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The 7
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
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Wednesday, September 3. The seven stories you need to know today.
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump was blocked from using a wartime law to deport migrants. |
| 0:07.7 | That's where we're starting The Seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Wednesday, September 3rd. |
| 0:15.3 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:20.7 | The Alien Enemies Act is a law from 1798. |
| 0:25.6 | Trump invoked it this year to swiftly deport Venezuelan migrants without a hearing. |
| 0:31.6 | But yesterday, a three-judge federal panel said that Trump had used it unlawfully. |
| 0:39.9 | They said that the presence of a Venezuelan-based gang in the U.S. did not amount to a predatory incursion. That's the language lawmakers |
| 0:47.3 | used when they drafted the statute allowing fast-tracked deportations hundreds of years ago. The issue will probably now head to the Supreme Court. |
| 0:57.9 | That wasn't the only ruling against Trump yesterday. |
| 1:01.6 | A federal judge in San Francisco ruled that Trump's use of the National Guard in Los Angeles |
| 1:07.1 | earlier this year was illegal. |
| 1:09.8 | It came as Trump said he'll send troops to Chicago, |
| 1:13.3 | and as federal officers are appearing likely to stick around in Washington, D.C. President Trump |
| 1:22.3 | said he'll move U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama. That's number two. |
| 1:30.2 | Ever since Trump reestablished Space Command in 2019, there has been a battle over where the |
| 1:36.7 | agency's permanent home would be. The president's Oval Office announcement yesterday marked |
| 1:42.7 | the latest twist. |
| 1:47.8 | Trump said the command will be based in Huntsville, Alabama. |
| 1:50.5 | NASA has a big flight center there. |
| 1:57.5 | The latest reversal in the agency's location caps an intense lobbying campaign from Alabama lawmakers. |
| 2:03.7 | Meanwhile, in the same Oval Office appearance, Trump dismissed rumors about his health. |
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