaining U.S. foreign aid operations. In a Tuesday state department cable obtained by the Guardian, secretary of state Marco Rubio ordered the abolishment of the agency's entire international workforce, transferring control of foreign assistance programs directly to the state department. The directive affects hundreds of USAID staff globally, including foreign service officers, contractors and locally employed personnel across more than 100 countries. Chiefs of mission at U.S. embassies have been told to prepare for the sweeping changes to occur within four months.

The Guardian

DANI ANGUIANO
EDWARD HELMORE
LAUREN GAMBINO
Reporting

California Files Motion to Block Troops to LA as Trump-Newsom Tensions Escalate
The California governor filed an emergency request to block the Trump administration from using military forces to accompany federal immigration enforcement officers on raids throughout Los Angeles. The move by Gavin Newsom on Tuesday comes after Donald Trump ordered the deployment of 4,000 national guard members and 700 marines to LA following four days of protests driven by anger over the president's stepped-up enforcement of immigration laws. The request comes a day after Newsom and the California attorney general, Rob Bonta, filed a lawsuit challenging Trump's deployment of national guard troops as "unlawful." Bonta said on Tuesday: "The president is looking for any pretense to place military forces on American streets to intimidate and quiet those who disagree with him." Newsom said: "The federal government is now turning the military against American citizens. Sending trained warfighters on to the streets is unprecedented and threatens the very core of our democracy."

Here & Now

JASMINE GARSD
Reporting

Dire Conditions Plague Overcrowded Detention Centers That ICE Is Sending LA Migrants To
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has already deported some of the people picked up in raids that triggered protests in Los Angeles. Those that weren't sent back to the countries they came from are headed to detention centers that ICE admits are overcrowded.

Here & Now

JENNA NORTON
NIH Researcher

NIH Scientists Sign Bethesda Declaration to Protect Biomedical Science Through Trump Administration
Hundreds of scientists with the National Institutes of Health have signed a letter calling on its new director, Jay Bhattacharya, to protect biomedical science. Dubbed the Bethesda Declaration, the declaration says that under the Trump administration, the NIH has been forced to politicize and stigmatize important research. Here & Now's Scott Tong speaks with Jenna Norton, a researcher with the NIH and one of the organizers behind this letter.

The New York Times

ADAM LIPTAK
Reporting

Trump Declares Dubious Emergencies to Amass Power, Scholars Say
To hear President Trump tell it, the nation is facing a rebellion in Los Angeles, an invasion by a Venezuelan gang and extraordinary foreign threats to its economy. Citing this series of crises, he has sought to draw on emergency powers that Congress has scattered throughout the United States Code over the centuries, summoning the National Guard to Los Angeles over the objections of California's governor, sending scores of migrants to El Salvador without the barest hint of due process and upending the global economy with steep tariffs. Legal scholars say the president's actions are not authorized by the statutes he has cited and are, instead, animated by a different goal. "He is declaring utterly bogus emergencies for the sake of trying to expand his power, undermine the Constitution and destroy civil liberties," said Ilya Somin, a libertarian professor at Antonin Scalia Law School who represents a wine importer and other businesses challenging some of Trump's tariffs.

The Associated Press

LOLITA C. BALDOR
TARA COPP
Reporting

Hegseth Faces Sharp Questions From Congress on Deploying Troops to LA and Pentagon Spending
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was met with sharp questions and criticism Tuesday by lawmakers who demanded details on his move to deploy troops to Los Angeles and they expressed bipartisan frustration that Congress has not yet gotten a full defense budget from the Trump administration. "Your tenure as secretary has been marked by endless chaos," Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., told Hegseth. Others, including Republican leaders, warned that massive spending projects such as President Donald Trump's desire for a $175 billion Golden Dome missile defense system will get broad congressional scrutiny. The troop deployment triggered several fiery exchanges that at times devolved into shouting matches as committee members and Hegseth yelled over one another.

The New York Times

STEVEN LEE MYERS
Reporting

Fake Images and Conspiracy Theories Swirl Around L.A. Protests
Misleading photographs, videos and text have spread widely on social media as protests against immigrant raids have unfolded in Los Angeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories and expressing support for President Trump's actions. The flood of falsehoods online appeared intended to stoke outrage toward immigrants and political leaders, principally Democrats. They also added to the confusion over what exactly was happening on the streets, which was portrayed in digital and social media through starkly divergent ideological lenses. Many posts created the false impression that the entire city was engulfed in violence, when the clashes were limited to only a small part.

NPR Morning Edition

A MARTÍNEZ
Reporting

As National Guard Deploys, Democratic Rep. Nanette Barragán Sees 'Sign of a Dictator'
Congresswoman Nanette Barragán, who represents parts of Los Angeles, says her constituents are living in fear and that the presence of immigration enforcement is heightening tensions rather than keeping people safe. In an interview with Morning Edition, Barragán told NPR's A Martinez about the protests, the federal response and why she believes President Trump is using immigration as a political distraction. NPR invited Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, for an interview. They did not respond.

Reuters

BRAD BROOKS
JORGE GARCIA
PHIL STEWART
IDREES ALI
Reporting

Marines Arrive in LA Under Trump Orders as Protests Spread to Other Cities
Hundreds of U.S. Marines arrived in Los Angeles overnight and more were expected on Tuesday under orders from President Donald Trump, who has also activated 4,000 National Guard troops to quell protests despite objections from California Governor Gavin Newsom and other local leaders. The city has seen days of public outrage since the Trump administration launched a series of immigration raids on Friday, though local officials said the demonstrations on Monday were largely peaceful. About half of the roughly 700 Marines that Trump ordered to Los Angeles arrived on Monday night and the remaining troops will enter the city on Tuesday, a U.S. official told Reuters. The U.S. military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Guardian

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Reporting

Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Enforcing Anti-DEI Orders in Grant Funding
A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender executive orders in grant funding requirements that LGBTQ+ organizations say are unconstitutional. Jon Tigar, a U.S. district judge, said on Monday that the federal government cannot force recipients to halt programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion or acknowledge the existence of transgender people in order to receive grant funding. The order will remain in effect while the legal case continues, although government lawyers will probably appeal. The funding provisions "reflect an effort to censor constitutionally protected speech and services promoting DEI and recognizing the existence of transgender individuals," Tigar wrote. He went on to say that the executive branch must still be bound by the constitution in shaping its agenda and that even in the context of federal subsidies, "it cannot weaponize congressionally appropriated funds to single out protected communities for disfavored treatment or suppress ideas that it does not like or has deemed dangerous."

The Guardian

JOSEPH GEDEON
Reporting

Smithsonian Rejects Trump's Attempt to Fire National Portrait Gallery Director
The Smithsonian Institution has rebuffed Donald Trump's attempt to fire the director of its National Portrait Gallery, with the museum's governing board asserting its independence in a direct challenge to the president. In a statement issued after an emergency meeting Monday, the Smithsonian's board of regents declared that "all personnel decisions are made by and subject to the direction of the secretary, with oversight by the board" -- turning away Trump's claim of authority over the institution's staffing.

PBS News Hour

LISA DESJARDINS
Reporting

California Sues Trump, Calling National Guard Deployment Unconstitutional and Immoral
Protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles entered their fourth day after a chaotic weekend. President Trump has deployed the National Guard to put down demonstrations, over the objections of state and local officials. Law enforcement has made dozens of arrests and the events sparked a debate about state and federal authority.

PBS News Hour

JULIETTE KAYYEM
Kennedy School of Government

Trump's Deployment in California Sparks Debate Over State and Federal Authority
To discuss President Trump's deployment of the National Guard in California, Geoff Bennett spoke with Juliette Kayyem, a former assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security. She's now at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

PBS News Hour

GEOFF BENNETT
Reporting

Southern California Officials React to Immigration Demonstrations, Federal Response
For two perspectives on the anti-ICE protests in California and the federal government's response, Geoff Bennett spoke with Democratic Rep. Norma Torres, who represents part of southern California and Republican Kathryn Barger, the chairwoman of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.

PBS News Hour

LAURA BARRÓN-LÓPEZ
Reporting

How Trump Filled Key Positions With People Who Spread Extremist Views
The first few months of President Trump's second term, including some selections for key jobs in his administration, have sparked new questions about his complicated history with elevating extremist views.

Reuters

AHMED ABOULENEIN
MICHAEL ERMAN
JULIE STEENHUYSEN
Reporting

Kennedy Dismisses Entire U.S. CDC Vaccine Panel, Replacing All 17 Members
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired all members sitting on a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel of vaccine experts and is reconstituting the committee, his department said on Monday. Kennedy removed all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement and is in the process of considering new members to replace them.

The New York Times

LAUREL ROSENHALL
CHARLIE SAVAGE
Reporting

California Will Sue Trump Over National Guard Deployment, Newsom Says
California officials will sue President Trump for taking control of the state's National Guard and deploying troops to the streets of Los Angeles, a move they said escalated tensions in the nation's second-largest city. The legal challenge, announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom, was expected to be filed on Monday morning, as protests were planned in more cities over federal immigration enforcement and the arrest of a union leader. Since Friday, officials said, about 150 people have been arrested in Los Angeles. About 60 others were arrested on Sunday in San Francisco, where a solidarity protest turned violent. The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, told CNN on Monday morning that while she condemned the violence, she said it was contained "to a few streets" downtown. "This is not citywide civil unrest taking place in Los Angeles."

The Guardian

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Reporting

NIH Scientists Go Public to Denounce Trump's Deep Cuts in Health Research
On Monday, scores of scientists at the National Institutes of Health sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled the Bethesda Declaration, a frontal challenge to "policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe." They went public in the face of a "culture of fear and suppression" they say Donald Trump's administration has spread through the federal civil service. "We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources," the declaration says.

NPR Morning Edition

ZANE IRWIN
Reporting

Authorities Detain Migrants Protected by Program That Offers Help to Victims of Crime
President Trump says his deportation campaign prioritizes violent criminals. But immigration authorities are detaining migrants who thought they were protected by a program that helps crime victims.

NPR Morning Edition

A MARTÍNEZ
Reporting

Democratic Rep. Nanette Barragán Discusses Protests Against Immigration Sweeps in LA
NPR speaks with Democratic Rep. Nanette Barragán of California, whose district includes the community of Paramount just south of Los Angeles, where protests against immigration enforcement flared up this weekend.

NPR Morning Edition

A MARTÍNEZ
Reporting

Why Trump's Deployment of the National Guard to LA Is Unprecedented
NPR's A Martinez speaks with former Congressman William Enyart, who served in the Illinois Army National Guard, about President Trump's decision to federalize parts of California's National Guard troops.

NPR Morning Edition

LEILA FADEL
Reporting

What Are the Legal Issues Behind Trump's Use of the National Guard in LA?
President Trump's use of the National Guard in Los Angeles raises legal and ethical questions. NPR speaks with Hina Shamsi, director of the ACLU's National Security Project, about them.

The Associated Press

ERIC THAYER
JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Reporting

National Guard Faces Off With Protesters Hours After Arriving in Los Angeles on Trump's Orders
Tear gas was fired at protesters in Los Angeles on Sunday when some demonstrators moved close to National Guard troops and shouted insults at them, hours after President Donald Trump's extraordinary deployment of the military over the objections of the governor and mayor. The confrontation broke out as hundreds of people protested in front of the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, where several of the newly-arrived National Guard troops stood shoulder to shoulder behind plastic riot shields. Video showed uniformed officers shooting off the smoke-filled canisters as they advanced into the street, forcing protesters to retreat. It was not immediately clear what prompted the use of chemical irritants or which law enforcement agency fired them. Minutes later, loud popping sounds erupted again, as some protesters chanted "go home" and "shame." One person was taken to the ground by uniformed officers. Another appeared to be bleeding from their head.

NPR Weekend Edition

LEAH LITMAN
University of Michigan

A Recap of Recent Supreme Court Decisions and What's Ahead
A slew of Supreme Court decisions this summer will have far-reaching consequences. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Leah Litman, law professor at the University of Michigan, about what to expect.

NPR Weekend Edition

KIRK SIEGLER
Reporting

Trump's Efforts to Cut National Parks Budget Faces Bipartisan Pushback
President Trump wants to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the National Park Service budget this year and much more next year. The effort is facing bipartisan criticism.

The Associated Press

COLLIN BINKLEY
SHARON LURYE
Reporting

Trump Officials Are Vowing to End School Desegregation Orders. Some Parents Say They're Still Needed
In a remarkable reversal, the Justice Department said it plans to start unwinding court-ordered desegregation plans dating to the Civil Rights Movement. Officials started in April, when they lifted a 1960s order in Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish. Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the department's civil rights division, has said others will "bite the dust." It comes amid pressure from Republican Gov. Jeff Landry and his attorney general, who have called for all the state's remaining orders to be lifted. They describe the orders as burdens on districts and relics of a time when Black students were still forbidden from some schools.

The Associated Press

ERIC THAYER
MORGAN LEE
MICHELLE L. PRICE
Reporting

Trump Deploys California National Guard to LA to Quell Protests Despite the Governor's Objections
President Donald Trump is deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom after a second day of clashes between hundreds of protesters and federal immigration authorities in riot gear. The White House announced that Trump would deploy the Guard to "address the lawlessness that has been allowed to fester." It wasn't clear when the troops would arrive. Newsom, a Democrat, said in a post on the social platform X that it was "purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions." He later said the federal government wants a spectacle and urged people not to give them one by becoming violent. In a signal of the administration's aggressive approach, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth threatened to deploy the U.S. military.

The New York Times

JESU.S. JIMÉNEZORLANDO MAYORQUÍN
HAMED ALEAZIZ
Reporting

Immigration Agents Clash Again With Protesters in Los Angeles County
Protesters and immigration officials clashed again in Los Angeles County on Saturday, local officials said, just a day after dramatic standoffs at workplace raids elsewhere in the area. In Paramount, Calif., about 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, protesters squared off with federal immigration agents by a Home Depot near a residential area where many Latinos live. Video of the protests showed agents using what appeared to be flash-bang grenades to disperse the protesters. Immigrant rights advocates said that the agents, who were wearing riot gear, had also used some type of tear gas to break up the crowds. José Luis Solache Jr., a state assembly member, said on social media that he was among those who were hit with tear gas.

PBS News Hour

JOHN YANG
ALI ROGIN
Reporting

Global Celebration of LGBTQ+ Community Draws Thousands to Nation's Capital
LGBTQ+ people from around the globe gathered in Washington, D.C. Saturday to celebrate Pride Month and protest the Trump administration's recent targeting of their community. A rally will take place Sunday against health research funding cuts in areas like gender-affirming care, HIV and AIDs. One of those impacted, Brian Mustanski, director of the Impact Institute, joins Ali Rogin to discuss.

The Guardian

RAMON ANTONIO VARGAS
Reporting

Fired U.S. Librarian of Congress Details Callous Dismissal in New Interview
The first woman and African American to serve as the U.S. librarian of Congress before Donald Trump fired her in May has not heard from the president's administration beyond the 31-word email it sent her with word of her dismissal, she has revealed in her first interview since her ouster. "No one has talked to me directly at all from the White House," Carla Hayden says in an interview airing on the upcoming CBS News Sunday Morning. "I've received no communication directly, except for that one email. "That's the only communication."

NPR Weekend Edition

REP. JARED MOSKOWITZ
Former Emergency Manager

The Dangers of a Weakened FEMA Ahead of an Active Hurricane Season
As FEMA faces hurricane season, officials fear the agency is not prepared. NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks with Rep. Jared Moskowitz about the high stakes for communities in the storm path.

NPR Weekend Edition

DEBBIE ELLIOTT
Reporting

How Tariffs on Aluminium and Steel Are Impacting a Recycling Business in Pennsylvania
President Trump doubled tariffs on steel and aluminum imports this week. NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks with Andrew Lincoln from Lincoln Recycling about the impact on the metals industry.

The New York Times

ORLANDO MAYORQUÍN
JESUS JIMÉNEZ
Reporting

Agents Use Military-Style Force Against Protesters at L.A. Immigration Raid
Federal agents in tactical gear armed with military-style rifles threw flash-bang grenades to disperse an angry crowd near downtown Los Angeles on Friday as they conducted an immigration raid on a clothing wholesaler, the latest sign of tensions between protesters and law enforcement over raids carried out at stores, restaurants and court buildings. The operation was one of at least two immigration sweeps conducted in Los Angeles on Friday. In the other one, federal agents converged at a Home Depot where day laborers regularly gather in search of work.

PBS News Hour

NICK SCHIFRIN
Reporting

'We Have Earned Our Spots': Facing Trump Ban, Trans Troops Reflect on Military Service
Friday marks the deadline for the estimated 4,200 active-duty transgender military members to accept what the Defense Department calls "voluntary separation." Those who volunteer to leave may be eligible for separation pay while transgender troops who don't leave voluntarily will be kicked out. Nick Schifrin spoke to two transgender service members about the choice they face.

Here & Now

MIKE REGAN
Bloomberg News

CBO Says Trump Tariffs Would Modestly Reduce National Debt, Slow Economic Growth
A Congressional Budget Office analysis finds President Trump's tariff policy could reduce the federal deficit by $2.8 trillion over the next ten years, at the cost of slowing the U.S. economy.

All Things Considered

TOM BOWMAN
Reporting

DHS Memo Details How National Guard Troops Will Be Used for Immigration Enforcement
National Guard troops would be used in immigration-enforcement activities, including in "night operations and rural interdiction," as well as "guard duty and riot control" inside detention facilities, according to a memo from the Department of Homeland Security obtained by NPR. DHS officials requested 20,000 National Guard troops three weeks ago, but this memo details what duties those troops will be asked to perform. The memo, dated May 9, from Andrew Whitaker, the executive secretary at DHS, says the department will need up to 3,500 Guard personnel for its requirement to "Attempt to Locate -- Fugitives." Another 2,500 Guard soldiers would be needed for detention support.

The Guardian

MAYA YANG
Reporting

Outrage After Republican Representative Disparages Sikh Prayer in the U.S. House
Mary Miller, an Illinois representative, on Friday published -- then deleted -- a post on X saying that Giani Singh, a Sikh Granthi from southern New Jersey, should not have delivered the House's morning prayer. Miller at first mistakenly identified Singh as a Muslim and said that it was "deeply troubling" someone of that faith had been allowed to lead prayer in the House and it "should never have been allowed," Miller posted on X. "America was founded as a Christian nation and I believe our government should reflect that truth, not drift further from it," Miller continued. "May God have mercy." Miller first edited her post to change Muslim to Sikh -- then opted to delete it. Her comments triggered swift outrage, with the Democratic House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, saying: "It's deeply troubling that such an ignorant and hateful extremist is serving in the United States Congress. That would be you, Mary."

The Guardian

LAUREN GAMBINO
Reporting

U.S. Supreme Court Rules Doge Can Access Social Security Data During Legal Challenge
The U.S. supreme court on Friday allowed members of the so-called "department of government efficiency" to access the sensitive records kept by the Social Security Administration while legal challenges play out. The conservative-majority court, in an unsigned order with the three liberal justices dissenting, sided with the Trump administration in the appeal involving Doge, the team spearheaded by the billionaire Elon Musk. The high court agreed to lift an injunction issued by a federal district court judge in Maryland, writing that the social security agency "may proceed" to grant members of the DOGE team "access to the agency records in question in order for those members to do their work."

The Guardian

MAYA YANG
Reporting

Kilmar Ábrego García Returned From El Salvador to Face Criminal Charges in U.S.
Kilmar Ábrego García, the man whom the Donald Trump administration mistakenly deported from Maryland to El Salvador in March, returned to the U.S. on Friday to face criminal charges. In a press briefing on Friday, the U.S. attorney general, Pam Bondi, said that a federal grand jury in Tennessee had indicted the 29-year-old father on counts of illegally smuggling undocumented people as well as of conspiracy to commit that crime.

ProPublica

BRANDON ROBERTS
VERNAL COLEMAN
ERIC UMANSKY
Reporting

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to 'Munch' Veterans Affairs Contracts
As the Trump administration prepared to cancel contracts at the Department of Veteran Affairs this year, officials turned to a software engineer with no health care or government experience to guide them. The engineer, working for the Department of Government Efficiency, quickly built an artificial intelligence tool to identify which services from private companies were not essential. He labeled those contracts "MUNCHABLE." The code, using outdated and inexpensive AI models, produced results with glaring mistakes. For instance, it hallucinated the size of contracts, frequently misreading them and inflating their value. It concluded more than a thousand were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

Reuters

LUCIA MUTIKANI
Reporting

U.S. Job Growth Cools in May Amid Tariff-Related Headwinds
U.S. job growth slowed in May amid uncertainty about the Trump administration's import tariffs, but solid wage growth should keep the economic expansion on track and potentially allow the Federal Reserve to delay resuming its interest rate cuts. The ebbing labor market momentum reported by the Labor Department on Friday was underscored by sharp downward revisions that showed 95,000 fewer jobs were added in March and April than previously estimated over the two month period.

NPR Morning Edition

ANDREW LIMBONG
Reporting

The U.S. Copyright Office Used to Be Fairly Low-Drama. Not Anymore
Shira Perlmutter, the abruptly fired ex-head of the Copyright Office, is suing President Trump, arguing her firing was unconstitutional and a violation of the separation of powers. This is going on just as the office has published its report on whether or not using copyrighted works to train generative AI counts as fair use, which is a legal idea allowing the use of some copyrighted materials without permission in certain circumstances. And it's a report that could influence the dozens of lawsuits going on right now over copyright and AI usage.

All Things Considered

ANDREA HSU
Reporting

Officially, 59,000 Federal Jobs Are Gone Under Trump. There's More to the Picture
On his quest to dramatically shrink the federal workforce, President Trump has tried many things. Through his Office of Personnel Management, he invited just about the entire 2 million-plus civilian workforce to resign in exchange for pay and benefits through September. His administration tried firing more than 24,000 probationary employees, who are typically more recent hires but also include those with years of experience in their fields. Trump also set in motion mass layoffs across the government, telling agencies to prioritize downsizing "all offices that perform functions not mandated by statute or other law." But estimating how many federal employees are no longer in their jobs is complicated.

NPR Morning Edition

KARA SWISHER
Tech Journalist

Tech Journalist Kara Swisher Discusses the Feud Between Musk and President Trump
What do Elon Musk's dealings at Tesla and his years in Silicon Valley reveal about how he's approaching his escalating feud with President Trump? NPR talks with tech journalist Kara Swisher.

NPR Morning Edition

DANIELLE KURTZLEBEN
Reporting

Public Feud Erupts Between President Trump and Former Adviser Elon Musk
A week ago, President Trump and Elon Musk were saying fond farewells as Musk left government. On Thursday, their disagreements over the GOP budget bill erupted into personal attacks.

The New York Times

SARAH KLIFF
MARGOT SANGER-KATZ
Reporting

Millions Would Lose Their Obamacare Coverage Under Trump's Bill
Millions of Obamacare enrollees would lose health coverage under the Republicans' major policy bill, which would make coverage more expensive and harder to obtain. Most of the proposals in the bill, which passed the House last month, are technical changes -- reductions to enrollment periods, adjustments to formulas and additional paperwork requirements. But together, they would leave about four million people uninsured in the next 10 years, the Congressional Budget Office reported Wednesday. "In many ways, it's sort of repeal by paper cut," said Audrey Morse Gasteier, the director of the state marketplace in Massachusetts. Alongside these proposals is another challenge to the program: Additional Obamacare funding is set to expire at the end of the year and Republicans do not plan to extend it. If they don't, the C.B.O. estimates an additional 4.2 million Americans would lose coverage.

The Guardian

MAANVI SINGH
Reporting

Trump's Unprecedented Immigration Crackdown Is Leaving Children Terrified and 'Truly Alone'
In the past few months, the administration has enacted a series of punitive policies to expedite the removal of unaccompanied minors and strip them of legal representation. It has attempted to tear down the basic rights and protections for children under the government's care, while simultaneously issuing new restrictions on who can take custody of them -- leaving children to languish in detention. In several troubling cases across the U.S., advocates say the children are being used as "bait" to arrest and deport the adults around them. Taken together, advocates and lawyers say the changes represent a terrifying new strategy in the government's crackdown on immigrants, designed to instill fear and chaos in families.

NPR Morning Edition

ASMA KHALID
Reporting

Trump Issues New Travel Ban Covering a Dozen Countries
President Trump on Wednesday signed a proclamation banning travelers from 12 countries and partially restricting travelers from seven others, starting on Monday, June 9. The White House said the action was needed to protect the United States from terrorist attacks and other national security threats and said the countries lacked screening and vetting capabilities. The full ban applies to foreign nationals from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. The partial ban applies to people from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.

NPR Morning Edition

WILLEM MARX
Reporting

International Students Look to the U.K. Instead of the U.S. Amid Trump's Visa Plans
More than a million international students -- including thousands from the United Kingdom -- are currently enrolled in American colleges, according to the State Department, contributing around $50 billion to the country's economy each year. However, higher education application portals show the number of prospective students searching for U.S. universities has declined sharply since January, with one provider predicting demand among foreign students could fall significantly within a year.

NPR Morning Edition

ROBERT DALY
China Scholar

China Observer Robert Daly Discusses U.S. Plans to Revoke Chinese Student Visas
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with longtime China observer Robert Daly about Trump administration plans to revoke Chinese student visas amid assertions of national security concerns.

NPR Morning Edition

STEVE WALSH
Reporting

A Pilot Vows Not to Go Quietly as Deadline for Transgender Military Troops Approaches
The Defense Department set a Friday deadline for transgender troops to leave voluntarily. Guard and reserves have until July 7. One Virginia National Guard pilot is vowing to stay as long as she can.

The New York Times

HAMED ALEAZIZ
Reporting

Judge Blocks Deportation of Family of Suspect in Colorado Attack
A federal judge in Colorado on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting the wife and children of the Egyptian man charged with attacking an event honoring Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colo. Judge Gordon P. Gallagher of the U.S. District Court in Colorado wrote that the administration "shall not remove" the woman, Hayem El Gamal and her five children from the United States until further rulings in the case, adding that deportation could cause "irreparable harm." He set hearings in the case for next week.

The New York Times

TONY ROMM
Reporting

Republicans Try to Discredit Experts Warning About the Cost of Tax Cuts
In the bitter war over the nation's fiscal future, President Trump and his Republican allies have united around a new foe: the economists and budget experts who have warned about the costs of the party's tax ambitions. Republican leaders have set about trying to discredit any hint of unfavorable accounting on their signature legislation as they race to enact it before the president's self-imposed July 4 deadline. The latest estimate arrived on Wednesday, projecting that the sprawling bill endorsed by Trump could add about $2.4 trillion to the federal debt over the next decade.

The Associated Press

AMANDA SEITZ
Reporting

Texas Hospital That Discharged Woman With Doomed Pregnancy Violated the Law, a Federal Inquiry Finds
A Texas hospital that repeatedly sent a woman who was bleeding and in pain home without ending her nonviable, life-threatening pregnancy violated the law, according to a newly released federal investigation. The government's findings, which have not been previously reported, were a small victory for 36-year-old Kyleigh Thurman, who ultimately lost part of her reproductive system after being discharged without any help from her hometown emergency room for her dangerous ectopic pregnancy.

The Guardian

ADRIAN HORTON
Reporting

'These Guys Are Idiots': Sean Penn and Dustin Lance Black Call Out Government's Harvey Milk Erasure
Sean Penn, the Oscar-winning actor of the 2008 Harvey Milk biopic Milk and Milk writer Dustin Lance Black have spoken out against U.S. defense secretary Pete Hegseth's decision to remove the gay rights icon's name from a navy ship. "This is yet another move to distract and to fuel the culture wars that create division," Black told the Hollywood Reporter in a phone call on Wednesday. "It's meant to get us to react in ways that are self-centered so that we are further distanced from our brothers and sisters in equally important civil rights fights in this country. It's divide and conquer." Penn, who won his second best actor Oscar for playing the former San Francisco supervisor, added in an email: "I've never before seen a Secretary of Defense so aggressively demote himself to the rank of Chief PETTY Officer."

All Things Considered

MARTIN KASTE
Reporting

Old Crimes Prevent Some Green Card Holders From Returning to the U.S.
ICE and Border Protection are cracking down on U.S. Permanent Residents with long-resolved criminal records. Now Green Card holders are afraid to leave the country, for fear of not being allowed back.

Here & Now

REBECCA PATTERSON
Economist

Economists Paint Dire Predictions of Budget Bill's Impact on National Debt
A Republican tax and spending bill is projected to add trillions to an already ballooning national debt. After Moody's downgraded the U.S. credit rating, economists say the debt may soon hamper growth and disadvantage regular Americans.

Semafor

BURGESS EVERETT
ELEANOR MUELLER
Reporting

Democrats Prep Procedural Challenges to GOP's Tax-and-Spending Bill
Senate Democrats are zeroing in on provisions in the GOP's tax-and-spending package they believe violate Senate rules. They'll soon get a chance to convince the chamber's parliamentarian that parts of the bill are ineligible for reconciliation, the process that Republicans want to use to bypass the filibuster. Otherwise, the legislation will need 60 votes.

NPR Morning Edition

PRAMILA JAYAPAL
Washington State Congresswoman

Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal Discusses President Trump's Recission Request
NPR speaks with Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., about President Trump formally asking Congress to cancel funds it has already approved for public media and foreign aid.

NPR Morning Edition

SCOTT HORSLEY
Reporting

With Steel Tariffs Doubling Today, a North Carolina Manufacturer Wonders How to Compete
Starting today, the tax on imported metals is set to jump to 50 percent, twice what it was yesterday. The president announced the latest trade war offensive Friday, while visiting a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh. Trump told a crowd of hard-hat wearing steelworkers that a super-sized tax would help keep cheap, imported steel out of the U.S. market. "How is it that you're supposed to buy the most expensive steel in world in the United States and compete with global competitors who have access to world market pricing," asked H.O. Woltz, who runs a company in Mount Airy, N.C. that twists steel wire into cables used to reinforce concrete.

NPR Morning Edition

MEG ANDERSON
Reporting

Private Prisons and Local Jails Are Ramping Up as ICE Detention Exceeds Capacity
The federal government is holding more than 48,000 people in immigration detention, about a 20 percent increase since January. That is already thousands beyond what Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE, is funded for, yet the administration has signaled its work is far from over. President Trump's border czar Tom Homan has said he wants to see 100,000 in detention. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently confirmed that the administration doubled the arrest quotas immigration officers must meet -- from 1,800 to 3,000 each day. With that demand, the government is intensifying its hunt for more space.

CBS News

ALEXANDER TIN
Reporting

CDC Official Overseeing Covid-19 Vaccine Recommendations Resigns
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official said Tuesday she was resigning from her role overseeing updates to the agency's Covid-19 vaccine recommendations, following an order by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to force an update to the agency's guidance. "My career in public health and vaccinology started with a deep-seated desire to help the most vulnerable members of our population and that is not something I am able to continue doing in this role," Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos wrote in an email to some members of the agency's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. "More of us should be resigning in protest," one federal health official told CBS News, in response to the news of Panagiotakopoulos leaving her role.

PBS News Hour

Reporting

Ex-DOGE Staffer: 'I Have No Idea' Who Was in Charge
Billionaire Elon Musk has returned to his business ventures after leaving the White House and his role with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. During Musk's tenure in the Trump administration, DOGE was tasked with gutting the federal workforce and publicizing cost-cutting efforts. White House correspondent Laura Barrón-López spoke with Sahil Lavingia, a former DOGE staffer about his experience.

PBS News Hour

JOSH BOAK
The Associated Press

White House Memo Asks Congress to Claw Back Funds From Public Media and Foreign Aid Programs
President Donald Trump asked Congress on Tuesday to take back $9.4 billion in federal funding for foreign aid, the State Department and public media. The rescission request would codify the work of the "Department of Government Efficiency," which sought to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development, eliminate foreign aid programs it deemed wasteful and cease funding for other international institutions.

The Guardian

CARTER SHERMAN
Reporting

Trump Rescinds Emtala Guidance Protecting Women in Need of Emergency Abortions
The Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded Biden-era guidance clarifying that hospitals in states with abortion bans cannot turn away pregnant patients who are in the midst of medical emergencies -- a move that comes amid multiple red-state court battles over the guidance. The guidance deals with the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (Emtala), which requires hospitals to stabilize patients facing medical emergencies. States such as Idaho and Texas have argued that the Biden administration's guidance, which it issued in the wake of the 2022 overturning of Roe v Wade, interpreted Emtala incorrectly. Abortion rights supporters said on Tuesday that rescinding the Biden administration's guidance will muddy hospitals' ability to interpret Emtala and endanger pregnant patients' lives.

The Guardian

MAYA YANG
Reporting

Hegseth Orders U.S. Navy to Strip Harvey Milk Name From Ship Amid Pride Month
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the U.S. navy to strip the name of prominent gay rights activist and navy veteran Harvey Milk from a ship during the middle of June -- a month meant to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community -- according to multiple outlets. The order to rename the USNS Harvey Milk, a fleet replenishment oiler, was in a memorandum from the office of the secretary of the navy, which was reported on and viewed by Military.com and CBS. Those reports note that the navy secretary, John Phelan, was instructed to strip the ship of its name by Hegseth. The timing of the announcement, which comes during Pride month, was reportedly intentional.

The New York Times

TRACEY TULLY
Reporting

Newark's Mayor Sues a Top Trump Lawyer, Claiming Malicious Prosecution
Mayor Ras J. Baraka of Newark, a Democratic candidate for governor who was arrested last month outside an immigration detention center, filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday against Alina Habba, the interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, that argues that his arrest was motivated by political malice, not justice. The lawsuit also names Ricky Patel, a supervising agent with Homeland Security Investigations who led the arrest of Baraka on May 9 outside a 1,000-bed detention center near Newark Liberty International Airport that has become a flashpoint in President Trump's immigration crackdown. Baraka's lawsuit accuses the federal authorities of false arrest and malicious prosecution. It also accuses Habba of defamation.

The Associated Press

CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY
NADIA LATHAN
Reporting

Republican Push for Proof of Citizenship to Vote Proves a Tough Sell in the States
Trump's executive order directing a documentary, proof-of-citizenship requirement for federal elections has been blocked by a judge, while federal legislation to accomplish it doesn't appear to have the votes to pass in the Senate. At the same time, state-level efforts have found little success, even in places where Republicans control the legislature and governor's office.

NPR Morning Edition

ELIZABETH GOITEIN
Brennan Center for Justice

Brennan Center's Elizabeth Goitein Discusses Trump's Use of Emergency Declarations
President Trump has used emergency declarations to push through his agenda. Elizabeth Goitein, analyst at the Brennan Center for Justice, discusses his use of emergency powers, which overrides "about 150 provisions of law," she says.

NPR Morning Edition

STEVE INSKEEP
Reporting

Trump Fires Historians Who Put Together Unbiased Accounts of U.S. Foreign Policy
The State Department's Historical Advisory Committee puts out unbiased accounts of events around U.S. foreign policy. Trump fired its members. NPR speaks with its former chair, James Goldgeier.

PBS News Hour

LISA DESJARDINS
Reporting

Congress Expects Trump Request to Cut Funding Already Approved as Big Bill Faces Hurdles
As lawmakers return to Washington, they expect a rescission request from the White House to cut funding already passed by Congress. Among other cuts, President Trump's request is expected to include the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the nonprofit through which NPR and PBS get federal funding.

PBS News Hour

MILES O'BRIEN
Reporting

How the Trump Administration's Plans to Slash NASA's Budget Will Impact Science
Funding for science is very much on the chopping block in President Trump's proposed budget. It's a fraught moment for NASA, particularly for those focused on earth science and not human space travel. Over the weekend, Trump announced he was withdrawing the nomination of his original pick to lead NASA, billionaire Jared Isaacman.

Here & Now

JESSICA HUSEMAN
Votebeat

Oklahoma Teachers Will Soon Have to Teach 2020 Election Conspiracies
In Oklahoma, public school teachers will soon be required to teach about the widely debunked conspiracy theory that Democrats stole the 2020 election from President Trump.

The Guardian

HEATHER STEWART
Reporting

U.S. Firms Say Trump Trade War Is Hitting Production as Dollar Nears Three-Year Low
U.S. manufacturers have warned that Donald Trump's trade war is hitting production, pushing the dollar close to a three-year low against sterling on Monday. The greenback suffered a fresh sell-off, after the closely watched ISM survey of the manufacturing sector signalled a third monthly decline in output in a row. The ISM purchasing managers' index fell to 48.5 percent in May -- below 50 signals contraction.

NPR

CORY TURNER
Reporting

Trump's Budget Calls for a 15 Pct. Funding Cut to the Education Department
The Trump administration has released new details of its vision to wind down the U.S. Department of Education. The budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 calls for a 15 percent funding cut to the department and a handful of changes to key K-12 and higher education programs. Here are five things to know:

Semafor

ELEANOR MUELLER
Reporting

'It Has Been Murder': Crypto Fight Reveals Limits of Dealmaking Under Trump
After weeks of turmoil, a bipartisan bill that would create rules for digital assets known as stablecoins is at last on track to pass the Senate. It was supposed to be one of the GOP's easiest aisle-crossing wins this Congress. Instead, bitter fallout has transformed it into the most vivid example yet of how hard it is to strike a deal in President Donald Trump's Washington. It's a textbook case pointing to more challenges ahead.

The New York Times

ADAM LIPTAK
Reporting

Supreme Court Turns Down Challenge to Ban on Semiautomatic Rifles
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would not hear a major Second Amendment challenge to a Maryland law banning semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15. As is the court's practice, its brief order gave no reasons. The move, over the objections of three conservative justices, let the ban stand and reflected the court's intermittent engagement with gun rights. It has issued only three significant Second Amendment decisions since recognizing an individual right to own guns in 2008.

The New York Times

CATIE EDMONDSON
Reporting

Lisa Murkowski Isn't Using 'Nice Words' About Life Under Trump
Senator Lisa Murkowski was listing all the ways that President Trump's efforts to slash the federal government had harmed Alaska, from the funding freezes on programs the state depends on to the layoffs of federal workers who live there, when she delivered something of an understatement. "It's a challenging time right now," she recently told a crowd at a state infrastructure conference here in the state's largest city. "I could use nice words about it -- but I don't."

NPR Morning Edition

ABE LEVINE
Reporting

Time Is Running Out for Thousands, After Trump Ends Their Temporary Protected Status
The Trump Administration is ending Temporary Protected Status for tens of thousands of immigrants. Many who have lived and worked in the U.S. for decades may now have to leave the country unless they find other ways to stay.

NPR Morning Edition

MARA LIASSON
Reporting

How President Trump Is Changing Presidential Pardons
NPR's Mara Liasson explains how President Trump is transforming the power of presidential pardons.

The Guardian

CARTER SHERMAN
Reporting

At Least 20 Planned Parenthood Clinics Shutter Amid Political Turbulence
At least 20 Planned Parenthood clinics across seven states have shuttered since the start of 2025 or have announced plans to close soon -- closures that come amid immense financial and political turbulence for the reproductive health giant as the United States continues to grapple with the fallout from the end of Roe v Wade. A Guardian analysis has found that Planned Parenthood closures have occurred or are in the works across six affiliates that maintain clinics in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Utah and Vermont. "The ways in which this administration is dismantling access to public health and public health information are really troubling and, frankly, force us to make these difficult decisions very quickly," said Shireen Ghorbani, interim president of Planned Parenthood Association of Utah. Republicans at the national level are ramping up their campaign to "defund" Planned Parenthood by kicking it out of Medicaid, the government insurance program for low-income people. Of the 2.4 million people treated at Planned Parenthood nationwide each year, nearly half rely on Medicaid.

Living on Earth

ANN CARLSON
Professor of Environmental Law

CA Clean Air Tool Revoked
California's car culture, trucking industry and weather contribute to chronically bad air that it's been gradually improving with its own laws and regulations and the blessing of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. But now under President Trump, the EPA and Republican Congress are taking away California's ability to clean up its air. Ann Carlson is a Professor of Environmental Law at UCLA and joins Host Jenni Doering to discuss the legal questions and public health impact.

The Guardian

JESSICA GLENZA
Reporting

Loan Plan in Republican Bill Could Worsen Doctor Shortage, Experts Warn
Doctors' associations, medical schools and student advocates warn that a proposal in the Republican-led budget bill being considered by Congress restricts graduate federal student loans and could worsen a national shortage of doctors. The new Republican proposal would limit federal student loans for "professional programs" -- such as medical school -- to $150,000, eliminate a federal graduate loan program and put limits on loan forgiveness. Medical students rely heavily on federal student loans to finance lengthy and expensive educations, particularly since 2006, when Congress broadly lifted caps on borrowing limits to allow for the full cost of tuition and living expenses.

The Associated Press

DARLENE SUPERVILLE
SEUNG MIN KIM
Reporting

Trump Says He's Withdrawing the Nomination of Musk Associate Jared Isaacman to Lead NASA
President Donald Trump announced late Saturday that he is withdrawing the nomination of tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, an associate of Trump adviser Elon Musk, to lead NASA, saying he reached the decision after a "thorough review" of Isaacman's "prior associations." It was unclear what Trump meant and the White House did not immediately respond to an emailed request for an explanation.