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GOP delivers Trump agenda: Republicans in the House and Senate got President Trump’s tax and spending bill across the finish line this week despite concerns from centrists about cuts to Medicaid — violating a major campaign promise by the president — and from fiscal conservatives about deficit impacts. Here’s what to know about the final version: SCOTUS out for summer? Not quite. Supreme Court justices may be heading out to the beach, the golf course or a summer teaching gig abroad, but they’ll still be fielding a steady slate of emergency appeals from the Trump administration, or from immigrants being detained or deported by the administration, and much more. NPR’s Nina Totenberg explains how the court has teed up an endless summer of work.
Trump tours “Alligator Alcatraz”: President Trump visited Florida on Tuesday to tour a controversial migrant detention center in the Everglades. The makeshift facility features rows of fenced-in bunk beds and a razor-wire perimeter, and has been nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” for its proximity to the predators of the marshy Everglades, from pythons to alligators to mosquitoes. The facility has garnered swift backlash from immigration advocates, conservationists and Indigenous communities.
Paramount to pay up: Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS News, said it has agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit President Trump filed over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris during last fall's elections. The settlement includes Paramount paying Trump's legal fees, but does not include any statement of apology or regret, Paramount said. Legal observers spanning the ideological spectrum say Trump's lawsuit spuriously conflates election interference with the kind of discretionary editorial choices that routinely confront broadcast journalists.
DHS is developing a citizenship database: 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. NPR’s Miles Parks and Jude Joffe-Block were the first to report the details of the new system. |
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Season's greetings from Pop Culture Happy Hour. |
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The Shot: America’s Birthday |
It’s a tradition as American as apple pie: Spending July 4th watching Joey Chestnut eat an obscene number of hot dogs in 10 minutes.
Chestnut won the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on Friday after sitting out last year’s competition due to a sponsorship beef. His total count of dogs downed was 70.5, making him a 17-time champion. Miki Sudo won the women’s competition with 33 hot dogs eaten, making her an 11-time champ. |
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