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🗓️ 1 September 2025
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A judge Sunday issued a restraining order blocking the Trump administration from deporting 10 unaccompanied migrant Guatemalan children.
President Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order mandating a voter ID requirement.
USA TODAY Government Accountability Reporter Erin Mansfield talks about the popularity of mail-in voting, even as Trump wants to eliminate it.
At least hundreds are dead after a devastating earthquake in Afghanistan.
USA TODAY Personal Finance Reporter Daniel de Visé looks back on a 2010 pledge by billionaires to give away half their wealth. Are they actually doing it?
It's Kind Time! Hear about a golden retriever with a heart of an angel, and her military veteran owner Kevin. Plus, find more from USA TODAY's HumanKind here.
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0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Monday Labor Day, September 1st, 2025. |
0:10.4 | This is USA Today's the X-Rute. |
0:15.3 | Today, a judge has blocked the government from deporting several unaccompanied migrant Guatemalan children. |
0:20.7 | Plus, Trump says he will |
0:21.5 | sign an executive order mandating a voter ID requirement and are billionaires holding on to a giving pledge. |
0:29.2 | A federal judge yesterday issued a restraining order blocking the Trump administration from deporting |
0:34.4 | 10 unaccompanied migrant Guatemalan children and potentially hundreds more in federal custody. |
0:40.2 | Move stops deportations of the children aged 10 to 17 for two weeks after the National Immigration Law Center filed an emergency request. |
0:48.2 | Migrant children who arrive in the United States without a parent or guardian are classified as unaccompanied minors and sent to a shelter managed by the Office of Refugee Resettlement until they can be placed with a family member or foster home, a process outlined in federal law. |
1:02.6 | The lawsuit argued that the administration's plan to expel the children violates protections under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, a federal legislation passed in 2008. |
1:12.6 | Stephen Miller, the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security, |
1:16.6 | and an architect of President Donald Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown condemned the decision. |
1:21.6 | Earlier this year, the Trump administration canceled a $200 million legal representation contract for 26,000 children who crossed the U.S. |
1:30.8 | border as unaccompanied minors. |
1:36.5 | President Trump said he will issue an executive order mandating identification for every voter, an announcement that follows his move in March, requiring proof of citizenship |
1:45.0 | in federal elections and baseless claims of voter fraud to argue the 2020 presidential election |
1:50.7 | was stolen from him. On Truth Social, he also said no mail-in voting, except for those that are |
1:55.8 | very ill in the faraway military. That follows previous comments from Trump that he wants to eliminate mail |
2:01.1 | in voting, but a huge portion of Americans vote by mail these days. I spoke with USA today, |
2:05.9 | government accountability reporter Aaron Mansfield for more. Aaron, thanks for wrapping on. |
2:10.6 | Thanks so much for having me. So we know some fresh comments from Trump on the mail and voting |
2:15.2 | topic over the weekend. What did we hear from him earlier in August on the mail-in voting from? |
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