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Birthright citizenship fight, Russia-Ukraine peace talks, mass shooting plot & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship is going to the Supreme Court today. It’s still unclear who will be at today's scheduled peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey. Trump is heading to the United Arab Emirates for the final leg of his Middle East tour. Americans are changing their spending habits because of economic uncertainty. And, a Michigan man has been arrested over an alleged mass shooting plot at an army base. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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From CNN, I'm Charlie Drever with the five things you need to know for Thursday, May 15th.

0:38.7

The Supreme Court will hear arguments today on President Donald Trump's plans to end birthright citizenship.

0:45.8

But they're not expected to weigh in on whether it's constitutional for Trump to deny passports and other documents to babies born in America if their parents aren't

0:54.8

U.S. citizens.

0:56.6

CNN's Paula Reid has the details.

0:59.0

Instead, it appears that they're going to weigh in on this question of nationwide injunction,

1:03.6

so whether one judge can block a policy for the entire country.

1:08.1

This is something that has vexed presidents across multiple administrations, but this is going to be the entire country. This is something that has vexed presidents and across multiple administrations.

1:13.3

But this is going to be the first time that the Trump administration has a full argument in front of this conservative supermajority.

1:20.6

And look, Trump's lawyers have been telling me since day one, they're confident that if they can get these policies, these questions before this court, they will win, even though these policies have been so often blocked by lower court judges. So this is going to be

1:32.9

really the first big test for the second Trump administration in front of this Supreme Court.

1:38.6

Russia and Ukraine are set to hold direct peace talks in Turkey today, but it's unclear who

1:46.0

will actually be there.

1:48.0

The talks were first proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in response to the ceasefire

1:53.2

or sanctions ultimatum given to Moscow by Ukraine's European allies on Saturday.

1:59.3

But Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy has raised the stakes

2:02.7

by announcing he would travel to Turkey himself and called on Putin to do the same.

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