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What are President Trump's reactions to the Supreme Court's ruling on tariffs?
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. President Trump says the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against his sweeping tariffs is deeply disappointing and pairs Frank Ordonez's reports on the president's first response to his biggest legal defeat since returning to office.
President Trump said he was absolutely ashamed of the justices who ruled against him in the 6-3 decision.
Foreign countries that have been ripping us off for years are ecstatic. They're so happy. And they're dancing in the streets, but they won't be dancing for long. That I can assure you.
The ruling threatens to upend one of Trump's favorite tools for his economic agenda. And in response, he says he'll go in even stronger direction, though it may take a little longer. He says he'll sign an executive order to continue certain tariffs under different laws, including adding a 10% global tariff. But after 150 days, that would need approval from Congress, which might be difficult with an election approaching. Franco, Ordonez, NPR News.
South Carolina is reporting 973 measles cases in what officials there are calling an unprecedented outbreak. But as NPR's Maria Godoy reports, officials say the rise in new cases has slowed in the biggest outbreak the U.S. has seen in decades.
South Carolina reported just 23 new cases this week. That's a far cry from where things stood a month ago when officials reported a whopping 248 new cases in a single week. Public health officials credit the slowdown in new case reports to an uptick in the number of people getting vaccinated against measles, one of the most contagious diseases known. At a recent mobile vaccine clinic in Spartanburg County, the epicenter of the outbreak, Tracy Hobbs showed up to get her five-year-old twins vaccinated.
They just got their measles, mumps, rubella for the first time today. The measles aren't really something to play with.
Officials say more people will need to get vaccinated to reduce the risk of a new surge in cases. Maria Godoy, NPR News.
The U.S. men's hockey team will have their chance at Olympic gold in the semifinal game today. The Americans beat Slovakia 6-2. Now they'll face Canada for the gold medal on Sunday. NPR's Becky Sullivan reports from Milan.
It was an onslaught from the get-go. Forward Dylan Larkin found the goal just over four minutes into the game, the first in a long line of Americans to score. Tej Thompson, Jack Hughes, Jack Eichel, Brady Kachuk. Slovakia had few answers, and the outcome was never in doubt. For Canada, it was another nail-biter, this time against Finland. They fell behind 2-0, then had to score three straight goals to escape with the win. Canada versus the U.S. was the gold medal matchup that many had hoped for, as U.S. winger Matthew Kachuk acknowledged after the game.
This is the pinnacle of the sport. This is as good as it gets.
Puck drops at 2.10 p.m. local time. That's 8.10 a.m. Eastern time on Sunday. Becky Sullivan, NPR News, Milan.
And you're listening to NPR News. More than 30 states have some kind of cell phone ban for schools this year, and Pierre Sequoia Carrillo visited one school in Kentucky to see just how things are going after the first semester of the ban.
The Academy at Shawnee is a magnet school in West Louisville where Principal Holly Smith says the teachers love the ban. But the students? I think they absolutely hate it. Their phone is their lives. It's their world. Students have to lock their phones in a yonder pouch, a locked bag that they carry with them and unlock as they exit after school. NPR spoke with junior Joseph Jolly and senior Kwane Lanier to get their side of things.
People know they're going to get in trouble if they keep it out. They've started to actually focus on work.
I don't think that's true. But by at least one measure, the ban is helping students unplug. According to the school's librarian, they're reading more. Checkouts from the first semester were triple what they were in the last year. Sequoia Carrillo, NPR News, Louisville.
Police have searched the former home of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
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