The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are U.S. citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment, striking down President Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship as unconstitutional.

Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Samuel Alito dissented. Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurred in part and dissented in part.

Just earlier, NPR released a story claiming that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. However, no such release was issued by the court and the story has since been taken down in what may have been a misfired story.

Initial reports of a HAZMAT Incident involving a currently unknown hazardous material in Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania, prompted by a train derailment near the area of Neshaminy Falls Train Station, with police, fire and rescue services responding and residents asked to shelter-in-place between Brownsville Road and Old Lincoln Highway.

Igor Girkin, a former officer with the Russian Army who played a key role in Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and who was later tried and imprisoned for his public views against Vladimir Putin’s ongoing strategy in Ukraine, has said in a post to Telegram from his prison cell, that Ukraine’s recent large-scale drone campaign against energy, industry, logistics, and military targets in Russian-occupied Crimea is the “setting the stage” for Ukrainian amphibious and ground operations aimed at recapturing Crimea.

A federal judge has again ruled against the Pentagon in its dispute with The New York Times over media access.

After the court previously struck down restrictions on Pentagon press credentials, the Defense Department imposed a new policy requiring reporters to be escorted at all times. The judge ruled the Times is likely to succeed on its First Amendment challenge and blocked enforcement of the escort requirement while the case proceeds.

As a right-wing wave appears to be sweeping across Latin and South America, Brazil appears to be one of the lone countries holding strong on the side of the left, with traders on Polymarket predicting by a chance of 56% that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will handedly win the upcoming Presidential Election against Flávio Bolsonaro.

The U.S. Marine Corps announced Monday that 21-year-old Lance Cpl. Armando Ortiz Canseco of Minnesota, a Marine serving with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (13th MEU) onboard the a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS Anchorage (LPD-23), had been declared dead, after going missing from the vessel last Thursday during training off the coast of Southern California.

A Royal Canadian Navy Sailor salutes the Iowa-class battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) from the deck of the Halifax-class frigate HMCS Regina (FFH-334), as the ship arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii for RIMPAC 2026, June 24, 2026.

U.S. Navy San Antonio class amphibious transport dock USS Arlington (LPD-24) was greeted by New York's Finest when it arrived earlier today to participate in the International Naval Review in New York City July 3rd-8th.