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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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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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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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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 …
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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 …
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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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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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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Politico:
‘I came, I saw, I conquered:’ Trump set to claim victory in Iran at primetime address … “Two, three weeks, definable objectives. ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’ — and we are hanging around a couple of weeks to conquer some more — maybe even then a ceasefire, while reiterating …
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Politico:
Trump says war in Iran will not end until Strait of Hormuz is reopened
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Wall Street Journal:
U.A.E. Wants to Force Hormuz Open and Is Willing to Join the Fight
U.A.E. Wants to Force Hormuz Open and Is Willing to Join the Fight
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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
Liberation Day Brought Us Here
Liberation Day Brought Us Here
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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 …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate and House Republicans Strike Deal to End Homeland Security Shutdown
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
The D.H.S. shutdown is the longest in history.
The D.H.S. shutdown is the longest in history.
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MS NOW:
Mike Johnson caves on Senate's DHS deal, paving way to end shutdown
Mike Johnson caves on Senate's DHS deal, paving way to end shutdown
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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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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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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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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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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 …
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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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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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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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 …
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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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Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Trump Can't Shake Claims Over Jan. 6 Capitol Attack Years Later — More than five years after violent riots at the US Capitol, President Donald Trump still can't avoid lawsuits seeking to hold him legally responsible for the chaos that temporarily disrupted Congress' certification of the 2020 election.
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