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How is the federal judge blocking President Trump's nationwide birthright citizenship ban?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. A federal judge in New Hampshire is temporarily blocking President Trump's ban signed in January on birthright citizenship nationwide. The judge says his order includes a seven day stay to allow for an appeal. The class action suit brought by the ACLU argued the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution guarantees citizenship to those born in the U.S. Several federal judges issued injunctions against Trump's January order, but the Supreme Court recently limited those rulings. A Doge staffer recently got high level access to a system at the Department of Agriculture. And Pierce Jenna McLaughlin reports it would allow him to view or modify data on billions of dollars in government subsidies and loans to farmers and ranchers.
He quickly got access to highly sensitive personal and financial information on US agricultural producers. The former software engineer at self-driving car company Waymo has been publicly linked to the Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge.
What are the security concerns surrounding the Department of Agriculture’s “Doge” system access?
Access to the information would allow Wick to modify or cancel loans or payments with little oversight. That's according to a source at USDA, who asked to be anonymous, out of fear of retribution. While USDA and Doge did not respond to requests for comment, experts told NPR they feared Doge's high-level access could be abused at an already difficult and uncertain time for farmers and ranchers. Jen McLaughlin and PR
News. Hundreds gathered at a stadium in Kerrville, Texas last night to remember the victims of the catastrophic flooding last week. The death toll is now at least one hundred and twenty, with more than one hundred and sixty people still missing. If yours Frank Morris has more.
In Kerrville's old downtown, Water Street, hundreds of flowers and dozens of photos adorn a chain link fence. Maritza Chavez is here with friends carefully placing flowers around pictures of two relatives.
How are families in Kerrville, Texas coping with the aftermath of the catastrophic flooding?
My cousin here, Jose Olvera and his wife passed away in the flood and they are both found, so we are able to put them to rest.
Not everyone here has even that comfort. Chavez Frentz says she knows someone still missing. Frank Morris, NPR News, Kerrville, Texas.
Election officials across the country say they're worried about the Trump administration's cuts to federal election security services. And Piers Ashley Lopez reports.
The Brennan Center for Justice, which has been critical of the president, found that more than sixty percent of election administrators are specifically concerned about cuts to services provided by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, also known as CISA. The group also found that almost ninety percent of officials said it's going to be important for state and local governments to step in and provide additional resources to make up for the loss of support they were getting from CISO to secure their elections.
And Pierre's Ashley Lopez reporting.
Why are election officials worried about cuts to federal election‑security services?
The Italian chocolate candy company Ferraro says it plans to buy US cereal maker Kellogg for three point one billion dollars. That deal would unite the makers of household brands, including Nutella and Frosted Flakes. The news sent shares of Kellogg up more than thirty percent in early trading. The number of pedestrians killed on US roads declined for the second year in a row, but as NPR's Joel Rose reports, fatalities are still well above pre pandemic levels.
Drivers struck and killed more than seven thousand people last year. Still, that was a decline over the previous year. The second year in a row, the pedestrian fatalities fell by more than four percent, according to a report from the Governor's Highway Safety Association. The report also looked closely at fatal crashes from the previous year. It found that more than three quarters of pedestrian fatalities occur after dark, and that the share of deaths caused by SUVs and pickup trucks has surged.
What trends are emerging in U.S. pedestrian fatalities and vehicle safety?
Pedestrian fatalities reached a forty year high in twenty twenty two, and while the numbers have declined since then, they remain almost twenty percent higher than they were in twenty sixteen.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How is the federal judge blocking President Trump's nationwide birthright citizenship ban?
0:00–1:06
2
What are the security concerns surrounding the Department of Agriculture’s “Doge” system access?
1:06–2:00
3
How are families in Kerrville, Texas coping with the aftermath of the catastrophic flooding?
2:00–3:00
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Why are election officials worried about cuts to federal election‑security services?
3:00–3:55
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What trends are emerging in U.S. pedestrian fatalities and vehicle safety?
3:55–4:38