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The Trump administration has filed a pair of petitions to the Supreme Court asking the justices to hear appeals on its birthright citizenship order, cases which could add to the growing list of questions related to President Donald Trump‘s actions that the high court will consider in its upcoming term.The two petitions appeared on the Supreme Court’s public docket Monday, after being filed late Friday, and they urged the justices to take appeals in both cases, which were brought by Democrat-led states and a group of people who could be affected by Trump’s order.The question presented to the high court...

Who is the census for? Or more importantly, who does Congress represent? If you answered "U.S. citizens," you're correct – or at least you should be. At the start of each decade, the federal government tallies who's living in the country and where, citizens and non-citizens alike. That census data determines how many seats in the House of Representatives each state receives, as well as its share of Electoral College votes for president. This whole process is mandated by Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution, the part most focused on proper representation.But representation for whom? Since 1790, anyone and...

New Yorkers may be a fickle lot, but these days we are not especially mysterious. We want what the rest of America wants.For instance, we want to go to Costco. The Brooklyn location of the nationally adored discount retailer is now the single place that most accurately reflects the demographics of the city at large, with bargain-hunting Bengalis, Bobovers, and brownstoners united in the temporary fantasy that their home is no different from Teaneck or Houston. Our tastes have never been blander: For the first time, restaurants now make up more than half of the chain stores in New York,...

Eric Adams, as was becoming apparent for many months, will be a one-term mayor.Adams, who announced he was dropping his reelection bid on Sunday, has long been politically doomed. Multiple corruption scandals have embroiled his administration, and he and his closest aides were indicted. Even before the indictments arrived, he was bleeding out support. Adams was not a mayor devoid of accomplishments, but he had fewer of them than his predecessors and rarely seemed to be engaged with the mechanics of governing. New Yorkers wearied of his act and it became clear, more than a year ago, he had no...

After targeting one former FBI director he forced out, Trump raised the prospect of an investigation into a different former FBI director he forced out.For more than four years, a wide variety of Republican conspiracy theorists clung to a ridiculous idea about the Jan. 6 attack: It was federal law enforcement, they’ve claimed, that secretly instigated the insurrectionist assault on the Capitol. The absurd claims grew so common that they were given a name: the “fedsurrection” narrative.Indeed, at the heart of the theory is the idea that insurrectionist rioters were actually the victims on Jan. 6: These poor, unsuspecting partisans...

Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson called in remotely to Monday’s court hearing, during which his public defenders asked the judge for more time to review evidence and determine whether they would seek a preliminary hearing. Robinson, 22, has three public defenders: Kathy Nester, Michael Burt, and Richard Novak. Judge Tony Graf set an October 30th hearing and said Tyler Robinson will attend in person.

Explanation: It may look like these comets are racing, but they are not. Comets C/2025 K1 ATLAS (left) and C/2025 R2 SWAN (right) appeared near each other by chance last week in the featured image taken from France's Reunion Island in the southern Indian Ocean. Fainter Comet ATLAS is approaching our Sun and will reach its closest approach in early October when it is also expected to be its brightest -- although still only likely visible with long exposures on a camera. The brighter comet, nicknamed SWAN25B, is now headed away from our Sun, although its closest approach to Earth...

Former Rep. Devin Nunes suggested during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on FNC's "Sunday Morning Futures" that the latest charges against former FBI Director James Comey aren't everything, suggesting "a grand conspiracy charge... against probably about two dozen characters in the United States over the last seven, eight years." DEVIN NUNES: I think Comey should consider himself lucky, Maria, number one, that he wasn't treated like Roger Stone was treated, who had a very similar charge, where they actually raided his home at 6:00 a.m., drug him out. And that was before they actually called the CNN camera, so that...

Reactions continue to pour in following the death of President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus of Latter-day Saints. Nelson passed away at his home in Salt Lake City just after 10 p.m. Saturday night. ABC4 spoke with LDS Church members at Temple Square about the passing of President Nelson following the airing of Music and The Spoken Word, and the impact he had on their lives. “It was just a very beautiful experience,” said Tobin Hansen, who attended the program in person. “President Nelson did so much good for everyone and touched so many hearts.”

Ukrainian defense and national security officials are on their way to Washington to hammer out details of a proposed drone deal with the Trump administration, The Post has learned. Representatives of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and its National Security and Defense Council will be working with their American counterparts Tuesday through Friday as Washington and Kyiv aim to solidify a defense agreement that would bind the countries closer together. “Following the results of the negotiations between the presidents of Ukraine and the United States, a Ukraine delegation will arrive to Washington from Sept. 29 to Oct. 2 for technical...

President Donald Trump on Monday released a 20-point plan to end the ongoing conflict between Israel and Gaza. resident Donald Trump on Monday released a 20-point plan to end the ongoing conflict between Israel and Gaza. The White House released the plan in an email release amid a meeting between Trump and Netanyahu. Trump himself confirmed in a press conference that Netanyahu had accepted the plan. "I also want to thank Prime Minister Netanyahu for agreeing to the plan and for trusting that if we work together, we can bring an end to the death and destruction that we've seen...

A Chinese court has sentenced to death 11 members of a notorious family that ran scam centres in Myanmar, according to Chinese state media. Dozens of members of the Ming family were found guilty of conducting criminal activities, with many receiving lengthy jail sentences. The Ming family worked for one of the four clans that ran Myanmar's sleepy backwater town of Laukkai, close to the border with China, and turned it into a hub for gambling, drugs and scam centres. Myanmar eventually cracked down, arresting many members of these families in 2023 and handing them over to Chinese authorities. A...

News last week shocked Iowans when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested the superintendent of the state’s largest school district for being in the country illegally. Not only was this man here without legal permission, but he also had a rap sheet featuring several previous run-ins with the law, including weapons charges. Yet Ian Andre Roberts managed to land a pretty big gig in the education sector; the school board placed him in charge of molding the minds of future generations of American voters. And if that's not bad enough, when authorities caught Roberts, he carried both a gun and...

Chemo side-effect drug has long been used to treat autism, with quickly observed improvements and little risk to children, but it's not a moneymaker. Trump endorsement prompts CBS to change old story from promising to skeptical. The medical establishment and mainstream media are uniting against the Trump administration's re-purposing of an inexpensive drug to treat an epidemic, calling it "unproven," not "backed by science," "not a cure" and "shocking" to endorse, with The New York Times emphasizing no profit-driven drug company suggested it.In President Trump's first term, it was ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. In his second, it's prescription...

This is absolutely insane! Bureaucracy run amok, and that’s putting it kindly. Folks, common sense is GONE in America, and this proves it once again. Two first responders from Powell County in Kentucky saved a man’s life after he was bit by a poisonous mamba snake and was advancing towards cardiac arrest. They administered anti-venom that they luckily had brought with them and saved the man who almost certainly would have died without it. The problem? Well, there is no problem if you ask me, but if you ask the red-tape bureaucrats the problem is they didn’t have the necessary...

The devices had destructive potential but never went off despite being reportedly planted 16 hours ahead of time set with one hour timers. And one witness told investigators that at least one of the bombs may not have been planted the night before. he unsolved case of two pipe bombs planted at the major political parties' headquarters in Washington D.C. before the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot is facing new mystery after FBI Director Kash Patel transmitted to Congress the lab analysis and interviews with a key witness who is challenging the official timeline of events. The documents obtained by...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary's Viktor Orban said on Monday that Ukraine was not a sovereign country, as he hit back at accusations that Hungarian reconnaissance drones violated its airspace - the latest salvo in an increasingly bitter row between Kyiv and Budapest."Ukraine is not at war with Hungary; it is at war with Russia. It should be concerned with the drones on its eastern border," the Hungarian prime minister said during an interview on a right-wing podcast popular with his supporters."I believe my ministers, but let's say it would have actually flown a few metres there, so what? Ukraine is not...

The devices had destructive potential but never went off despite being reportedly planted 16 hours ahead of time set with one hour timers. And one witness told investigators that at least one of the bombs may not have been planted the night before. The unsolved case of two pipe bombs planted at the major political parties' headquarters in Washington D.C. before the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot is facing new mystery after FBI Director Kash Patel transmitted to Congress the lab analysis and interviews with a key witness who is challenging the official timeline of events.The documents obtained by...

This is the third press conference regarding the shooting at the Mount Blanc Michigan LDS Church

One of the world’s most infamous actresses attempted to troll Trump supporters on social media, but it blew up in her face when users answered her snarky question with brilliance. “Wicked” star Ariana Grande shared an Instagram post on Sunday trashing the Trump administration’s policies, including immigration, trans issues, and free speech. She then posed a question meant to embarrass the president’s 77 million supporters. The message reads as follows: I want to check in with trump voters. I have one very genuine question: it’s been 250 days. now that immigrants have been violently torn from their families and communities...