Russia launched its biggest aerial attack against Ukraine overnight, a Ukrainian official said Sunday, part of an escalating bombing campaign that has further dashed hopes for a breakthrough in efforts to end the 3-year-old war.

Russia fired a total of 537 aerial weapons at Ukraine, including 477 drones and decoys and 60 missiles, Ukraines air force said. Of these, 249 were shot down and 226 were lost, likely having been electronically jammed.

The onslaught was the most massive airstrike on the country since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, taking into account both drones and various types of missiles, Yuriy Ihnat, head of communications for Ukraines air force, told The Associated Press. The attack targeted several regions, including western Ukraine, far from the front line.

Poland and allied countries scrambled aircraft to ensure the safety of Polish airspace, the country's air force said.

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One person died in a drone strike in the Kherson region, Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin said, while another was killed when a drone hit a car in the Kharkiv region, according to its Gov. Oleh Syniehubov. Six people were wounded in Cherkasy, including a child, according to regional Gov. Ihor Taburets.

In the far-western Lviv region, a large fire broke out at an industrial facility in the city of Drohobych following a drone attack that also cut electricity to parts of the city.

Ukraines air force said one of its F-16 warplanes supplied by its Western partners crashed after sustaining damage while shooting down air targets. The pilot died.

Attacks continued during the day. Dnipropetrovsk Gov. Serhii Lysak said a 72-year-old man was killed when a drone hit his car.

Russian troops reportedly advance in Donetsk

Russia's Defense Ministry said it had shot down three Ukrainian drones overnight.

Two people were wounded in another Ukrainian drone attack on the city of Bryansk in western Russia, regional Gov. Alexander Bogomaz said Sunday morning, adding that seven more Ukrainian drones had been shot down over the region.

Meanwhile, Russia claimed Sunday that it had taken control of the village of Novoukrainka in the partially Russian-occupied Donetsk region.

Russian forces have been slowly grinding forward at some points on the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line, though their incremental gains have been costly in terms of troop casualties and damaged armor.

In other developments, Russias foreign intelligence chief, Sergei Naryshkin, said he had spoken on the phone with his U.S. counterpart, CIA Director John Ratcliffe.

I had a phone call with my American counterpart and we reserved for each other the possibility to call at any time and discuss issues of interest to us, Naryshkin said in remarks to state TV reporter Pavel Zarubin, who posted them on his Telegram channel on Sunday.

Sunday's attacks follow Russian President Vladimir Putins comments two days ago that Moscow is ready for a fresh round of direct peace talks in Istanbul. Two recent rounds of talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul were brief and yielded no progress on reaching a settlement.

Zelenskyy withdraws Ukraine from an anti-land mine pact

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree to withdraw Ukraine from the Ottawa Convention banning antipersonnel land mines, a Ukrainian lawmaker said Sunday. The move follows similar recent steps by the Baltic states and Poland.

The 1997 treaty prohibits the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of antipersonnel land mines in an effort to protect civilians from explosives that can maim or kill long after fighting ends.

This is a step that the reality of war has long demanded, said Roman Kostenko, secretary of the Ukrainian parliamentary committee on national security, defense and intelligence. He noted that Russia is not a party to the convention "and is massively using mines against our military and civilians.

Democratic former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman was honored for her legislative accomplishments and her humanity during a funeral Saturday, where former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris joined the over 1,000 mourners.

Hortman was shot to death in a pair of attacks two weeks earlier by a man posing as a police officer that Minnesota's chief federal prosecutor has called an assassination. The shootings also left her husband, Mark, dead and a state senator and his wife seriously wounded.

Melissa Hortman will be remembered as the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history. I get to remember her as a close friend, a mentor, and the most talented legislator I have ever known, Gov. Tim Walz said in his eulogy. For seven years, I have had the privilege of signing her agenda into law. I know millions of Minnesotans get to live their lives better because she and Mark chose public service and politics.

The service

Neither Biden nor Harris spoke, but they sat in the front row with the governor, who was Harris' running mate in 2024. Biden was also one of more than 7,500 people who paid their respects Friday as Hortman, her husband, Mark, and their golden retriever, Gilbert, lay in state in the Minnesota Capitol rotunda in St. Paul. Gilbert was seriously wounded in the attack and had to be euthanized. Biden also visited the wounded senator in a hospital.

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Dozens of current and former state legislators from both parties and other elected officials who worked with Hortman also attended.

Hortman, who was first elected in 2004, helped pass an expansive agenda of liberal initiatives like free lunches for public school students during the momentous 2023 session as the chambers speaker, along with expanded protections for abortion and trans rights. With the House split 67-67 between Democrats and Republicans this year, she yielded the gavel to a Republican under a power-sharing deal, took the title speaker emerita, and helped break a budget impasse that threatened to shut down state government.

The governor's eulogy

Walz said Hortman saw her mission as to get as much good done for as many people as possible. And he said her focus on people was what made her so effective.

She certainly knew how to get her way. No doubt about that, Walz said. But she never made anyone feel that theyd gotten rolled at a negotiating table. That wasnt part of it for her, or a part of who she was. She didnt need somebody else to lose to win for her.

The governor said the best way to honor the Hortmans would be by following their example.

Maybe it is this moment where each of us can examine the way we work together, the way we talk about each other, the way we fight for things we care about," Walz said. "A moment when each of us can recommit to engaging in politics and life the way Mark and Melissa did -- fiercely, enthusiastically, heartily, but without ever losing sight of our common humanity.

The homily

The Rev. Daniel Griffith, pastor and rector of the Basilica, who led the service, said the country is in need of deep healing. He said it seems as if the U.S. is living in the dystopian reality described at the beginning of William Butler Yeats' poem, The Second Coming.

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Here in Minnesota, we have been the ground zero place, sadly, for racial injustice," Griffith said. "The killing of George Floyd just miles from our church today. And now we are the ground zero place for political violence and extremism. Both of these must be decried in the strongest possible terms, as they are, respectively, a threat to human dignity and indeed, our democracy.

But the priest also said Minnesota could also be a ground zero place for restoration and justice and healing. He added that the presence of so many people was a sign that the work could succeed.

Archbishop Bernard Hebda of the Saint Paul and Minneapolis Archdiocese offered his condolences to the Hortman family.

A private burial will be held at a later date.

The Hortman family

The Hortmans were proud of their adult children, Sophie and Colin Hortman, and the lawmaker often spoke of them.

In a voice choked with emotion, Colin said his parents embodied the Golden Rule, and he read the Prayer of St. Francis, which his mother always kept in her wallet. He said it captures her essence. It starts, Lord make me an instrument of your peace.

After the service, Walz presented the children with U.S. and Minnesota flags that flew over the Capitol on the day their parents were killed.

The suspect

The man accused of killing the Hortmans at their home in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park on June 14, and wounding Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman, and his wife, Yvette, at their home in nearby Champlin, made a brief court appearance Friday. He's due back in court Thursday.

Vance Boelter, 57, of Green Isle, surrendered near his home the night of June 15 after what authorities called the largest search in Minnesota history.

Boelter remains jailed and has not entered a plea. Prosecutors need to secure a grand jury indictment first. His lawyers have declined to comment on the charges, which could carry the federal death penalty.

Friends have described Boelter as an evangelical Christian with politically conservative views. But prosecutors have declined so far to speculate on a motive.

In a shaded section of an old cemetery in South Haven, Michigan, a boulder with a black inscription signifies a mass grave where a number of body parts from those aboard Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 are buried.

The ill-fated flight, at the time the deadliest commercial airline disaster in American history, disappeared when it flew into a storm over Lake Michigan in the early morning hours of June 24, 1950.

None of the souls on the plane 55 passengers and three crew members survived. To this day, the plane's final resting place has not been found, and no complete bodies have ever been recovered from the crash.

"There was nobody famous on this, but each person was so significant to their families," said Valerie van Heest, executive director of the Holland-based Michigan Shipwreck Research Association.

"Their loss was so incomprehensible, especially if you don't have a body, especially if you don't have a reason," she said.

For the past 20 years, van Heest has searched for the wreckage from NWA Flight 2501, scouring nearly 700 square miles of Lake Michigan with sonar technology, moving back and forth over the freshwater expanse as if she were mowing the lawn.

Now, van Heest says she will search no more.

"We have found it's impossible to find," she said. "Maybe someday, some weather incident will churn up the lake bottom and reveal the debris from the plane, but if not, we've done the best we could."

The crash and the search

On the evening of June 23, 1950, Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 departed from New York's LaGuardia Airport en route to Seattle, planning to stop in Minneapolis and Spokane along the way.

As a squall line over Lake Michigan approached the westbound plane, its pilot requested a drop in altitude, but was denied the clearance due to nearby air traffic.

Then, several miles off the shore of Benton Harbor, it flew into the storm and was never heard from again.

"Today, you would never fly under a squall line. That would be lunacy," van Heest said.

"They didn't understand that back then," she said. "The pilot did his best to continue on with that flight, but his decision to continue across the lake is what made this a fatal crossing of Lake Michigan."

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When the DC-4, converted from a WWII-era C-54 into a commercial aircraft, did not respond to radio requests and failed to pass by an airfield in Milwaukee at its scheduled time, a search began for the missing plane.

The U.S Coast Guard patrolled Lake Michigan while bits and pieces of the plane, as well as body parts, began to wash up on West Michigan's shoreline, including in South Haven, where the mayor closed the city's beaches just before the Fourth of July.

"A gruesome accident," van Heest said. "The largest person found was a torso. No arms. No lower half. No head."

In a week's time, according to the historian, authorities deemed finding the wreckage to be an impossible task.

"They gave up," she said.

A half-century later, van Heest and Clive Cussler, a world-renowned shipwreck hunter, picked up where the federal government left off, using side-scan sonar to look for the long-lost plane.

They discovered nine shipwrecks in the search area, but no evidence to pinpoint exactly where or exactly why the plane crashed.

It's likely, van Heest says, the aircraft either blew up when it was struck by lightning or broke into a "thousand pieces" upon impact with the water, the largest of these parts settling into the deep muck of the lake bed over decades.

The two found other things, though, including perhaps a semblance of closure for the families whose loved ones were lost on the fatal flight.

"We really brought this accident back to the public's attention," van Heest said. "People know about this accident. People are curious about it, and our work has made sure this accident would not be forgotten."

During van Heest's search and research, which included writing a book on Flight 2501's disappearance, she discovered the mass grave in South Haven's Lake View Cemetery and another in St. Joseph. At the time, both were unmarked. She's since hosted memorial services and put on display a number of personal artifacts of the victims, including one man's tattered suit coat and his checkbook, complete with an entry for his ticket for the flight: $49.30.

Strangely, these artifacts and the lack of a large-scale discovery are perhaps more significant for the memory of the 58 passengers and crew.

"They've been remembered," van Heest said.

"We really provided the answers to what happened to this plane," she said. "We simply don't know the exact spot on Lake Michigan where it happened."

This article was written by Sam Landstra for the Scripps News Group in Grand Rapids.

Rhode Island is considering a so-called "Taylor Swift tax" on luxury homeowners. The proposal is officially called the Non-Owner Occupied Property Tax Act. If passed, it would tax non-owner occupied homes or secondary residences valued at more than $1 million.

Swift purchased her Rhode Island mansion for about $17 million in 2013. Zillow lists the property's current value at $28 million, which would result in a tax of about $135,000 a year. State lawmakers are still reviewing the proposal as part of a larger budget bill.

The bill's sponsor, State Sen. Meghan Kallman, told Newsweek the proposal is meant to address inequality.

"By asking these owners to pay their fair share, Rhode Island can generate much-needed revenue and prevent cuts to essential services like health care and education. This is part of overall efforts to make our tax code fairer for working people," Kallman said.

She argued that homeowners such as Swift, who do not live in high-priced homes, do not contribute to Rhode Island's economy.

"More than half of Rhode Island homes worth more than $1 million from 2019 to 2024 were bought by buyers from out of state," Kallman told Newsweek. "These homes are purchased by high net worth individuals who can afford multiple properties but do not contribute as directly to the local economy as full-time residents."

A T-shirt worn by Beyonc during a Juneteenth performance on her Cowboy Carter tour has sparked a discussion over how Americans frame their history and caused a wave of criticism for the Houston-born superstar.

The T-shirt worn during a concert in Paris featured images of the Buffalo Soldiers, who belonged to Black U.S. Army units active during the late 1800s and early 1900s. On the back was a lengthy description of the soldiers that included their antagonists were the enemies of peace, order and settlement: warring Indians, bandits, cattle thieves, murderous gunmen, bootleggers, trespassers, and Mexican revolutionaries.

Images of the shirt and videos of the performance are also featured on Beyoncs website.

As she prepares to return to the U.S. for performances in her hometown this weekend, fans and Indigenous influencers took to social media to criticize Beyonc for wearing a shirt that frames Native Americans and Mexican revolutionaries as anything but the victims of American imperialism and for promoting anti-Indigenous language.

A spokesperson for Beyonc did not respond to a request for comment.

Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?

The Buffalo Soldiers served in six military units created after the Civil War in 1866. They were comprised of formerly enslaved men, freemen, and Black Civil War soldiers and fought in hundreds of conflicts including in the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II until they were disbanded in 1951.

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As the quote on Beyoncs shirt notes, they also fought numerous battles against Indigenous peoples as part of the U.S. Army's campaign of violence and land theft during the country's westward expansion.

Some historians say the moniker Buffalo Soldiers was bestowed by the tribes who admired the bravery and tenacity of the fighters, but that might be more legend than fact. At the end of the day, we really dont have that kind of information, said Cale Carter, director of exhibitions at the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum in Houston.

Carter and other museum staff said that, only in the past few years, the museum made broader efforts to include more of the complexities of the battles the Buffalo Soldiers fought against Native Americans and Mexican revolutionaries and the role they played in the subjugation of Indigenous peoples. They, much like many other museums across the country, are hoping to add more nuance to the framing of American history and be more respectful of the ways they have caused harm to Indigenous communities.

We romanticize the Western frontier, he said. The early stories that talked about the Buffalo Soldiers were impacted by a lot of those factors. So you really didnt see a changing in that narrative until recently.

There has often been a lack of diverse voices discussing how the history of the Buffalo Soldiers is framed, said Michelle Tovar, the museum's director of education. The current political climate has put enormous pressure on schools, including those in Texas, to avoid honest discussions about American history, she said.

Right now, in this area, we are getting pushback from a lot of school districts in which we cant go and teach this history," Tovar said. "We are a museum where we can at least be a hub, where we can invite the community regardless of what districts say, invite them to learn it and do what we can do the outreach to continue to teach honest history.

Historians scrutinize reclamation motive

Beyonc's recent album Act II: Cowboy Carter has played on a kind of American iconography, which many see as her way of subverting the country music genre's adjacency to whiteness and reclaiming the cowboy aesthetic for Black Americans. Last year, she became the first Black woman ever to top Billboard's country music chart, and Cowboy Carter won her the top prize at the 2025 Grammy Awards, album of the year.

The Buffalo Soldiers play this major role in the Black ownership of the American West, said Tad Stoermer, a historian and professor at Johns Hopkins University. In my view, (Beyonc is) well aware of the role that these images play. This is the Cowboy Carter tour for crying out loud. The entire tour, the entire album, the entire piece is situated in this layered narrative.

But Stoermer also points out that the Buffalo Soldiers have been framed in the American story in a way that also plays into the myths of American nationalism.

As Beyoncs use of Buffalo Soldiers imagery implies, Black Americans also use their story to claim agency over their role in the creation of the country, said Alaina E. Roberts, a historian, author and professor at the University of Pittsburgh who studies the intersection of Black and Native American life from the Civil War to present day.

Thats the category in which she thought maybe she was coming into this conversation, but the Buffalo Soldiers are even a step above that because they were literally involved in not just the settlement of the West but of genocide in a sense, she said.

Online backlash builds ahead of Houston shows

Several Native influencers, performers, and academics took to social media this week to criticize Beyonc or decry the shirt's language as anti-Indigenous. Do you think Beyonc will apologize (or acknowledge) the shirt? indigenous.tv, an Indigenous news and culture Instagram account with more than 130,000 followers, asked in a post Thursday.

Many of her critics, as well as fans, agree. A flood of social media posts called out the pop star for the historic framing on the shirt.

The Buffalo Soldiers are an interesting historical moment to look at. But we have to be honest about what they did, especially in their operations against Indigenous Americans and Mexicans, said Chisom Okorafor, who posts on TikTok under the handle @confirmedsomaya.

Okorafor said there is no progressive way to reclaim America's history of empire building in the West, and that Beyoncs use of Western symbolism sends a problematic message: That Black people, too, can engage in American nationalism.

Black people, too, can profit from the atrocities of (the) American empire, she said. "It is a message that tells you to abandon immigrants, Indigenous people, and people who live outside of the United States. It is a message that tells you not only is it a virtue to have been born in this country, but the longer your line extends in this country, the more virtuous you are.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday that a new migrant detention center located deep in the Everglades will begin housing detainees as early as Tuesday. Nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz, the controversial facility is already under construction on the site of a nearly abandoned Miami-Dade County airport.

Speaking on Fox News Friday morning, DeSantis said the center will be able to process more than 3,000 undocumented immigrants at a time.

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We've got a massive runway right behind us where any of the federal assets that they want to fly these people back to their home countrythey can do it one-stop shop, said Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).

The project, estimated to cost hundreds of millions of dollars in federally reimbursable funds, was proposed just over a week ago by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier. In a comment that drew criticism, Uthmeier said in his online video, You don't need to invest that much in the perimeter. People get out, there's not much waiting for them, other than alligators and pythons. Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide.

The Florida GOP has capitalized on the media attention, launching a line of branded merchandise, including shirts, koozies, and hats that promote the "Alligator Alcatraz" name. But the backlash has been swift and fierce.

I think it's inhumane, it's disgusting, and it's not what we stand for as a state, said State Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith, an Orlando-area Democrat.

On Friday, Florida Senate Democrats sent a letter to DeSantis and Uthmeier demanding answers on due process, humane treatment, and whether the project could divert funds from hurricane preparedness.

There is a serious discussion of whether or not this would constitute cruel and unusual punishment, said Florida Senate Democratic Leader Lori Berman.

Environmental groups are also pushing back hard. A coalition of activists filed a federal lawsuit to block the facility, citing potential harm to the Everglades and a lack of required environmental reviews or public input.

Federal law is clear they have to look before they leap, so they don't cause massive damage to really important resources, said Elise Bennett of the Center for Biological Diversity.

The Governors office dismissed the lawsuit, defending the sites location and purpose.

This facility is a necessary staging operation for mass deportations located at a pre-existing airport that will have no impact on the surrounding environment. We look forward to litigating this case, one of Gov. DeSantis' staffers said.

And this is just the beginning. DeSantis is also considering a second migrant processing center at Camp Blanding, a National Guard training base in northeastern Florida, envisioned as a companion facility to Alligator Alcatraz.

This article was written by Forrest Saunders for the Scripps News Group in Florida.

The Senate is expected to grind through a rare weekend session as Republicans race to pass President Donald Trump's package of tax breaks and spending cuts by his July Fourth deadline.

Republicans are using their majorities in Congress to push aside Democratic opposition, but they have run into a series of political and policy setbacks. Not all GOP lawmakers are on board with proposals to reduce spending on Medicaid, food stamps and other programs as a way to help cover the cost of extending some $3.8 trillion in Trump tax breaks.

The 940-page bill was released shortly before midnight Friday. Senators were expected to take a procedural vote Saturday to begin debate on the legislation, but the timing was uncertain and there is a long path ahead, with at least 10 hours of debate time and an all-night voting session on countless amendments.

Senate passage could be days away, and the bill would need to return to the House for a final round of votes before it could reach the White House.

It's evolving, said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., as he prepared to close up the chamber late Friday.

The weekend session could be a make-or-break moment for Trump's party, which has invested much of its political capital on his signature domestic policy plan. Trump is pushing Congress to wrap it up, even as he sometimes gives mixed signals, allowing for more time.

At recent events at the White House, including Friday, Trump has admonished the grandstanders among GOP holdouts to fall in line.

We can get it done, Trump said in a social media post. It will be a wonderful Celebration for our Country.

The legislation is an ambitious but complicated series of GOP priorities. At its core, it would make permanent many of the tax breaks from Trump's first term that would otherwise expire by year's end if Congress fails to act, resulting in a potential tax increase on Americans. The bill would add new breaks, including no taxes on tips, and commit $350 billion to national security, including for Trump's mass deportation agenda.

But the spending cuts that Republicans are relying on to offset the lost tax revenues are causing dissent within the GOP ranks. Some lawmakers say the cuts go too far, particularly for people receiving health care through Medicaid. Meanwhile, conservatives, worried about the nation's debt, are pushing for steeper cuts.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said he is concerned about the fundamentals of the package and will not support the procedural motion to begin debate.

I'm voting no on the motion to proceed, he said.

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., pushing for deeper cuts, said he needed to see the final legislative text.

The release of that draft had been delayed as the Senate parliamentarian reviewed the bill to ensure it complied with the chambers strict Byrd Rule, named for the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va. It largely bars policy matters from inclusion in budget bills unless a provision can get 60 votes to overcome objections. That would be a tall order in a Senate with a 53-47 GOP edge and Democrats unified against Trumps bill.

Republicans suffered a series of setbacks after several proposals were determined to be out of compliance by the chief arbiter of the Senate's rules. One plan would have shifted some food stamp costs from the federal government to the states; a second would have gutted the funding structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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But over the past days, Republicans have quickly revised those proposals and reinstated them.

The final text includes a proposal for cuts to a Medicaid provider tax that had run into parliamentary objections and opposition from several senators worried about the fate of rural hospitals. The new version extends the start date for those cuts and establishes a $25 billion fund to aid rural hospitals and providers.

Most states impose the provider tax as a way to boost federal Medicaid reimbursements. Some Republicans argue that is a scam and should be abolished.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has said that under the House-passed version of the bill, some 10.9 million more people would go without health care and at least 3 million fewer would qualify for food aid. The CBO has not yet publicly assessed the Senate draft, which proposes steeper reductions.

Top income-earners would see about a $12,000 tax cut under the House bill, while the poorest Americans would face a $1,600 tax increase, the CBO said.

One unresolved issue remains the so-called SALT provision, a deduction for state and local taxes that has been a top priority of lawmakers from New York and other high-tax states. The cap is now $10,000.

The White House and House Republicans had narrowed in on a plan for a $40,000 cap, but for five years instead of 10. Republican senators say that's too generous. At least one House GOP holdout, Rep. Nick LaLota of New York, said he cannot support the compromise.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York said Republicans are rushing to finish the bill before the public fully knows whats in it.

Theres no good reason for Republicans to chase a silly deadline, Schumer said.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, who sent his colleagues home for the weekend with plans to be on call to return to Washington, said they are very close to finishing up.

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We would still like to meet that July Fourth, self-imposed deadline, said Johnson, R-La.

With the narrow Republican majorities in the House and Senate, leaders need almost every lawmaker on board to ensure passage. Johnson and Thune have stayed close to the White House, relying on Trump to pressure holdout lawmakers.

The legal battle over President Donald Trump's move to end birthright citizenship is far from over despite the Republican administration's major victory Friday limiting nationwide injunctions.

Immigrant advocates are vowing to fight to ensure birthright citizenship remains the law as the Republican president tries to do away with more than a century of precedent.

The high court's ruling sends cases challenging the president's birthright citizenship executive order back to the lower courts. But the ultimate fate of the president's policy remains uncertain.

Here's what to know about birthright citizenship, the Supreme Court's ruling and what happens next.

What does birthright citizenship mean?

Birthright citizenship makes anyone born in the United States an American citizen, including children born to mothers in the country illegally.

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The practice goes back to soon after the Civil War, when Congress ratified the Constitutions 14th Amendment, in part to ensure that Black people, including former slaves, had citizenship.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, the amendment states.

Thirty years later, Wong Kim Ark, a man born in the U.S. to Chinese parents, was refused re-entry into the U.S. after traveling overseas. His suit led to the Supreme Court explicitly ruling that the amendment gives citizenship to anyone born in the U.S., no matter their parents legal status.

It has been seen since then as an intrinsic part of U.S. law, with only a handful of exceptions, such as for children born in the U.S. to foreign diplomats.

Trump has long said he wants to do away with birthright citizenship

Trump's executive order, signed in January, seeks to deny citizenship to children who are born to people who are living in the U.S. illegally or temporarily. It's part of the hardline immigration agenda of the president, who has called birthright citizenship a magnet for illegal immigration.

Trump and his supporters focus on one phrase in the amendment subject to the jurisdiction thereof saying it means the U.S. can deny citizenship to babies born to women in the country illegally.

A series of federal judges have said thats not true, and issued nationwide injunctions stopping his order from taking effect.

Ive been on the bench for over four decades. I cant remember another case where the question presented was as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order, U.S. District Judge John Coughenour said at a hearing earlier this year in his Seattle courtroom.

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In Greenbelt, Maryland, a Washington suburb, U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman wrote that the Supreme Court has resoundingly rejected and no court in the country has ever endorsed Trumps interpretation of birthright citizenship.

Is Trump's order constitutional? The justices didn't say

The high court's ruling was a major victory for the Trump administration in that it limited an individual judge's authority in granting nationwide injunctions. The administration hailed the ruling as a monumental check on the powers of individual district court judges, whom Trump supporters have argued want to usurp the president's authority with rulings blocking his priorities around immigration and other matters.

But the Supreme Court did not address the merits of Trump's bid to enforce his birthright citizenship executive order.

The Trump administration made a strategic decision, which I think quite clearly paid off, that they were going to challenge not the judges decisions on the merits, but on the scope of relief, said Jessica Levinson, a Loyola Law School professor.

Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters at the White House that the administration is very confident that the high court will ultimately side with the administration on the merits of the case.

Questions and uncertainty swirl around next steps

The justices kicked the cases challenging the birthright citizenship policy back down to the lower courts, where judges will have to decide how to tailor their orders to comply with the new ruling. The executive order remains blocked for at least 30 days, giving lower courts and the parties time to sort out the next steps.

The Supreme Court's ruling leaves open the possibility that groups challenging the policy could still get nationwide relief through class-action lawsuits and seek certification as a nationwide class. Within hours after the ruling, two class-action suits had been filed in Maryland and New Hampshire seeking to block Trumps order.

But obtaining nationwide relief through a class action is difficult as courts have put up hurdles to doing so over the years, said Suzette Malveaux, a Washington and Lee University law school professor.

Its not the case that a class action is a sort of easy, breezy way of getting around this problem of not having nationwide relief, said Malveaux, who had urged the high court not to eliminate the nationwide injunctions.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who penned the court's dissenting opinion, urged the lower courts to act swiftly on such requests for relief and to adjudicate the cases as quickly as they can so as to enable this Courts prompt review" in cases challenging policies as blatantly unlawful and harmful as the Citizenship Order.

Opponents of Trump's order warned there would be a patchwork of polices across the states, leading to chaos and confusion without nationwide relief.

Birthright citizenship has been settled constitutional law for more than a century," said Krish OMara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Global Refuge, a nonprofit that supports refugees and migrants. By denying lower courts the ability to enforce that right uniformly, the Court has invited chaos, inequality, and fear.

Louisiana authorities captured on Friday one of the 10 men who escaped from a New Orleans jail six weeks ago and who police say released videos on social media while still on the run.

State police said Antoine Massey, 33, was taken into custody at a residence in New Orleans. Authorities had recently investigated social media posts by a man who identified himself as Massey and earlier this month raided a New Orleans home where they believed the videos were produced but did not find him.

Great work by all our law enforcement partners who have been working so hard for this outcome, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said. One more to go!

Authorities are still searching for convicted murderer Derrick Groves. Police previously captured the other eight escapees following the May 16 jailbreak, one of the largest in recent U.S. history. Authorities said the men yanked open a faulty cell door inside the New Orleans jail, squeezed through a hole behind a toilet, scaled a barbed-wire fence and fled into the dark.

The men's absence wasnt discovered until a morning headcount, hours after they bolted for freedom. Authorities found a message drawn around the hole the men used to escape: an arrow pointing at the gap and the words To Easy LoL.

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Officials have pointed to multiple security lapses in the jail, but authorities remain adamant that the men also had likely had help. A maintenance worker at the jail was arrested for allegedly helping the men escape by turning off the water to the toilet where the hole was cut behind. His lawyer says he has denied knowingly aiding them.

Massey, 33, faced charges of rape, kidnapping, domestic violence involving strangulation and violation of a protective order, authorities in nearby St. Tammany Parish said. In Orleans Parish, he faced charges of motor vehicle theft and domestic battery.

Murrill said Massey will face additional charges for his role in the escape.

A woman police identified as being in an on-again, off-again relationship with Massey was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice and as a principal to aggravated escape, court records show. Authorities said the woman knew of Masseys escape plans beforehand, communicated with him afterward and misled authorities.

U.S. stocks closed at an all-time high Friday, another milestone in the market's remarkable recovery from a springtime plunge caused by fears that the Trump administration's trade policies could harm the economy.

The S&P 500 rose 0.5%, finishing above its previous record set in February.

The market's complete turnaround from its deep swoon happened in about half the time that it normally takes, said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA.

Investors will breathe a sigh of relief, he said.

The Nasdaq composite gained 0.5% and set its own all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1%.

President Donald Trumps decision Friday to halt trade talks with Canada threatened to derail Wall Streets run to a record, but the market steadied.

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The gains on Friday were broad, with nearly every sector within the S&P 500 rising. Nike soared 15.2% for the biggest gain on the market, despite warning of a steep hit from tariffs.

The broader market has seemingly shaken off fears about the Israel-Iran war disrupting the global supply of crude oil and sending prices higher. A ceasefire between the two nations is still in place.

The price of crude oil in the U.S. is mostly unchanged on Friday. Prices have fallen back to pre-conflict levels.

Investors are also monitoring potential progress on trade conflicts between the U.S. and the world, specifically with China. The U.S. and China have signed a trade deal that will make it easier for American firms to obtain magnets and rare earth minerals from China that are critical to manufacturing and microchip production, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday.

Chinas Commerce Ministry also said that the two sides had further confirmed the details of the framework for their trade talks. But its statement did not explicitly mention an agreement to ensure U.S. access to rare earths, and instead said it will review and approve eligible export applications for controlled items.

An update on inflation Friday showed prices ticked higher in May, though the rate mostly matched economists' projections.

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Inflation remains a big concern for businesses and consumers. Trumps on-again-off-again tariff policy has made it difficult for companies to make forecasts. It has also put more pressure on consumers worried about already stubborn inflation. A long list of businesses from carmakers to retailers have warned that higher import taxes will likely hurt their revenues and profits.

The U.S. has 10% baseline tariffs on all imported goods, along with higher rates for Chinese goods and other import taxes on steel and autos. The economy and consumers have remained somewhat resilient under those tariffs, though analysts and economists expect to see the impact grow as import taxes continue to work their way through businesses to consumers.

While we also would have expected to already to be seeing a bit more pass through into the inflation statistics, we still expect these impacts to show up in a more meaningful way in the next few months, said Greg Wilensky, head of U.S. fixed income and portfolio manager at Janus Henderson.

The threat of more severe tariffs continues to hang over the economy. The current pause on a round of retaliatory tariffs against a long list of nations is set to expire in July. Failure to negotiate deals or further postpone the tariffs could once again rattle investors and consumers.

The Federal Reserve is monitoring the tariff situation with a big focus on inflation. The rate of inflation has been stubbornly sitting just above the central bank's target of 2%. In a report Friday, its preferred gauge, the personal consumption expenditures index, rose to 2.3% in May. That's up from 2.1% the previous month.

The Fed cut interest rates twice in late 2024 following a historic series of rate hikes to cool inflation. The PCE was as high as 7.2% in 2022 while the more commonly used consumer price index hit 9.1%.

The Fed hasn't cut rates so far in 2025 over worries that tariffs could reignite inflation and hamper the economy. Economists still expect at least two rate cuts before the end of the year.

Bond yields held relatively steady. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.27% from 4.24% late Thursday. The two-year Treasury yield, which more closely tracks expectations for what the Federal Reserve will do, edged up to 3.74% from late Thursday.

All told, the S&P 500 rose 32.05 points to 6,173.07. The Dow gained 432.43 points to 43,819.27, and the Nasdaq added 105.55 points to 20,273.46.

Stocks in Europe were mostly higher, while stocks in Asia finished mixed.

The president of the University of Virginia is resigning his position under pressure from the Justice Department, which had pushed for his departure amid scrutiny of the schools diversity, equity and inclusion practices, a person familiar with the matter said Friday.

The departure of James Ryan, who had led the school since 2018, represents a dramatic escalation in the Trump administrations effort to reshape higher education. Doing it at a public university marks a new frontier in a campaign that has almost exclusively targeted Ivy League schools. It also widens the rationale behind the governments aggressive tactics, focusing on DEI rather than alleged tolerance of antisemitism.

Ryan had faced conservative criticism that he failed to heed federal orders to eliminate DEI policies, and his removal was pushed by the Justice Department as a way to help resolve a department inquiry targeting the school, according to the person, who was not authorized to discuss the move by name and spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press.

The New York Times first reported on the resignation and the Justice Departments insistence on it. The Justice Department declined to comment Friday.

Ryans removal is another example of the Trump administration using thuggery instead of rational discourse, said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, which represents university presidents.

This is a dark day for the University of Virginia, a dark day for higher education, and it promises more of the same, Mitchell said. Its clear the administration is not done and will use every tool that it can make or invent to exert its will over higher education.

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Virginia's Democratic senators react

In a joint statement, Virginias Democratic senators said it was outrageous that the Trump administration would demand Ryans resignation over culture war traps. This is a mistake that hurts Virginias future, Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine said.

After campaigning on a promise to end wokeness in education, Trump signed a January action ordering the elimination of DEI programs and radical indoctrination across the nations schools and universities. The Education Department has opened investigations into dozens of colleges, arguing that diversity initiatives discriminate against white and Asian American students.

The response from schools has been scattered. Some have closed DEI offices, ended diversity scholarships and no longer require diversity statements as part of the hiring process. Some others have rebranded DEI work under other names, while some have held firm on diversity policies.

The University of Virginia became a flashpoint after conservative critics accused it of simply renaming its DEI initiatives. The schools governing body voted to shutter the DEI office in March and end diversity policies in admissions, hiring, financial aid and other areas. Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin celebrated the action, declaring that DEI is done at the University of Virginia.

Among those drawing attention to the Charlottesville campus was America First Legal, a conservative group founded by Trump aide Stephen Miller. In a May letter to the Justice Department, the group said the university failed to dismantle DEI programs and chose to rename, repackage, and redeploy the same unlawful infrastructure under a lexicon of euphemisms.

The group directly took aim at Ryan, noting that he joined hundreds of other college presidents in signing a public statement condemning the overreach and political interference of the Trump administration.

Ryan has been leading the school since 2018

Ryan was hired to lead the University of Virginia in 2018 and previously served as the dean of Harvard Universitys Graduate School of Education. Earlier in his career he spent more than a decade as a law professor at the University of Virginia. A biography on Harvards website credits Ryan with increasing the size, strength and diversity of the faculty, adding that building a diverse community was a priority.

Mitchell, of the presidents' association, described Ryan as a president who leaves education in Virginia better than when he arrived.

These have not been easy times, and he has balanced a lot of different constituent interests with delicacy, Mitchell said.

Until now, the White House had directed most of its attention at Harvard University and other elite institutions that Trump sees as bastions of liberalism. Harvard has lost more than $2.6 billion in federal research grants amid its battle with the government, which has also attempted to block the school from hosting foreign students and threatened to revoke its tax-exempt status.

Harvard and its $53 billion endowment are uniquely positioned to weather the governments financial pressure. Public universities, however, are far more dependent on taxpayer money and could be more vulnerable. The University of Virginias $10 billion endowment is among the largest for public universities, while the vast majority have far less.

The White House is taking a victory lap after the United States Supreme Court limited the scope of nationwide injunctions by lower courts.

In a statement in the White House Press Briefing Room Friday, President Donald Trump called the ruling a "monumental victory for the Constitution."

"Thanks to this decision, we can now properly file to proceed with these numerous policies and those that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis, including birthright citizenship, ending sanctuary city funding, suspending refugee resettlement, freezing unnecessary funding, stopping federal taxpayers from paying for transgender surgeries and numerous other priorities of the American people," he said.

Other administration figures hailed the decision.

"Under our system, everyone has to follow the lawincluding judges!" Vice President JD Vance wrote on social media.

Today, the Supreme Court instructed district courts to STOP the endless barrage of nationwide injunctions against President Trump, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote, saying the Justice Department would now continue to advance and defend President Trump's policy priorities.

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The decision stemmed from a case before the court involving President Trump's executive order to eliminate birthright citizenship.

The court did not rule on the constitutionality of President Trump's executive order. But the ruling effectively allows President Trump to begin enforcing his executive order, pending legal challenges at the lower court level. The court ruled by a 6-3 majority, with the court's three liberal judges in the minority.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a bill making it illegal to sell lab-grown meat in the state.

In 2023, the U.S. Department of Agriculture approved the countrys first lab-grown chicken, meat produced from chicken cells without harming or slaughtering the animals.

Supporters say lab-grown meat can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the risk of disease, pollution and the destruction of wild habitats.

But the concept of lab-produced meat has raised concerns among many policymakers. In Texas, where ranching is a major livelihood, officials worry about the potential impact on traditional industries.

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This ban is a massive win for Texas ranchers, producers, and consumers, said Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller. Texans have a God-given right to know whats on their plate, and for millions of Texans, it better come from a pasture, not a lab. Its plain cowboy logic that we must safeguard our real, authentic meat industry from synthetic alternatives.

Texas is not the first state to enact such a ban. Florida and Alabama have passed similar laws.

Violating the Texas law, which goes into effect in September, could result in a felony charge and/or a fine of up to $25,000.

President Donald Trump says the United States will suspend trade negotiations with Canada after Canada implemented a digital services tax on U.S. based companies.

Trump wrote on social media that because Canada has chosen to implement a tax on U.S.-based digital services, the U.S. would be ending trade discussion.

"Based on this egregious Tax, we are hereby terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately. We will let Canada know the Tariff that the will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven day period."

The 3% tax will apply to revenue that U.S. tech companies generate from Canadian users. It applies retroactively, meaning companies like Apple, Google and Netflix will owe Canada $2 billion for services already rendered through June.

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A White House official told Scripps News the decision aligned with policies set out in a memorandum from President Trump on February 21.

"My Administration will not allow American companies and workers and American economic and national security interests to be compromised by one-sided, anti-competitive policies and practices of foreign governments. American businesses will no longer prop up failed foreign economies through extortive fines and taxes," the memorandum reads.

Scripps News has reached out to the White House for further comment.

"Digital Services Taxes are designed to unfairly target U.S. tech companies punishing American innovation and costing our economy and companies tens of billions," Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote. "Why do countries think they can attack our technology companies and then turn around and try to take advantage of our 30 Trillion dollar economy?"

As summer temperatures rise, authorities are reminding parents not to leave children in hot cars.

In California, officers with the Corona Police Department broke a vehicle window last week to rescue a baby in distress. The department shared video of the incident on Facebook.

The footage shows an officer pulling the child from the backseat of the car after breaking the window and unlocking the door. Police said the temperature inside the vehicle had reached 110 degrees.

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No details about the childs parents or any potential charges have been released.

According to the National Safety Council, nine children have died so far this year after being left in hot cars. On average, 37 children under the age of 15 die each year from heatstroke in vehicles, the organization said.

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The Supreme Court preserved a key part of the Affordable Care Acts preventive health care coverage requirements on Friday, rejecting a challenge from Christian employers to the provision that affects some 150 million Americans.

The 6-3 ruling comes in a lawsuit over how the government decides which health care medications and services must be fully covered by private insurance under former President Barack Obamas signature law, often referred to as Obamacare.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the court's majority. Justice Clarence Thomas dissented, joined by Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch.

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The plaintiffs said the process is unconstitutional because a volunteer board of medical experts tasked with recommending which services are covered is not Senate approved.

President Donald Trump's administration defended the mandate before the court, though the Republican president has been a critic of his Democratic predecessor's law. The Justice Department said board members dont need Senate approval because they can be removed by the health and human services secretary.

Medications and services that could have been affected include statins to lower cholesterol, lung cancer screenings, HIV-prevention drugs and medication to lower the chance of breast cancer for women.

The case came before the Supreme Court after an appeals court struck down some preventive care coverage requirements. The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Christian employers and Texas residents who argued they cant be forced to provide full insurance coverage for things like medication to prevent HIV and some cancer screenings.

Well-known conservative attorney Jonathan Mitchell, who represented Trump before the high court in a dispute about whether he could appear on the 2024 ballot, argued the case.

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The appeals court found that coverage requirements were unconstitutional because they came from a body the United States Preventive Services Task Force whose members were not nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate.

A 2023 analysis prepared by the nonprofit KFF found that ruling would still allow full-coverage requirements for some services, including mammography and cervical cancer screening.

The Supreme Court upheld a Texas law requiring age verification for access to online pornography.

In a 63 decision, the justices ruled that the interest in protecting children online outweighed the potential burdens placed on adult websites and their users. The majority opinion emphasized that the law targets commercial distributors of explicit content and does not ban access.

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The law, championed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, requires adult-content websites to implement an age verification system to prevent minors from viewing sexually explicit material. Supporters argued that the measure is essential to shield children from age-inappropriate content.

But free speech advocates and members of the adult entertainment industry challenged the law, insisting it is too broad and infringes on the First Amendment rights of adults. The group also raised concerns about privacy, warning that requiring users to submit personal identification online opens the door to data breaches and surveillance.

Lower courts had issued split rulings, setting the stage for the high court to decide on the constitutionality of the law.

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The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Maryland parents may opt their children out of lessons involving LGBTQ-inclusive storybooks, saying the school districts policy likely violates their religious rights.

The decision came in a closely watched case involving Montgomery County Public Schools, which introduced the books in 2022 to reflect its diverse student body, but it could have wider implications.

A group of parents sued after the district rescinded a previous policy that had allowed opt-outs. The school board said the exemption created disruptions and was difficult to implement consistently.

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The parents, backed by religious liberty groups, argued the school boards refusal to allow opt-outs forced their children to participate in lessons that contradicted their faith, violating the First Amendment.

School officials and civil rights advocates countered that the books are not religious instruction and that allowing opt-outs could erode efforts to create inclusive school environments.

Lower courts had sided with the school district.

But in reversing those decisions and granting a preliminary injunction, the justices ordered the district to notify parents when the books are used and to let them excuse their children from those lessons while the case continues.

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A mother and her two young kids are fighting for their release from a Texas immigration detention center in what is believed to be the first lawsuit involving children challenging the Trump administration's policy on immigrant arrests at courthouses.

The lawsuit filed Tuesday argues that the family's arrests after fleeing Honduras and entering the U.S. legally using a Biden-era appointment app violate their Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizure and their Fifth Amendment right to due process.

The big picture is that the executive branch cannot seize people, arrest people, detain people indefinitely when they are complying with exactly what our government has required of them, said Columbia Law School professor Elora Mukherjee, one of the lawyers representing the family.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.

Starting in May, the country has seen large-scale arrests in which asylum-seekers appearing at routine court hearings have been arrested outside courtrooms as part of the White Houses mass deportation effort. In many cases, a judge will grant a government lawyers request to dismiss deportation proceedings and then U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will arrest the person and place them on expedited removal," a fast track to deportation.

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Mukherjee said this is the first lawsuit filed on behalf of children to challenge the ICE courthouse arrest policy. The government has until July 1 to respond.

There have been other similar lawsuits, including in New York, where a federal judge ruled earlier this month that federal immigration authorities cant make civil arrests at the state's courthouses or arrest anyone going there for a proceeding.

The Texas lawsuit was filed using initials for the children and Ms. Z for the mother. Their identities have not been released because of concerns for their safety.

For weeks in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the mother has watched her 6-year-old son's health decline, Mukherjee said. He recently underwent chemotherapy treatment for leukemia and because of his arrest, missed his check-in doctors appointment, Mukherjee said.

Hes easily bruising. He has bone pain. He looks pale," Mukherjee said, adding that he has also lost his appetite. "His mom is terrified that these are symptoms that his leukemia situation might be deteriorating.

The mother, son and 9-year-old daughter fled Honduras in October 2024 due to death threats, according to the lawsuit. They entered the U.S. using the CBP One app and were paroled into the country by the Department of Homeland Security, which determined they didnt pose a danger to the community, Mukherjee said. They were told to appear at a Los Angeles immigration court May 29.

President Donald Trump ended CBP One for new entrants on his first day in office after more than 900,000 people had been allowed in the country using the app since it was expanded to include migrants in January 2023.

During the family's hearing, the mother tried to tell the judge that they wished to continue their cases for asylum, Mukherjee said. Homeland Security moved to dismiss their cases, and the judge immediately granted that motion.

When they stepped out of the courtroom, they found men in civilian clothing believed to be ICE agents who arrested the family, Mukherjee said. They spent about 11 hours at an immigrant processing center in Los Angeles and were each only given an apple, a small packet of cookies, a juice box and water.

At one point, an officer near the boy lifted his shirt, revealing his gun. The boy urinated on himself and was left in wet clothing until the next morning, Mukherjee said.

They were later taken to the processing center, where they have been held ever since.

The family is suffering in this immigration detention center, she said. The kids are crying every night. Theyre praying to God for their release from this detention center."

Their lawyers have filed an appeal of the immigration judge's May decision, but they're at risk of being deported within days because the government says they are subjected to expedited removal, Mukherjee said.

The arrests of the family were illegal and unjustified, said Kate Gibson Kumar, an attorney for the Texas Civil Rights project who is also representing the family.

The essential question in our case is, when you have these families who are doing everything right, especially with young children, should there be some protection there?" Gibson Kumar said. "We say yes.'