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The news can feel like a lot on any given day, but you can't just ignore it when big, even world-changing events are happening. That's where the Up First podcast comes in. Every morning and under 15 minutes, we take the news and pick three essential stories so you can keep up without getting stressed out. Listen now to the Up First podcast from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korava Coleman. A group of Democratic attorneys general is in federal court in Boston this morning.

They're challenging President Trump's executive order on voting. He's seeking changes, including proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections. And Trump wants to force states to stop counting mailed ballots that are postmarked by the election but arrive after election day is over. The attorneys general say that Trump's order violates federal law. They also allege voting matters are decided by states and by Congress, not by a president. There is little indication of any reconciliation between President Trump and his former ally,

billionaire Elon Musk, this morning. Musk has been extremely critical of the multi-trillion-dollar tax cut and spending bill pending in Congress. It features President Trump's priorities. Musk says the bill would supersize the deficit. He and Trump traded increasingly personal attacks on each other yesterday. Now, another of Trump's allies, right-wing activist and former White House adviser Steve Bannon is weighing in. Bannon believes that Musk has gone too far. He crossed the Rubicon.

You can't, listen, it's one thing to make comments about the spending on the bill. There's another thing about what he did, okay? You can't sit there and first of all try to destroy the bill. You can't come out and say, kill the president's most important legislative occurrence of this first term. He spoke to NPR's morning edition. The Labor Department says that U.S. employers created 139,000 jobs last month.

That's a little more than analysts were forecasting. The May reports suggest that there has not been significant harm to the labor market from federal government layoffs and President Trump's tariffs. For the second year, Muslims in Gaza will not be able to celebrate one of Islam's most important holidays, Eid al-Adha. Devastated by Israeli bombardments and with only a trickle of aid allowed into the enclave, Palestinians have no access to fresh food and meat, a mainstay of Eid celebrations.

NPR's Carrie Khan has more. If Palestinians are able to find meat or livestock to slaughter for the Festival of Sacrifice, the prices are astronomical. Israel's nearly three-month-long blockade of all goods into Gaza depleted food stocks. There's been a limited lifting of the ban, but only a trickle of trucks have been allowed into Gaza since, bringing in mainly flour. The UN, which is warning of widespread famine in Gaza, says it struggles to deliver aid due to looting and shifting Israeli military restrictions.

Israel says it must impose strict controls to make sure Hamas doesn't steal aid. A U.S. private group backed by Israel to bring in dry food goods posted on its Facebook page that its sites were closed and urged people to stay away for their safety. Kari Kahn, NPR News, Tel Aviv. On Wall Street, the Dow is up 450 points. This is NPR. The city of Portland, Oregon will pay $8.5 million in illegal settlement to 26 descendants of black city residents. The residents were driven out of their Portland homes and businesses to make way for development projects between the late 1950s through the 1970s.

The descendants had sued the city, arguing Portland had conspired to destroy a thriving black neighborhood. Human rights groups are among those criticizing a new security law passed by lawmakers in Italy. As NPR's Ruth Sherlock reports from Rome, the law gives police more authority to crack down on protesters. During the vote in Italy's Senate,

the session was temporarily suspended as opposition lawmakers staged a protest on the chamber floor, shouting the word shame repeatedly. The decree, proposed by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney, brings harsher punishments for acts like passive resistance in prisons and migrant detention centres. It criminalises public protest actions like the blocking of roads and allows for the imprisonment of convicted pregnant women or those with babies. Amnesty International has called it draconian and protests across Italy have taken place

against the decree in recent months. Ruth Sherlock MPN News, Rome. Today is the 81st anniversary of D-Day. This was the start of the Allied operation in 1944 to land Allied troops on the French shore of Normandy. It began the last Allied assault on Nazi Germany. The operation had been kept secret until hundreds of thousands of Allied troops

stormed the French shore. There are commemorations today in Normandy. This is NPR. It all starts with listening to the person in front of you and the person you'll never meet. To the person living a story and the journalist who helps you see it in a new light. The NPR network is built on listening. With microphones in every region so where there any time a voice or sound demands to be heard. Hear stories in the first person, hear the bigger picture on NPR.