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🗓️ 5 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton. |
| 0:04.0 | The Supreme Court today said it will take up the Trump administration's effort to restrict birthright citizenship. |
| 0:10.6 | NPR's Martin Costi reports the High Court could upend more than a century's tradition of automatic citizenship for people born on U.S. soil. |
| 0:18.6 | On his first day back in office, President Trump signed an order withholding citizenship |
| 0:22.7 | from babies born to non-U.S. citizens in the country illegally or on a temporary visa. |
| 0:28.7 | The White House says such situations should not be covered by the 14th Amendment, |
| 0:32.6 | which grants citizenship to people born in the country. |
| 0:36.1 | Ohio State law professor Sazar Huatema Garcia Hernandez |
| 0:39.2 | says it's a momentous case. One that has ramifications that are hard to fathom to rewrite |
| 0:47.2 | the way in which citizenship has been conceived of for several generations. |
| 0:55.9 | So far, lower courts have disagreed with Trump's stance and blocked implementation of his order. |
| 1:01.6 | Martin Costi and PR News. |
| 1:03.3 | Netflix has struck a deal to buy Warner Brothers Discovery, the Hollywood giant behind Harry Potter and HBO Max. |
| 1:10.5 | The $72 billion deal would bring together two of the biggest players in television and film and potentially reshape the entertainment industry. |
| 1:18.0 | The merger would put two of the world's biggest streaming services under the same ownership. |
| 1:22.1 | But as NPR's David Fulkenflick reports, it still needs to be approved by regulators. |
| 1:26.4 | This will trigger an extraordinary degree of scrutiny in Washington, even in Donald Trump's |
| 1:31.0 | Washington. |
| 1:32.0 | And that's because both on the merits, this would be an extraordinary consolidation of like-minded |
| 1:37.7 | properties. |
| 1:39.6 | There are ways in which you can interpret that more narrowly. |
| 1:42.2 | But nonetheless, on its face, it would seem to |
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