Multiple bills highlight challenge protecting children online - UPI.com Lawmakers are considering more than a dozen bill proposals to protect children online with many carrying speech and privacy challenges.

Congress is mulling several bills to protect the safety of children online. The challenge is balancing the online safety of children with the privacy and free speech rights of all.

SAVE tool keeps mistakenly flagging voters as noncitizens - The Texas Tribune DHS rolled out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

In February, Pro Publica and The Texas Tribune did a deeper dive into instances of the SAVE system incorrectly marking voters as noncitizens.

Check it out.

Trump orders that DHS's Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system be used to verify voter citizenship. This system already has a history of misidentifying citizens as noncitizens, making voters ineligible incorrectly.

In some cases, the errors would be enough to change elections.

Trump's executive order also warns that election workers could be prosecuted for making mistakes. Not just poll workers, but also anyone who prints, produces, ships or distributes ballots to a noneligible voter.

Noncitizen voting in federal elections is already illegal. By instituting documentary proof of citizenship requirements, voting rights advocates worry that eligible voters will be disenfranchised.

Trump's election order, SAVE Act, rely on 'flawed' system - UPI.com President Donald Trump's multipronged plan for ensuring only eligible citizens vote in elections leans on a system that experts say is flawed.

President Donald Trump's multipronged plan for ensuring only eligible citizens vote in elections leans on a system that experts say is flawed.

Last week's executive order and the SAVE ACT in Congress aim to curb noncitizen voting, which is already a rare occurrence.

"We have always understood being American as being very closely tied with birthright citizenship. It would be a collapse of how we understand American identity in the United States."

-Daisy Hernandez

Without birthright citizenship, millions of children of immigrants in the United States would become stateless. It would return the U.S. to the 19th century for people whose citizenship would vary state to state, Daisy Hernandez, author of Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth, told UPI.

Northwestern University Prof. Kate Masur explained to UPI that birthright citizenship has been reaffirmed repeatedly throughout history by Congress and the Supreme Court.

"There's certainly never been a president who issued an executive order trying to undermine birthright citizenship in this way"

In an amicus brief led by Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republicans said their reference to allegiance looks to "early English caselaw."

The Trump administration's argument against birthright citizenship hinges on its interpretation of the term "jurisdiction" in the context of the clause "subject to the jurisdiction thereof."

Republican lawmakers said "allegiance" is required for citizenship.

Supreme Court to hear arguments in birthright citizenship case - UPI.com The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in a case on Wednesday that could reshape what it means to be a U.S. citizen.

After attending the Supreme Court hearing over his attempt to end birthright citizenship this morning, President Trump claimed no other country has birthright citizenship.

That's not true. About 30 countries recognize it, including most of the Western Hemisphere.

Meanwhile the human costs will continue to grow for the U.S., Iran and throughout the Middle East as attacks spread. The price civilians will pay grows by the day with no way knowing what that cost will ultimately be.

Transparency in war spending lacks as Pentagon asks for $200 billion - UPI.com Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth plans to request $200 billion in funding from Congress as the cost of the United States' war in Iran grows.

It cost the U.S. in the millions to bomb an elementary school in Iran and kill at least 165 people, most of whom were children.

The exact cost of the U.S. war with Iran remains unclear, underlining a growing lack of transparency in defense spending.

Nashville journalist arrested by ICE granted bond, remains detained while feds considers appeal • Tennessee Lookout Estefany Rodríguez, the Nashville reporter arrested by ICE, was granted a $10,000 bond Monday but remains detained in Louisiana.

"After being held in isolation for about five days. Rodríguez was forced to strip naked in a shower while an officer "poured some kind of chemical liquid on her head, which seemed to be something used to clean floors and burned her eyes,” the filing read."

Why does he look like he’s on a store window TV in Robocop?

The should invite Sean McDermott next time for another perspective

So if anybody -- state attorneys general, Democratic politicians, sentient beings -- doesn't understand why Paramount Skydance's takeover of Warner Bros./CNN is a huge problem, Pete Hegseth is here to explain it to you.

Stop the propaganda. Block this merger.

Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms The meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of electi...

NEW: More evidence that those who tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election are working with Trump administration officials to set the rules for the 2026 midterms. @dougbockclark.bsky.social

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Attorney General Pam Bondi says focus on stock market during House hearing over Epstein files - UPI.com Pam Bondi told members of Congress that they should be focused on the stock market during a hearing over her handling of the Epstein files.

I have nothing to add to this one right now

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.

BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned

NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

"The future for the students is uncertain," Jeanne Batalova said. "Not only in terms of if they can go on to pursue a college degree because of state tuition. It's if they can go outside to the library, to the university, as well as the mental impact of studying."

"There's this sense that if one person gets a spot, then another person doesn't," said Corinne Kentor. "The reality is that welcoming immigrant students into higher education, into workplaces, into the communities that they're already a part of, creates more opportunities for U.S. citizens."

Immigration policies closing doors for undocumented students - UPI.com About 90,000 undocumented students reach the end of high school annually and researchers say their opportunities in higher education are shrinking.

Aggressive immigration enforcement tactics and pressure to end birthright citizenship and temporary protected status are making the future less clear for students in immigrant and mixed legal status families in the United States.

KENNEDY: The Census Bureau is under your jurisdiction & responsible for defining what it means to be poor, is that right?

LUTNICK: I don't know

K: Well you need to look, bc it does. What's the % of Americans who live below poverty level?

L: I don't know

K: It's around 11%. It's been constant

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Arresting journalists. Good God.