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US loses perfect credit rating, tornado forecast, New Orleans prison break & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

News, Daily News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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The Supreme Court has delivered a blow to the Trump administration’s immigration agenda. The US lost its last perfect credit rating, while consumer confidence has plummeted amid President Donald Trump’s tariff war. Cassie Ventura’s has finished testifying in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ federal criminal. We’ll tell you where the Midwestern storms are headed. Plus, how ten inmates broke out of a New Orleans prison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey, from CNN, I'm Josh and Sharna, with the five things you need to know for Friday, May 16th.

0:42.3

The Supreme Court issued a temporary blow to President Donald Trump's immigration agenda today. In a 7-2 decision, the justices blocked the administration from moving forward with deporting a group of immigrants in Northern Texas under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.

0:52.3

So this is a loss for Trump, but it's not the final word.

0:56.6

CNN legal analyst, Ellie Honig, breaks down the wartime law, how the Trump administration

1:01.4

wants to use it, and where things go from here.

1:04.0

Now this is a 1798 Act passed in the year of 1798, to be clear, that says that the president can, the administration

1:11.9

can deport non-citizens if they are part of an invasion or an alien incursion in the United

1:18.2

States. Now, the Trump administration is trying to apply that for the first time in history

1:22.4

to a non-war time scenario. All the prior times that was applied have been during the War of 1812,

1:28.0

World War I and World War II. Now a federal district court judge in Texas, a Trump appointee,

1:33.5

in fact, found that the presence of a gang or illegal aliens in the United States is not what

1:39.6

that law means by an invasion. And at this point, with today's ruling, the Supreme Court has decided,

1:44.6

we're not going to overrule that, we're going to send it back down to continue through the

1:48.4

normal appellate process to decide, A, whether the Alien Enemies Act applies, and B, if it does,

1:54.6

how much notice, how much due process do people get to challenge it.

1:59.5

The US lost its perfect credit rating today after Moody's analytics became the last

2:04.6

of the three credit rating agencies to downgrade America's debt rating.

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