Good evening. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
Justices seem open to allowing Trump to block asylum seekersDuring oral arguments today, a majority of the justices on the Supreme Court appeared sympathetic to the Trump administration’s request for the ability to turn away asylum seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border. If the court sides with President Trump, he would be allowed to reinstate a policy — first used by Barack Obama in 2016 — to prevent asylum seekers from setting foot on U.S. soil, where they would be entitled to try to claim asylum and receive protection from persecution. Justices John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett, conservatives who are often in the majority, seemed to side with Trump. They suggested that the wording in federal law, which allows for asylum once a person “arrives in” the U.S., meant that such a person had to fully cross the border. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a liberal, disagreed. She suggested that turning away asylum seekers would violate the law’s intent. “They’ve arrived,” she said. “They are knocking at the door.” In other immigration news:
Officials describe overlapping failures before LaGuardia crashFederal investigators said that their preliminary investigation indicated that the deadly runway collision at LaGuardia Airport was caused by a series of failures, including problems with staffing and technology. The airport is expected to run at a diminished capacity for the next several days. The fire truck that collided with an Air Canada jet did not have a transponder, making it difficult for the early-warning systems to track its position. Investigators do not know if the drivers heard repeated orders to stop, which began roughly nine seconds before the crash. The two controllers on duty that night were doing the jobs of four people, officials said, adding that it is a common practice that was an issue in last year’s midair collision between a commercial jet and an Army helicopter above Ronald Reagan National Airport. For more:
College graduates face difficult job prospectsEconomists say the labor market has entered a period of “low hire, low fire” — where many job holders are doing fine, but job seekers are struggling. The dynamic has strained recent college graduates, who face the worst spring employment landscape since the depths of the pandemic: The unemployment rate for college graduates ages 22 to 27 recently increased to 5.6 percent. We talked to some of them about how they are handling the moment.
NASA announces plans for a moon baseIn an effort to get Americans to “start believing again” in the mission of space exploration, Jared Isaacman, NASA’s leader, sketched out an ambitious set of plans for the next decade. Next week, NASA plans to launch astronauts around the moon and back for the first time in a half-century. Next year, astronauts would practice in Earth orbit for two moon landing attempts in 2028. Then, the agency is aiming to start constructing a base that would allow a continuing human presence on the lunar surface. Read about the plans here. More top newsIran War
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Once a week, about a dozen Parkinson’s patients come to a Buenos Aires hospital to tango, which, a researcher said, “uses the same kind of movements that people with Parkinson’s disease tend to lose.” Magalí Druscovich and Pam Belluck took us inside.
Reality TV confronts a YouTube worldThe television landscape is changing. Ratings and revenues are declining, big-budget scripted shows are tougher to sell and reality TV is also taking a hit. Networks like MTV, HGTV and Food Network have all been on cancellation sprees. And the number of unscripted series has fallen by a third since 2022. One major factor is the growing dominance of YouTube. Executives also said repeated mergers had taken a toll. “There is just an inexorable march toward fewer ideas from fewer companies,” one former executive said.
Matisse’s late work challenges conventional thinkingA Paris museum just opened a new show celebrating work made by the French master Henri Matisse during his 70s and 80s — decades after he made many of his most famous paintings. Our reviewer called the exhibit breathtaking. It challenges the conventional idea that artists inevitably taper off at the end of their lives: The artwork showcases a careful balance of colorful experimentation and radical simplicity that perhaps only a lifetime of making could achieve.
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