June 21 top stories
Hello, it is June 21. Here are today’s top stories.
Trump proposes green cards for noncitizen college graduates
Former President Donald Trump in a podcast released on Thursday said that noncitizen students graduating from U.S. colleges should get a green card to stay in the country, a sharp departure from his hard line immigration stance.
During the All-In podcast hosted by Silicon Valley tech investors, one of the hosts told Trump that the U.S. needs to be able to legally retain more high-skilled workers, a major issue for the tech industry.
The host asked: “Can you please promise us you will give us more ability to import the best and brightest around the world to America?”
Trump responded: “I do promise. But I happen to agree, otherwise I wouldn’t promise. You graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically as part of your diploma a green card to be able to stay in this country and that includes junior colleges too.”
When asked for further comment, the Trump campaign said in a statement that only after the most aggressive vetting process in U.S. history would ‘the most skilled graduates who can make significant contributions to America’ be able to stay.
Supreme Court upholds federal law banning domestic abusers from having guns
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal law that prohibits people who are subject to domestic-violence restraining orders from having firearms, ruling that the measure does not violate the Second Amendment.
The court ruled 8-1 that a person who has been found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another may be temporarily disarmed consistent with the Second Amendment.
Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone dissenter.
The high court’s decision reversed a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, which struck down the gun possession ban for alleged domestic abusers.
The ruling was cheered by President Biden and gun violence prevention groups, which said the majority of the court has recognized that common sense gun laws are allowed under the Second Amendment.
CDK’s cyber outage hits U.S. auto dealers
CDK Global, a company that provides auto dealerships across the U.S. with software for managing sales and other services, was shut down for a third straight day Friday after cyberattacks crippled the platform.
The outage is disrupting roughly 15,000 car sellers that depend on CDK’s dealer management software to run their businesses, including vehicle sales. Some dealership employees have resorted to pen and paper to handle transactions, but said most deals had ground to a halt.
CDK has not indicated when its systems will be back up and running, but suggested the outage could last several days.
A CDK spokesperson said: “We are actively investigating a cyber incident. Out of an abundance of caution and concern for our customers, we have shut down most of our systems and are working diligently to get everything up and running as quickly as possible.”
It is not currently known who, or what group, is behind the cyberattacks.
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23 sets of twins graduate from one Mass. middle school
Twenty-three sets of identical and fraternal twins have graduated from Pollard Middle School in Neeham, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, June 12, making up about 10% of the eighth-grade class.
The school principal said it’s quite unusual and they typically have anywhere from five to 10 sets at most. Given their numbers, they have approximately 450 to 500 children in each grade so it was extraordinarily high.
The school gave a special shout-out to the 23 sets of twins during the moving up ceremony on that day.
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, twins account for around 3% of live births in the U.S.
See Alex’s story about the record heat wave that leaves 100 million under heat alerts across eastern U.S.
Record heat impacting U.S. and world
Thanks, Callie.
If you’ve experienced hot weather this week, you’re not the only one. There has been an intense heat wave that impacted the Midwest to the Northeast and it’s broken several temperature records.
On Wednesday, it was 96 degrees in Bangor, Maine. That is a new record. Boston experienced 98 degrees on Wednesday.
The National Weather Service has warned that the heat dome will continue to linger in the Northeast and shift into the Mid-Atlantic this weekend.
Axios explained that global warming is making heat waves more likely, more intense and longer lasting. There are many other countries around the world that are also experiencing record heat.
Hundreds of people were killed in India from a very severe and long-lasting heat wave. Temperatures in Delhi have exceeded 104 degrees F for 37 straight days.
Callie reported this week that a deadly heat wave impacted Saudi Arabia and those partaking in the Islamic Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca.
Mexico, Central America, and the American Southwest are also experiencing hotter-than-usual temperatures.
All of these are signs that climate change is really affecting the Earth and humans’ daily activities. One major concern is that there may be a severe Atlantic hurricane season due to warmer ocean temperatures.
Thanks for the story. That’s all the top stories for this week. Have a nice weekend and stay with the light!
Trump proposes green cards for noncitizen college graduates
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/20/trump-green-card-college-immigration/
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/20/trump-foreign-graduates-green-card-idea-00164359
Supreme Court upholds federal law banning domestic abusers from having guns
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/us/politics/supreme-court-guns-domestic-violence.html
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4733043-supreme-court-gun-ban-domestic-abusers/
CDK’s cyber outage hits U.S. auto dealers
23 sets of twins graduate from one Mass. middle school
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/needham-mass-twin-graduation/3397165/
Record heat impacting U.S. and world
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/20/heat-wave-record-temperatures
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/20/heat-waves-summer-wildfires-europe-africa-asia