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- Supreme Court mulls power of courts to block presidential actions in birthright citizenship case
- World Health Organization says life expectancy dropped by nearly 2 years under Covid-19 pandemic, warns without urgent action 8 million kids could die by 2030
- EPA chief Zelden defends plans to slash agency budget, eliminate grants to states
- Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream co-founder Ben Cohen arrested for protest at senate hearing, chants “Congress kills poor kids in Gaza by buying bombs and pays for it by kicking kids off Medicaid”
- Scholar identifies rare copy of 13th century Magna Carta at Harvard, says “it asserts fundamental principle that the ruler is subject to the law”
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