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🗓️ 27 June 2025
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0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hand down the final six decisions of its term today. |
0:12.1 | NPR's Nina Totenberg reports the cases include a pivotal ruling on birthright citizenship. |
0:18.6 | Top billing today goes to the Constitution's guarantee of citizenship for |
0:23.0 | anyone born in the U.S. and President Trump's executive order that would dramatically limit who |
0:29.5 | qualifies for citizenship. But the case will likely turn on an important procedural question. |
0:35.6 | Also, to be resolved is whether public school parents have the |
0:38.9 | right to opt their kids out of classes that conflict with their religious beliefs. Then, too, |
0:43.7 | there's another challenge to the Affordable Care Act, a state law that seeks to curb kids' online access to |
0:49.8 | sexually explicit material, and another congressional redistricting case with potential to further erode |
0:57.0 | the Voting Rights Act. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill |
1:03.1 | appear divided on the Pentagon's latest assessment of recent U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear |
1:09.9 | facilities. Members of the Senate were briefed by |
1:13.3 | the Trump administration on Thursday. Minority leader Chuck Schumer says there was no coherent |
1:19.2 | strategy. No endgame, no detailed plan on how Iran does not attain a nuclear weapon. |
1:26.4 | Republican Senator Ron Johnson defended President Trump's decision to attack Iran. |
1:32.1 | I, for one, am comforted by having a president who was decisive, who took action to protect America, |
1:38.1 | at least for a while, take away the threat of a nuclear Iran. Members of the House are scheduled to receive a |
1:47.6 | briefing later today. Both the Pentagon and the White House have praised the airstrikes, calling them |
1:53.7 | historically successful. The new members of a CDC advisory committee have voted to limit the availability of certain flu vaccines. |
2:04.4 | NPR's Ping Huang reports their concern is a preservative that has been the source of controversy, |
2:10.9 | despite ample evidence that it's safe. |
2:14.2 | The Vaccine Advisory Committee met with all new members, handpicked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. |
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