Supreme Court Allows TPS Termination for Venezuelans, Trump on Russia-Ukraine Talks, CBS News Shakeup

Supreme Court Ruling on Venezuelan TPS

• ⚖️ The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants.
• 📌 This decision lifts a federal judge's ruling that had kept TPS in place, potentially putting around 350,000 Venezuelans at risk of deportation.
• 🏠 TPS currently allows migrants to live and work legally in the U.S. because their home countries are deemed unsafe.

President Trump's Diplomatic Efforts

• 📞 President Trump announced that Russia and Ukraine will begin ceasefire negotiations immediately following separate phone calls with their leaders.
• 🗣️ Trump described his call with Russian President Vladimir Putin as "excellent" and also spoke with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
• 🤝 Both Zelenskyy and Putin indicated readiness for discussions, but remain firm on their conditions, with Ukraine unwilling to cede territory and Russia seeking to address the crisis's root causes.

Weather and Economic Warnings

• ⚠️ Severe weather, including tornadoes and flash floods, is threatening Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas.
• 🌪️ St. Louis and Kentucky are still recovering from recent storms that caused fatalities and homelessness, with more bad weather anticipated.
• 🔥 Nearly eight million people in the Southwest are under red flag warnings due to dangerous heat and dry conditions.
• 📉 Wall Street stocks showed mixed performance as investors processed a U.S. credit downgrade by Moody's, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average seeing gains.

News Organization and Air Travel Updates

• resigns as the network's parent company considers settling a lawsuit with President Trump over an interview with Kamala Harris.
• ✈️ The FAA is investigating a brief air traffic control outage at Newark airport, following a series of similar incidents.
• 🚨 Separate investigations are underway for a passenger jet aborting takeoff at LaGuardia and an hour-long tower outage at Houston's Hobby Airport.

UK-EU Relations and Sesame Street's New Home

• 🇬🇧 Britain and the European Union have finalized new trade and defense agreements five years after Brexit, aiming to reset their relationship.
• 🤝 Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the deal a "win-win" offering unprecedented access to the EU market, though opposition parties criticized it as a backtrack on Brexit's principles.
• 📺 Sesame Street will stream new episodes on Netflix starting later this year, while also continuing to air on PBS and the PBS Kids app on the same day.