
News Wrap: Mahmoud Khalil returns home after release on bail
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News Wrap: Mahmoud Khalil returns home after release on bail from federal detention
In our news wrap Saturday, activist Mahmoud Khalil is back home with his wife and son after a judge ordered his release from a federal detention center, millions of Americans are under an extreme heat warning, a provision of Trump’s “big beautiful bill” hit a major roadblock, and workers raised the wreckage of a superyacht for closer investigation after it sank in the Mediterranean last year.
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News Wrap: Mahmoud Khalil returns home after release on bail
Clip: 6/21/2025 | 3m 55sVideo has Closed Captions
In our news wrap Saturday, activist Mahmoud Khalil is back home with his wife and son after a judge ordered his release from a federal detention center, millions of Americans are under an extreme heat warning, a provision of Trump’s “big beautiful bill” hit a major roadblock, and workers raised the wreckage of a superyacht for closer investigation after it sank in the Mediterranean last year.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipJOHN YANG: In tonight's other news, activist Mahmoud Khalil is back home tonight with his wife and infant son after a judge ordered that he be released on bail from a federal detention center.
Federal immigration agents arrested Khalil more than three months ago, the first person detained in President Trump's crackdown on pro-Palestinian student protests.
The 30-year-old former Columbia University graduate student is a legal U.S. resident.
He says he was targeted because he's an immigrant who criticized the administration.
MAHMOUD KHALIL, Pro-Palestine Activist: Whether you are a citizen, an immigrant, anyone on this land, you're not illegal.
That doesn't make you less of a human.
And this is what the administration is trying to do to dehumanize me, to dehumanize the immigrants, dehumanize anyone who actually does not agree.
JOHN YANG: In ordering his release, the federal judge said it would be highly, highly unusual for the Trump administration to continue to detain Khalil because he's unlikely to flee and he hasn't been accused of violence.
Millions of Americans are under an extreme heat warning tonight with even higher temperatures ahead.
The first heat wave of the year is forecast to stretch from the Midwest to the east coast this weekend and through next week.
The National Weather Service predicts triple digit temperatures in some cities.
The weather service warns this heat wave could be especially dangerous because it's the first of the summer and our bodies aren't acclimated to the heat yet.
So they advise everybody to take extra precautions.
DR. LAURA MYERS, Pulmonary Critical Care Physician: General fatigue, headache.
People might start to get confused or dizzy, their muscles might start to cramp up or you feel nauseous.
That's really when you need to start getting inside, starting to hydrate.
And you can use, you know, cold ice packs or, you know, towels with cold water to really start to cool down.
JOHN YANG: The National Weather Service also says high temperatures will likely begin in the mornings.
That will make the days feel oppressively hot.
Congressional Republicans have hit a big roadblock in their plans to reform and cut spending for the SNAP program, what's commonly called food stamps.
It's part of President Trump's so called Big Beautiful bill that the Senate is considering.
Overnight, The Senate parliamentarian said a provision forcing states to pay a bigger share of the food assistance program does not meet budget rules.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the plan would cut benefits for more than a million people.
Senate Republicans want to pass the bill by a self-imposed deadline of the Fourth of July.
Salvage workers raise the wreckage of a superyacht as investigators seek answers about why it sank in the Mediterranean last summer, killing many of those on board.
In August, strong storms and extreme wind flooded the boat.
Investigators say it sank within a few minutes.
Today it was lifted out of the waters off Sicily.
For closer examination, a British tech magnate, his teenage daughter and five others died aboard the vessel.
And one of the most striking sights from the 2024 Olympic Games will now be a regular fixture in the City of Lights.
You may recall that the Olympic cauldron for those Games took the form of a helium balloon floating over the city.
Now it's been rebranded the Paris Cauldron and will be aloft this summer over the twilight garden of public space next to the Louvre.
The cauldron will rise again for each of the next three summers.
Still to come on PBS News Weekend, the Trump administration pulls the plug on a suicide hotline for LGBTQ youth.
And Rick Steves takes us on a journey through his career as a travel writer.
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