Six minutes of news from around the nation.

Mexico requests criminal charges over deaths under the Trump administration, including a fatal shooting in Houston; Massachusetts anti-poverty bill gains traction on Beacon Hill; Ohio sexual assault survivor turns trauma into creative power; Invasive insect could become a backyard nuisance in Michigan.

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The Public News Service daily newscast, July 10, 2026.

I'm Mike Clifford.

Now it is Mexico standing up to ICE requesting criminal charges over 17 Mexicans who died in ICE custody or during immigration enforcement operations by the Trump administration.

The Washington Post notes President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that Mexico decided to move beyond diplomatic channels and escalate its complaints after an ICE agent killed a Mexican citizen in Houston this week.

Sheinbaum said the killing is not only sad and regrettable, but also appears to have been targeted.

Houston outlets are reporting the ICE agents involved were allegedly not wearing their body cams.

Meantime, legislation designed to help lift Massachusetts families out of poverty is advancing on Beacon Hill.

The ASAP Act combines more than a dozen bills designed to help those struggling in one of the most expensive states in the nation.

State Representative Marjorie Decker, the bill's sponsor, says it would increase cash benefits, expand tax credits for low-income workers, and help families build generational wealth.

Investing in families' needs now is long-term savings, and there's enough data to show that.

Numerous studies show that expanded tax credits and stimulus payments helped cut childhood poverty in half during the COVID-19 pandemic, yet Congress allowed those credits to expire.

Decker says federal funding cuts now threaten hundreds of thousands of residents' access to health care and food assistance and that the state needs to act.

The bill is currently with the Joint Committee on Children, Families, and Persons with Disabilities.

I'm Katherine Carley.

Roughly 70,000 Massachusetts kids live in what's considered deep poverty, or 50% below the federal poverty level.

Sexual violence experts in Ohio say communities need to move beyond crisis response and create sustained community connections.

Arnadia Ramligan lets us know they say one way is to connect with creatives who have channeled their experiences into artistic expression.

Finding a voice through performing music has helped artist and founder of Hayes Entertainment, Angie Hayes, navigate her feelings as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.

As this year's keynote speaker at the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence Annual Conference, Hayes spoke about the process of turning trauma into creative power.

I've turned something really ugly into something really, really beautiful for myself.

And I no longer am a survivor.

I am by definition, but I do not live my life in the mentality of surviving something at all.

And that's what I want to try to give to people.

Ohio's Office of Criminal Justice Services recorded more than 3,800 cases of rape across the state in 2025.

This accounts only for reported assaults.

Hayes, who is now booking a music tour and speaks regularly on the stigma surrounding sexual abuse, says community awareness is critical to prevention and ensuring survivors have the resources they need.

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An invasive insect is making its way across Michigan.

State officials are asking the public to help in tracking where it spreads.

The spotted lanternfly feeds on a variety of plants, including grapevines, maple trees, and the invasive tree of heaven, its favorite host.

Although it isn't directly harmful to people or pets, The insect can also create sticky, mold-covered outdoor spaces.

Robert Miller is an invasive species prevention specialist at the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, or MDART.

He says the spotted lanternfly is more of a nuisance than a threat.

If you have a lot of spotted lanternfly feeding on a tree of heaven, they'll be ejecting this honeydew, and that can fall on surrounding surfaces.

Honeydew gets colonized by black sooty mold, and that's a sticky kind of foul-smelling substance that can attract other pests.

The spotted lanternfly was first detected in Michigan in 2022 and has now been confirmed in parts of Jackson, Lenawee, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, and Wayne counties.

Crystal Blair reporting.

Next, almost $70 million approved by the Congress to fund teen pregnancy prevention programs has been withdrawn by the Trump administration two years before the grants were set to expire.

The Department of Health and Human Services said the TPP grants no longer align with its priorities and even claim they normalize or promote sexual activity for minors.

New Mexico is one of two dozen states affected by the decision.

Leila Garcia with Equality New Mexico says newly released grant opportunities completely erase people who identify as LGBTQ.

They exclude any education with sexual orientation, gender identity, and the sexual health needs of LGBTQ youth, a historically underserved community.

I'm Roz Brown.

Finally, a sustainable agriculture project that incentivizes farmers to plant trees on the land is currently taking applications for Wisconsin producers.

Organizers for the expanding agroforestry project say it provides farmers with potential economic and environmental benefits like income diversification, enhanced farm resilience, and improved soil health.

Graham Savio with the Nature Conservancy says agroforestry can also help to improve water quality and wildlife habitats.

Savio explains the project gives technical assistance to farmers while helping them to develop their market.

Which kind of hits on all cylinders, doing good things for farmers in terms of their productivity and resilience in the face of increasingly extreme weather events and also just good for ecosystem service provision in general.

The project aims to plant tens of thousands of acres of trees and shrubs across 30 states in the next three years, financed by federal funds from the United States Department of Agriculture.

I'm Judith Ruiz Branch reporting.

This is Mike Clifford for Public News Service.

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