The Supreme Court's decision in a birthright citizenship case, handed down on Friday, has ramifications way beyond President Trump.
The big, long-term impact is the granting of greater leeway to future presidents as well as to the current one. The power of the courts to curb actions emanating from the Oval Office has been significantly diluted. |
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BY ELLA LEE AND ZACH SCHONFELD |
The Supreme Court handed President Trump a clear victory Friday, stopping judges from issuing nationwide injunctions that block his executive order narrowing birthright citizenship.
But the cases aren't over yet, as a new phase of the battle commences in the lower courts. |
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Senate Republicans are racing into a crucial weekend in their effort to pass President Trump's mammoth tax and spending bill despite not knowing whether they have the votes to advance it or what the final package will look like.
GOP leaders are eyeing an initial procedural vote Saturday afternoon to kick off floor consideration of Trump's "big, beautiful bill." If it clears a simple majority threshold the chamber would debate the bill before moving to a "vote-a-rama," during which unlimited amendments can be brought to the floor, before a final vote. |
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Senate Republican leaders substantially increased the size of a rural hospital relief fund and rewrote controversial language freezing health care provider taxes in a late-night bid to keep President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" on track for a vote Saturday afternoon.
Republican leaders increased the size of the proposed rural hospital relief fund from $15 billion to $25 billion, with the money to be distributed over five years. |
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The Trump administration is struggling to convince skeptics of its claims that U.S. strikes on Iran have toppled the country's nuclear program and wiped out ambitions to rebuild it.
In the past two days, a fiery Pentagon press conference and two classified congressional briefings have left one key question unanswered: How far was Iran's nuclear program set back? |
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The Senate blocked an effort Friday to prevent President Trump from taking future military action against Iran without authorization from Congress, less than a week after he directed strikes aimed at the country's nuclear capabilities.
Senators voted 47-53 largely along party lines against the war powers resolution. |
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Iran "showed the world that the Israeli regime had NO Choice but to RUN to 'Daddy' to avoid being flattened out by our missiles," wrote Seyeb Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister, on X.
This comes amid a back and forth between Iran and the U.S. after the supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei spoke for the first time since the U.S. strikes. |
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BY SYLVAN LANE AND TOBIAS BURNS |
President Trump said Friday he was suspending trade talks with Canada and would announce within a week a higher tariff rate on the U.S.'s northern neighbor.
In a post on social media, Trump said he was cutting off negotiations with Canada after its government confirmed it would keep in place a digital services tax despite a recent G7 agreement on such levies. |
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Climate change is making heat waves like the one that lingered over much of the U.S. this week more frequent and intense.
The Eastern U.S. sweltered under a heat dome in recent days, with some cities surpassing 100 degrees Fahrenheit. |
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OPINION | Three decades ago, China abducted the Panchen Lama — then a six-year-old boy — shortly after his recognition by the Dalai Lama, and installed a regime-picked imposter in his place. That abduction, one of the most audacious acts of spiritual and cultural repression in modern history, still haunts the Tibetan people.
Yet Chinese President Xi Jinping's meeting with the false Panchen Lama this month has served only to remind the world of the genuine Panchen Lama's continued disappearance. That makes the Panchen Lama — the second-highest spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism — arguably the longest-held political prisoner anywhere. |
BY ABBY J. LEIBMAN, TAMMY DUCKWORTH AND MARK TAKANO |
OPINION | Congress is hurtling toward a budget deal that will have devastating consequences for millions of low-income people across the country. Many Americans, and perhaps even some policymakers, have no idea how destructive it really is.
Both the House and Senate budget reconciliation bills are filled with harmful provisions that would decimate the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. In addition to hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to "SNAP," as it is known, Senate Republicans quietly chose to remove protections that help some of the nation's most vulnerable people access this program. |
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BY MIRIAM JORDAN AND JAZMINE ULLOA |
Far from public view, the toll of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration is unfolding in overcrowded detention facilities across the country.
Some immigrants have gone a week or more without showers. Others sleep pressed tightly together on bare floors. Medications for diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic health problems are often going unprovided. In New York and Los Angeles, people have been held for days in cramped rooms designed for brief processing, not prolonged confinement, and their lawyers and family members have remained in the dark about their whereabouts. |
BY C. RYAN BARBER, MARIAH TIMMS AND MICHELLE HACKMAN |
For the past several presidential administrations, bold White House action has been met with a familiar legal counterattack: Find plaintiffs who can claim harm, sue in a favorable jurisdiction, and argue that a ruling with nationwide scope is essential to maintaining order.
The Supreme Court's ruling against nationwide injunctions means that approach is largely out the window, leaving litigants to ponder uncertain strategies that could be slower and less potent. |
Hundreds of thousands of mourners lined the streets of downtown Tehran on Saturday for the funeral of the head of the Revolutionary Guard and other top commanders and nuclear scientists killed during a 12-day war with Israel.
The caskets of Guard's chief Gen. Hossein Salami, the head of the Guard's ballistic missile program, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh and others were driven on trucks along the capital's Azadi Street as people in the crowds chanted: "Death to America" and "Death to Israel." |
BY ADAM TAYLOR, JOHN HUDSON AND HANNAH NATANSON |
The Trump administration's plan for mass layoffs at the State Department has left much of the workforce exasperated and embittered, tanking morale as extra demands were made to assist U.S. citizens seeking to flee the Middle East amid Israel's war with Iran, employees say.
At the direction of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the State Department informed Congress in May that it planned to reduce its U.S. workforce by more than 15 percent — almost 2,000 people — as part of a sweeping reorganization intended to streamline what he has called a "bloated bureaucracy that stifles innovation and misallocates scarce resources." Separately, he has accused certain bureaus within the department of pursuing a "radical political ideology." |
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