NPR News: 07-01-2026 3AM EDT

Giles Snyder· Host0:00

Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to reject President Trump's attempt to restrict birthright citizenship, House Speaker Mike Johnson says Congress may have to deal with it, saying the Fourteenth Amendment is being abused by people coming to the U.S. to have children.

Mike Johnson· Soundbite0:19

It's become a tourism, birthing tourism they call it, you know, a trend where people will just come, and you just come onto the soil and have your child, and then they're, they're able to avail themselves of the welfare state and everything else.

Giles Snyder· Host0:32

The Justice Department issued a statement Tuesday saying it's directing federal prosecutors to prioritize investigations of so-called birth tourism schemes. The directive posted on social media came after the Supreme Court issued its six to three decision, striking down President Trump's day one executive order. Tuesday's primary elections in Colorado, voters chose Democratic Socialist Milad Kerols over longtime House incumbent Diana DeGette, who has represented her congressional district that includes Denver for thirty years. Kerols is the latest progressive candidate to claim victory over a Democratic incumbent. Shaping up to be a brutal Fourth of July for tens of millions of Americans, a heat wave spreading from the Midwest to the East Coast, and New York could see its hottest holiday in more than a decade. Reporter Steve Kastenbaum has more.

Steve Kastenbaum1:22

With temperatures expected near or above one hundred degrees over the next few days, Mayor Zoram Mamdani put the city's heat emergency