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NATIONAL
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What to know about Trump's new attempt to limit birthright citizenship
SUMMARY: The Trump administration has announced renewed efforts to limit birthright citizenship for children born to immigrant parents under specific circumstances and children who are the result of “birth tourism.” A Supreme Court decision in June struck down Trump's attempt at restricting birthright citizenship, but Trump's team said Thursday they were confident their expanded restrictions would not run afoul of any of the Supreme Court rulings. Meanwhile, advocates opposing the changes say the proposed exclusions for birthright citizenship will prompt new legal questions, including cases regarding children who are born in the U.S. to surrogates hired by noncitizen parents.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSTrumpBirthrightCitizenshipExplainer/07cf9d5f493e57d6fc652bf6f17edd92/text___
California may fine content creators who don't disclose they were paid to post about politics
SUMMARY: States are debating whether to crack down on social media influencers making political advertisements without disclosing that they were paid. It comes as paying influencers to boost candidates has become the new normal for U.S. political campaigns. Texas passed a rule requiring content creators to include compensation disclaimers on their posts. Lawmakers in New York are considering a similar requirement. California already requires influencers to disclose if they were paid by political committees. But a bill in the state Legislature would penalize them if they don't comply. The measures are a sign of the changing landscape of modern campaigns.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSInfluencerPoliticalAds/531fced44944908eba1dbbef0c00fdc4/text___
Remains of 56 people found improperly stored and decomposing at Chicago funeral home
SUMMARY: Authorities have found 56 bodies improperly stored at a Chicago funeral home. The remains were discovered Thursday in various states of decomposition at South Chicago Chapel. Illinois state officials have suspended the license of one of the funeral home's directors, alleging bodies were kept in an unrefrigerated area in deplorable conditions. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office is working to identify the remains and notify relatives. Police are investigating, but no arrests have been announced. Officials say the couple that runs the funeral home previously ran a crematory that was shut down because of mishandled remains. Messages were left for the funeral home and its owners.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSFuneralHomeDecomposingBodiesthLdWritethru/00a478e6d48fadb43c8322caea83e76c/text___
Lindsay Clancy trial spotlights her psychiatric care before she killed her 3 children
SUMMARY: Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial is zeroing in on her psychiatric care before she killed her three children. Testimony has traced a monthslong path to a final psychiatric appointment the day before the tragedy. Two psychiatrists testified Friday. Through questions, prosecutors emphasized she never told the doctors she planned to hurt the children or herself. Clancy’s defense aimed to flesh out its claim that various providers didn’t properly diagnose her and put her on a series of medications that left her worse off. Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, has pleaded not guilty to murder. Prosecutors argue she was an intentional killer, while the defense claims she was mentally ill.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSLindsayClancyTrialstLdWritethru/c977c42546d3b496df6d44924149451b/text___
New video shows gunman shooting victims at Idaho In-N-Out Burger drive-thru
SUMMARY: Surveillance video shows a gunman at an In-N-Out Burger in Idaho killing one of three victims by firing through a drive-up window, before shooting more people outside the fast-food chain restaurant. Police in Twin Falls said at a news conference Friday that they still don’t have a motive for the shootings last Saturday. Video shows Williams walking up to the drive-thru window four times and firing shots. Two people died after being shot outside the restaurant and in a parking lot. Among the three people killed were a worker at the chain and a man who dedicated his life to helping others get sober. Seven people were wounded. The 24-year-old gunman, Chad Williams, killed himself.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSIdahoShootingthLdWritethru/6ca8d6f08565c619beaf631a73ecd7ed/text___
ICE will release body camera video only when seen in the agency’s ‘best interests,’ policy says
SUMMARY: Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the public should not expect to quickly see footage of every critical incident. ICE’s body-worn camera policy says it will publicly release video of shootings and other encounters in which its agents cause death or serious injury only after determining it is in the “best interests of the agency” to do so. One expert on body camera usage says ICE's director will have broad discretion to release recordings that reflect well on ICE and can push to keep others secret. ICE says body cameras have been sent to more than half its field officers and the rest will receive them by the end of September.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSImmigrationICEBodyCamerasrdLdWritethru/dab1b294c8dc412d9ef8557ccbebfd57/text___
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WASHINGTON/POLITICS
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Darline Graham tests value of a famous name vs. lack of experience in South Carolina primary
SUMMARY: Darline Graham, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, is running in a crowded Republican Senate primary on Tuesday. She was appointed to fill out his term after he died from a torn aorta. Now she wants to serve a full six years and has the endorsement of President Donald Trump. But some South Carolina Republicans said her lack of experience in elective office makes her a less appealing candidate.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSElectionSouthCarolinaSenate/7faae372fd831368c0f2a1af40e5c703/text___
Trump goes unmentioned but not ignored as Clinton, Bush and Obama step up as essayists on presidents
SUMMARY: Three ex-presidents have joined an all-star roster of historians in contributing to a series of essays about presidents back to George Washington. Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Chief Justice John Roberts are among the essayists in a project called In Pursuit. The project is led by Colleen Shogan, who was fired by President Donald Trump without explanation last year as the country's archivist. The bipartisan effort in intended to bring new insights to the public about 43 presidents and 30 first ladies in history. All presidents are examined except Joe Biden and Trump. They were judged too fresh to be appraised by history.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSAmericaPresidentialEssaysstLdWritethru/14a0ba0c2fc66ab79abfba0a85f7e499/text___
Todd Blanche is narrowly confirmed as Trump's attorney general in an overnight Senate vote
SUMMARY: The Senate has confirmed Todd Blanche as the next attorney general of the United States. The 50-49 vote early Saturday came after a bruising confirmation fight that exposed deep concerns in both parties about installing President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney atop the Justice Department. While Blanche has already been leading the department in an acting capacity, his confirmation could free him to pursue the Trump administration’s agenda even more aggressively. Blanche’s supporters say his experience as a federal prosecutor and the trust he earned working for Trump as his personal attorney will help him in the role.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSCongressBlanchendLdWritethru/fcb4157d45d7b13a05de4d2b0f4f92e2/text___
Hunter Biden says his father's prostate cancer is causing him pain even as he continues to speak out
SUMMARY: Former U.S. President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer has spread to other parts of his body and is causing him pain, even as he continues to speak out on public issues. His son Hunter said in an interview with the BBC broadcast late Friday, that his father's condition, was very sad to watch. Hunter Biden says “the cancer has spread, metastasized into his bones and further. It’s very painful and it’s very debilitating in many respects.”
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APEUBritainBiden/6223999c596e517b488970d394bb5f2e/text___
Senate approves funding bill to avoid a shutdown before the election
SUMMARY: The Senate has passed a short-term measure to keep federal agencies funded into early December and avoid a government shutdown during campaign season. The Senate's passage of the bill in an overnight vote Saturday shows lawmakers are still smarting from the two historic shutdowns that occurred this past year. The bill generally funds the federal government at current levels though Dec. 11, but includes a variety of funding exceptions that senators negotiated with the White House. The bill will still need to clear the House before it can go to President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSCongressGovernmentFunding/a50b86875105a299498b846184a3736d/text___
Senators head for the exits without meeting Trump's demands for voting bill
SUMMARY: Senators have headed for the exits in the predawn hours without having met President Donald Trump’s push to pass a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill. Trump had demanded that senators stay in session and skip their August recess. But there is not enough support for the SAVE America Act. Instead they tried to advance a slimmed-down voter ID bill, but it failed on a party-line vote. Senators wrapped an all-night session Saturday having confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general and approved stopgap funding as a step toward preventing a government shutdown later this year. They vowed to try again in autumn on the voting bill as well as a broader package to fund the Iran war.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSSenateTrumpstLdWritethru/6dd2d8084ee42653b4db79cd565d1504/text___
Appeals court rules Trump can't build White House ballroom without congressional approval
SUMMARY: A federal appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration must stop construction of the $400 million White House ballroom because Congress has not approved the project. Trump blasted the decision Friday as “unjust” while vowing to appeal it to the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit ruled that Trump doesn’t have the unilateral authority to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom where the East Wing stood before he ordered its demolition. The panel upheld an April order from a lower court judge for aboveground work on the project to be halted.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSTrumpWhiteHouseBallroomthLdWritethru/1528247275ec6103da892d271d4ee883/text___
Democrats try to present a united front in Michigan after bitter primary
SUMMARY: Michigan Democrats are showing unity behind their statewide candidates. This comes three days after a heated U.S. Senate primary highlighted divisions between the party's progressive and moderate wings. Abdul El-Sayed, a former public health official who narrowly beat Rep. Haley Stevens for an open Senate seat, attended. El-Sayed’s victory is seen as a win for progressives and a sign of discontent with establishment politicians. With less than three months before the general election, Democrats are under pressure to close ranks in a race that will help determine control of the Senate.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSElectionMichiganDemocratsthLdWritethru/0244cbcafd39288608d2ea73636a59cd/text___
Trump administration moves ahead with efforts to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook
SUMMARY: The Trump administration is moving ahead with its efforts to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, two months after the Supreme Court allowed her to retain her job while she fights the president’s effort to terminate her over mortgage fraud allegations that she has denied. The justices, in a 5-4 decision in June, said Cook, who was nominated to the Fed’s Board of Governors by President Joe Biden, could remain in her post at least as long as her lawsuit challenging her firing goes on. The Trump administration is appealing a lower-court ruling in Cook's favor. A letter this week from the White House to Cook said President Donald Trump was “considering” firing Cook but wanted to give her an opportunity to challenge the effort.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSFederalReserveLisaCookndLdWritethru/01eb76b6bc499fcc100921cee91e08a2/text___
Senate passes sweeping Russia sanctions bill negotiated by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham
SUMMARY: The Senate has approved a punishing Russian sanctions bill that was a top priority for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham. Passage of the package Friday signals renewed bipartisan support for Ukraine as the war drags on. The legislation would penalize countries that continue to buy Russian oil, gas and other exports. It comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the Capitol late last month and watched from the gallery as the Senate took the first procedural votes on the legislation. The legislation allows the president to impose tariffs on the world’s top five purchasers of Russian oil or natural gas, including China and India. The package next goes to the House, but some Democrats have concern it gives Trump too much tariff authority.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSSenateRussiaSanctionsthLdWritethru/8d37498c3f27d96cae7da147250ebe9f/text___
Senate confirms Hamilton to lead FEMA and clears more than 70 other Trump nominees
SUMMARY: The Senate has confirmed Cameron Hamilton as head of the embattled Federal Emergency Management Agency. Hamilton was among 74 nominations approved by the Senate on Friday. The former Navy SEAL is returning to the agency he briefly led last year. FEMA's future has been uncertain since President Donald Trump threatened to eliminate it. Hamilton's nomination suggests Trump may be moving on from that idea, but his administration is promising major changes in federal disaster response. Democrats accuse the Republican president of politicizing disaster aid. The Senate also approved David Cummins to lead the Transportation Security Administration and Daniel Perez for ambassador to Brazil.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSSenateFEMA/6743eb69461fc625d924396842056bba/text___
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INTERNATIONAL
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Iran makes new strait demands, the UAE says a ship was targeted and other Middle East news
SUMMARY: Iran has issued dramatic new demands for the Strait of Hormuz to reopen. Oman says talks to manage the strait between it and Iran are continuing. Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates said on Saturday that an Iranian missile targeted one of its ships that's owned by Abu Dhabi’s state-run ADNOC oil company. No casualties were reported. Elsewhere in the region, Yemen’s military attacked the country's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in response to the strikes, escalating tensions and threatening to reignite the civil war. And in Turkey, a Kurdish peace bill passed its first hurdle in parliament. The draft law aims to end the decades-long conflict with Kurdish separatists.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APMLMideastthLdWritethru/feb75871fb82c44b3f7fd0ee02bb24b4/text___
Zelenskyy visits Moscow-friendly Serbia as Russian attacks on Kyiv region kill 4
SUMMARY: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Serbia for talks on economic ties and security issues. The visit, which included talks with Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic on Saturday, is the first by a Ukrainian president in eight years. It came as Russian attacks on Kyiv and its surrounding region killed four people, including a child. Zelenskyy said deliveries of Patriot air defense interceptors had slowed and that the U.S. has agreed to let Ukraine manufacture Patriot systems, but bureaucracy is slowing the process of obtaining licenses.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APEURussiaUkraineWarthLdWritethru/492d334e26b5485dbf74d7ae9c9d33ce/text___
A 12-year-old girl dies after Thailand school shooting, bringing the death toll to at least 8
SUMMARY: A schoolgirl has died from critical wounds after a student opened fire at a high school and his home outside Bangkok the day before, raising the death toll to at least eight. The 14-year-old shooter opened fire at Debsirin Nonthaburi School before apparently taking his own life. He also allegedly killed his grandparents earlier that morning. The Health Ministry said the 12-year-old girl died after hospitalization. Fourteen people remain hospitalized, with seven in critical condition. The gun was legally registered to the boy’s grandfather. Thailand has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in Asia, and shootings have increased in recent years.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APASThailandSchoolShootingndLdWritethru/63f7b1f3b97842251c98b5932f1d234a/text___
‘We saw death and suffering’: Dozens of Nigerians freed after 6 months in jihadi captivity
SUMMARY: At least 163 Nigerian captives, mostly women and children, have spoken of the suffering and fear they lived in for six months They were handed over by security forces in Kwara on Friday and were anticipating their return home to reunite with their families. The victims were abducted in an attack on Woro, a village in Kwara State, in February. Some of the freed women were informed their husbands were among those killed in the attack. Some captives told The Associated Press they had given up hope of returning home.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APAFNigeriaHostagesRescued/1f276794918d873419e185b909368d59/text___
Iran's leaders think they have Trump cornered, but their strategy carries great risks
SUMMARY: Iran's leaders believe that sooner or later the United States will have to accede to their control over the Strait of Hormuz. That would mark a victory in the five-month war, as the critical waterway carries a fifth of the world's traded oil and gas in peacetime. But Iran's strategy also carries major risks. A prolonged conflict could inflict further damage on Iran's economy and infrastructure, potentially triggering another wave of internal unrest. In the meantime, the conflict over the strait makes it difficult to wind down the wider war, much less resume negotiations over Iran's disputed nuclear program.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APMLIransStrategyAnalysisstLdWritethru/77d91b276db6d749711619b0aa1c5c3f/text___
Eastern China braces for Typhoon Dolphin, shutting schools and tourist activities
SUMMARY: Authorities in eastern China are shutting schools and tourist sites as Typhoon Dolphin heads for the coast. The storm is moving toward land on Saturday with maximum sustained winds of about 162 kilometers per hour. It is expected to bring heavy rains, severe flooding and possibly landslides when it hits Zhejiang and parts of neighboring Fujian province late Sunday. National authorities have declared a level III emergency response, the second lowest level. Many tourist destinations in Zhejiang are closed Saturday and Sunday, along with ferries and cruises, while Ningbo city has ordered schools to remain shut this weekend.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APASAsiaStormndLdWritethru/6534c6d39b7119e19e4e901c0e3aa999/text___
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BUSINESS
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Berkshire Hathaway's new CEO Greg Abel spends a chunk of the company's massive cashpile
SUMMARY: Berkshire Hathaway’s new CEO Greg Abel has invested $10 billion in Google’s parent company and repurchased about $4.5 billion of its shares. The conglomerate that legendary investor Warren Buffett built reported its second-quarter earnings Saturday morning and disclosed that its cash holdings had shrunk more than $30 billion to $365.5 billion. Abel announced in March that Berkshire had resumed buying back its own shares for the first time in more than two years, but investors were underwhelmed with the buybacks in the first quarter.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSEarnsBerkshireHathawaystLdWritethru/e36ed92787eef9c9c67502501b345174/text___
Wall Street week ahead: inflation, retail sales updates
SUMMARY: Reports on inflation and retail sales are the central updates for Wall Street this week. The reports help give investors and economists a better sense of how costs for everything from gasoline to groceries are impacting sales for a wide range of businesses. That also helps give investors and economists a clearer picture on where households are spending their budgets. On Wednesday, the U.S. will release its consumer price index, or CPI, for July. On Thursday, the U.S. will release its producer price index, or PPI, for July. On Friday, the U.S. will release its retail sales report for July.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APFinancialMarketsWeekAhead/1cf6047f812b3e1f151781f5722d97b7/text___
A New Mexico judge ordered new child safeguards for Meta. Advocates hope other courts follow
SUMMARY: In a landmark ruling against Meta, a New Mexico judge likened the company’s social media platforms to factories. The psychological harm to children who use Facebook and Instagram, he said, can be seen as their pollution. Judge Bryan Biedscheid fined the company $567 million in his ruling Thursday, but he also ordered new safety measures including time limits for kids and AI chatbot restrictions. How easily those features can be implemented, and how effective they could be at protecting young users from mental health harms, are unresolved questions. But the judge’s order showed a possible path forward for other court fights around the country as Meta faces mounting legal challenges.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSMetaNewMexico/030dbeb27a51bdbdc861304023835e8d/text___
US stocks jump as employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs, raising hopes that rate hikes can wait
SUMMARY: Stocks rose on Wall Street and Treasury yields fell after the government reported that employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs last month. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% Friday, topping the all-time high it set on Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3%, and the Nasdaq composite added 1.3%. The weaker signal on the job market raised hopes that the Federal Reserve can wait longer before raising interest rates to fight inflation. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.64%. The price of Brent crude rose 1.3%.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APFinancialMarketsthLdWritethru/9636095906bbb689a1f612bce9a07343/text___
US job market stalled in July as employers cut 23,000 jobs, delivering political setback to Trump
SUMMARY: U.S. employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs last month, and Labor Department revisions shaved 103,000 jobs off payrolls in May and June. The unemployment rate dipped to 4.1% only because Americans left the job market. The July jobs numbers from the Labor Department Friday marked a sharp reversal for the American labor market and amount to a political setback for President Donald Trump less than three months before his Republican party seeks to keep full control of Congress in the upcoming midterm election. Forecasters had expected job creation to approach 100,000 last month.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSEconomyJobsReportthLdWritethru/9c2d147c14bc428458be5a1e83e54957/text___
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With the right preparation, international trips with babies are possible and even fun
SUMMARY: Traveling with a baby can be daunting, especially on long-distance flights and international trips. But with the right preparation, big trips can still be fun. While children under two can fly in their parents' lap, the Federal Aviation Administration recommends securing them in their own safety seat, such as a car seat certified for use on planes. Experts also recommend nursing or using a pacifier to relieve ear pressure and checking whether items like pack-and-plays, cribs and high chairs are available where you stay. Planning multi-generational trips with grandparents allows for bonding while also helping with babysitting duties.
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https://newsroom.ap.org/detail/APUSBeWellTravelBabiesChildren/8311012ce74f86727b95baef75360c0f/text___
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