NPR News: 07-14-2026 4PM EDT
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Why is ICE pausing non-urgent vehicle stops after recent shootings?
Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to pause vehicle stops deemed non-urgent this after shootings days apart in Maine and Texas, where officials later said the men killed were unintended targets. Former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil says he is suing the Trump administration for allegedly conspiring to detain him for months over his pro-Palestinian activism. Bahar Azmi is legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed a suit on Khalil's behalf.
He is suing a series of private actors, including Heritage Foundation and federal government officials, for orchestrating a campaign to arrest and detain him simply for exercising his constitutional rights. And it's the same campaign that ensnared eight other people in order to repress and quelch the student movements on campuses.
The Trump administration accuses Khalil and others of promoting anti-Semitism during campus protests last year and threatening U.S. foreign policy interests. In a statement today, the White House says Khalil obtained his student visa by willfully and intentionally failing to accurately report information relevant to his background. This hour, the U.S. resumes a naval blockade on Iran. NPR's Quill Lawrence reports Iranian and U.S. strikes seem to have intensified, weakening a ceasefire agreement.
A ceasefire paused the war in April, but Iran and the U.S. immediately disagreed on how a June Memorandum of Understanding dealt with shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a key waterway for oil and other products worldwide. This week, President Trump ordered a resumption of the blockade on maritime traffic to and from Iran and stepped up missile attacks on Iranian targets. Iran, in turn, has been striking U.S. allies in the region and hitting tankers it says are violating Iran's claim of control over the strait.
What are the allegations in Mahmoud Khalil's lawsuit against the Trump administration?
From April through June, the U.S.-enforced blockade allowed dozens of aid shipments through but turned back 140 vessels and fired on nine that did not comply. Quill Lawrence, NPR News.
Court records show writer E. Jean Carroll has been paid over $5.6 million at a jury awarded in her sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit against President Trump. Records show the payment was made Monday from an account where it had been held in escrow since the 2023 verdict. As South Carolina's late Senator Lindsey Graham's family mourns the Republican's death, his younger sister Darlene Graham is committing to serve the remainder of her siblings' term.
office on which you are about to enter, so help you God.
I do.
Congratulations. Thank you. God bless you.
Senator Chuck Grassley administering the oath, a simple, dignified, yet somber moment three days after Darlene Graham lost her brother who died of a tear to the aorta. He was 71 years old. This is NPR News. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging health care providers to test for the intestinal parasite cyclospora in patients with diarrhea and other GI symptoms amid an unusually large outbreak. NPR's Allison Aubrey reports there are cases reported in 34 states.
The CDC has confirmed more than 1,600 cases and thousands more await confirmation across many states. The youngest person sickened with cyclospora is two and the oldest is 95. More than 140 people have been hospitalized and antibiotics can treat this parasitic infection. Here's the CDC's Gwen Biggerstaff.
This is much, much higher than what we've seen last year or the year before.
Investigators say cases in four states, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky, appear to be connected and may share a common source. Prior outbreaks have been linked to lettuce and other fresh produce, but so far the source of this outbreak is not known. Allison Aubrey, NPR News.
A drop in oil prices in June led to a sharp drop in inflation. And Pierre-Steven Passaha reports on the latest government data.
Consumer prices in June were up 3.5 percent from a year earlier, higher than the Federal Reserve wants, but lower than May's high.
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