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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
The Supreme Court says it will rule next year on
whether or not President Trump can end birthright citizenship. The
High Court granted an appeal Friday after Trump signed an
executive order aiming to end birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed
in the fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. A Supreme Court
decisions expected by the end of June. Two people who

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survived a US attack on an alleged drug boat in
the Caribbean were reportedly seen waving before being killed in
a second strike. Video of the September second air strike
shows two survivors of the attack on top of the
overturned boat and waving overhead. Several reports say it's not
clear if the survivors were calling for help or trying

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to surrender. The airstrike the first of over twenty by
the Trump administration on alleged drug boats. The newest member
of Congress from Arizona she was pepper sprayed during an
ice raid Friday. Jim Forbes has more.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Democratic Congresswoman Atalytic Rialva took to social media to say
it happened Friday morning at a restaurant in Tucson where
an ICE raid was taking place. She said about forty
agents were present and community members apparently tried to stop them. Rialva,
a vocal critic of President Trump's immigration policy, said she
was not being aggressive and was trying to get more

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information on why ICE was there. I'm Jim Forbes.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
A journalist is leaving Vanity Fair after having what's described
as a relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Junior. The magazine
and journalist Olivia Newsey released a joint statement Friday saying
they mutually agreed to part ways and that it's in
the best interest of the magazine to let her contract
expire at the end of the year. Vanity Fair had

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hired Newsy as its West Coast editor shortly after she
parted ways with the New York magazine last year. That
followed her disclosure of having a personal relationship with our
fk Junior, whom she'd profiled for the magazine during his
presidential campaign. I'm Scott Carr. The US Supreme Court is
allowing Texas to use a new congressional district map that

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favors Republicans in next year's midterm elections, pausing a lower
court ruling that said the map was unlawful because Republican
lawmakers explicitly considered race when drawing new districts. Former Texas
Democratic Representative Colin Already says it's not over.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
This ruling ends the legal challenge in the selection cycle,
but if the final word and the final outcomes either
be dependent on Texans and we have to stand up
and say we see what you're doing.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
The chair of the Democratic Party in Texas, Kendall Scudder, agrees.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
What we have to do in order to fight back
is show up in huge numbers. We're already seeing Democrats
overperforming races across the country.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
The map was redrawn in hopes of giving Republicans up
to five more seats in the US House. Reports say
several European leaders are concerned that Trump administes is set
to allow Russia to take an unprecedented amount of land
away from Ukraine. Ross Cullen has the latest.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
The details of a phone call that took place on
Monday between leaders including French President Emmanual Macron, the German
Chancellor friedrich Ness, NATO Secretary General Mark Ruts, and the
Ukrainian President, Volonimier Zelensky were published by the German magazine Dershpiegel.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
While the President of Finland urged against trusting the White
House to influence peace negotiations.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
According to the publication, Emmanual Macron said quote, there is
a possibility that the US will betray Ukraine on the
issue of territory without clarity on security guarantees. Macron apparently
added that there was a great danger for President Zelenski.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Another lobe of freezing Arctic airs expected to push southward
into the US today. Forecaster say that i'll plunge the
northern Plain States and upper Midwest into a deep freeze.
Below freezing temperatures are expected as far south as Louisville.
Forecaster say the cold will reach as far as Atlanta,
and war In some areas could get even colder on
Sunday and Monday. I'm Scott Carr