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By ruling of 6-3, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld birthright citizenship.

The decision breaks with President Trump, who signed an executive order "barring" citizenship

for babies born in the U.S. appearance, either enter the country illegally or are in the United States on temporary visas. Your son Pierre is a Lena Moore. Trump signed that executive order on his first day back in office last year, and has argued that the Constitution does not ensure birthright citizenship.

But that executive order quickly faced legal challenges, and it was never implemented.

With lower courts instead, saying the move was on constitutional. Now the Supreme Court is backing that up, saying, quote, "children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and are citizens at birth under the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause," and quote, "elena Moore and Pierre News."

On social media, President Trump suggests the ban could still be restored through a bill.

Separately, he says a GOP scored a big win when the courts struck down limits on how much political parties may raise and spend on candidates, and Pierre is more a lie than his more on that. Republicans have a lot more money. This makes it easier for them to spend it.

They don't have to use the old rules of no coordinating with candidates. They also are going to get lower rates to buy political ads on television. It's very much in concert with other things that this court has done around campaign finance. They believe that money is speech, and so that wasn't much of a surprise. And Pierre is moralized, and Republican New Jersey Congressman Thomas King Jr. is back

at work after more than three months absence that was unexplained until this morning,

here he is in a speech on the U.S. has floor.

When people hear the word depression, many people think simply feel it means feeling sad. But depression is so much more than that. It is physical, it is emotional, and to you experience it yourself is difficult to fully

understand how powerful this illness can be.

The U.K.'s Caretaker Prime Minister, Pierre Stormer, says military spending is being increased by the equivalent of nearly $20 billion more on that from NPR's "Learn Frayer." The U.K. is around the middle of the pack when it comes to defense spending by NATO members. But as Russia gets more aggressive and the U.S. less reliable, this boost would bring British expenditure up to NATO's target of 3.5% of GDP by 2035.

Prime Minister Stormer says the U.K. military for too long has been underfunded and unsuited the threats that we face. His plan includes nearly $7 billion for drones. The Royal Navy would become a hybrid force, using AI-guided, uncrewed warships and submarines. Stormer says some road and energy projects would be scrapped to pay for this. That's NPR's "Learn Frayer" reporting. This is NPR News.

The Alaska Supreme Court has ordered the state division of elections to restore a retired schoolteacher named Dan Sullivan to the ballot. Sullivan filed to run as a Republican against Alaska's Junior U.S. Senator. He is also a Republican and also named Dan Sullivan. Alaska Public Media's Liz Ruskin has more. Senator Sullivan and his allies say the retiree is a fraud trying to confuse voters and

throw the race for the Democratic candidate, Mary Peltolla. Peltolla and her party say they had nothing to do with the second Sullivan candidacy. And the retired teacher insists he's a genuine candidate, running because he's unsatisfied with the incumbent who shares his name. The state Supreme Court left it up to the division of elections to decide how the challengers' name will appear on the ballot.

The two Sullivan's have different middle initials, but the division says that wouldn't differentiate them enough. For NPR News, I'm Liz Ruskin. Virginia is officially setting up a retail market for marijuana. Five years after becoming the first state in the South to make the drugs possession legal. As many as 350 shops will be allowed to start selling cannabis for recreational use under a new state budget, cannabis

will start being sold at shops across Virginia in a year.

The Labor Department's reporting 7.6 million job openings in the month of May higher than

the 7 million widely expected. It's NPR News. NPR's newest podcast is where you can find NPR's biggest interviews. I'm Steve Innski. The program is called NewsMakers. We talk with some of the most powerful and influential people at this moment to put real questions to them and push for real answers. Also newsmakers on the NPR app or any podcast player or you can watch on NPR's YouTube

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