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Welcome back. Let’s take a look at the stories making headlines this Friday: Trump signs two orders to try to limit birthright citizenship in the U.S. after the Supreme Court rejected his last efforts; the AP fact checks Trump’s recent claims about the U.S. economy; and a Senate committee votes to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress. Also, why more than 90,000 rubber ducks have been dumped into the Chicago River.
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President Donald Trump in the White House, Thursday, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Trump again tries to restrict birthright citizenship after Supreme Court ruling
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President Donald Trump said he was signing two executive actions on immigration, including one limiting the number of people eligible for U.S. citizenship after being born in the United States. The second order focused on stopping people from coming to the U.S. to give birth. Read more.
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- In June, the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s previous efforts to declare that children born to people in the U.S. illegally or temporarily aren’t American citizens, and upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship. It was not immediately clear how successful the president’s most recent attempt to restrict birthright citizenship would be. Trump said he thought his latest actions would be constitutional. The American Civil Liberties Union predicted that Trump’s second attempt would also be rejected.
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Trump boasts about the economy, but there’s more to the story
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President Donald Trump has been extolling his economic accomplishments on social media and at events. Some of the claims are clearly true, some exaggerated, some unclear. Read our team’s full analysis.
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Senate committee votes to hold Fauci in contempt for refusing to answer COVID questions
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A Senate committee voted along party lines Thursday, setting up a referral to the Justice Department for potential investigation over whether the country's longtime top infectious disease official properly exercised his constitutional rights. Read more.
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The vote came a week after Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 100 times. Fauci, in a statement last week, said he had good reason to fear the possibility of criminal charges.
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, the committee chairman who pressed for the contempt finding, said that constitutional protection did not apply because Fauci last year received a pardon from Democratic President Joe Biden and thus did not have to worry about the threat of prosecution.
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Rubber ducks are dropped into the Chicago River as part of the annual Chicago Duck Derby for Special Olympics Illinois Thursday. (AP Photo/Cybele Mayes-Osterman)
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