The News Roundup For June 30, 2023

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🗓️ 30 June 2023

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Summary

In a 6-3 ruling, the court struck down race-conscious admissions at two universities, setting the stage for other college and university admissions policies.

Meanwhile, Canadian wildfires are wreaking new havoc in the Upper Midwest of the US, creating dense smog and unsafe air qualities in major American cities.

Around the world, the questions of what's next for Russia after a dramatic but short-lived mutiny was cut short by the leader of the Wagner Group – Yevgeny Progozhin?

Violent protests in France begin again after a teenager is killed during a police stop.The Swedish government approves a Quran-burning demonstration outside of a mosque, coinciding with the Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Adha.

We cover all this and more during the News Roundup.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Sarah. I'm your host for this edition of The News Roundup.
0:03.5	Just a quick heads up before we start the show,
0:05.6	the news is rapidly changing and things may have changed by the time you hear this episode.
0:10.4	Stay up to date with the news by listening to your local NPR member station
0:14.2	and visiting npr.org for all the latest.
0:17.2	Thanks for listening and enjoy the show.
0:19.2	You're listening to The News Roundup. I'm in PR's Sarah McCammon.
0:30.6	It's been a week, so let's get into it.
0:33.2	Big decisions from the Supreme Court and Bidenomics is finally being embraced by Joe Biden.
0:38.9	Meanwhile, his predecessor says this was nothing more than bravado.
0:43.4	Isn't that amazing? This totally wins my case, you know.
0:47.5	Except it is like highly confident.
0:51.5	This is secret information.
0:54.7	We'll consider how this latest leak might affect the mounting legal woes
0:58.4	faced by former president Donald Trump.
1:01.2	Our guest this week, our NPR senior editor Ron Elving, Idris Kallun, is also with us.
1:06.1	He's the Washington Bureau Chief for the Economist and Megan Scully covers Congress for Bloomberg News.
1:12.1	Thank you all for joining us for such a busy roundup.
1:15.1	So let's start with the Supreme Court.
1:17.5	First, the big one.
1:18.5	On Thursday, the Court struck down affirmative action programs at the University of North Carolina
1:23.6	and at Harvard. Not really a surprise given the makeup of the Court, but the decision is a
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