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Supreme Court rules against affirmative action · Apple News Today

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  Shumita Basu, Narrating: Good morning! It's Thursday, June 29th. I'm Shumita Basu. This is "Apple News Today." On today's show… Investigating the Greek government's actions in the deadly migrant shipwreck, California wrestles with reparations for Black residents, and a new English dialect emerges in South Florida.
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  But first, let's take a quick look at a few big stories in the news, on a morning where much of America is waking up to severe weather. Either extreme heat in parts of the South and California, or polluted air from Canadian wildfires, stretching from the center of the country to the East Coast. As one environmental researcher puts it to "The Washington Post," "We are seeing a climate that didn't exist before."
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  In other news, the CDC says there have been five locally-contracted cases of malaria in the U.S., in Florida and Texas. There are thousands of malaria cases in America every year, but they come from travel abroad. This is the first time in 20 years that the disease has been caught here. The CDC says the risk of getting malaria in the U.S. is extremely low, and the five patients are improving. Johns Hopkins infectious-disease expert Dr. Amesh Adalja tells "CBS" that it's a good move to wear mosquito repellent for many reasons, but there's no need to overreact to a handful of cases.
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  Dr. Amesh Adalja: It's important to remember, this isn't a generalized worry for the whole country. There are certain areas where malarious mosquitoes have always resided and they just got lucky and bit somebody with malaria, and then have been able to transmit it.
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  And quickly, to sports for a couple of major stories. Simone Biles will return to competition for the first time since the Tokyo Olympics. The gymnast pulled out of that Games, citing mental-health concerns. There was speculation that she might retire, but the four-time gold medalist is on the roster for the U.S. Classic in August.
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  And in Major League Baseball, a very rare thing happened last night.
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  Commentator: Grounded to third, Donaldson has it. There it is! Perfection for Domingo Germán.
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  Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán threw a perfect game, keeping every single Oakland A's batter from getting on base. That hasn't happened in more than a decade. And it's only the 24th perfect game in baseball history, going back to the 1800s.
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  Yesterday, we talked about some of the life stories and circumstances of the migrants on board the boat that sunk off the coast of Greece this month. Hundreds of people died.
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  Today, we're looking at investigative reporting on the Greek authorities' response. There are conflicting stories about what happened. Migrants on board say the boat capsized after the Greek coast guard tried to tow it. The coast guard says it did not try to tow the boat, and says people on board refused its offer of help. "CNN" reviewed marine traffic data, and spoke with survivors and activists who were in contact with people on board.
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  Activists said, they repeatedly called authorities over the many hours the coast guard was monitoring the boat and asked them to rescue it. One survivor told "CNN", through a translator, what passengers saw in the moments before the disaster.
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  Survivor: [SPEAKING THROUGH TRANSLATOR]
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  Translator: They decided to throw us a rope, so the guys at the front tied it. They towed us, the boat tilted to the right, and everyone was screaming. People began falling into the sea and the boat capsized. People couldn't get out from under the boat.
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  He told "CNN," he can still hear their calls for help.
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  A U.N. special envoy told "CNN" that, because this was a clear example of trafficking putting lives at risk, Greek authorities had a legal responsibility to help. It's the latest issue involving Greek government policies toward migrants arriving by sea. Human rights campaigners have criticized the country for prosecuting volunteer rescuers working to save migrants from drowning. According to the U.N., so far this year, nearly 2000 migrants have died trying to reach Europe by sea.
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  "Washington Post" reporter Louisa Loveluck, who we heard from yesterday, points out that discussions about responsibility for the migrant deaths shouldn't focus only on Greece.
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  Louisa Loveluck: We have to remember that all the government officials who have stood up in their home countries and said that they're very sorry for the deaths of these people are also responsible for the crisis of governance that had effectively pushed them out of those countries to seek another life.
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  Let's now turn to State of the State, our series where we zoom in on a state issue and talk about how it's impacting people who live there. The place: California. And the issue is how it's dealing with the question of reparations for the impact of slavery and discrimination on Black Americans. Today, a task force will put out an extensive report on the topic for state lawmakers.
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  Christine Mai-Duc covers California politics for "The Wall Street Journal," and told us about the project, which has been in the works for a few years.
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  Christine Mai-Duc: What they did was hire economists to quantify the value of harm that was placed on each person. For example, the harm caused by redlining or racist real estate policies, the amount of money that it costs Black Californians for over-policing and over-incarceration. And, basically, a team of economists came in and put a number, a monetary value, to that.
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  It adds up to more than $800 billion. Some people could be entitled to more than $1.3 million, under the task force's calculations.
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  The panel took personal testimonies into consideration. Last year, Jonathan Burgess told them about his great-great-grandfather, who was formerly enslaved. He was forced to sell his land to California for less than it was worth.
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  Jonathan Burgess: For any state building, any state park, any state institution, those properties should be returned to actual owners and leases enacted for 200 years, and they pay all the back pay with restitution. That would be fine for the Burgess family and any other family that's proven whose land was wrongfully taken through legislative practices that discriminated against descendants of slaves in California.
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  The Burgess family are among many Black Californians hoping this report can have a real impact on state policies, and possibly be a blueprint for other states. But as "Journal" reporter Mai-Duc told us, there's a long road ahead.
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  Mai-Duc: I think those who are really leading this effort and supporting the reparations effort recognize that checks in hand for Black Californians could take a long time, if… maybe not happen at all.
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  California state lawmakers are not expected to take action on reparations until January at the earliest.
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  If you're headed to Miami anytime soon, you might hear some things that'll catch your ear a little differently if you don't speak Spanish. Someone hopping out of an Uber might say they just "got down from the car". Or maybe you'll hear: "My friend got married with her partner."
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  These are signs of a new English dialect emerging in the Miami area. Florida International University linguist, Phillip Carter, writes about this for "The Conversation." He says, this dialect has been developing since 1959, when hundreds of thousands of Cubans arrived in South Florida after the Revolution. To get what's going on, you need to understand what linguists call a "calque", as Carter explains on "NPR."
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  Phillip Carter: A calque is sort of a loan translation, where you don't borrow the word, but you borrow the concept and you translate it into the target language. To go back to the example of "get down from the car," which comes from the Spanish "bajar del carro," literally "get down from the car." So, what happens is, when speakers come into a new language context, they sometimes rely on their mother tongue or their home language, they lean into that as a source to help them get through acquiring the target language, and they literally just translate expressions.
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  Carter says this happens a lot, especially when bilingual speakers move between cultures and places, influencing the language.
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  Phillip Carter: I guess the real message of the story is that every word has a history, every sound has a history, and it is our history.
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  You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app.
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  And, if you're already listening in the News app right now, stick around. We've got a story queued up for you to listen to next. "Scientific American" looks at what it calls 'Parrot Invasions.' There are now major populations of these smart birds in urban areas, from New York to London to Singapore.
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  So, sit back and enjoy listening to that, and I'll be back with the news tomorrow.
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