The great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark, the Chinese American at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court case that established the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, called Tuesday’s ruling a victory for all Americans, saying it reaffirmed that precedent.
JERUSALEM (AP) – It was the deadliest reported strike in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Most of the victims were children. Yet more than 120 days since at least one U.S. missile struck an Iranian primary school, there remains no final accounting of what happened.
NEW YORK (AP) – Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll asked a judge Tuesday to require President Donald Trump to pay her $5 million from a jury verdict that concluded Trump sexually abused her in the 1990s and defamed her after she publicly described the attack in 2019.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. Supreme Court’s divided ruling that children born in the U.S. are citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment – even if their parents are in the country unlawfully or only temporarily – exposed deep fissures in the justices’ views on the issue and toward each other.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Americans’ attitudes toward the economy improved slightly this month as gas prices declined, but their outlook is still mostly negative by historical standards. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index rose 0.6 point to 91.2 in June, a figure that is still below its year-ago reading of 95.2.
ROME (AP) – Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday issued a plea to a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics to call off its plan to consecrate new bishops without his consent, describing the move as a schismatic act and a “sin of extreme gravity.”
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court on Tuesday erased limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president, striking down a federal election law that is more than 50 years old.
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) – Opposition and civil society groups are protesting Congo’s new ban on public demonstrations and mass gatherings in the capital and other areas far from the country’s deadly Ebola outbreak, alleging that the decision aims to limit freedom of speech.
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