Campaigns Look To Court, France Seeks Calm, Twitter Rations Views

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🗓️ 3 July 2023

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Summary

Presidential candidates aim to court voters by responding to far-reaching Supreme Court rulings. French authorities say security measures are calming the protests that began after the police killing of a 17-year-old. And another Twitter surprise — Elon Musk rations the number of tweets users can see.

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0:00.0	Supreme Court rulings are the focus of presidential campaigns.
0:05.9	It is about an attack on foundational freedoms.
0:09.4	Vice President Harris said that to NPR.
0:12.0	How do Republican candidates see it?
0:14.1	I'm Rob Schmitz with Steve Innskipe,
0:16.0	and this is up first from NPR News.
0:20.9	Is France any closer to ending almost a week of violent protests?
0:25.3	A police shooting of a teenager led to riots and thousands of arrests?
0:29.3	Last night, tens of thousands of French police tried to keep the peace.
0:33.2	Also, the more time you spend on social media platforms,
0:36.3	the more money they make from your attention.
0:38.7	So why did Elon Musk begin to ration the number of tweets people can see on Twitter?
0:43.5	You're still free to get all the NPR you want, so stay with us.
0:46.8	We've got the news you need to start your day.
0:50.6	I do believe that there is a national movement of foot to attack hard one and hard fought freedoms.
1:04.2	Vice President Kamala Harris is talking there with our colleague, Michelle Martin.
1:07.8	Harris was referring to several big Supreme Court decisions.
1:12.2	The court took rights from the people of America.
1:16.9	Congress can put those rights back in place.
1:20.0	We cannot throw executive action.
1:22.8	Congress can.
1:24.3	And with that remark on NPR's morning edition,
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