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The high court ruled 5-4 that President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship violates the 14th Amendment, preserving automatic citizenship for nearly anyone born on US soil. Trump called the outcome "too bad" but said it hands Congress a clear legislative path, urging lawmakers to end birthright citizenship through a bill with his "Complete and Total Support."
In the same session, the justices sided with Idaho and West Virginia, upholding their bans on transgender athletes in women's sports. The court also struck down federal limits on how much a political party can spend in coordination with its candidates, a ruling Trump cheered as "A BIG WIN FOR REPUBLICANS" and the First Amendment.
Hazmat crews rushed to a freight train derailment Tuesday afternoon near the Neshaminy Falls station in Bensalem, with between five and ten cars off the tracks. Officials urged nearby residents to stay away and shelter in place while they worked to identify what cargo the cars were carrying. No injuries had been reported as of early reporting.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned retailers to pass along savings and drop pump prices, with the national average slipping below $3.85 a gallon. The pressure comes even as crude rebounded Tuesday, with Brent up over one percent and WTI nearly two percent on lingering Strait of Hormuz jitters.
As technical talks opened in Doha, Tehran asserted that only Iran has the capability to demine the Strait of Hormuz, a claim that hands it fresh leverage over the world's busiest oil corridor. Shipping traffic is rebounding after weekend attacks, but Washington and Tehran remain far apart on Hormuz and nearly everything else.
Shops, offices and public spaces closed across South Africa on Tuesday as residents braced for protests tied to an unofficial June 30 ultimatum for undocumented foreigners to leave. The campaign, pushed by the vigilante group Operation Dudula, follows weeks of unrest that has left four dead and prompted Nigeria, Malawi and others to arrange repatriation flights.
A parcel bomb packed with bolts and buckshot exploded in a Monaco residential lobby, wounding at least three people, including sanctioned Ukrainian tycoon Vadym Iermolaiev. CCTV captured a suspect placing a backpack before fleeing on foot toward France; authorities say they have ruled out terrorism for now and the manhunt continues.
Archaeologists working the Panhesy tomb site in Heliopolis turned up gold earrings, scarabs and cosmetic artifacts, including alabaster and black-obsidian kohl containers still bearing traces of ancient eye makeup. Officials called it the first nearly complete funerary assemblage ever found in the area, linked to a city named in the Book of Genesis.
With UAP fervor building, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said Washington should drop the suspense and put any evidence on the table, arguing the public can handle the truth. The challenge lands as the Pentagon's anomaly office preps another batch of declassified case files following releases earlier this year.
A passenger known only as "Anthony" turned a $10 bet into a $3.3 million payout on a Wheel of Fortune slot machine in the C Gates of Harry Reid International Airport. It's the latest in a string of seven-figure terminal jackpots at the airport, where you can apparently strike it rich before you even reach your gate.
