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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.
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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 …
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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.
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Birthright Con — On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Trump v. Barbara, the case that will decide the fate of the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment. — On his first day back in office, President Trump issued an executive order that tried …
Alexandra Petri / The Atlantic:
I Am Here to Watch the Birthright-Citizenship Arguments, but Not in a Threatening Way
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New York Times:
Trump Attends Supreme Court Oral Arguments in a Presidential First
Trump Attends Supreme Court Oral Arguments in a Presidential First
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Associated Press:
Highlights: Supreme Court casts doubt on Trump's order on birthright citizenship
Highlights: Supreme Court casts doubt on Trump's order on birthright citizenship
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Ending Birthright Citizenship Would Disproportionately Affect Asian Legal Immigrants
Ending Birthright Citizenship Would Disproportionately Affect Asian Legal Immigrants
Rachel Treisman / NPR:
Trump attends Supreme Court arguments over his executive order, a presidential first
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.
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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 …
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Wall Street Journal:
U.A.E. Wants to Force Hormuz Open and Is Willing to Join the Fight
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Politico:
Trump says war in Iran will not end until Strait of Hormuz is reopened
Trump says war in Iran will not end until Strait of Hormuz is reopened
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Politico:
‘I came, I saw, I conquered:’ Trump set to claim victory in Iran at primetime address
‘I came, I saw, I conquered:’ Trump set to claim victory in Iran at primetime address
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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Liberation Day Brought Us Here
Liberation Day Brought Us Here
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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 …
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Steve Holland / Reuters:
US to leave Iran ‘pretty quickly’ and return if needed, Trump tells Reuters
US to leave Iran ‘pretty quickly’ and return if needed, Trump tells Reuters
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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 … A White House official, granted anonymity to discuss internal thinking, said the administration supports the GOP leaders' plan. The White House and congressional Republican leadership have been working since late last week …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
The D.H.S. shutdown is the longest in history.
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Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
Trump, GOP leaders unveil plan to end DHS shutdown through Senate bill and reconciliation
Trump, GOP leaders unveil plan to end DHS shutdown through Senate bill and reconciliation
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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 …
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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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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.
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
Placing U.S. Troops in Middle East Hotels May Violate Laws of War
Placing U.S. Troops in Middle East Hotels May Violate Laws of War
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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.
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Julia Métraux / Mother Jones:
Nurul Amin Shah Alam's Death Was a Homicide
Nurul Amin Shah Alam's Death Was a Homicide
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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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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 …
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 …
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Riley Rogerson / Politico:
Hill staffers brace for their boss's ‘TMZ moment’ … Staffers whose bosses end up splashed across the infamous website are likely feeling less stoked about the spottings. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was seen by a TMZ tipster at Disney World over the weekend, and Rep. Robert Garcia …
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Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
Inside the Bizarre Feedback Loop Between DHS and MAGA Influencers — How MAGA influencers became part of the mass deportation campaign. — As DHS officers flooded into Minneapolis on an early December day, Mahamed Eydarus was out with his mom, shoveling snow.

