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Support for NPR, and the following message come from Yarl and Pamela Mohn, thanking the people who make public radio great every day and also those who listen. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. The Supreme Court is allowing federal agents to resume broad immigration stops in Los Angeles. The justices lifted a lower court order that limited arrest targeting people based on race, language, or location. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports the case stems from U.S. citizens caught up in immigration raids by mistake. This was another unsigned Supreme Court order delivered without explanation on the emergency docket. The Trump administration asked the justices to block a lower court decision that barred ICE and other federal agents from rounding up immigrants based in large part on what the federal district court judge called blatant racial profiling, that's a quote. The Federal Appeals Court declined to block that decision while it considers the case,

and so the administration then went to the Supreme Court. That's NPR's Nina Totenberg reporting. Florida's Health Department wants to remove school mandates for four vaccines by December. Kerry Sheridan from M.B. WUSF reports, hepatitis B, and chickenpox are on the list. Rana Alyssa, the president of the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, says these vaccines are safe and necessary. For example, pregnant women should not be exposed to chickenpox because their unborn babies might have it

and it's severe congenital complications. Other vaccines that Florida could remove from school mandates include homophilous influenza type B or hip. Dr. Alyssa says that's a bacterial infection that can make young children very sick. They have like cold symptoms and all of a sudden they can't even breathe. And they have to be intubated. Lawmakers would have to act to lift mandates for other vaccines such as polio and measles.

For NPR news, I'm Carrie Sheridan in Tampa. The French Prime Minister has lost a vote of confidence in his plans to cut the country's huge budget deficit. French media report he will hand in his resignation Tuesday morning. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley has more. The Speaker of the French National. Assembly read out the vote on Prime Minister Francois Bayou's deficit-cutting plans, 194-4-34-against. Beiru said he called the risky vote of confidence because he wanted the parliament behind him

and he wanted to alert the French to the gravity of the deficit, which is 114% of GDP. Beiru was President Emmanuel Macron's fourth prime minister in less than two years. None has been able to enact his centrist agenda. The far left and far right who have the biggest blocks in Parliament are now demanding that a new prime minister come from their camps. Eleanor Beardsley in Pierre News, Paris. At the close on Wall Street, the dial was up 114 points. This is NPR News. As students returned to the classroom this month, a school shooting in Minneapolis two weeks ago has made gun violence top of mind for many.

Hundreds of school shootings have happened in the U.S. in recent decades, that's led to a multi-billion-dollar industry. NPR's Meg Anderson reports. The school security industry is now worth as much as $4 billion. That's according to the market research firm Omdia. At the National School Safety Conference this summer, vendors showcased panic buttons, bulletproof whiteboards, body armor, and more. Sarah McNeely is with Sam Medical, a company that sells trauma medical kits. It's an unfortunate circumstance, but being prepared of having these devices in the schools is essential. Gun violence prevention researchers say many products on the market are reactive.

They don't prevent shootings from happening. They say that requires restricting access to guns and supporting mental health services for children. Meg Anderson, NPR News. Rick Davies, co-founder and lead singer of the British rock band Superdiv. tramp has died at the age of 81 from cancer. The band rose to fame in the 1970s with hits like Goodbye Stranger and The Logical Song. Their 1979 album, Breakfast in America, top the charts in the U.S. and Canada won two Grammys and sold more than 18 million copies. I'm Windsor Johnston, NPR News, in Washington.

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