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US Senate votes against resolution to limit Trump’s Iran war powers – as it happened

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Senate votes down Iran war powers resolution

Senate Democrats were unsuccessful in getting a resolution passed to limit Donald Trump from single-handedly escalating the war with Iran.

The resolution was brought by Tim Kaine of Virginia and aimed to compel Trump to seek authorization from Congress before taking any further military action.

“Congress declares war,” Kaine said on the Senate floor on Friday. “Once declared, the president is the commander-in-chief.”

Despite nearly all Democrats backing the resolution, they still didn’t have the votes. The tally came in 53–47. One Republican, Rand Paul of Kentucky, voted with the Democrats, and one Democrat, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, voted against the resolution.

Trump said on Friday that Iran had halted its nuclear ambitions after the bombings by the US and Israel. But, he said, he would “absolutely” continue to bomb the country’s nuclear sites if he believed it was once again enriching uranium.

“Time will tell,” Trump said at the White House. “But I don’t believe that they’re going to go back into nuclear any time soon.”

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Key events

Today’s recap

Several major supreme court rulings came down on Friday, including on birthright citizenship, LGBT books in schools and Obamacare – the majority of which delivered Donald Trump wins. On the international front, Trump once again cut off trade talks with Canada over its new digital services tax. He said he’d set a new tariff rate on Canadian goods next week. The Senate also voted down the Iran War Powers resolution in a 53-47 vote on Friday evening. The resolution aimed to compel Trump to seek approval from Congress before taking further military action in Iran.

Here’s what else happened today:

  • Trump hosted top diplomats from Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo for a peace agreement between the two countries. The event kicked off with an unusual start when Trump brought an African reporter by his side and told her she was beautiful.

  • Melissa and Mark Hortman, a Minnesota state representative and her husband, laid in state at the capitol after they were killed by a politically motivated assassin who posed as a police officer.

  • Border Patrol agents raided a home using an explosive device in Huntington Park, California. Everyone in the house were US citizens, which included a 1-year-old and a 6-year-old.

  • The supreme court, in a 6-3 ruling, delivered Trump a major victory by ruling that individual district court judges lack the power to issue nationwide injunctions. Trump has said many of these injunctions have blocked his policies, including his executive order aiming to end the right to automatic birthright citizenship.

  • United Nations secretary-general António Guterres said that the US-backed Israeli aid operation in Gaza is “killing people.” This followed calls by Médecins Sans Frontières for Israel to immediately end its siege on Gaza, calling the Israeli-US food distribution scheme “slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid”.

  • The Trump administration is planning to deport Kilmar Ábrego García for a second time, but does not plan to send him back to El Salvador. It is not clear when the deportation might occur.

  • The supreme court ruled 6-3 in favor of Christian and Muslim parents in Maryland who sued to keep their elementary school children out of certain classes when storybooks with LGBT characters are read. The justices in a 6-3 ruling overturned a lower court’s refusal to require Montgomery County’s public schools to provide an option to opt out of these classes.

  • The supreme court ruled against challengers to a Texas law that requires pornographic websites to verify the age of users. The adult entertainment industry argued that the measure violates the free speech rights of adults.

  • The supreme court preserved a key element of the Obamacare law that helps guarantee that health insurers cover preventive care such as cancer screenings at no cost to patients.

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