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US Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical of President Donald Trump’s efforts to end automatic birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants or temporary residents. Trump signed the sweeping executive order on his first day back in the White House, aiming to unwind a cornerstone of US immigration law with implications ...

A crew of astronauts — three Americans and one Canadian — prepared to journey around the Moon for the first time in 50 years on Wednesday, traveling the furthest ever from Earth and heralding a new era of space competition. The much-delayed Artemis II mission comes 53 years after NASA’s ...

SpaceX on Wednesday filed confidentially to go public, according to reports, setting up what could be the largest IPO ever. The Elon Musk-founded rocket and satellite maker is aiming to hit the stock market in June, with the goal of raising $50-75 billion from going public, per The New York ...

US regulators on Wednesday approved Eli Lilly’s GLP-1 pill for sale in the country, opening up a new phase in weight-loss medication. The drug, which will be sold under the brand name Foundayo, will compete with the pill version of Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy, approved in December. But Lilly’s pill is ...

A new AI-powered tool is helping track restitution work underway across Africa. Launched this week by pan-African research organization Open Restitution Africa, the platform helps to collate and narrativize the often-fragmented research and bureaucracy involved in the return of artifacts to Africa, many of which were stolen by Europeans during ...

War in the Middle East could cost Africa as much as 1.5 percentage points of growth this year, the African Development Bank said. A scenario in which the conflict stretched for six months would hurt the continent’s already fragile prospects and expose fiscal constraints on economies struggling to fund basic ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa launched a nearly $200 billion investment drive aimed at accelerating economic recovery and industrialization in the face of growing worry over the impact of the Iran war on the continent’s biggest economy. For more than a decade, South Africa’s economy has barely grown, leaving it ...

David’s view The murals went up in Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Fort Lauderdale before Democrats finally took notice. In September, weeks after the fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail train, Elon Musk joined a crowdfunded campaign to paint murals of her ...

The News GOFFSTOWN, N.H. — Rahm Emanuel took the stage at his first New Hampshire town hall, and the land acknowledgement began. “We also want to acknowledge that this land is part of the ancestral homeland of the Abenaki people and the Wabanaki Confederacy, whose connection to this place continues ...

Brent crude fell below $100 a barrel while Asian and European stock markets rose after US President Donald Trump said the war in Iran could end in “two or three weeks.” Trump — who is due to deliver a national address later today — said that “we have had regime ...