NPR News: 06-29-2026 1PM EDT
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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump is doubling down on his effort to overhaul elections. NPR's Franco Ordonez reports the latest push comes as the Supreme Court rules that mail-in ballots can be counted after Election Day.
President Trump has long sought to crack down on mail-in voting.
What recent election legislation is President Trump advocating for?
He took to social media soon after the ruling, calling it a tremendous loss. And he argued that it was even more reason for members of Congress to pass his election legislation, which limits mail-in ballots and requires proof of citizenship for voting. He wrote, quote, The fight over the election legislation has deepened cracks between Trump and Republican leaders in the Senate who've tried to explain to the president that they simply don't have the votes to pass the legislation and that the fight is also hurting Republicans as they look to turn the focus to the economy ahead of the midterm elections. Franco, Ordonez, NPR News, the White House.
It's been five days since two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela. Reuters News Service recording a group of rescuers in hard hats and face masks periodically raising their arms. Signaling for quiet as they apparently try to listen for voices of survivors who may still be trapped in the rubble. The official death toll is nearing 1,500. Thousands more people are still unaccounted for. And Pierre Zeta-Peralta is in Caracas.
What I saw was just a couple of dozen family members climbing through the rubble and they were just picking random places to dig. And then at times the smell of death would get stronger and they would dig faster. I mean, look, there are helicopters in the air, and there's backhoes, and the Venezuelan government has deployed the military and the police, and a bunch of foreign countries have sent rescue crews here, but there's just not enough of them.
NPR's Ada Peralta reporting. Nearly a year to the day since it opened, the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades is empty. For Member Station WUSF, here's Megan Bowman.
Center for Biological Diversity attorney Elise Bennett says her biggest concern is the detention center Florida officials nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz could reopen.
There's a lot of work that needs to be done, not just to undo the harm that's already been done at the site by this facility, but to figure out how to make sure nothing like this, no kind of development or intensification of the site can ever happen again.
Bennett says they want assurances the site is shutting down for good, a public evaluation of all the harm caused, and any damage is cleaned up and paid for. Governor Ron DeSantis says it was a good use of the state's resources. He's always maintained this was a temporary solution and says it will be taken down over the next two weeks. For NPR News, I'm Megan Bowman in Tampa. It's NPR.
This hour, global oil prices are hovering around $71 a barrel. They're at pre-war levels but have been climbing as traders watch to see if the latest pause in fighting between the U.S. and Iran holds. U.S. Central Command had said fighter jets attacked 10 Iranian military targets in retaliation for a strike on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. OpenAI is restricting the release of its new artificial intelligence model as the Trump administration works to screen AI products for cybersecurity threats. Rival Anthropic has also said the administration approved a limited release of its cybersecurity model. Hollywood is in the middle of a hot streak. NPR's Bob Mondello has details.
This summer always looked promising, with Toy Story 5 and Devil Wears Prada 2 on the menu.
I hope that's not what you're wearing to the dinner. That's all.
But no one expected low-budget horror flicks Obsession and Backrooms and the Michael Jackson biopic Michael to contribute another $600 million.
I believe music could change the world.
This year is currently running about even with 2019, when Avengers Endgame was supercharging ticket sales. Still to come this summer, Spider-Man Brand New Day, Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, and Minions and Monsters.
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