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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court casts doubt on Trump's bid to limit birthright citizenship as he attends arguments  —  Live oral arguments from the Supreme Court of the United States as justices hear arguments over President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to limit birthright citizenship and its compatibility with Constitution's 14th Amendment.
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Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Live Updates: Supreme Court Hears Landmark Challenge to Birthright Citizenship  —  President Trump attended the arguments but left after the government presented its case.  Multiple justices seemed skeptical of his efforts to bar children of undocumented immigrants or temporary residents from automatically being Americans.
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Justices Express Skepticism Over Birthright Citizenship Case They Never Should Have Taken in the First Place  —  The conservative justices on Wednesday were, at times, appropriately skeptical of the Trump administration's patched-together attempt to undermine birthright citizenship, a bedrock of American life for well over a century.
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Inside the Supreme Court, as Trump faced the justices he's criticized  —  The first sitting president known to have attended a Supreme Court argument sat silently in the courtroom for more than an hour as his birthright citizenship plan was debated.  —  WASHINGTON — Usually …
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Birthright Con  —  On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Trump v. Barbara …
Rachel Treisman / NPR:
Trump attends Supreme Court arguments over his executive order, a presidential first
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Connor Stringer / Telegraph:
Trump interview: I am strongly considering pulling out of Nato  —  Exclusive: US president tells The Telegraph alliance is a ‘paper tiger’ and claims UK does not even have a navy  —  Donald Trump has told The Telegraph he is strongly considering pulling the United States out of Nato after it failed to join his war on Iran.
Financial Times:
Trump threatened to stop weapons for Ukraine unless Europe joined Hormuz coalition  —  Nato's top official urged key alliance members to offer help to US to reopen key waterway  —  Donald Trump threatened to stop supplying weapons for Ukraine in order to pressure European allies to join a …
Politico:
Trump says war in Iran will not end until Strait of Hormuz is reopened
Washington Post:
Risky commando plan to seize Iran's uranium came at Trump's request  —  A plan briefed to Trump last week to insert ground forces to remove Iran's nuclear material would be a very difficult endeavor of a type never before attempted in wartime.  —  The U.S. military has given the president …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
'I Don't Care About That': Trump Says Iran's Enriched Uranium Is Not a Concern  —  President Trump's statement was the second time in 24 hours that he had declared that the nuclear problem with Iran had been solved, despite all evidence to the contrary.  —  For more than a decade President Trump …
The Atlantic:   Trump's Fateful Choice
Steve Holland / Reuters:
US to leave Iran ‘pretty quickly’ and return if needed, Trump tells Reuters
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate and House Republicans Strike Deal to End Homeland Security Shutdown  —  Legislation to reopen the department, which the House G.O.P. angrily rejected on Friday, could be approved as early as Thursday morning.  It represents a sharp turnaround by them and President Trump.
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Politico:
House GOP relents on DHS funding plan after Trump weighs in
Julia Métraux / Mother Jones:
Nurul Amin Shah Alam's Death Was a Homicide  —  County medical examiners announced the ruling on Wednesday.  New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating.  —  On Wednesday, the Erie County Medical Examiner's Office announced that it ruled the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam …
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Associated Press:
Homicide ruling made in death of nearly blind refugee whom Border Patrol left at a doughnut shop  —  The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday.
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
‘Haters gonna hate’: A top FEMA official defends his claim that he was teleported  —  The top official in charge of the federal government's disaster response has taken to social media to double down on his claim that he's experienced “teleportation” - an experience he insists was real …
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
The Actual Danger of Trump's Phony Vote-by-Mail Executive Order  —  Sometimes it's the chaos, not the cruelty, that's the point.  —  That certainly seems true of President Donald Trump's second executive order on elections, issued on Tuesday.  The order purports, among other things …
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Border Patrol chief Michael Banks hit with prostitution allegations by agents  —  EXCLUSIVE — The national chief of the Border Patrol, Michael Banks, was known among colleagues for taking regular trips abroad to engage in sex with prostitutes, according to six current and former Border Patrol employees …
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Jacob Wendler / Politico:
DHS reverses Noem's controversial contract approval policy … Democrats celebrated the reversal.  —  “Just last month, Oversight Democrats called on the Department of Homeland Security to scrap the policy forcing the Secretary to sign off on contracts over $100,000, a setup that opened …
Discussion: Associated Press
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Nicole Sganga / CBS News:
DHS scraps Noem policy requiring secretary's review of all contracts above $100,000
Discussion: NOTUS, Jezebel and Raw Story
Ariel Edwards-Levy / CNN:
Donald Trump faces deep public skepticism about Iran war ahead of White House speech, CNN poll finds  —  The Middle East Donald Trump Election polls  —  Just one-third of the public believes President Donald Trump has a clear plan to handle the situation in Iran, according to a new CNN poll conducted …
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Jennifer Agiesta / CNN:
CNN Poll: Trump's approval rating on the economy hits a new low
Discussion: The Hill, Mediaite and Newsweek
Malcolm Ferguson / New Republic:
Trump Suffers His Fourth—and Worst—Legal Blow in Just Hours … President Trump has been dealt his fourth legal loss in less than 24 hours, as the federal judiciary rebukes his various abuses of presidential powers.  —  On Tuesday evening, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected Trump's claim …
Discussion: Politico, UPI and The Hill
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Nick Turse / The Intercept:
“Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East  —  Almost 750 U.S. troops have been wounded or killed in the Middle East since October 2023, an analysis by The Intercept has found.  But the Pentagon won't acknowledge it.
Alexandra Petri / The Atlantic:
I Am Here to Watch the Birthright-Citizenship Arguments, but Not in a Threatening Way  —  Can't a president go watch his justices?  —  Subjects!  —  Yes, I am here watching the oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara.  What of it?  Can't a sitting president come watch an oral argument …
Discussion: Reason
TMZ.com:
30 Members of Congress In Scotland On Taxpayers' Dime Amid Shutdown  —  2:40 PM PT — We've ID'd another legislator in the Edinburgh Castle crowd ... Michigan's Rep. Bill Huizenga is the guy in the blue jacket sitting against the wall.  His spokesman told local outlet, Michigan Advance …
Discussion: The Atlantic and Raw Story
Milena Wälde / Politico:
Spain hits back at Trump in escalating row over euthanasia  —  Madrid is irked by the State Department's move to investigate the assisted suicide of a 25-year-old Spanish woman.  —  Spain blasted the U.S. government on Wednesday for probing a high-profile euthanasia case in Barcelona …
Tyler Pager / New York Times:
Trump Has Discussed Firing Attorney General Pam Bondi  —  President Trump has not made a final decision, but he has floated the idea of replacing Ms. Bondi with Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator.  —  President Trump has discussed firing Attorney General Pam Bondi in recent days …
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump's DOJ says he's not required to turn over official records … - The law, passed in the post-Watergate era as a hedge against government corruption, states that every official record regarding a president's decisions or policies belongs to the U.S. government, not the president.
 
 
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