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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. Live from NPR. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Noor Rahm. Kilmar Abrego-Garcia is back in the U.S. He was swept up in an immigration raid and sent to El Salvador in March despite a court

order that he not be sent there. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced yesterday he's now in Tennessee where he faces criminal charges under a federal grand jury indictment last month. Abrego Garcia has landed in the United States to face justice. On May 21st, a grand jury in the Middle District of Tennessee returned a sealed indictment charging Abrego Garcia with alien smuggling and conspiracy to commit alien smuggling in violation of title 8 USC 1324. He's to be arraigned on Friday his lawyers call the

charges baseless. In Los Angeles police used tear gas and flashbangs to disperse protesters outside of Federal Detention Center last night. They were protesting immigration raids across the city this week. The Supreme Court has handed the Trump administration another victory. By a 6-3 vote, the court has, for now, granted the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOJ, unfettered access to information collected by the Social Security Administration. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports. In an unsigned order, the court's conservative supermajority temporarily overturned actions by two lower courts that had limited the DOJ team's access to sensitive private information

at the Social Security Administration. The information includes not just Social Security numbers but medical and mental health records, family court information, and more. Writing for two of the three liberal dissenters, Justice Katanji Brown Jackson said the court was essentially preventing the status quo from remaining in place while the case is fully litigated in the lower courts. Once again, she said, this court dons its emergency responder gear, rushes to the scene, and fans the flames rather than extinguish them. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.

Schools in the top division of the NCAA will be able to pay athletes directly for the first time starting this fall. A federal judge approved a legal settlement late last night. NPR's Becky Sullivan has more. Around 390,000 current and former student- were part of the class section suit against the NCAA in its five power conferences. For the former athletes, the settlement calls for the distribution of more than $2.5 billion in compensation for their time in school, during which they were not allowed to be paid under former NCAA rules. Starting next month, schools will be allowed to distribute up to $20.5 million in direct payments and other compensation to athletes.

The settlement also swaps the NCAA's traditional scholarship limits for each sport for roster limits, capping the number of players on each team. The NCAA and the five conferences applauded the judge's approval of the settlement. Becky Sullivan, NPR News. This is NPR News in Washington. This is NPR News in Washington. Russia attacked the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight with high precision long-range missiles and drones. Ukrainian officials say at least three people were killed and at least 21 others were wounded. The mayor says it was the most powerful attack against the city since Russia's full-scale invasion more than three years ago. Kharkiv is one of the largest cities in Ukraine and is located about 20 miles from the Russian border.

About a thousand people are being forced from their homes by spreading wildfires in the Canadian province of Manitoba, which is already under a state of emergency. As Dan Karpanchuk reports, in all, some 19,000 people have been displaced over the past few weeks. The latest community to be impacted Snow Lake more than 400 miles north of Winnipeg. The town was ordered evacuated late Friday as a large wildfire is threatening the area. About 6,000 people in nearby Flintlawn and the surrounding area have already been forced to leave. Ottawa has put the call out to its international partners for firefighting help as Canada's own resources have been stretched to the limit. Meanwhile, smoke from the wildfires

in western Canada is causing hazy skies across North America. Toronto and Montreal are recording some of the poorest air quality in the world due to wildfire smoke. For NPR News, I'm Dan Karpenchuk in Toronto. In women's tennis, seed Coco Goff of the U.S. won the French Open in Paris today. She defeated the number one seed, Irina Sabalenka of Belarus. This is Goff's first French Open win and her second major trophy after beating Sabalenka in the U.S. Open in 2023. I'm Noora Rahm, NPR News in Washington. 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 at 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.