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A Florida court docket will resolve in a listening to immediately when former President Donald Trump’s categorized paperwork case will go to trial. Last week, Trump requested the court docket to postpone the trial till after the 2024 presidential election. Special counsel Jack Smith needs to pick the jury in December.

Pages from the unsealed federal indictment of former President Donald Trump. On Monday he requested a Florida decide to delay his trial. Prosecutors requested for it to start in December.

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Pages from the unsealed federal indictment of former President Donald Trump. On Monday he requested a Florida decide to delay his trial. Prosecutors requested for it to start in December.

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• Putting off the trial might “threaten the whole trial itself,” in response to NPR’s Carrie Johnson. On Up First this morning, she explains that if Trump wins the presidency, he might inform his legal professional normal to drop the indictment or attempt to pardon himself. Johnson provides that the Trump-appointed district decide that can preside over the listening to, Eileen M. Cannon, is beneath scrutiny for perceived impartiality points for her resolution to carve an exemption for Trump to problem a lawfully executed search warrant final yr.

U.S. particular local weather envoy John Kerry is in China to reestablish local weather talks between the 2 nations. China and the U.S. are the 2 greatest contributors to rising world emissions. Kerry is the newest high-level American to go to China after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s go to earlier this month and Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s go to in June.

• Politico reporter Zack Colman says local weather change is one space the place the 2 nations have a common vision: Both are experiencing devastating impacts from warmth waves and drought and see an financial and human well being benefit to switching to cleaner gas. Still, Colman says the bar is low: China’s relationship with the U.S. is at historic fashionable lows.

The EU is providing to allocate a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to Tunisia to assist stem the variety of migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe and promote financial stability. The deal has garnered criticism because it funds a authorities led by President Kais Saied, who has been beneath fireplace for undermining the nation’s democracy and fueling racist sentiments.

• Though Saied was elected on a promise to repair the economic system, NPR’s Ruth Sherlock says he is since centralized power to himself, weakened Parliament and jailed distinguished opponents. In speeches, he is cited an antisemitic conspiracy concept referred to as the “great replacement” that alleges a conspiracy to “overwhelm the country with Black Africans.” A Tunisia professional tells her the EU is “sacrificing its principles” by coping with him.

This fall, mother and father will lastly be capable of get their infants a shot to guard them from extreme respiratory sickness attributable to RSV. The FDA approved the antibody shot nirsevimab (Beyfortus) yesterday.

Picture present

Concert go-ers dancing on the Silent Disco dance get together at Lincoln Center, New York City on Saturday, July 1, 2023. Headphones and haptic fits designed for the deaf group to allow them to really feel the beat have been supplied by Music Not Impossible.

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Concert go-ers dancing on the Silent Disco dance get together at Lincoln Center, New York City on Saturday, July 1, 2023. Headphones and haptic fits designed for the deaf group to allow them to really feel the beat have been supplied by Music Not Impossible.

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People who’re deaf or have bother listening to now have a brand new strategy to really feel stay music: haptic fits. NPR’s Jennifer Vanasco went to an accessibility-themed silent disco in New York to check out one of many units and get different customers’ first impressions. She describes the swimsuit as a vest studded with small plastic packing containers that vibrate — sending “taps like raindrops on the shoulder, a tickle across the ribs, a rhythmic pulsing like a massage chair, a kind of fuzzy vibration of the spine.” Check out photos from the dance.

From our hosts

Members of the Screen Actors Guild picketing outdoors of Netflix in Los Angeles.

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Members of the Screen Actors Guild picketing outdoors of Netflix in Los Angeles.

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This essay was written by A Martinez. He got here to NPR in 2021 and is considered one of Morning Edition and Up First’s hosts. He was beforehand the host of Take Two at KPCC in Los Angeles.

I stay a mile away from Warner Bros and Disney. There hasn’t been a day for the reason that writers’ strike started in May that I have not seen picketers in entrance of studios. They usually increase their indicators and cheer when automobiles go by and honk in help. Now actors joined them so these picket strains may have some well-known faces in them.

I’ve chatted with some union members inside close by grocery shops, and most of them informed me they’re fearful that these strikes won’t be resolved anytime quickly.

History is likely to be informing their concern. In 1980, actors went on strike over points eerily just like 2023: know-how. Today it is AI and streaming. Back then, it was residuals from video cassettes and pay TV. Ben Mankiewicz of Turner Classic Movies informed me the distrust actors have that the studios aren’t being trustworthy about how a lot revenue they make utilizing new applied sciences is nothing new as a result of they have seen it before.

The 1980 strike lasted for 3 months. We’ll see how lengthy this one goes and which facet breaks first.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift performs onstage on the primary evening of her “Eras Tour” at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on March 31, 2023. (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO / AFP) (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP by way of Getty Images)

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US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift performs onstage on the primary evening of her “Eras Tour” at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on March 31, 2023. (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO / AFP) (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP by way of Getty Images)

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1. Taylor Swift has damaged Billboard data once more. Fresh off the discharge of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), she’s the first woman to have four albums within the Top 10 on the similar time. 
2. Edward Caban, a Bronx native of Puerto Rican descent, was sworn in yesterday as the primary Latino to lead the NYPD, the nation’s largest police division.
3. A ship crash lawsuit featured within the Murdaugh Murders documentary was settled for $15 million. A comfort retailer chain that offered alcohol to Paul Murdaugh, who was piloting the boat, settled with 19-year-old Mallory Beach’s family. 

This publication was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi.