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What did the Supreme Court decide about birthright citizenship?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. By a ruling of 6-3, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld birthright citizenship. The decision breaks with President Trump, who signed an executive order barring citizenship for babies born in the U.S. to parents that either enter the country illegally or are in the United States on temporary visas. Here's NPR's Alina Moore.
Trump signed that executive order on his first day back in office last year and has argued that the Constitution does not ensure birthright citizenship. But that executive order quickly faced legal challenges, and it was never implemented, with lower courts instead saying the move was unconstitutional. Now, the Supreme Court is backing that up, saying, quote, children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and are citizens at birth under the 14th Amendment Citizenship Clause, end quote. Elena Moore, NPR News.
How does the Supreme Court ruling affect Trump's executive order?
On social media, President Trump suggests the ban could still be restored through a bill. Separately, he says a GOP scored a big win when the court struck down limits on how much political parties may raise and spend on candidates. And Pierre's Mara Lyson has more on that.
Republicans have a lot more money. This makes it easier for them to spend it. They don't have to use the old rules of no coordinating with candidates. They also are going to get lower rates. to buy political ads on television. It's very much in concert with other things that this court has done around campaign finance. They believe that money is speech, and so that wasn't much of a surprise.
NPR's Mara Lyson. Republican New Jersey Congressman Thomas Kaine Jr. is back at work after a more than three-month absence that was unexplained until this morning. Here he is in a speech on the U.S. House floor.
When people hear the word depression, Many people think simply means feeling sad. But depression is so much more than that. It is physical. It is emotional. And until you experience it yourself, it is difficult to fully understand how powerful this illness can be.
The U.K. 's caretaker, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, says military spending is being increased by the equivalent of nearly $20 billion. More on that from NPR's Lauren Frayer.
The U.K. is around the middle of the pack when it comes to defense spending by NATO members. But as Russia gets more aggressive and the U.S. less reliable, this boost would bring British expenditure up to NATO's target of 3.5 percent of GDP by 2035. Prime Minister Starmer says the U.K. military for too long...
has been underfunded and unsuited for threats that we face.
His plan includes nearly $7 billion for drones. The Royal Navy would become a hybrid force using AI-guided uncrewed warships and submarines. Starmer says some road and energy projects would be scrapped to pay for this.
That's NPR's Lauren Frayer reporting. This is NPR News. The Alaska Supreme Court has ordered the State Division of Elections to restore a retired school teacher named Dan Sullivan to the ballot. Sullivan filed to run as a Republican against Alaska's junior U.S. Senator. He is also a Republican and also named Dan Sullivan. Alaska Public Media's Liz Ruskin has more.
Senator Sullivan and his allies say the retiree is a fraud, trying to confuse voters and throw the race for the Democratic candidate, Mary Peltola. Peltola and her party say they had nothing to do with the second Sullivan candidacy. And the retired teacher insists he's a genuine candidate, running because he's unsatisfied with the incumbent who shares his name. The state Supreme Court left it up to the Division of Elections to decide how the challenger's name will appear on the ballot. The two Sullivans have different middle initials, but the division says that wouldn't differentiate them enough. For NPR News, I'm Liz Ruskin.
Virginia is officially setting up a retail market for marijuana, five years after becoming the first state in the South to make the drug's possession legal. As many as 350 shops will be allowed to start selling cannabis for recreational use under a new state budget.
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