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SCOTUS gives Trump win on lower court orders that seek to block his programs nationwide: The Supreme Court issued a slew of decisions on its last day of term on Friday. That included a ruling relating to President Trump’s executive order barring children born to parents who enter the U.S. illegally or on a temporary visa from obtaining automatic citizenship, as guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. While they didn’t rule on birthright citizenship directly, the court’s conservative supermajority did grant the administration’s request to limit what are known as nationwide injunctions. This wasn’t the only major case of the day: the high court also ruled that parents can opt their children out of learning about certain subjects that they say go against their religion.
Crunch time for the GOP’s megabill: Senate Republicans are racing to pass President Trump’s signature domestic policy bill, a massive piece of legislation that would cut trillions in taxes while scaling back spending on Medicaid, food assistance and clean energy programs. Lawmakers were delayed this week because of both policy disagreements within the conference and procedural issues. They’re now hoping to start voting as early as this weekend.
The state of play on Iran: It’s been roughly a week since the U.S. officially got involved in Israel’s war with Iran and struck some of the latter country’s nuclear facilities. However questions remain over how much damage the U.S. effort caused and what the future of Iran’s nuclear program may look like. A preliminary U.S. intelligence report found that the damage on Iran’s facilities from the strike was inconclusive, however Trump has disputed those findings and has said the mission was “very successful.”
Who is Zohran Mamdani? The presumptive Democratic nominee for NYC mayor: In a major upset Tuesday, Mamdani topped the first round of New York’s ranked-choice Democratic primary, besting former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani is a 33-year-old state assemblymember and democratic socialist who was able to drum up excitement with two key groups Democrats often need to win: younger voters and those voting for the first time. This fall, he’s likely to face off against the scandal-plagued sitting Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent.
Elon is gone, but DOGE isn’t: The Department of Government Efficiency was originally spearheaded by businessman Elon Musk, but he’s since left the White House — and of course had a very high-profile fallout with Trump. That said, DOGE’s efforts to reshape the federal government are ongoing. We spell out what that looks like.
-- Elena Moore, NPR Politics reporter |
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Meet the women shaping the future of abortion
In the last few years, abortion restrictions in the U.S. have grown. In response, women are finding ways to end their pregnancies without a clinic.
On The Network, a new three-part series from NPR’s Embedded podcast and Futuro Media, witness how a network of activists and midwives, grandmothers and friends changed abortion access as we know it.
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Going Deeper: The Trump Administration’s Push for State Data |
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The Trump administration has spent months attempting to consolidate federal government information and DOGE has played a crucial role. However now, as NPR’s Jude Joffe-Block reports, the administration is also taking steps to grab hold of state information.
Over the last few months, multiple agencies have reportedly obtained personal data previously held by states.
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The Department of Agriculture has ordered states to hand over a slew of private information, including Social Security numbers for individuals who applied for federal food assistance.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement has sought out the personal data of non-citizens by subpoenaing state and local records.
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Plus, federal health officials have passed on the Medicaid data of millions of people to the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE.
Privacy experts say these types of actions by federal agencies could have dramatic implications and could lead to increased government surveillance of Americans. However, the White House stands by its effort and says Trump is “streamlining data collection across all agencies to increase government efficiency and save hard-earned taxpayer dollars.”
NPR’s Jude Joffe-Block brings us this deep dive.
-- Elena Moore, NPR Politics reporter |
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The Shot: An Eye on the Sky |
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From its perch atop a mountaintop in Chile, a powerful new observatory is getting ready for a remarkable mission. Its goal? To make a vivid time-lapse video of the night sky that astronomers can use to study all the cosmic events that occur over a 10-year window.
Some of the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory are making stargazers giddy. Take the shot above of the Virgo cluster. Visible in the bottom right are two prominent spiral galaxies, three merging galaxies in the upper right, groups of distant galaxies and stars in the Milky Way.
By the time the survey is done, the observatory will compile observations on roughly 40 billion stars, galaxies and other celestial objects. That works out to 60 petabytes of raw data. The Rubin Observatory says that’s “more data than everything that's ever been written in any language in human history."
See more of these newly released images here.
-- Jason Breslow, NPR Politics editor |
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