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Before talking to computational social scientist Sandra Matz, I asked her to spy on me. I did some snooping around your online life yesterday night, which was extremely fun to do. Our lack of digital privacy, especially in the age of AI, and what we can do about it. I'm Manusha Zomorodi. That's on the TED Radio Hour Podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. The Supreme Court today once again handed the Trump administration a temporary victory, overturning two lower court orders, allowing Doge, at least for now, to have unfettered access to information collected by the Social Security Administration. In peers, Nina Totenberg has more. Nina Totenberg has more.

Nina Totenberg The court, in an unsigned order, temporarily overturned actions by two lower courts that had limited DOJ's access to sensitive private information including Social Security numbers, medical and mental health records, and family court records. The court's conservative supermajority sent the case back to the Federal Court of Appeals in Richmond for a ruling on the merits of the case back to the Federal Court of Appeals in Richmond for a ruling on the merits of the case, which likely will take months while Doge digs into the records. Justice Kagan noted her dissent while the court's other two liberals accused the majority of having quote

truly lost its moorings. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington. Scientists say the wildfires raging in Western Canada that have been sending smoky air into the U.S. are no fluke. They follow an emerging pattern that's being driven by climate change. NPR's Scott Newman has more. The fires this year are following a familiar pattern, one that was seen two years ago. They're burning in places like Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia, but their choking fumes are being felt in Minnesota, Illinois, and Michigan. John Smoll is a biology professor at Queen's University in Ontario who studies the environment.

He says climate change is driving this trend. The fires are hotter, the fires are longer, they start earlier, they last longer. Canadian authorities say that nearly half of the more than 200 fires burning now have yet to be contained. Scott Newman, NPR News. A judge today approved a $2.8 billion antitrust settlement in the NCAA allowing schools for the first time to compensate student athletes for past and future commercial use of their names, images, and likeness.

The settlement resolves long-running litigation between the NCAA student-athletes. U.S. employers added 139,000 jobs last month, down slightly from May, but as NPR's Andrea Hsu reports, the Labor Department numbers don't include federal workers who lost their jobs. President Trump has tried many things to slash the federal workforce, including dismantling certain agencies, setting in motion mass layoffs, and inviting nearly all 2.3 million federal workers to quit. But federal judges have paused his sweeping overhaul of agencies. Thousands of federal workers who thought they were being fired remain on paid leave.

The official numbers from the Labor Department do not reflect those who voluntarily left their jobs because they are still being paid through September. Already though, with tens of thousands of people no longer doing their jobs, many government functions have been curtailed. Andrea Hsu, NPR News. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. A former police chief and convicted killer known as the Devil in the Ozarks has been captured after he escaped from prison nearly two weeks ago, triggering a manhunt in the mountains of northern Arkansas. Grant Hardin was serving lengthy sentences for murder and rape.

French towns along the Normany coast marked the 81st anniversary of the D-Day invasion today. Infir's Eleanor Beardsley reports, in attendance were some of the last American veterans to participate in the amphibious landing that began the liberation of the continent from the Nazis. Thousands of people turned out to meet and cheer the veterans from the U.S., Britain, and Canada who are always treated like royalty in Normandy. Though their numbers dwindle every year, the celebrations always take place. History enthusiasts come from across France and Europe, often dressing up in period costumes and driving American jeeps and other military vehicles from World War II. Normandy can look like a Hollywood movie set this time of year. The 81st

anniversary was much smaller than last year's 80th, which was attended by many heads of state. This year there were events such as parachuting, parades and historical reenactments. 400 local school kids danced the jitterbug on Utah Beach in a tribute to the American GIs that liberated them. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News. Wall Street higher by the closing bell. The Dow was up 443 points, the NASDAQ up 231, S&P 500 up 61. I'm Janene Herbst, NPR News in Washington.