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NPR News: 05-27-2025 6PM EDT

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

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0:00.0

Know that fizzy feeling you get when you read something really good, watch the movie everyone's been talking about, or catch the show that the internet can't get over.

0:08.1

At the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, we chase that feeling four times a week.

0:12.2

We'll serve you recommendations and commentary on the buzziest movies, TV, music, and more.

0:18.1

From lowbrow to highbrow to the stuff in between.

0:21.9

Catch the Pop Culture Happy hour podcast from NPR. Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The Trump administration

0:30.8

is appealing another immigration-related decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. This time they're

0:37.0

hoping, justices allow for the deportations

0:39.2

of migrants to South Sudan. And Burisma Bustia reports the Homeland Security Department says some

0:44.9

countries won't take the men back. The administration arranged for South Sudan, a politically

0:49.3

unstable country in Africa, to take them in. But a Massachusetts federal judge ruled anyone deported to

0:55.0

anywhere that's not their country of origin needs more time to contest their deportation. Specifically,

1:00.8

migrants should get an interview where they have a chance to say they may face violence or

1:04.8

persecution if sent to a specific country. Trump officials hope the Supreme Court overrules this

1:10.3

Massachusetts order, which

1:11.5

applies nationwide. They argue the pause on the so-called third-party deportations, hurts

1:17.1

foreign policy, and national security, and intrudes on the executive branch's immigration

1:21.7

policy powers. Humana Bustillo, MPR News, Washington. House Republicans have sent their

1:27.1

budget reconciliation bill to the Senate.

1:29.6

The spending bill would cut hundreds of billions of dollars from anti-hunger programs,

1:34.3

including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP.

1:37.8

Texas Public Radio's Paul Flav reports.

1:39.7

The nearly 300 billion in cuts being proposed pushed the cost of food benefits onto the states for the first time.

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