Supreme court to decide legality of Trump’s order to restrict birthright citizenship – US politics live

Indiana state House Republicans have passed a new state congressional map – at the behest of Donald Trump – that would likely gerrymander Democrats out of two congressional seats, advancing the legislation to the state Senate, where it is unclear if enough lawmakers will support its final passage.

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Lawmakers in the Republican-majority House voted 57-41 in favor of the map, which splits the city of Indianapolis into four districts to help the GOP potentially win all nine Indiana congressional seats. While Trump and many other Republicans are celebrating the passage, the map faces its true test in the Senate, where many GOP lawmakers have opposed mid-decade redistricting.

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The US supreme court has agreed to decide if Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship with an executive order is constitutional.

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Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office in January that declared that children born to undocumented immigrants and to some temporary foreign residents would no longer be granted US citizenship automatically – seeking to upend a guarantee of US citizenship to anyone born on American soil that has been understood since 1898.

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Legal challenges were prompt, with judges in Washington State, Maryland and Massachusetts freezing the policy for the whole country. The supreme court later sided with the Trump administration on technical grounds dealing with how the challenges to the policy were handled by lower courts through universal injunctions.

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That ruling blunted the power of federal judges but did not resolve the legality of Trump’s directive. The ruling left open the possibility for courts to grant broad relief to states or to individual plaintiffs through class action lawsuits.

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The supreme court didn’t announce a date to hear oral arguments but it will likely be in the next few months, with a decision handed down by the end of June.

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  A key CDC advisory panel voted to abandon the decades-old recommendation that all babies get vaccinated against hepatitis B within the first 24 hours of life, in a major win for health secretary and vaccine-sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr. The 8-3 decision followed heated debate and three failed attempts at a vote. The advisers said that women who test negative for the virus should consult with their health care provider and decide “when or if” their child will be vaccinated at birth. They didn’t change the recommendation that newborns of mothers known to be infected or whose status is unknown be innoculated. The shift will only got into effect if approved by the CDC and is not expected to affect insurance coverage of the shots. Public health experts fear the change would lead to an increase in preventable infections in children. “Today is a defining moment for our country,” Michael Osterholm told the NYT. “We can no longer trust federal health authorities when it comes to vaccines.”

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  The New Democrat Coalition, the largest House Democrat ideological caucus, called for Pete Hegseth to “resign immediately before his actions cost American lives”. It comes after the Pentagon’s inspector general’s report found he had endangered the lives of US service members by compromising sensitive military intelligence in a Signal group chat earlier this year. The coalition’s chair Brad Schneider and it’s national security working group chair Gil Cisneros issued a statement blasting Hegseth as “incompetent, reckless, and a threat to the lives of the men and women who serve in the armed forces”.

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  Two men who survived a US airstrike on a suspected drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean clung to the wreckage for an hour before they were killed in a second attack, according a video of the episode shown to senators in Washington. The men were shirtless, unarmed and carried no visible radio or other communications equipment. They also appeared to have no idea what had just hit them, or that the US military was weighing whether to finish them off, two sources familiar with the recording told Reuters. The pair desperately tried to turn a severed section of the hull upright before they died. “The video follows them for about an hour as they tried to flip the boat back over. They couldn’t do it,” one source said.

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  The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters the night before the January 6 attack on the US Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, NBC News and CNN reported. He’s appeared in court this afternoon. The judge was expected to read Cole the charges he’s facing and inform him of his rights, and could also decide whether Cole should be detained for now or set conditions of his release while he awaits his next court date.

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Donald Trump’s administration has said Europe faces “civilisational erasure” within the next two decades as a result of migration and EU integration, arguing in a policy document that the US must “cultivate resistance” within the continent to “Europe’s current trajectory”.

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Billed as “a roadmap to ensure America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history and the home of freedom on earth”, the US National Security Strategy makes explicit Washington’s support for Europe’s nationalist far-right parties.

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The document, with a signed introduction by Trump, says Europe is in economic decline but its “real problems are even deeper”, including “activities of the EU that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition … and loss of national identities”.

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The 33-page exposition of Trump’s “America First” worldview appears to espouse the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory, saying several countries risk becoming “majority non-European” and Europe faces “the real and stark prospect of civilisational erasure”. It adds:

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Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognisable in 20 years or less.

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US policies must therefore include “cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations” as well as enabling Europe to “take primary responsibility for its own defence” and “opening European markets to US goods and services”.

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The Trump administration has moved to formalize a crackdown on the issuance of visas for people who it deems to have engaged in censoring the free speech of US citizens.

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The action, detailed in a state department memo sent to overseas missions this week, first reported by Reuters and then NPR, directs consular officials to deny visas to any applicant “responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship of protected expression in the US”.

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The order, which state department officials have not denied, requires enhanced vetting of applicants “to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others”, Reuters reported.

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It will initially focus on applicants for H-1B visas, usually given to highly skilled foreign workers in the technology industry among other sectors, but is applicable to all visa applications, the news agency added.

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The directive is the latest in a number of recent moves by Donald Trump to restrict legal immigration to the US through consular avenues, and hardens a promise made by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, in May to bar entry to the US to anybody perceived to be suppressing the free speech “essential to the American way of life”.

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Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren has criticized Netflix’s $72bn acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery’s studios, calling it an antitrust “nightmare.”

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In a statement on Friday, Warren said:

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“This deal looks like an anti-monopoly nightmare. A Netflix-Warner Bros would create one massive media giant with control of close to half of the streaming market — threatening to force Americans into higher subscription prices and fewer choices over what and how they watch, while putting American workers at risk.”

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She went on to add:

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“Under Donald Trump, the antitrust review process has also become a cesspool of political favoritism and corruption. The justice department must enforce our nation’s anti-monopoly laws fairly and transparently — not use the Warner Bros. deal review to invite influence-peddling and bribery.”

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Netflix was up against takeover bids from Paramount’s Skydance and from Comcast, which owns Universal Studios, NBC, and Sky.

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Hailing the deal, Netflix chief executive Ted Sarandos said:

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“The combination of Netflix and Warner Bros creates a better Netflix for the long run… In a world where people have so many choices, more choices than ever on how to spend their time, we can’t stand still.”

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He also vowed in an investor call on Friday that the deal will be “pro-consumer, pro-innovation, pro-worker, pro-creator,” Deadline reports.

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The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters the night before the January 6 attack on the US Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, NBC News and CNN are reporting.

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Brian Cole Jr is expected to appear in court later today, he has not yet entered a plea. He was charged yesterday with transporting an explosive device and attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials. The FBI has not publicly cited a motive.

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The CDC’s vaccine advisers have voted 8-3 to remove the broad recommendation that all newborns in the US receive a hepatitis B vaccine, in a major move signaling the Trump administration’s regressive approach to vaccines that have been given safely and effectively for decades.

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The committee voted to recommend that parents of infants whose mothers test negative for hepatitis should decide when – or if – their child should receive the vaccine series, after consulting a healthcare professional.

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The move will add confusion to routine vaccinations and create access issues, especially for lower-income families, experts said. While the advisers make non-binding recommendations, they frequently form the basis of official policy, and they directly affect the way private and federal insurance providers cover the vaccines.

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“This is going to lead to an increase in preventable infections among children,” said Michaela Jackson, program director of prevention policy at the Hepatitis B Foundation. The vote is “removing choice by causing barriers to access” and “parents are not going to know who to trust any longer,” she said.

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Hepatitis B vaccines are still recommended to children whose mothers test positive for the virus, the advisers said. The shots for most infants at birth will now be “shared clinical decision-making”, the advisers deciding, voting 8-3, although this is a term that is poorly defined and usually reserved for non-routine vaccines.

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If a parent is not able to get their child the vaccine at birth, the advisers now suggest waiting at least two months.

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The New Democrat Coalition, the largest House Democrat ideological caucus, has called for Pete Hegseth to “resign immediately before his actions cost American lives”. It comes after the Pentagon’s inspector general’s report found he had endangered the lives of US service members by compromising sensitive military intelligence in a Signal group chat earlier this year.

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The coalition’s chair Brad Schneider and it’s national security working group chair Gil Cisneros issued a statement blasting Hegseth as “incompetent, reckless, and a threat to the lives of the men and women who serve in the armed forces”.

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The Inspector General’s report confirms what we’ve known all along: Secretary Hegseth is incompetent, reckless, and a threat to the lives of the men and women who serve in the Armed Forces.

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A true leader is responsible and accountable – Hegseth is no such leader. He failed to take responsibility for this shameful incident and refused to cooperate with the independent investigation. Now he is denying any accountability for the likely illegal double-tap strike in the Caribbean.

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Time and time again, the Secretary has lied, dodged, deflected, and shockingly scapegoated his subordinates. He is a disgrace to the office he holds and should resign immediately before his actions cost American lives.

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Lauren Gambino and Melody Schreiber

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After a delay and an unusually contentious meeting, a federal vaccine advisory panel is expected to vote today whether to change the longstanding recommendation that all newborns be immunized against hepatitis B.

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The first day of the meeting of the advisory committee on immunization practices (ACIP) yesterday was marked by heated debate over restricting access to the hepatitis B vaccine for infants and a decision to defer the vote by a day to give members more time to review the wording. The panel, which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on how to use vaccines, had twice before postponed the vote.

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The shot is currently recommended for all infants within 24 hours of birth to prevent infection of hepatitis B, which can cause serious liver damage. It has been given to 1.4 billion people for more than three decades.

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The meeting in Atlanta offered no new evidence of the harms caused by the vaccine. The advisory panel, hand-picked by Donald Trump’s controversial health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, includes longtime anti-vaccine advocates.

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Kennedy, himself a prominent anti-vaccine activist, has long pushed for delaying the shot. Experts say any change to the current hepatitis B vaccination recommended schedule could have significant and far-reaching consequences for childhood health in the US.

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In one pointed exchange yesterday, Joseph Hibbeln, an ACIP member and psychiatrist and neuroscientist, asked: “Is there any specific evidence of harm of giving this vaccination before 30 days? Or is this speculation?”

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“There is limited evidence about the long-term risk,” said Mark Blaxill, an author who has argued that vaccines cause autism and other conditions, and who was recently named senior adviser at the CDC.

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“So this was speculation and limited evidence,” Hibbeln replied. “OK, got it.”

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The US plans to expand the number of countries covered by its travel ban to more than 30, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Kristi Noem, announced.

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Noem, in an interview on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle yesterday evening, was asked to confirm whether the Trump administration would be increasing the number of countries on the travel ban list to 32.

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“I won’t be specific on the number, but it’s over 30, and the president is continuing to evaluate countries,” she said.

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Trump signed a proclamation in June banning the citizens of 12 countries from entering the US and restricting those from seven others, saying it was needed to protect against “foreign terrorists” and other security threats. The bans apply to both immigrants and non-immigrants, such as tourists, students and business travelers.

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Noem didn’t specify which countries would be added to the list.

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“If they don’t have a stable government there, if they don’t have a country that can sustain itself and tell us who those individuals are and help us vet them, why should we allow people from that country to come here to the United States?” she said.

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Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born Minnesota congresswoman, has said Donald Trump is lashing out at her and her community with bigotry because he “knows he is failing”.

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The US president dismissed Somali Americans earlier this week as “garbage” in a racist rant.

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Omar, a Democrat, made the observation in a personal essay published by the New York Times (paywall) praising the resilience of Somali Americans and condemning the Trump administration for its promise to send federal agents to Minneapolis and elsewhere in her state for immigration enforcement raids.

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“The president knows he is failing, and so he is reverting to what he knows best: trying to divert attention by stoking bigotry,” she wrote.

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Omar pointed out that some of her Somali constituents voted for Trump. She suggested that the president’s racial animosity was ingrained, and resurgent now because of a failed domestic policy agenda.

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While the president wastes his time attacking my community, my state, my governor and me, the promises of economic prosperity he made in his run for president last year have not come to fruition.

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Trump delivered a second tirade against Somalis in general, and Omar in particular, following a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. The congresswoman, who is a US citizen, “should be thrown the hell out of our country”, the president said. Using an inaccurate term for Somalis, he added: “Somalians should be out of here. They’ve destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain.”

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Omar, 43, has been a constant target of Trump and Republicans since arriving Congress in 2019 as one of the first two Muslim women in the chamber. She asserted in her essay that Somali Americans remain resilient against the onslaught of attacks from the White House. But she added:

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I am deeply worried about the ramifications of these tirades … What keeps me up at night is that people who share the identities I hold – Black, Somali, hijabi, immigrant – will suffer the consequences of [Trump’s] words.

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Omar’s essay concluded:

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We will not let Mr Trump intimidate or debilitate us. We are not afraid. After all, Minnesotans not only welcome refugees, they also sent one to Congress.

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Joseph Gedeon and Chris Stein in Washington and agencies

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Two men who survived a US airstrike on a suspected drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean clung to the wreckage for an hour before they were killed in a second attack, according a video of the episode shown to senators in Washington.

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The men were shirtless, unarmed and carried no visible radio or other communications equipment. They also appeared to have no idea what had just hit them, or that the US military was weighing whether to finish them off, two sources familiar with the recording told Reuters.

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The pair desperately tried to turn a severed section of the hull upright before they died. “The video follows them for about an hour as they tried to flip the boat back over. They couldn’t do it,” one source said.

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The video of the attack on 2 September was seen by senators behind closed doors on Thursday amid growing concern that the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, and other officials who ordered the attack may have committed a war crime.

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Jim Himes, a Democratic congressman who saw the video on Thursday, described it as “one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service”.

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You have two individuals in clear distress, without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel.

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Describing those on board as “bad guys” who “were not in the position to continue their mission in any way”, Himes added:

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Any American who sees the video that I saw will see the United States military attacking shipwrecked sailors.

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Here’s the full report:

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Donald Trump will be speaking at today’s World Cup final draw ceremony at the Kennedy Center, Politico reports, where he will also be receiving Fifa’s inaugural peace prize.

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Claudia Sheinbaum, the Mexican president, and Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, are also expected to attend the ball-draw ceremony that will determine which countries will face off in the first group stage matches – but only Trump will be receiving the peace prize, according to Politico.

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Gianni Infantino, the president of Fifa and a Trump ally, announced the creation of what some are calling football’s version of the Nobel peace prize – just weeks after the Trump was snubbed for the real thing.

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My colleagues are running a dedicated live blog on the ceremony here:

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Hello and thank you for joining us on the US politics live blog.

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The US military conducted another deadly strike on a boat suspected of carrying illegal narcotics on Thursday, the Pentagon said, killing four men in the eastern Pacific as questions continue to mount over the legality such attacks.

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US navy admiral Frank Bradley and the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, Dan Caine, had appeared on Thursday before the House and Senate’s armed services and intelligence committees for a closed briefing about a particular attack on 2 September that has come under scrutiny over whether the military had been ordered to issue a second strike upon survivors after an earlier attack.

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While both Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Congress said that the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, had not ordered the military to kill surviving members of the 2 September attack, they clashed over whether the double strike was appropriate – particularly after video of the incident was played during Thursday’s closed briefing.

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“What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service,” Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House armed services committee, said after exiting the meeting. However, he said that Bradley had “confirmed that there had not been a ‘kill them all’ order, and there was not an order to grant no quarter”.

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Hegseth, who is also in hot water after a report by the Pentagon’s inspector general concluded that he had violated departmental policies when he shared secret information in a Signal messaging chat in March, has sought to downplay his own involvement in the 2 September attack. But the US southern command in Florida was clear in its social media post announcing the latest overnight strike that it had come “at the direction” of Hegseth.

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In other developments:

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  The supreme court ruled on Thursday to allow Texas to use a redrawn that adds as many as five Republican-friendly congressional districts. Texas had redrawn its congressional map this summer as part of an effort that Donald Trump initiated to protect Republicans’ slim majority in the House ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

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  A federal vaccine advisory panel is expected to vote on Friday whether to change the longstanding recommendation that all newborns be immunized against hepatitis B. The panel advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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  A grand jury declined to indict Letitia James on Thursday, less than two weeks after judge ruled similar case against New York attorney general unlawful. James has been one of Trump’s top political foes ever since she successfully brought a fraud lawsuit against him in New York.

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  A man was arrested for planting pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic party headquarters on the eve of the January 6 insurrection.

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  A federal appeals court sided with the Trump administration on Thursday and paused a lower court’s order to end the administration’s deployment of national guard troops in Washington DC.

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Indiana House Republicans pass Trump-backed map, setting up high-stakes Senate fight

Indiana state House Republicans have passed a new state congressional map – at the behest of Donald Trump – that would likely gerrymander Democrats out of two congressional seats, advancing the legislation to the state Senate, where it is unclear if enough lawmakers will support its final passage.

Lawmakers in the Republican-majority House voted 57-41 in favor of the map, which splits the city of Indianapolis into four districts to help the GOP potentially win all nine Indiana congressional seats. While Trump and many other Republicans are celebrating the passage, the map faces its true test in the Senate, where many GOP lawmakers have opposed mid-decade redistricting.

Supreme court agrees to decide legality of Trump’s order to restrict birthright citizenship

The US supreme court has agreed to decide if Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship with an executive order is constitutional.

Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office in January that declared that children born to undocumented immigrants and to some temporary foreign residents would no longer be granted US citizenship automatically – seeking to upend a guarantee of US citizenship to anyone born on American soil that has been understood since 1898.

Legal challenges were prompt, with judges in Washington State, Maryland and Massachusetts freezing the policy for the whole country. The supreme court later sided with the Trump administration on technical grounds dealing with how the challenges to the policy were handled by lower courts through universal injunctions.

That ruling blunted the power of federal judges but did not resolve the legality of Trump’s directive. The ruling left open the possibility for courts to grant broad relief to states or to individual plaintiffs through class action lawsuits.

The supreme court didn’t announce a date to hear oral arguments but it will likely be in the next few months, with a decision handed down by the end of June.

The day so far

• A key CDC advisory panel voted to abandon the decades-old recommendation that all babies get vaccinated against hepatitis B within the first 24 hours of life, in a major win for health secretary and vaccine-sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr. The 8-3 decision followed heated debate and three failed attempts at a vote. The advisers said that women who test negative for the virus should consult with their health care provider and decide “when or if” their child will be vaccinated at birth. They didn’t change the recommendation that newborns of mothers known to be infected or whose status is unknown be innoculated. The shift will only got into effect if approved by the CDC and is not expected to affect insurance coverage of the shots. Public health experts fear the change would lead to an increase in preventable infections in children. “Today is a defining moment for our country,” Michael Osterholm told the NYT. “We can no longer trust federal health authorities when it comes to vaccines.”

• The New Democrat Coalition, the largest House Democrat ideological caucus, called for Pete Hegseth to “resign immediately before his actions cost American lives”. It comes after the Pentagon’s inspector general’s report found he had endangered the lives of US service members by compromising sensitive military intelligence in a Signal group chat earlier this year. The coalition’s chair Brad Schneider and it’s national security working group chair Gil Cisneros issued a statement blasting Hegseth as “incompetent, reckless, and a threat to the lives of the men and women who serve in the armed forces”.

• Two men who survived a US airstrike on a suspected drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean clung to the wreckage for an hour before they were killed in a second attack, according a video of the episode shown to senators in Washington. The men were shirtless, unarmed and carried no visible radio or other communications equipment. They also appeared to have no idea what had just hit them, or that the US military was weighing whether to finish them off, two sources familiar with the recording told Reuters. The pair desperately tried to turn a severed section of the hull upright before they died. “The video follows them for about an hour as they tried to flip the boat back over. They couldn’t do it,” one source said.

• The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters the night before the January 6 attack on the US Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, NBC News and CNN reported. He’s appeared in court this afternoon. The judge was expected to read Cole the charges he’s facing and inform him of his rights, and could also decide whether Cole should be detained for now or set conditions of his release while he awaits his next court date.

‘Cultivate resistance’: policy paper lays bare Trump support for Europe’s far right

Jon Henley

Donald Trump’s administration has said Europe faces “civilisational erasure” within the next two decades as a result of migration and EU integration, arguing in a policy document that the US must “cultivate resistance” within the continent to “Europe’s current trajectory”.

Billed as “a roadmap to ensure America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history and the home of freedom on earth”, the US National Security Strategy makes explicit Washington’s support for Europe’s nationalist far-right parties.

The document, with a signed introduction by Trump, says Europe is in economic decline but its “real problems are even deeper”, including “activities of the EU that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition … and loss of national identities”.

The 33-page exposition of Trump’s “America First” worldview appears to espouse the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory, saying several countries risk becoming “majority non-European” and Europe faces “the real and stark prospect of civilisational erasure”. It adds:

Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognisable in 20 years or less.

US policies must therefore include “cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations” as well as enabling Europe to “take primary responsibility for its own defence” and “opening European markets to US goods and services”.

Trump administration moves to deny visas to factcheckers and content moderators

Richard Luscombe

The Trump administration has moved to formalize a crackdown on the issuance of visas for people who it deems to have engaged in censoring the free speech of US citizens.

The action, detailed in a state department memo sent to overseas missions this week, first reported by Reuters and then NPR, directs consular officials to deny visas to any applicant “responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship of protected expression in the US”.

The order, which state department officials have not denied, requires enhanced vetting of applicants “to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others”, Reuters reported.

It will initially focus on applicants for H-1B visas, usually given to highly skilled foreign workers in the technology industry among other sectors, but is applicable to all visa applications, the news agency added.

The directive is the latest in a number of recent moves by Donald Trump to restrict legal immigration to the US through consular avenues, and hardens a promise made by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, in May to bar entry to the US to anybody perceived to be suppressing the free speech “essential to the American way of life”.

Barry Glendenning

Trump reveals that this is one of the biggest honours of his life and then proceeds to reiterate how great he is, for the benefit of anyone who might have been in the rest room while Infantino was talking.

He tells the audience about the “millions and millions of lives” he and Infantino have saved, before mentioning the huge number of tickets Fifa have sold for the World Cup, while steering a wide berth of mentioning Fifa’s dynamic pricing strategy. He also nods to his Mexican and Canadian counterparts. It’s a mercifully short speech.

A few moments ago Donald Trump was formally presented with the first Fifa Peace Prize. He was presented with a medal and a certificate by Fifa president Gianni Infantino. “I’m going to wear it right now,” said Trump, placing the medal around his neck.

In further comments made before the Fifa World Cup draw in Washington DC, Donald Trump failed to answer a question from a CNN reporter about whether receiving the Fifa Peace Prize would conflict with his vow to strike “on land” soon in Venezuela.

“I haven’t been officially noticed — I’ve been hearing about a peace prize, and I’m here to represent our country in a different sense, but I can tell you I did settle eight wars, and we have a ninth coming, but which nobody’s ever done before,” Trump said.

“But I want to really save lives. I don’t need prizes. I need to save lives. And we’re saving a lot of lives.”

Donald Trump has said he will meet with leaders of Mexico and Canada to discuss trade after the Fifa World Cup draw.

Trump on Friday said that he was “getting along very well” with both leaders and that the US is “working with” Canada and Mexico. He gave no other details.

A reminder that my colleagues are covering the draw in Washington DC here:

Senator Warren slams Netflix-Warner deal: ‘an anti-monopoly nightmare’

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren has criticized Netflix’s $72bn acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery’s studios, calling it an antitrust “nightmare.”

In a statement on Friday, Warren said:

“This deal looks like an anti-monopoly nightmare. A Netflix-Warner Bros would create one massive media giant with control of close to half of the streaming market — threatening to force Americans into higher subscription prices and fewer choices over what and how they watch, while putting American workers at risk.”

She went on to add:

“Under Donald Trump, the antitrust review process has also become a cesspool of political favoritism and corruption. The justice department must enforce our nation’s anti-monopoly laws fairly and transparently — not use the Warner Bros. deal review to invite influence-peddling and bribery.”

Netflix was up against takeover bids from Paramount’s Skydance and from Comcast, which owns Universal Studios, NBC, and Sky.

Hailing the deal, Netflix chief executive Ted Sarandos said:

“The combination of Netflix and Warner Bros creates a better Netflix for the long run… In a world where people have so many choices, more choices than ever on how to spend their time, we can’t stand still.”

He also vowed in an investor call on Friday that the deal will be “pro-consumer, pro-innovation, pro-worker, pro-creator,” Deadline reports.

Sam Levine

The US attorney general, Pam Bondi, instructed law enforcement officials on Thursday to investigate antifa and other supposed domestic terror groups, and specifically directed them to search for “tax crimes” the groups may have committed, according to a memo obtained by the Guardian.

The document signals how the Trump administration and Bondi are ramping up efforts to crack down on leftwing groups. Antifa, short for antifascist, is not a clearly defined organization, but rather a loose network of activists. Trump signed an executive order in September declaring it a domestic terrorism organization – something legal experts say he does not have the authority to do.

“These domestic terrorists use violence or the threat of violence to advance political and social agendas, including opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology, anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, or anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; hostility towards traditional views on family, religion, and morality; and an elevation of violence to achieve policy outcomes, such as political assassinations,” Bondi wrote in the document.

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Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed conspiracy theories that 2020 election was stolen – reports

The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters the night before the January 6 attack on the US Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, NBC News and CNN are reporting.

Brian Cole Jr is expected to appear in court later today, he has not yet entered a plea. He was charged yesterday with transporting an explosive device and attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials. The FBI has not publicly cited a motive.

Vaccine panel votes to restrict hepatitis B vaccines shot for newborns in major shift

Melody Schreiber

The CDC’s vaccine advisers have voted 8-3 to remove the broad recommendation that all newborns in the US receive a hepatitis B vaccine, in a major move signaling the Trump administration’s regressive approach to vaccines that have been given safely and effectively for decades.

The committee voted to recommend that parents of infants whose mothers test negative for hepatitis should decide when – or if – their child should receive the vaccine series, after consulting a healthcare professional.

The move will add confusion to routine vaccinations and create access issues, especially for lower-income families, experts said. While the advisers make non-binding recommendations, they frequently form the basis of official policy, and they directly affect the way private and federal insurance providers cover the vaccines.

“This is going to lead to an increase in preventable infections among children,” said Michaela Jackson, program director of prevention policy at the Hepatitis B Foundation. The vote is “removing choice by causing barriers to access” and “parents are not going to know who to trust any longer,” she said.

Hepatitis B vaccines are still recommended to children whose mothers test positive for the virus, the advisers said. The shots for most infants at birth will now be “shared clinical decision-making”, the advisers deciding, voting 8-3, although this is a term that is poorly defined and usually reserved for non-routine vaccines.

If a parent is not able to get their child the vaccine at birth, the advisers now suggest waiting at least two months.

‘A disgrace to the office he holds’: New Democrats call for Hegseth’s resignation

The New Democrat Coalition, the largest House Democrat ideological caucus, has called for Pete Hegseth to “resign immediately before his actions cost American lives”. It comes after the Pentagon’s inspector general’s report found he had endangered the lives of US service members by compromising sensitive military intelligence in a Signal group chat earlier this year.

The coalition’s chair Brad Schneider and it’s national security working group chair Gil Cisneros issued a statement blasting Hegseth as “incompetent, reckless, and a threat to the lives of the men and women who serve in the armed forces”.

The Inspector General’s report confirms what we’ve known all along: Secretary Hegseth is incompetent, reckless, and a threat to the lives of the men and women who serve in the Armed Forces.

A true leader is responsible and accountable – Hegseth is no such leader. He failed to take responsibility for this shameful incident and refused to cooperate with the independent investigation. Now he is denying any accountability for the likely illegal double-tap strike in the Caribbean.

Time and time again, the Secretary has lied, dodged, deflected, and shockingly scapegoated his subordinates. He is a disgrace to the office he holds and should resign immediately before his actions cost American lives.