NPR News: 06-25-2026 3PM EDT

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. The US Supreme Court has ruled that states cannot require gun owners to get permission from property owners before bringing guns onto their land, as it infringes on Second Amendment protections. The case arose from a gun law in Hawaii, as University of Pennsylvania law professor Kate Shaw describes.

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Hawaii basically said, "We're gonna basically require some affirmative step. If private property owners don't take some step to say, 'You're allowed to carry your gun onto my property,' the default will be that you can't carry on private property that's open to the public." And the Supreme Court basically says that's a law that is insufficiently respectful of what the Second Amendment protects, the right of Americans to carry arms as they go about their daily lives.

Louise Schiavone· Host0:45

The justices also gave the Trump administration the green light to end the Temporary Protected Status program, or TPS, threatening mass deportations. 17 countries have the designation. The vote was six to three. A pause is in effect for an evacuation of thousands of stranded sailors in the Strait of Hormuz. This after maritime trackers say a ship was hit near Oman by an unknown projectile. It comes the same day that maritime intelligence firm Windward says five ships turned around after orders from Iran's Revolutionary Guard not to transit the waterway. NPR's Aya Batrawi has more.

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Iran's Revolutionary Guard says ships must coordinate with its naval forces in order to transit the Strait of Hormuz. Its statement