US politics

US politics

By the numbers: Two-thirds of Americans - including majorities of independents and many Republicans - support preserving the 14th Amendment's guarantee of citizenship to those born in the U.S., the survey found. Roughly 8 in 10 Black Protestants favor keeping birthright citizenship, and solid majorities of Hispanic Catholics and Hispanic Protestants support it as well. Even among Trump's most supportive religious constituency - white evangelical Protestants - 53% say the Constitution's guarantee should stand.

And it argued that when ICE assaults members of Congress it still must be treated as an assault on ICE unprotected by Speech and Debate. The Government respectfully asserts that any assault upon a federal officer should qualify as an act that is "clearly non-legislative" given that such an act is clearly an "illegitimate activity." And it would be clearly non-legislative whether the arrest that triggered the assault took place outside the Security Gate or inside of Delaney Hall.

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AI preemption would not apply to local infrastructure. That's a separate issue," Sacks wrote. "In short, preemption would not force communities to host data centers they don't want.

It shaped my values and taught me what community really means. It's where I fought for marriage equality, where I served on the Salt Lake City Council and in the State Senate, and where I've spent my life working to make our state more affordable, more just, and more inclusive.

Monday was the deadline to file candidacies, and the battle among Democrats to represent the state in the U.S. Senate was thrown into turmoil on a day full of surprises. In the morning, Colin Allred the best-known Democratic hopeful, who lost last year in his attempt to unseat Ted Cruz dropped out of the race. And in the afternoon, Dallas congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, well-known for her rapid-fire viral clashes with Republicans in recent years, announced that she would run.

When concerned residents of the New Orleans metro area stepped out into the streets with their whistles and phone cameras over the weekend, ready to protest and document the Trump administration's unwelcome assault on immigrant communities, they faced both widespread digital surveillance by state and federal authorities and a vague state law that makes hindering federal immigration enforcement a crime punishable by up to one year of hard labor in a Louisiana prison.

Nearly two dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested nine employees at the car wash without giving them an opportunity to retrieve documents that could have proven they are allowed to work in the U.S., a manager said previously. The people detained ranged in age from a teenager to a 67-year-old man who recently lost his wife to cancer.

Susan J, a lab member's grandmother, is one of the millions of people who were targeted by scammers impersonating politicians or campaigns last year. Smart, politically active, and eager to make her voice heard, she's donated to candidates she supports for years and frequently takes the time to respond to political polls. But in early January, she learned firsthand that not all political outreach is as it seems.

They do not discuss or identify any client of Epstein's or Maxwell's, Engelmayer wrote. They do not reveal any heretofore unknown means or methods of Epstein's or Maxwell's crimes. Grand jury materials often contain court transcripts: They do not represent the full investigative file the Department of Justice may have. Generally, they are sealed to protect witness testimony and ensure the fair administration of justice, since grand juries often decide whether or not a case proceeds to trial.

The latest legal maneuver in a months-long dispute invoking competing definitions of Title IX, the federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination, saw the Department of Justice file suit against Virginia's Loudoun County School Board, accusing the school district of discriminating against two Christian students who were suspended after objecting to a transgender student using a boys' locker room. "Loudoun County's decision to advance and promote gender ideology tramples on the rights of religious students who cannot embrace ideas that deny biological reality," Assistant

"To be crystal clear, what this bill did was create the potential for SNAP programs to no longer exist ... in states that cannot afford to?" Rep. Shomari Figures, an Alabama Democrat, asked a panel of state and county social services officials during a congressional hearing in September. Is it correct that under the new cost-sharing arrangement, Figures continued, these states might not have it in their budgets to feed anyone at all, including children and homeless veterans?

"Amid a national shortage of behavioral health providers, every qualified professional is essential to meeting the needs of people in crisis,"

Nicholas J. Ganjei, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, said: "These chips are the building blocks of AI superiority and are integral to modern military applications. The country that controls these chips will control AI technology; the country that controls AI technology will control the future." Ganjei's stark warning to anyone plotting to send Nvidia's top end chips to China came as US President Donald Trump gave the green light to Nvidia to ship its H200 parts to China,

Trump officials have been especially aggressive in targeting offshore wind projects, including ones already approved or even under construction. Driving the news: Judge Patti Saris, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, ruled Monday that Trump's Jan. 20 order is "arbitrary and capricious" under administrative law. The ruling came in a case brought by New York and other states, and the nonprofit Alliance For Clean Energy New York.

While the original architect of Donald Trump's ever-expanding ballroom steps down and preservationists panic over the fate of New Deal murals inside the Social Security Administration building, the president gushes about painting the granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building white, fixing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, and erecting his own Arc de Triomphe. To peruse the plans for a Trump-era capital district alongside the General Services Administration's list of assets identified for accelerated disposition the federal buildings slated for off-loading is to discern a diagram of Trump's values.