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Support for NPR and the following message come from the estate of Joan B. Kroc, whose bequest serves as an enduring investment in the future of public radio and seeks to help NPR produce programming that meets the highest standards of public service in journalism and cultural expression. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. The Supreme Court is allowing federal immigration agents to continue making random stops of people in Los Angeles. opponents say this is blatant racial profiling. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the opinion, saying no one should be stopped because they look, Latinos, speak Spanish, and work a low-wage job. The Department of Homeland Security is launching a federal immigration operation in Illinois. And Pierre's Kat Lonsdorf reports, President Trump has repeatedly threatened to send National Guard troops as well as immigration and customs enforcement officers into Chicago. DHS is calling it Operation Midway Blitz, saying it's an honor of a woman killed by a drunk driver who was an unauthorized immigrant in Illinois. NPR confirmed that crash took place this year in Urbana.

The driver was a Guatemalan national and is facing charges, including DUI and reckless homicide. DHS says the operation will target, quote, criminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago in Illinois, saying that they went there because they knew Illinois Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker's sanctuary policies will protect them. The announcement comes as the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume immigration raids in Los Angeles after a lower court judge had blocked them. Kat Lonsdorf, NPR News, Chicago. The House Oversight Committee has released some documents from the estate of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Among them is a sexually oriented letter that features the drawing of a naked woman purportedly drawn by President Trump. NPR Stephen Fowler says the White House says Trump never signed this. This is a limited set of documents handed over by the Epstein Estate.

They were answering a subpoena from the House Oversight Committee investigating how the government handled the prosecution of the convicted sex offender who died by suicide in 2019 while in federal custody. There is the copy of a type letter set inside the drawing of a nude female body that appears to be signed by Trump, which includes the line, A Pal is a Wonderful Thing, Happy Birthday, and May Every Day Be Another Wonderful Secret. NPR Stephen Fowler reporting. The government of France has collapsed again. French Prime Minister Francois Bayru lost a vote of confidence taken by French lawmakers yesterday. It's over his plans to cut France's huge budget deficit.

NPR's Eleanor Beersley reports he'll likely resign in coming hours. The Speaker of the French National Assembly read out the vote on Prime Minister Francois Bairou's deficit cutting plans, 194-4-364 against. Bayroux 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. 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. You're listening to NPR news. Several news outlets say the Prime Minister of Nepal has resigned. This follows intense protests yesterday. Young protesters are furious. The Nepalese government temporarily banned social media.

That ban has been lifted, but clashes have left at least 19 people dead. The family of billionaire Rupert Murdoch has settled the future of his media empire. Murdoch's son, Lachlan, will remain in charge of the family business. That includes Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, among others. Rupert and his son will buy out the company's shares of three other Murdoch children. Preparations are underway for a triple mission to space, taken on a single rocket. Scientists want to focus on space weather, solar winds, and their effects on Earth. NPR's Amy held reports the mission could launch as soon as two weeks from today.

On board, a NOAA satellite for forecasting space weather a million miles away. Even space gets storms. The sun spews gas and particles creating solar wind. That can affect the technology we rely on at home. Nikki Fox, with NASA's science mission directorate says the space weather applications are exciting. But the actual discovery science that we will get from IMAP is going to literally rewrite textbooks, and that's why we're so excited about it. IMAP, interstellar mapping and acceleration probe, will study the edge of the heliosphere, the magnetic bubble surrounding our solar system, and how it interacts with the galactic. neighborhood. Then there's NASA's first mission dedicated to the exosphere, the last layer of Earth's atmosphere extending maybe beyond the moon. Amy Held, NPR News. And I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News from Washington. This message comes from Wise, the app for using money around the globe. When you

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