UNEWS, Top stories for U.S. Latinos in English

The Senate is voting today on an expansive voting rights bill; Supreme Court unanimously backs compensation to student athletes; relaxed gun laws in Texas are giving rise to concerns about vigintalism at the border.

Biden Admin to release $3,600 in child tax credits for children under 6; Claudette has strengthened in to a tropical storm and is making its way along the Southeast; officials warn Delta variant could cause a fall spike if more people don’t get vaccinated.

Federal workers will observe Juneteenth today after President Biden officially made it the 12th federal holiday; a tropical storm warning has been issued for parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama as a potential tropical cyclone moves towards the Gulf Coast; an El Salvador beach town embraces Bitcoin after Pres. Bukele announces plans to make it legal tender.

The Supreme Court dismisses a challenge to Obamacare for the third time; the Biden Administration rolls back Trump-era rules limiting domestic and gang violence victims from requesting asylum; health officials remain concerned about virus mutations and the unvaccinated.

Russia and the US agree to hold cybersecurity talks; Senate passes bill making Juneteenth a holiday; Mexican Consulate in L.A. announces imitative facilitating remittances.

President Biden travels to Geneva ahead of Putin summit; VP Harris meets with Dreamers and TPS recipients; the U.S. reaches 600,000 covid deaths.

President Biden and world leaders kick off the G7 summit; FDA orders J&J to throw out 60 million doses produced at troubled plant; VP Harris tells Univision’s Ilia Calderon that she plans to visit the border in exclusive interview.

President Biden meeting today with British PM Boris Johnson; Emma Coronel pleads guilty to drug trafficking and money laundering ; covid variant that first emerged in India is spreading rapidly around the world.

President Biden is traveling to Europe on the first overseas trip of his term; infrastructure talks between Biden and Republicans collapse; a 5-year-old Guatemalan girl was found wondering alone in the border.

VP Kamala Harris and Mexican President meet in Mexico City over the migrant crisis at the US border; Senate report details security failures; El Salvador’s president announces plans to make Bitcoin legal tender.