SCOTUS divided over birthright citizenship. And, a recap of Diddy's trial

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The U.S. Supreme Court appeared to beryllium astatine slightest partially divided yesterday arsenic the justices heard arguments implicit birthright citizenship. For implicit 2 hours, they debated however the little courts should handle President Trump's enforcement declaring that children calved successful the U.S. to parents who entered the U.S. illegally oregon connected a impermanent visa are not entitled to automatic citizenship. Lower courts recovered the president's bid to beryllium unconstitutional.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday successful a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's effort to bounds who gets birthright citizenship. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption

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• 🎧 Solicitor General D. John Sauer opened by stating that the 14th Amendment has been wrongly interpreted for 127 years and lone applied to erstwhile slaves, NPR's Nina Totenberg tells Up First. When Sauer was asked whether the medication is committed to abiding by immoderate tribunal ruling, helium said, "There are circumstances erstwhile it is not a categorical practice." Justice Brett Kavanaugh pressed Sauer with a bid of applicable questions, including, "What bash states bash with a newborn?" Sauer responded by stating that the national authorities could necessitate documentation connected whether the parents are legally successful the country. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said Sauer's statement turns the justness strategy into a "catch maine if you tin benignant of regime."

President Trump is headed backmost to Washington, D.C., contiguous aft his four-day travel done the Persian Gulf region. During his visit, helium struck concern deals and was treated similar royalty by the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

• 🎧 NPR's Franco Ordoñez, who is successful Abu Dhabi, says helium was struck by not only the melodramatic amusement of pulling retired each the stops for Trump but besides however small treatment determination was astir the situation successful Gaza. Israel escalated its strikes against Gaza and vowed a large violative erstwhile Trump leaves. Trump stated during his large code connected the travel that his medication was not determination to lecture the portion connected however to woody with its affairs. Yesterday, Trump again suggested that the U.S. instrumentality implicit Gaza and make the country a state zone. Ordoñez says the conception is thing Arab nations person powerfully opposed.
• ➡️ Yesterday, successful Abu Dhabi, Trump visited a mosque. It was his archetypal publically known sojourn to a Muslim location of worship during his clip successful office. Check retired the photos from his time astatine Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque.

The archetypal week of hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs' enactment trafficking proceedings featured grounds by witnesses and alleged victims. His ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura testified that their narration was marked by unit and blackmail. Prosecutors allege Combs forced 2 ex-girlfriends into drug-fueled intersexual performances and ran a transgression endeavor that concealed those enactment crimes.

• 🎧 Ventura testified that Combs demanded she enactment successful intersexual encounters with antheral escorts, which helium would choreograph and watch. He would allegedly grounds the encounters and blackmail her with the videos, NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento says. Ventura stated that Combs had a batch of powerfulness implicit her professionally, financially, emotionally and physically, and helium would coerce her into enactment she didn't privation to beryllium a portion of. The defence says Combs didn't coerce oregon postulation anyone and had Ventura work loving and caring substance messages with him implicit the years. The defence is attempting to found grounds for consent.

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Weekend picks

Chloë Sevigny leads a wayward American TV unit successful agrarian Argentina successful Amalia Ulman's latest diagnostic film, Magic Farm. Courtesy of Magic Farm hide caption

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Check retired what NPR is watching, speechmaking and listening to this weekend:

🍿 Movies: Amalia Ulman's movie Magic Farm portrays a New York-based documentary unit that is successful pursuit of a viral story. However, owed to a bid of misunderstandings, they find themselves successful the incorrect municipality successful the incorrect country. Morning Edition big A Martínez spoke with Ulman astir her imaginativeness for the film.

📺 TV: Apple TV+'s Murderbot, which debuts contiguous and stars Alexander Skarsgård, walks a good enactment betwixt the darkest drama and subject fabrication action. NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans says the amusement deserves a large audience.

📚 Books: Six caller books by beloved authors were released this week, including a memoir by humorist Dave Barry, a biography of Mark Twain by Ron Chernow, and essays by Richard Russo.

🎵 Music: Tomorrow is the expansive finale of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest, a solemnisation of melody, bushed and fabulousness. Pop Culture Happy Hour big Glen Weldon breaks down his 10 favourite songs from the contention and what helium believes are their chances of winning.

🎭 Theater: The Detroit Opera is staging The Central Park Five until this Sunday. It tells the existent communicative of a radical of Black and brownish teenagers who were wrongfully charged and imprisoned for the brutal battle connected a pistillate jogger successful New York's Central Park successful 1989.

❓ Quiz: Scoring 9 retired of 11 isn't that bad. I tin present clasp my caput precocious for the remainder of the day. Now, it's your crook to test your luck.

3 things to cognize earlier you go

A transcript of the 1300 mentation of the Magna Carta connected show astatine the Harvard Law School. Lorin Granger/Harvard Law School hide caption

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Lorin Granger/Harvard Law School

1. Nearly 80 years aft Harvard University purchased what it thought was an aged transcript of the Magna Carta, it has been identified arsenic the existent deal, dating backmost to 1300.
2. Dick's Sporting Goods, the U.S.' largest sports retail chain, plans to get Foot Locker for astir $2.4 billion.
3. Legendary Motown vocalist Smokey Robinson is under transgression investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department pursuing allegations of aggregate intersexual assaults dating backmost to 2014.

This newsletter was edited by Suzanne Nuyen.