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Every afternoon on NPR's Consider this, we go deep on one big story this week. A college professor fed up with students using AI, set a trap to prove if they were.
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Rylan Barton
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. The Supreme Court today said it will take up the Trump administration's efforts effort to restrict birthright citizenship. NPR's Martin Costi reports the high court could upend more than a century's tradition of automatic citizenship for people born on US Soil.
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Martin Costi
On his first day back in office, President Trump signed an order withholding citizenship from babies born to non US Citizens in the country illegally or on a temporary visa. The White House says such situations should not be covered by the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to people born in the country. Ohio state law professor Cesar Huatema Garcia Hernandez says it's a momentous case, one.
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Cesar Huatema Garcia Hernandez
That has ramifications that are hard to fathom to rewrite the way in which citizenship has been conceived of for several generations.
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Martin Costi
So far, lower courts have disagreed with Trump's stance and blocked implementation of his order. Martin Costi, NPR News.
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Rylan Barton
Netflix has struck a deal to buy Warner Brothers Discovery, the Hollywood giant behind Harry Potter and HBO Max. The 72 billion doll dollar deal would bring together two of the biggest players in television and film and potentially reshape the entertainment industry. The merger would put two of the world's biggest streaming services under the same ownership. But as NPR's David Folkenflake reports, it still needs to be approved by regulators.
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NPR Correspondent
This will trigger an extraordinary degree of scrutiny in Washington, even in Donald Trump's Washington, and that's because both on the merits, this would be an extraordinary consolidation of like minded properties. There are ways in which you can interpret that more narrowly, but nonetheless, on its face, it would seem to invite a strict and lengthy level of antitrust review.
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Rylan Barton
NPR's David Folkenflick reporting. A new report from the Commerce Department shows inflation remained stubbornly high in September. But as NPR's Scott Horsley reports, that's not expected to stop the Federal Reserve from cutting interest rates next week.
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Scott Horsley
The Commerce Department's inflation yardstick, which is closely watched by the Fed, shows prices in September were up 2.8% from a year year ago. That's a slightly larger annual increase than the previous month. But core inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, was slightly lower than in August. Investors think the Fed is more concerned about weakness in the job market than rising prices right now. So policymakers are expected to lower their benchmark interest rate by another quarter percentage point next week. A survey by the University of Michigan shows consumers are feeling slightly better about the economic outlook than they were a month ago, but sentiment is still pretty gloomy compared to this time last year. Scott Horsley, NPR News, Washington.
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Rylan Barton
The US Stock market rose to the edge of its all time high today. The S&P 500 added a tenth of a percent. The Dow added 0.2%, and the Nasdaq gained three tenths of a percent. You are listening to NPR News from Washington.
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France is investigating an illegal drone flight over the Atlantic coast base of for France's nuclear armed submarines. From France's defense minister says troops intercepted an overflight but didn't specify how. The identity and the motives of the remote pilots is unclear. A number of EU countries have recently reported mysterious drone flights. Russia has been blamed for several airspace violations. Worldwide, the number of children who die before they reach their fifth birthday is expected to go up in 2025, the first increase this century. NPR's Gabriela Emmanuel has more.
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Gabriela Emmanuel
Between 2000 and 2020, the number of young kids dying was cut in half. Today, it's under 5 million kids. While it's too early for exact death counts for 2025, new forecasts from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington suggest this year child deaths will increase by 200,000. Steve Lim is one of the researchers. He says these deaths are the result of foreign aid being cut by a quarter as countries like the U.S. the UK and France shift priorities.
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Steve Lim
So as you can imagine, such large cuts will have substantial consequences on health services.
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Gabriela Emmanuel
He says low income countries in sub Saharan Africa are the hardest hit. Gabriela Emanuel, NPR News.
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Rylan Barton
FIFA has created a new peace prize and awarded it to President Trump. FIFA President Gianni Infantino is an ally of Trump. He said he thought Trump should have won the Nobel Priest Peace Prize this year for his efforts to broker a ceasefire in Gaza. This is npr.
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