and our own amna nawaz has just returned from a week reportingon he southwestern border. mna, welcome back. welcome to both of you, wendy amna, terrific reporting on the border and work with frankca sen. from the contact you've made, you've gotten anecdotal evidence that separations are continuing? >> that's right. the best way to expinthis is still a situation in chaos. a woman we pra fileouple of days ago, a grandmother and here granddau a 3-year-old girl, sophie, who turned 4 yesterday, actually, theyle crossed ally pence morning, made the cr essing at thel paso bridge. she is now seeking asylum. the whole family wa fleeing cartel violence in mexico. we got word jusa little while ago from the grandmother who has goen released frovernment custody that the girl has beetan n from her this morning. they said because you are not her mother, we are taking the girl into custody. we will contact the motshher. clarified the girl's birth mother is in the united states, an asylum case pending. she hasn't been raising the daughter but another baby she crossed with ahile ago. the mo

amna nawaz on thound in el paso. thank you, amna. in the day's other news: trade teinions with china spiked a after president trump called for tariffs on another $200 billion worth of chinese goods beijing had matched an earlier round of tariffs, and mr. trump blsed that retaliation for new action. the chinese today called it "blackmail". >> (anslated ): china does not want to fight a trade war buit is not scared of one. we will continue to take effective steps to resolutely esdefend the country's int. we advise the u.s. side to return to reason, and stop word and actiat harm itself and others. this is the only way. >> woodruff: the president's trade adviser-- peter navarro-- said today the u.s. remains open to talks to resolve the dispute. the trade trouble put wall street on the ropes.ne the dow industrial average lost 287 points to close at 24,700. the nasdaq fell 21 points, and the s&p 500 slipped 11. the u.s. and south korea today rmally called off joint military exercises that had been planned for august. president trump had in

amna nawaz and produce fritz recently traveled to portland to see firsthand how it'sll playing out. > nawaz: for giovanni bates and ashley rollins, this part of portland has always felt like home. you were just surrounded by eamily? >> oh, that's it, everyone knew someone. you would drive by my grandmother's house on any day and you'd see five to people, cousins, everybody out there. and it would, you know, just turn into an impromptu barcue. >> nawaz: ashley was raised by her mother and grandparents--la trairs in their time. >> she was actually the first, african-american woman judge in portland and then my gasndfather he w actually a tuskegee airman. >> nawaz: ashley and giovanni's roots here may run deep, but when the former high school sweethearts looked for a place to raise their sons, the neighborhood they once called home was out of reh. >> this is our neighborhood. we went to high school in this neighborhood. this is what feels like home and comfortable for us, so our hope was to live here, but things have just, like, changed drastically. >> nawaz: that change traces back deca

amna nawaz, thank you. in the day's other news: the trump administration urged a federal judge in saco to block three california laws that protect undocumented immigrants. wsamong other things, the ar police from giving out information on people in jail,n and migration officials from entering work sites without a warrant. the immigration issue is roiling the european union as well, and today, hungary intensified its crackdown. lawmakers amended the constitution to say what they call "alien population" nnot be settled in hungary. the vote camon world refugee day. the civil war in south sudan has created africa's worst refugee crisis in a quarter century. today, the president and opposition leader met for the first time in nearly two years. the talks took place in nearby ethiopia, amid international efforts to negotiate an end to the five-year conflict. trade tensions between the united states and allied nations drew fire today at a senate hearing. commerce secretary wilbur ross was the target. senators from

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for the pbs newshour, i'm amna nawaz. chief justice john roberts said their decision reflects the results of a worldwide review process undertaken by multiple cabinet officials and their agencies. but liberal justices decried the ruling. here to explain both sides and the poible future effects i'm joined by marcia coyle of the "national law journal" and yeganeh torbati, who coversim gration for the reuters news service. and we welcome both of you back to thprogram. mash alet's start with you on what the justices said upon. entiallyf justices ess upheld this, writing for the majority, saying the president has broadrauthority as pesident to determine what our immigration laws ae, and he also wrote with discrimination. >> judy, this was a comicated case. >> and really urge people to read the opinions on the court's website. tm going to boil it do basically three questions the justices faced. one,a you just said, the majority found that president trump did not exceed hisor auy under federal immigration law. the key provision

captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> nawaz: good evening, i'm amna nawaz.judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight, the supreme court decides in favor of a baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex couple-- the court's major ruling explained. inen, judy sits down with turkey's foreignter mevlut cavusoglu as the u.s. and turkey discuss a roadmap for the way forward in syria. iod, an inside look into a key primary race: hoa's democratic battle for a congressional seat could be a defining moment for the party. >> a wave doesn't just happen on its own. we have a unique challenge as democrats to provide a path forward. az: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

kcet s angeles. ng captioni sponsored by newshour productions, llc >> nawaz: good evening, i'm amna nawaz. judy woodruff is away. on the newshour tonight, the swing vote steps down: supreme court justice anthony kennedy announces his retirement.s what tuld mean for the future of the court. then, the clock starts ticking-- a federal judge orders the white house to reunite immigrant families within 30 days. k what's stiping children and their parents apart. and, ancient manuscr saved from al qaeda's grasp. can timbuktu's literary treasures now be preserved for generations to come? >> ( translated ): the occupation took us by surprise, so people started to fd ways of hiding their manuscripts, before leaving. when everyone returned then it was time to find them. >> nawaz: l that and more on tonight's pbs newshour.

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as amna nawaz reports, this time the stakes involved a trip from the super bowl champion philadelphia eagles to meet the president, and a decision by mr. trump uninvited the team after many players opted out of seeing him. >> nawaz: these are some of the superbowl ampion philadelphia eagles the president was planning to meet at the white house today. a meeting that's become almost as much a tradition, as the victory parade itself. but president trump cancelled that meeting saying too many players opted out at the last minute, and that they disagreede with his inse on standing during the national anthem. du fact, none of the eagles players took a kneng the anthem last season. today, the white house hosted what they called "a celebration of america" instead. flanked by the united states army chorus the president spoke briefly. >> we stand together for freedom we come together for patriotism this is a beautiful big celebration actually to be honest, it is even bigger than we had anticipated >> nawaz: the president has long railed agast players who take a knee during the national anthem,

a new report highlights some of the reasons behind these patterns, and as amna nawaz reports, it's issued at a moment when two notable deaths have drawn moreattention to the problem. >> reporter: the deaths of che and tv host anthony bourdain and fashion designer kate spade this week underscored some grim numbers. suicide is the tenth leading d cause th in the united states. in 2016 alone, nearly 45,000 americans died by suicide. cnn announced today that bourdain, who took viewers to locations around the world on his show, died at the age of 61. spade, whose handbags and accessories made her a business mogul and fashion icon, died tuesday at the age of 55. the centers for disease control and prevention's latest report found suicide rates have increased in nearly every state2 in america sin0. in half of all states, the rate rose more than 25%, and some of the la mountain states and the midwest. that includes rural areas wheree incan be stagnant, poverty can be high, and where financial stress can add to pressures in midd and low income american families. experts in the field say there are

but for now, the judge's order must be dealt with amna nawaz looks at the difficulties of doing so given the present policies and situation. >> nawaz: there are still more than 2,000 children wh been separated from their families at the border in recent weeks and placed in government- run or contracted shelters. the federal judge ruled that the administration must reunite families with children under five within 14 days, and families with older children within 30 days. those children are currently in the care of a particular division of the health and human services department, the office of refugee resettlement. bob carey ran that office at the end of the obama administration, from 2014 until presidents trumauguration. while separation policies have changed, carey is knowledgeableh about ho agency works and joins me now. bob carey, thanks for making the time. i want to start with some of the countls reports we've gon from along the border, some of the things i saw first hand ein my there about how difficult it is to connect parents with children in the system. what's your understanding

while the matchup may be a repeat, amna nawaz tells us why this finals is still a contest with compellingrylines. >> nawaz: there's a reason these two teams keep battling every june. the warriors have a dynamic offense and four all-stars, most of whom are seen as future hall of famers. cleveland has lebron james, who is arguably the best basketball player in the world. and this is the eighth straight trip to the finals for the 33- year-old superstar. so before the games get underway, let's hear some appreciation about this unique moment in time. kevin blackistone is a sports columnist with the "washington post" and frequent panelist with espn. kevin, thanks for making the time. let's talk about this, then. obviously, there are the individual stars, i want to talk about them in a second, but just talk to me about this matchup for a second. this rivalry, is this going to go down as one of the all-time greats? >> you know, i think it will. four years in a row, that rarely happens anymore, and the fact that it's such a constellation of stars with lebron james and steph curry and kevin duran a

but as amna nawaz has found, in this cross-border report fromez jund el paso, the process isn't alwayst easy. >> reporter: the years that brought angelica and sofi-- her three-old-granddaughter-- to this moment, on the mexican side of the paso del nortge to the united states, are almost too painful for her to recount. aden we first met them tuesday night, they had albeen in this migrant shelter in juarez r a month. her family, angelica says, was targeted by mexican cartels, alrey killing her husband, son, daughter-in-law, and threec grldren. getting out of mexico, she says, is a matter of life or death. >> ( translated ): i'm worried for her. my granddaughter's lived through many very ugly things. >> reporter: children are separated are you woabout that? >> ( translated ): yes it makes me afraid that they'll separate me from my granddaughter. and i pray that they won't separate me from her. >> reporter: her plan is to try and legally cross the u.s. border wednesday morning escorted by ruben garcia, who runs a migrant shelter across the border, in el paso. gelica will carry this sign, a

of justice, which had argued the deal would make the marketplace rsss competitive for consu as amna nawazorts, the potential megmarger could have a aiofound impact on the media, enteent and telecommunications landscape. >> reporter: the decision comes nearly 20 months after at&t first announced its plan to buy time warr... ...and comes just about a week before the companies face a de to complete the merger. the $85 billion merger would allow at&t to buy up time marner's assets-- which included plenty or content creators such as hbo, cnn, tbs and warner brothers movies. that means at&t would control rights to big franchises as well like "game of thrones," "lord of the rings," lego and broadcasting of live sports like the n.b.a. and march madness. the companies face a june 21 the judge put no limits on the deal. some outside of government are worried abt what it could mean for competition. david mccabe, who has been coveng this for acts owe, as there in the courtroom today and joins me now. david, welcome to the news hour. ry,ot of people keeping a very close eye on this case. now that you

amna nawaz reports. >> nawaz: last year, more than 40,000 unaccompanied immignt children were housed in shelters run by the department of health and human services-- a network of more than 100 facilities in 17 states. children now spend an average of 56 days in these shelters.e those facilities is casa san diego in southern california, which houses 65 kids at a time and opened its doors to media today. jean guerrero of pbs member station kpbs was there, and joins me now. jean, there's obviously a lot of interest and facilities around the conversation of family separation. tell us what you saw inside thei ty and how you were able to get inside in the first place. >> all right, so as yo mentioned, this is one of the smaller shelters, about 65. it's an all-boys shelter. basically, we got tothe children engaged in a variety of differentctivities, in classrooms reading, we also got to go outside and watch them playing soccer. so a varty of different activities showing the kinds of things they do at the shelter, but it was a process to be able to go this tour. as you mentioned, it was a ve

the pbs newshour i'm amna nawaz in portland. >> woodruff: back to politics >> woodruff: back to politicsnow. lots to talk about this mond w, and for thare joined by amy walter of the "cook political report" an rothenberg of "inside elections." politics monday, welcome to both of you. the border story, parated families, parents from children, amy, first and fore most, this is a human story, it's about human beings and what is happening in people's lives. but let's talk about the politicaconsequences of the administration, of president trump, doing this and the democratic resnoonse. righwhat affect do you see this having? >> judy,'m glad that you opened it like that. because it is actually a political and human story together. and that's what makes i even more challenging. politically for republicans who e out there, obviously they're on the ballot in 2018. the president isnot. he made immigration enforcement the centerpiece of his election in 2016. a lot of republicans did not. and what we're seeing as i'm watching this unfold throughout the day, the number of publicans in congress ho are

. >> woodruff: amna nawaz reporting from close to the border. thank you, amna.ep the forcibleation of children from their parents at the u.s. southern border has focused attention on t conditions of the detention of all young immigrants. and now john yang reports that there are troubling allegations about one facility housing migrant teens in virginia. >> reporter: judy, today virginia governor ralph northam launched an investigation into claims of severe physical abusee of immigrantgers at a juvenile detention facility near staunton, virginia. northam acted just hours after the associatedress reported the claims made by immigrants sent to the facility by u.s. authories. one of the reporters who broke the story joins us now, michael beisecker, an a.p. investigative erporter. michael, thank youmuch for joining us. >> good to be with you. first of all, tell us who these young people are in is facility and how they got there. >> well, the statements filed as part of this lawsuit were from mostly kids from central americx and ico who crossed the icr

amna nawaz explores how this time, the focus is on mr. trump's charitable foundation. >> nawaz: the new york state attorney general sued the donald j. trump foundation this morning, alleging "persistently illegal conduct" and mismanagement at the president's charity. here to explain it all, i'm joined by david fahrenthold. 's a pulitzer prize-winning reporter with the "washington," pohose initial reporting first launched the state probeto looking he trump foundation. david, welcome to the newshour. let's start with the fact that this is a 20-month probe led by the new york attorney general's office, but your reporting on this goes all the way bak to the 2016 campaign. few people know this better than you.ai exthe me in simple term, what is it that the president and his three oldest chnild are accused of in this investigation? >> what they're accused of basically is running a tax-exempt charitable foundation like a piggy bank, using it as another checking account for donald trump to buy things fory himself, to ff creditors of his business,

as amna nawaz explains, it's all about what is and isn't allowed when lawmakers draw electoral districts. >> reporter: over the past year, the supreme court-- in more than one case-- has tackledng gerrymande today, the court ruled on a case out of texas questioning whe rer the state ial discrimination when drawing four state district lines. "the national law journal's" marcia coyle joins me at the table. thanks for being here. >> pleasure. >> let's talk about the case toad, it's about a texasco ressional and legislateddive map, the allegation was it was challenged as racial gerree mandzerring, what did the court said. >> the court dividessed 5-4 along ideaological lines. juice alito joined by four conservative justices lead the court in the majority opinion. and the majority rejected a lower court's findings that texas had engagedin racial discrimination primarily against black and hisvopaniers in its 2013 redistricting map. justice alito said that the evidence of discrimination was insufficient to shoi that texas had-- the texas letuis which drew the map had bad faith or had engaged in

amna nawaz looks at a new analysis fr the "washington ost" that tracks how effective, or ineffective, many police departments are. >> reporter: judythe team at he "post" studied data from more than 50,000 homicides over the course of a dtade, in 50 of he largest cities. reporters found that in some cities-- and, more pointedly, in cuparr sections of certain cities-- murders are common, but arrests can be rare. in fact, the "post" found that in 34 of the 50 cities, there's now a lower arrest rate for murders than a decade ago. that can often be the case in neighborhoods that are home to mostly low-income residents of color. wesley lowery is a national reporter at the "washington post" and led the team. welcome to the "newshour". >> thank you so much for having me. >> those low arrest zones yo au mention we talked about you found in your reporting, what are the commonaliies? what do those places share? >> of course. so what we did, again, is we mped the homicides going back a decade, looking notten only just where violence is but where unsolved violence, where violence goes unchecked, s

amna nawaz has our story. >> nawaz: a day after the mayh at the "capital gazette" in annapolis, faces of the five victims headlined the front page. the man accused of killing them, 38-year-old jarrod warmos, was charged with five counts of first-degree murder,nd ordered held without bond. >> mr. ramos is alleged to have executed a brutal series of attacks on innocent victims. >> nawaz: officials say the suspect opened fire on t paper's newsroom, with a pump- action shotgun. state attorney wes adams says the alleged gunman had made sure no one could get out: >> there were two entrances to the offices in which this attack occurred. the rear door was barricaded. mr. ramos then, as i told the judge, entered into the fronor nd worked his way throughce the of >> nawaz: hours after thewr attack, stafer, selene san felice, recalled the terror of s ing trapped. >> i remember i rking at my desk when i heard the shots, and it took a couple of them for me to realize what was happening. i went to the back door which i s only a couple steps aw from, and it was locked. i heard the footsteps. >> nawa

amna nawaz begins our coverage with a reminder the ruling comes against a backdrop of many months of controversy. >> nawaz: the travel ban was ong donald trump's first acts as president, and at the white house today, he laudedt he supreme coling that upheld it. >> a tremendous success.us a tremenictory for the american people and for our constitution. we have to be tough, and we have to be safe, and we have to be secure. >> nawaz: outside the supreme court, a different m >> no court decides the parameters of our community's humanity! >> nawaz: outrage, as politicians anactivists denounced the ruling, including one, who spoke about her family in syria being unable to visit the united states. >> they have already had to miss my graduation with my chelors tgree, my graduation with my master's program a day i married the love of my life. how many more life moments and milestones will they have to miss? >> nawaz: as a candidate, mr. trump proposed a blanket ban on all muslims from entering the country. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the