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Chapter 1: What is the purpose of the NPR Politics Podcast?
Do you ever look at political headlines and go, huh? Well, that's exactly why the NPR Politics Podcast exists. We're experts not just on politics, but in making politics make sense. Every episode, we decode everything that happened in Washington and help you figure out what it all means. Give politics a chance with the NPR Politics Podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts.
Chapter 2: Who is Kilmar Abrego-Garcia and what are the charges against him?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm. Kilmar Abrego-Garcia is back in the U.S. He was swept up in an immigration raid and sent to El Salvador in March, despite a court order that he not be sent there. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced yesterday he's now in Tennessee, where he faces criminal charges under a federal grand jury indictment last month.
Abrego-Garcia has landed in the United States to face justice. On May 21st, a grand jury in the Middle District of Tennessee returned a sealed indictment charging Abrego Garcia with alien smuggling and conspiracy to commit alien smuggling in violation of Title VIII USC 1324.
Chapter 3: What happened during the protests in Los Angeles?
He's to be arraigned on Friday. His lawyers call the charges baseless. In Los Angeles, police used tear gas and flashbangs to disperse protesters outside a federal detention center last night. They were protesting immigration raids across the city this week. The Supreme Court has handed the Trump administration another victory.
Chapter 4: What recent Supreme Court decision affects government access to Social Security information?
By a 6-3 vote, the court has, for now, granted the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, unfettered access to information collected by the Social Security Administration. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.
Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling on information access?
In an unsigned order, the court's conservative supermajority temporarily overturned actions by two lower courts that had limited the Doge team's access to sensitive private information at the Social Security Administration. The information includes not just Social Security numbers, but medical and mental health records, family court information, and more.
Chapter 6: How will NCAA athletes be compensated starting this fall?
Writing for two of the three liberal dissenters, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the court was essentially preventing the status quo from remaining in place while the case is fully litigated in the lower courts. Once again, she said, this court dons its emergency responder gear, rushes to the scene, and fans the flames rather than extinguish them. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.
Schools in the top division of the NCAA will be able to pay athletes directly for the first time starting this fall. A federal judge approved a legal settlement late last night. NPR's Becky Sullivan has more.
Around 390,000 current and former student-athletes were part of the class action suit against the NCAA and its five power conferences. For the former athletes, the settlement calls for the distribution of more than $2.5 billion in compensation for their time in school, during which they were not allowed to be paid under former NCAA rules.
Starting next month, schools will be allowed to distribute up to $20.5 million in direct payments and other compensation to athletes. Settlement also swaps the NCAA's traditional scholarship limits for each sport for roster limits, capping the number of players on each team. The NCAA and the five conferences applauded the judges' approval of the settlement. Becky Sullivan, NPR News.
This is NPR News in Washington. Russia attacked the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight with high-precision long-range missiles and drones. Ukrainian officials say at least three people were killed and at least 21 others were wounded. The mayor says it was the most powerful attack against the city since Russia's full-scale invasion more than three years ago.
Kharkiv is one of the largest cities in Ukraine and is located about 20 miles from the Russian border. About 1,000 people are being forced from their homes by spreading wildfires in the Canadian province of Manitoba, which is already under a state of emergency. As Dan Karpinchuk reports, in all, some 19,000 people have been displaced over the past few weeks.
The latest community to be impacted, Snow Lake, more than 400 miles north of Winnipeg. The town was ordered evacuated late Friday as a large wildfire is threatening the area. About 6,000 people in nearby Flin Flon and the surrounding area have already been forced to leave.
Ottawa has put the call out to its international partners for firefighting help, as Canada's own resources have been stretched to the limit. Meanwhile, smoke from the wildfires in western Canada is causing hazy skies across North America. Toronto and Montreal are recording some of the poorest air quality in the world due to wildfire smoke. For NPR News, I'm Dan Karpinchuk in Toronto.
In women's tennis, second seed Coco Gauff of the U.S. won the French Open in Paris today. She defeated the number one seed Irina Sabalenka of Belarus. This is Gauff's first French Open win and her second major trophy after beating Sabalenka in the U.S. Open in 2023. I'm Nora Rahm, NPR News in Washington.
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