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President Trump is once again trying to reshape who qualifies as an American at birth — this time by targeting the parents rather than the children. The Supreme Court ruled in June that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to nearly everyone born on U.S. soil. Trump’s answer: two orders that go after the parents instead,…

Perez Hilton’s livestream got flagged the second it started. The video kept playing for 15 minutes because a moderator missed the call, and screenshots from it are still floating around online. TikTok’s automated system caught Perez Hilton’s self-harm livestream and alerted its American moderation team right away Tuesday night, but a “moderator error” left the…

A Senate committee led by Rand Paul has voted to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress, escalating a years-long clash over how the former public health official ran the country’s Covid response. The committee’s vote asks the Justice Department to take Fauci’s case from here. At 85, Fauci now faces a referral that puts…

A November ballot measure could upend how Colorado taxes income, trading its long-standing flat rate for a tiered system that targets the state’s highest earners. Colorado’s flat 4.4% income tax helped pull businesses and young workers into the state for two decades. A November ballot measure would swap it for six brackets topping out at…

A Wisconsin brewery has floated an unusual promotion tied to the death of Senate Republican Mitch McConnell: 50% off beer the day he dies. The owner says the discount is no accident. He claims McConnell is “responsible for AT LEAST 50% of what’s currently wrong with America,” so the size of the markdown is meant…

Zohran Mamdani’s appearance at a Staten Island police event was over almost before it began, cut short by a wave of jeers from the crowd. He came to celebrate with cops at a Staten Island crowd 3,500 strong. He got out one line, “Happy Night Out Against Crime,” and the jeers ran him off before…

MyPillow founder Mike Lindell is trading the executive suite for the campaign trail, announcing he will leave the company he built to make a run for governor of Minnesota. He’s handing off the pillow empire he built in 2004 and cutting his stake to a minority, all to chase a job he doesn’t have yet.…

Kamala Harris used a recent Urban League appearance to press Democrats to take a more aggressive posture against Republicans, laying out a specific set of ideas for what a tougher approach would look like. “They are ruthless. We need to be ruthless, too,” Harris told the crowd, framing the fight ahead in blunt terms. She…

The gap between what the polls promised and what the ballots delivered in Michigan has left election forecasters scrambling for an explanation. Seven different pollsters showed Abdul El-Sayed with a double-digit lead. He won by less than a single point. The people whose job is reading elections are still trying to explain how they got…

A federal court has dealt the Environmental Protection Agency a setback in its bid to claw back billions in clean energy funding, and the agency may take the fight to the nation’s highest court. A court just told the EPA it can’t yank back $20 billion in clean energy grants that were already sitting in…

A Florida restaurant is offering a fine-dining experience with an unusual dress code — or lack of one. For a set price, guests can enjoy a five-star steak dinner completely nude. The event takes place in Hollywood, Florida, and costs $250 for men and $150 for women. The rule that keeps it all legal is…

The United States has depleted nearly its entire supply of long-range precision missiles during its fight with Iran, and replacing them won’t come cheap. The US has burned through “virtually all” of its long-range precision missiles fighting Iran, and each one costs more than $1 million. The stockpile took five months of war with Iran…

Immigration enforcement is reaching further into everyday travel, with agents now detaining people directly at airport gates during what was the agency’s busiest month on record. Some of the people ICE detained at airport gates in July had valid work permits and no criminal record, according to an immigration attorney. Federal agents pulled more than…

Natasha Ward was a 21-year-old middle-distance runner whose promise on the track was matched by a reputation for quiet kindness off it. Her death has been mourned by the running community she had spent years building her career within. Ward won UniSport National bronze in the 800m this April. She died at 21. She medalled…