Supreme Court hands Trump a big win and several defeats
6/30/202625 min
The US Supreme Court gives Donald Trump sweeping new powers to fire government employees, but sides against him in cases regarding the Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook and mail-in voting ballots. Judges also rejected President Trump's request to appeal against a $5m civil verdict that he'd sexually abused and defamed the journalist E. Jean Carroll. Also: the US military reopens Venezuela's La Guaira port to help aid deliveries after the earthquakes. The right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori wins Peru's presidential election. Six people are killed in a mass shooting in Germany. WhatsApp will soon give users the option to chat without revealing their phone numbers. Tennis players demand Wimbledon prize money is shared fairly, and the deadly fish with human-like teeth wreaking havoc on Greek fishermen.
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Photo: People gather outside the Supreme Court as it prepares to release decisions in multiple cases in Washington, DC, USA, 29 June 2026. Credit: EPA/Shutterstock
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Janet Jalil· Host0:44
[short musical burst] This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil, and in the early hours of Tuesday the thirtieth of June, these are our main stories. The US Supreme Court hands President Trump a big win by expanding his powers to fire independent regulators. The number of dead from Venezuela's earthquakes rapidly approaches two thousand as a desperate search for survivors continues. Also in this podcast, as Wimbledon begins, tennis stars say prize money needs to be shared more fairly.
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