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Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley argued that it would be "virtually impossible" for President Donald Trump to end birthright citizenship with challenges in lower courts.

Turley reacted Thursday after a federal judge found Trump's executive order banning birthright citizenship to be "blatantly unconstitutional."

The Anti-Defamation League took criticism earlier this week when it declined to condemn X owner Elon Musk for making a salute at a Trump rally that many overt racists approvingly interpreted as a Nazi salute.

However, ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt on Thursday finally had had enough of Musk's antics after the richest man in the world wrote a post filled with puns about Nazi Germany.

According to NBC's Julie Tsirkin, the nomination of Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to be Donald Trump's secretary of defense is teetering after a senior Republican told reporters the party may need Vice President J.D. Vance's vote as a tiebreaker.

Reporting on MSNBC on Thursday afternoon Tsirkin stated that Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), who took the lead in getting the embattled Hegseth through a Senate Armed Forces Committee hearing despite allegations of sexual assault and public drunkenness, the NBC correspondent said "Senator Roger Wicker told my colleague Frank Thorp earlier today that if he were J.D Vance, he would stick around for a potential tie-breaking vote tomorrow night."

Calling the situation "big," she then reported that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has just released a statement saying she will not support the nominee.

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According to Murkowski, "Since Mr. Hegseth’s nomination last November, I have met with him and carefully reviewed his writings, various reports, and other pertinent materials. I closely followed his hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee and gathered substantial feedback from organizations, veterans, and Alaskans. After thorough evaluation, I must conclude that I cannot in good conscience support his nomination for Secretary of Defense. I did not make this decision lightly; I take my constitutional responsibility to provide advice and consent with the utmost seriousness."

She added, "While the allegations of sexual assault and excessive drinking do nothing to quiet my concerns, the past behaviors Mr. Hegseth has admitted to, including infidelity on multiple occasions, demonstrate a lack of judgment that is unbecoming of someone who would lead our armed forces. These behaviors starkly contrast the values and discipline expected of servicemembers. Men and women in uniform are held accountable for such actions, and they deserve leaders who uphold these same standards."

Bayer pleaded with Missouri lawmakers Thursday to pass legislation critics say would shield the company from lawsuits claiming its glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup causes cancer.

Representatives for Bayer argue the legislation would clarify labeling requirements and prevent courts from creating a patchwork of obligations for the manufacturer.

Ivanka Trump cautioned consumers that her name was being used to circulate a "fake" crypto token.

The warning came after both President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump promoted meme crypto tokens using their names. The family was said to have earned millions of dollars in fees with the scheme.

President Donald Trump's longstanding dislike of wind power is now costing Americans jobs.

The Public's Radio reports that Italian company Prysmian has abandoned plans to build a factory in Somerset, Massachusetts that would have built undersea cables to connect to offshore wind farms due to what the report describes as Trump's "hostility" to wind-power projects.

CNN's Daniel Dale delivered a two-minute fact check of president Donald Trump's first major economic speech.

The president delivered virtual remarks Thursday to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he bashed European tech regulations, complained about oil prices being too high and accused banks of refusing service to conservatives, and he also promised to put pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates and repeated threats over tariffs.

Several US states have reached a $7.4 billion settlement with the Sackler family and their pharmaceutical company Purdue over the opioid crisis that has ravaged the lives of millions of Americans, officials said Thursday.

The opioid addiction epidemic has caused more than 500,000 overdose deaths in the United States over two decades.

Since most legislation restricting abortion puts onerous burdens on pregnant women, one Mississippi Democrat decided to file legislation to ensure that men pick up more of the slack.

NBC News reports that Mississippi State Sen. Bradford Blackmon has filed a bill called the "Contraception Begins at Erection Act" that makes it a crime to "discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo."

President Donald Trump vowed to use coal to power future artificial intelligence endeavors because he said the energy source was bomb-proof.

In a Thursday speech at Davos, Trump falsely claimed he was the first to suggest locating artificial intelligence data centers near energy production facilities. The speech was widely ridiculed.

President Donald Trump, who made baseless attacks against FEMA during his 2024 campaign, suggested on Wednesday night that he wants to defund the Homeland Security emergency management agency and shift the burden for disaster relief to individual states. The move would revoke federal responsibility for managing crises like hurricanes, earthquakes, flooding, and wildfires. While his remarks appear to align with The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, he appears to have gone further in appointing an interim FEMA head who reportedly "does not appear to have experience coordinating responses to large scale disasters."

Although he has repeatedly denied knowing anything about Project 2025, despite at least 140 of his former administration's officials having been involved with the program, President Trump appears to be following the far-right plan to eliminate or largely downsize the 45-year-old agency. Its current incarnation was created by President Jimmy Carter, but the federal government of the United States has been assisting states with disaster relief for well over 200 years.

A Newsmax anchor lavished praise on Donald Trump for acting like a "dictator" in the first days of his second presidency.

Rob Finnerty began his prime-time program on the right-wing news network with effusive adulation of the newly inaugurated president, saying that Trump had already delivered on a number of campaign promises with a blizzard of executive orders dealing with immigration, government diversity initiatives and other conservative priorities.