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Support for NPR and the following message come from the Limelson Foundation, working to harness the power of invention and innovation to accelerate climate action and improve lives around the world. Learn more at limelson.org. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shay Stevens. The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for ICE and Border Patrol agents to resume aggressive immigration sweeps in Los Angeles. As NPR's Adrian Florido reports, the High Court lifted a lower court decision that had prevented agents from engaging in racial profiling. In July, a federal judge in Los Angeles said immigration agents could not target people based solely on factors like their race, accents, or occupations.

Agents had to scale back aggressive roundups in which they'd chased day laborers through hardware store parking lots and rounded up street vendors and car wash workers. The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to lift that order. the six conservative justices have done so. Their order was brief and unsigned. Armando Ludinom is with the L.A. Worker Center Network. Immigration agents are now being given the power to profile, stop, detain, and arrest people because of the color of their skin, the language they speak, or the work that they do. The ACLU has said it'll keep pressing its lawsuit to stop the raids. Adrienne Fladillo, NPR News, Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, Department of Health and Human Services or the Department of Homeland Security has announced, plans to begin ice operations in Illinois. A New York doctor is being sued for prescribing abortion pills for a patient in Texas. NPR's Avo Pukatch reports on the brewing legal battle over a Texas law that allows lawsuits against abortion pill makers and providers. Abortion shield laws like New York's protect providers prescribing abortion pills to patients in states that ban abortion. Last week, Texas lawmakers passed a bill allowing citizens to sue anyone who prescribes abortion medication, to Texas residents for $100,000. New York Attorney General Latisha James

blasted the lawsuit by her Texas counterpart. I find it ironic that the state of Texas would impose their beliefs upon residents here in the state of New York. It's a woman's right to choose. Some Democratic-led states are strengthening their shield laws. California lawmakers are working on a bill allowing abortion pills to be sent without the name

of a patient, prescriber, or pharmacist. Eva Pukatch, NPR News. Jury's election has begun in the trial of Ryan Ruth, the man charged the trying to assassinate Donald Trump. NPR's Greg Allen reports. A secret service agent says he spotted Ryan Ruth holding a rifle near where Trump was golfing at his West Palm Beach Club in September and fired on him. Ruth was arrested a short time later. After Ruth became dissatisfied with his federal public defenders, U.S. District Judge Eileen Cannon granted his request that he represent himself. But in court, as the jury selection process began, she told him, question.

questions he wanted to ask about Palestine and a proposal that the U.S. purchased Greenland were politically charged and would not be allowed. She asked him about another question he wanted to ask jurors. If you saw a turtle in the road, would you stop and move it? Ruth agreed to withdraw it. Greg Allen reporting. This is NPR. U.S. Treasury officials hosted a meeting with European officials this evening to discuss new sanctions and terrorists on Russian oil. The meeting comes as President Trump pressures Russian President Putin to meet with the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky. It came a day after a Russian attack on a government building in the Ukrainian capital, which killed at least four people. A Palestinian attack in Jerusalem during

Monday's rush hour has killed six people and injured a dozen others. An Israeli soldier killed two attackers and arrested a third. Also on Monday, the Palestinian Health Ministry says Israel fatally shot two Palestinian teenagers in the West Bank City of Janine. More than 1,000 Hollywood figures say they will not work with some Israeli companies in response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. NPR's Neta Ulibe has details. The Open Letter was signed by such stars as Emma Stone, Gail Garcia, Bernal, Alyssa Milano, Brian Cox, and Alana Glazer, among many others. Filmmakers included Ava DuVernay, Adam McKay, and James Seamus,

used to run focus features. The signatories pledged to avoid working with Israeli film institutions, meaning festivals, broadcasters, and production companies that are, quote, implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people. The letter defines such complicity as, quote, whitewashing or justifying genocide and apartheid, or partnering with the government committing them. The letter was organized by a group called Filmmakers for Palestine. It was modeled after efforts against apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s. Netta Ulibe, NPR News. This is NPR.

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