This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email transcripts@nytimes.com with any questions.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
From \u201cThe New York Times,\u201d it\u2019s \u201cThe Headlines.\u201d I\u2019m Tracy Mumford. Today\u2019s Friday, June 5. Here\u2019s what we\u2019re covering.<\/p>\n
senator bernie moreno<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve been sitting here for almost 12 hours, listening to nonsense after nonsense. I\u2019ve had enough.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
Very, very early this morning, the Senate finally wrapped up a marathon voting session.<\/p>\n
senator bernie moreno<\/p>\n
We\u2019re here to complete our oath of office, which is to provide security and safety for the American people.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
And ultimately, Republicans prevailed in pushing through $70 billion in funding for President Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown. They used a special filibuster-proof process to do it, which kept lawmakers at the Capitol all night. And they effectively muscled it through over the objections of Democrats, who had spent months calling for more restrictions on ICE agents.<\/p>\n
The bill almost got derailed at one point by a bipartisan effort to tack on language that would have barred Trump\u2019s $1.8 billion payout fund for his political allies, but that did not end up happening. Now that the bill is through the Senate, it heads to the House, where it\u2019s expected to be passed quickly. It is intended to fund Trump\u2019s immigration plans through the rest of his term.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, as Republicans push forward on funding ICE, the most visible part of President Trump\u2019s immigration policy, \u201cThe Times\u201d has been looking at some of the more behind the scenes efforts the administration\u2019s been making to squeeze immigrants. Separate from the high-profile raids, there\u2019s also been a wave of new rules and regulations to try and cut noncitizens off from services and opportunities. My colleagues talked with one woman, originally from El Salvador, who, for almost 30 years, had a job cleaning airplanes at Logan Airport in Boston, the bathrooms, the seats, the aisles. But she was abruptly fired, along with dozens of other immigrants who worked at Logan legally.<\/p>\n
nicholas nehamas<\/p>\n
She lost her job when the Trump administration made a bureaucratic tweak about who could access secure areas at the airport. Her immigration status no longer qualified her. That\u2019s one example of all the kinds of tweaks the administration is making to immigration in this country.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
Nick Nehamas covers the federal government for \u201cThe Times.\u201d<\/p>\n
nicholas nehamas<\/p>\n
The administration is making changes across the board. Green Card holders can no longer get a government-backed loan. American children will no longer be able to get daycare subsidies if their parents aren\u2019t citizens. Many immigrants won\u2019t be able to get commercial trucker\u2019s licenses. People like refugees can\u2019t sign up for Medicare or receive Affordable Care Act subsidies.<\/p>\n
Many people seeking asylum won\u2019t be able to get work permits. Really what we\u2019re seeing is the Trump administration trying to pull every lever to make life harder for immigrants in the United States and compel them to leave the country. It\u2019s really a fundamental transformation of how welcoming the United States is to immigrants.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
Across the country, the social media giants Meta, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube are facing a wave of more than 1,400 lawsuits from school districts. The districts say the companies have made teachers jobs harder by distracting students. As part of the lawsuits, the companies have had to share thousands of pages of internal documents, including some of their strategies around young users. And digging through them, my colleagues have found new details about how the companies pushed to keep teens glued to their screens, even during the school day.<\/p>\n
jennifer valentino-devries<\/p>\n
It was striking to see these companies discussing ways to reach kids in the classroom, knowing that was what they were doing, getting pushback from people within the company, saying that this might be disrupting the class, and they went ahead and did it anyway.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries is an investigative reporter at \u201cThe Times.\u201d She says that one of the documents surfaced by the lawsuits is an internal YouTube memo from 2015, where employees noted that Saturdays drew tens of millions more hours of viewing than a weekday. They concluded that, quote, \u201cincreasing usage in schools Monday to Friday could decrease this gap!\u201d Jennifer says other companies talked about kids in schools as an opportunity as well.<\/p>\n
jennifer valentino-devries<\/p>\n
It was surprising to me just how blatant it was sometimes. For example, Snap had a strategy document that referred to phone use in schools as under-the-desk time. They sent alerts to students during class time, telling them that they should post about what was in their backpack. Meta had a program where it paid teenagers to act as its ambassadors in schools and hand out swag or post about new products online. And Google knew that kids were looking at YouTube during class and watching videos that were not related to their academics, and they really did not invest in ways to keep that from happening for many years.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
In response to questions from \u201cThe Times,\u201d a Google spokesman said the documents surfaced in the lawsuits are outdated. Meta said its school outreach program was about soliciting feedback on products, among other things, and a spokeswoman for Snap said, quote, \u201cwe do not target schools.\u201d Overall, the social media companies have argued that parents, schools, and cell phone makers bear responsibility for kids\u2019 phone habits.<\/p>\n
Recently, the companies settled for about $30 million with a small school district in rural Kentucky. That served as a test case for the broader litigation nationwide. And it suggests that as more of the lawsuits work their way through the courts, the companies could be on the hook for potentially billions of dollars.<\/p>\n
And finally \u2014<\/p>\n
marjane satrapi<\/p>\n
I wanted to show as an insider how I lived the thing, without wanting to make lesson of history or of, I don\u2019t know, of politics or whatever. Not at all. Just to say, in my life, from my point of view, that is the way I live the thing.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian French author behind the groundbreaking graphic novel series \u201cPersepolis,\u201d has died at 56 years old. Through her books, she introduced millions of readers to the struggles of everyday Iranians during the Islamic Revolution and helped popularize the graphic novel form as a whole. Released in the early 2000, \u201cPersepolis\u201d fused comics and memoir, telling the story of the overthrow of the shah and what it was like for her growing up in a repressive society.<\/p>\n
marjane satrapi<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a human point of view. And really, if there is one message, it\u2019s the humanistic message, is that human being anywhere is the same.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
The books were later adapted into an animated film, which was nominated for an Oscar. Satrapi was born in Iran in the late \u201860s, and her family resisted the changes the country was undergoing when she was growing up, especially the new restrictions on how women could dress and what they could do. Her family sent her abroad as a teenager. She then came back to Iran to study art in her 20s but eventually left for good, landing in France, where she wrote \u201cPersepolis.\u201d Across all of her work, which included children\u2019s books and several feature films, she frequently explored a sense of dislocation, of living away from her home country but thinking of it constantly. In an essay she wrote for \u201cThe Times,\u201d she said that despite the fact that she became a French citizen, quote, \u201cto me, the word home has only one meaning, Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those are \u201cThe Headlines.\u201d If you\u2019d like to play the Friday news quiz, stick around. It\u2019s just after these credits. This show is made by Will Jarvis, Margaret Kadifa, Jake Lucas, Ian Stewart, and me, Tracy Mumford, original theme by Dan Powell. Special thanks to Isabella Anderson, Larissa Anderson, Sam Dolnick, Miles McKinley, and Zoe Murphy.<\/p>\n
Now time for the quiz. Every week, we ask you a few questions about stories \u201cThe Times\u201d has been covering. Can you get them all? First up.<\/p>\n
speaker 1<\/p>\n
If we separate as an individual province or become part of the 51st state, either, or. But I think we need to stand up.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
This week, \u201cThe Times\u201d has been reporting on the push by some Canadians to have their province break away and become its own country.<\/p>\n
speaker 2<\/p>\n
We would easily be one of the richest countries in the world right off the bat. We have trillions of dollars in resources.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
For decades, this was kind of a fringe idea. But polling shows that now roughly a third of people in that province support the separatist cause, which is set to come up for a preliminary vote this fall. Your question, which Canadian province is it?<\/p>\n
[CLOCK TICKING]<\/p>\n
A hint, it\u2019s been called the Texas of Canada, in part because of its vast oil reserves.<\/p>\n
[CLOCK TICKING RAPIDLY]<\/p>\n
The answer \u2014 [BELL CHIMES]<\/p>\n
speaker 3<\/p>\n
This is our moment. Alberta will be free.<\/p>\n
tracy mumford<\/p>\n
Alberta, where people are generally more wealthy and more conservative than the rest of Canada and where they felt that they\u2019ve been paying more than their fair share of taxes. As they tried to build support for their secessionist cause, activists from the province who want to break away have even met with Trump administration officials at least three times in the past year.<\/p>\n
[MUSIC PLAYING]<\/p>\n
Next question, the former Congressman George Santos is back in the news this week. Santos, of course, has been expelled from Congress and was sentenced to years in prison for fraud, until President Trump commuted his sentence last fall. Now, \u201cThe Times\u201d has learned Santos is under investigation again for alleged misconduct. Your question, what new allegation is he said to be facing?<\/p>\n
Here are four options. Only one of them is right. Is it A, getting unemployment benefits while working full time at an investment firm, making six figures? B, making multiple fraudulent credit card transactions? C, insider trading on a prediction market? Or D, lying on official government forms? So again, that\u2019s getting unemployment benefits he shouldn\u2019t have, credit card fraud, insider trading on a prediction market, or lying on official forms.<\/p>\n
The answer \u2014<\/p>\n
[BELL CHIMES]<\/p>\n
C, insider trading on a prediction market. All of the other options are crimes Santos previously admitted to. But the prediction market allegations, those are new. And weirdly, they all center around this year\u2019s State of the Union speech. At the time, there was a lot of speculation about whether Santos would be in the audience, and people were placing bets online. According to a person familiar with the situation, Santos decided to bet, too, putting down money that he wouldn\u2019t go, and he didn\u2019t. Obviously, this kind of situation is exactly why prediction markets are facing a lot of questions about the potential for insider trading.<\/p>\n
[MUSIC PLAYING]<\/p>\n
And last question, the NBA recently rolled out some brand-new music.<\/p>\n
[MUSIC PLAYING]<\/p>\n
The league is basically looking for a kind of signature sound. And to craft it, they brought in the composer behind one of the most distinctive TV show theme songs of the last decade. If you listen closely to the NBA song, there\u2019s definitely some shared DNA in hear.<\/p>\n
[MUSIC PLAYING]<\/p>\n
Your question, which TV show did this composer also write the theme for?<\/p>\n
[MUSIC PLAYING]<\/p>\n
The answer \u2014<\/p>\n
[MUSIC PLAYING]<\/p>\n
The NBA brought in the composer of the \u201cSuccession\u201d theme, Nicholas Britell, who actually hosted some NBA players at his home when he was working on it to run his drafts by them. Quick bonus round now, the NBA\u2019s new song is, of course, not the only signature tune in pro sports. We\u2019re going to play you three quick clips here. You name the sport.<\/p>\n
[ROUSING MUSIC]<\/p>\n
That was an easy one. It\u2019s football, \u201cFox NFL Sunday\u201d to be specific. Next one.<\/p>\n
[CALM MUSIC]<\/p>\n
If you got that, I\u2019m clapping quietly for you. That is golf from the Masters. And last one.<\/p>\n
[NON-ENGLISH SINGING]<\/p>\n
That is the official FIFA 2026 World Cup song, Shakira coming in with another earworm. The tournament kicks off in just a few days, so prepare for that song to be absolutely everywhere.<\/p>\n
[THEME MUSIC]<\/p>\n
That\u2019s it for this week\u2019s news quiz. If you want to tell us how you did, our email is theheadlines@nytimes.com. The show will be back on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,2051,1452,31482,14011,4667,9,24,63,5285,4015,1069,1876],"class_list":["post-256345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-computers-and-the-internet","tag-donald-j","tag-federal-aid-us","tag-foreign-workers","tag-layoffs-and-job-reductions","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-republican-party","tag-social-media","tag-trump","tag-united-states-politics-and-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}