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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. A federal judge has dismissed an unusual lawsuit filed by the Justice Department against the entire federal bench in Maryland. NPR's Ryan Lucas reports a Trump administration sued to challenge an order that barred the immediate removal of detained migrants. In its lawsuit, the Trump administration says the District of Maryland federal court exceeded its authority and violated the law when it put in place a temporary freeze on deportations of any migrants. who filed a petition challenging their detention. The administration said the pause amounted to judicial interference in executive branch prerogatives. Because all 15 federal district court judges in Maryland were named as defendants in the civil

lawsuit, a federal judge in Virginia, Trump appointee Thomas Cullen, was tapped to oversee the case. Now Cullen has dismissed the administration's lawsuit. He says to do otherwise would break with overwhelming legal precedent and constitutional tradition, as well as offend the rule of law. Ryan Lucas and Pierre News, Washington. The Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man evade federal immigration agents has lost a bid to get the charges dropped.

A federal judge said today that Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan cannot claim immunity, upholding a magistrate's ruling that the case against her should proceed. Dugan was arrested in April. President Trump held a more than three-hour cabinet meeting today, in which he highlighted lighted his crime fighting efforts in Washington, D.C. Over the last 13 days, we've worked so hard, and we've taken so many, there are many left, but we've taken so many criminals over 1,000. Trump said his decision to employ National Guard troops and federal law enforcement agents

on the streets of D.C. has made the nation's capital safe. Democrats are pushing back against Trump's threat to send guard troops to other cities. They say it's a political movement to intimidate opponents. A pill version of a new obesity weight loss drug has cleared a clinical hurdle, paving the way for its maker, Eli, Lilly, to apply to bring it to market. NPR's Yuki-Noguchi reports a result showed notable weight loss among those able to tolerate its side effects. The experimental drug is called orphroglyperon, and it could be the first pill form of GLP1 medications to be approved for weight loss.

In trials, the highest dose of the drug showed about, a 10% reduction in body weight over about 16 months. Pills are cheaper to make and patients prefer them over injections. However, Eli Lilly's trials also show, at the highest dose, over a 10th of participants quit the study citing side effects like nausea, vomiting, and other gastrointestinal problems. The company can now seek regulatory approval to sell the drug worldwide. Yuki Noguchi and PR News. And you're listening to NPR News. The Israeli military says a Palestinian journalists who were killed in yesterday's strike on southern Gaza's largest hospital were not targeted. The military issued a statement today saying the back-to-back strikes were aimed at what

the military believed was a surveillance camera that Hamas was using to monitor Israeli forces. International leaders and rights groups are condemning the attack. The wildly popular animated Netflix movie about a fictitious all-girl rock bands battle against evil spirits is set to become Netflix's most watched original film ever. And NPR's Chloe Veltman reports a soundtrack to K-pop Demon Hunters has already broken a record. The K-pop Demon Hunter's soundtrack is the first soundtrack ever to generate four simultaneous top ten hits in the Billboard Hot 100 charts long history. It's undeniably catchy. Sean Robbins is Fandango's director of movie analytics. With the film's creators in talks about a potential sequel,

Robbins says Demon Hunters could become a major franchise. It could be merchandise. It could be theme parks, more soundtracks. Streaming giant Netflix even took the unusual step this past weekend of screening the film in nearly 1,800 movie theaters around the country. Chloe Valtman, NPR News. The launch window for SpaceX's huge starship rocket. It opens later this hour. This latest test. Starship's 10th has been delayed twice. SpaceX says a liquid oxygen leak led to the delay of Sunday's attempt. Cloudy weather got in the way of last night's blast off. I'm Jail Snyder. This is NPR News.