NPR News: 07-01-2026 2AM EDT

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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump didn't get what he wanted from the U.S. Supreme Court on birthright citizenship. The Court instead sided with the long-held interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment that anyone born on American soil is a U.S. citizen. Here's NPR's Mara Liasson.

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Well, politically, it's a setback. It's a legal loss. If the Court had voted for Trump, they would have changed the definition of what it means to be an American and who gets to decide what it means to be an American. Donald Trump was not happy about this decision. He posted on Truth Social, "Too bad for the country." But he also said that it could be, quote, "easily resolved" if Congress would pass legislation banning birthright citizenship, kind of the Kavanaugh point of view.

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Justice Kavanaugh sided with the six to three majority, but in a concurring opinion, he said a future Congress could restrict birthright citizenship. The House voted down a resolution Tuesday directing President Trump to remove armed forces from hostilities in Lebanon. It was sponsored by Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib, one of the House members seeking to push the party further left. Here's NPR's Eric McDaniel.

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More than twenty Democrats joined with nearly all Republicans to defeat the measure. Israeli forces have occupied much of southern Lebanon as they go after Iran-backed Hezbollah in a conflict that has displaced more than a million Lebanese residents and left thousands of civilians dead. Representative Tlaib is the child of Palestinian immigrants and has been Congress's most outspoken critic of the Israeli military.