美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-06-01

 A raising rate, a tagging tourist and a rollicking roll --a ll coming up today's show. We start with the branches of the US government. The legislated 1 branch, Congress make the laws, but the it's the judicial 2 branches' job to interpret those laws and decide if they violate the constitution. US Supreme 3 Court session start in Octorber over several months, the nine justices hear arguments in dozens of cases. They do legal research, vote on the cases and write down their opinions. When all of that's finished, the Supreme Court makes its rulings public, usually around this time every year.

Athena Jones gives us some preview of the possible rulings for some of this seesion's cases.
--From now until the end of June, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on big issues affirmative action and same sex marriage.
It's almost unimaginable the number of things the Supreme Court's gonna decide that affect all the Americans in the next month.
First up could be whether public schools can consider a raise when it admitting students. Abigail Fisher sued the University of Texas arguing she was rejected because she was white.
I hope the court rules that student race and ethnicity should not be considered when it applied 4 to the University of Texas.
The school says race is one of many factors it uses to achieve diversity on campus. Court watchers say Anthony Kennedy could sign with a conservative justices to overturn or limit a major Supreme Court decision from 10 years ago that allowed affirmative action.
The justices are also dealing 5 with another hot spot issue: same sex marriage.
--From the &&&&& country, there marriges are between one man and one woman. You guys don't want to accep it.
Considering whether California's proposition eight ban is constitutional, and in a second case, if the defense 6 marriage act can deny same sex couple, the same federal benifits as heterosexual ones.
--I think it's gonna be good.
That case was brought by Edith Windsor, a New York woman who had to pay higher state taxes after her wife died then someone in an heterosexual marriage would have.
--I think it's likely in the defense marriage act case that the Supreme Court will invalidate the federal law that says we won't recognize state same sex marriages, but in the Califonia proposition 8 cases the justices just seem unlikely to require under the constitution every stage to recognize same sex marriage. The ruling may not be a huge gay rights victory at all, but I doubt it's gonna be a significant lose either.
Another case involves the kind of genetic 7 testing that let actress Angelina Julie to undergo a double mastectomy. The court is considering whether human genes 8 so-called products of nature, can be patented. Athena Jones CNN Washington.
Our next story today. There different ways to pay for college, one is to take out the student loan. Those come with interests, the fee that you have to pay back with the loan. Interests rates tell you how much that fee is. Seven million, or one third of US college students who had loans had subsidized loans. That means the government pay some of their interests. 6 years ago, the interest rate on federal loan were 6.8 percent, then Congress cut that in half. So these borrows wouldn't have to pay much interest. But on July 1st, the interest rate on subsidize loans are set back to where it was before, Congress and the president don't want that happen but they can't agree on a new plan. Nothing happens the rate for these loans will automatically go up, and students who have them will owe more money when they get out of school.
When Chelesa Fearce starts college in the fall, should technically 9 be a junior. Her time of high school was all about achieving despite adversity.
--I just open my book in darkness, use the cellphone light just do what I like to do and tell myself don't worry about that, think about now, the future will never like I think.
Most of her high school years, Chelesa and her family were homeless, they lived in shelters, sometimes they lived in their car. Chelesa stayed focus on her education, her SAT score made her a star student at school, her GPA made her valedictorian. And the high school graduate has some advice for anyone else who might be facing challenges.
--Don't give up, do just the right to do right now so you can get the future that you wanna.
Chelesa's story is a great example of the power of perseverance 10. We wanna here yours, go to our bog 11 CNN Student News.com tell us about the time when you overcome a challenge. We're looking forward your post, but remember we're only looking for your first names.