A federal judge in Maryland issued a preliminary injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s latest executive order limiting birthright citizenship. The judge cited an earlier Supreme Court ruling that children covered by the order are citizens at birth. The injunction prevents the restrictions from taking effect while the case proceeds.
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A federal judge ordered Google to rework the system underlying its digital-advertising monopoly but rejected the Justice Department’s request to break up the business. The remedies remained temporarily under seal, leaving the specific required changes and their timing unclear.
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The Justice Department told states that accepting federal TANF or Supplemental Security Income funds obliges their entire governments—not only the agencies administering those benefits—to report people known to lack lawful immigration status to federal authorities.
A U.N. Environment Programme report concluded that global temperatures will exceed the Paris Agreement’s 1.5-degree Celsius threshold within the next few years. It outlined a strategy of limiting how far and how long temperatures overshoot the threshold, then bringing them back below it.
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