President-elect Donald Trump confirmed today that he intended to declare a national emergency and use the U.S. . He responded “TRUE!!!” to a post by a conservative activist summarizing the strategy.
Similar plans were described during the campaign by Stephen Miller, Trump’s top immigration policy adviser. Miller said that the military would be for migrants as their cases progressed, and suggested that Trump might invoke a public health emergency power to curtail hearing asylum claims. Trump’s team also shared plans to stop issuing passports to the newborn children of undocumented immigrants in a bid to end birthright citizenship.
Trump’s team said it had developed a plan to significantly increase the number of deportations without new legislation from Congress. They anticipate legal challenges, but presidents have broad power to declare national emergencies.
Trump has already signaled his intent to follow through on mass deportations by naming a team of immigration hard-liners, including Miller and Thomas Homan, in top White House policy roles. We’re .
In other politics news:
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Trump has had second thoughts about the finalists for Treasury secretary. He is .
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Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick to oversee intelligence agencies, .
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Trump said he is , who was accused of sexual assault in 2017.
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The president-elect’s plans for deportations, tariffs and interest rates will affect the economy. .
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Caroline Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador to Australia, said that her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s
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Martin O’Malley, the former Maryland governor,
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Elon Musk has honed his . Now he wants to slash $2 trillion in federal spending.
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No, Trump cannot .
Ukraine is poised to strike Russia with U.S. weapons
Ukrainian officials suggested that they planned to launch American-provided missiles . Permission to do so was recently granted by President Biden.
The Kremlin said today that Biden’s decision was a major step toward a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO.
The missiles, , are likely to be initially deployed against Russian and North Korean troops in territory Ukraine has captured in the Kursk region of western Russia, U.S. officials said. The strikes could help the Ukrainians safeguard the land so it can be used as leverage in peace talks.
In related news, Biden used what is likely to be his last summit with global leaders to .
Texas will decide on Bible-infused lessons in schools
Education officials in Texas are set to vote today on whether to approve a new elementary school curriculum that . The move would test the limits of religious instruction in public education.
School districts would receive a financial incentive to adopt the optional curriculum. The initiative has already ignited protests in Texas, which has emerged as a leader in the highly contested push to expand the role of religion in public schools. It could become a model for other states.
Climate negotiators worry about falling short of a deal
Officials from nearly 200 countries went to the U.N. climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, with the main goal of providing funding to developing countries suffering from climate change. But with just four days to go, many attendees fear that this .
Negotiators said that one impediment was that diplomats from Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, were working to foil any agreement that would . Any agreement must be endorsed by all 198 participating nations.
More top news
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Gaza: UNRWA, the main U.N. agency aiding Palestinians, said that a , calling the episode one of the worst such incidents of the war.
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Environment: , causing the closure of schools in New Delhi and a health emergency declaration in Punjab.
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Business: Spirit Airlines declared bankruptcy. .
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Venezuela: Nicolás Maduro’s government .
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Profile: María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s wildly popular opposition leader, has gone into hiding. .
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New York City: One in eight of the city’s public school students — a record 146,000 in total — .
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Real Estate: The National Association of Realtors, the largest trade organization in the country, .
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Health: A small study found when assessing medical case histories.
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Britain: Burglars .
TIME TO UNWIND
Cher turns back time
Cher has been a household name for six decades. She was 19 when she had her first No. 1 single with Sonny Bono. She has won an Oscar, an Emmy and a Grammy, and she still works with her 96-year-old voice coach.
So it should be no surprise that she split her memoir, “Cher,” into two parts, the first of which is out tomorrow. “Too much life,” she said in an interview. In the first volume, . But Cher hasn’t actually read the final version, which was written by two ghostwriters in just four months.
This is a big week for the art market
After two years of declining sales, auctioneers are hoping that the ultrarich will see the election of Donald Trump, who has promised to cut taxes, as a signal to begin buying expensive art again. That theory will be tested this week in New York, where the November auction season begins.
Several highly coveted pieces are on the block, including an exceptional painting by René Magritte that is expected to fetch at least $95 million and a six-foot-high version of Monet’s “Nymphéas.” An eye-catching is expected to sell for more than $1 million.
Dinner table topics
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Pink house by the sea: A 99-year-old house on Boston’s North Shore is battered and uninhabited. But .
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‘Final Cut’: Charles Burns reinvented the romance comic. We took a .
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The Interview: A doctor helped my colleague .
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Lounge-restaurant hybrid: The celebrity chef José Andrés is looking to .
WHAT TO DO TONIGHT
Cook: This is a powerful side dish.
Watch: “Vaazhai” is one of the right now.
Read: My colleague that could almost be diaries.
Consider: If you’re looking for healthy animal protein, .
Protect: Don’t let a late-in-life divorce .
Wear: Our fashion critic shares .
Compete: Take this week’s .
Play: Here are today’s , and . Find .
ONE LAST THING
Life lessons from coaching 6-year-olds
My colleague Rory Smith has spent decades reporting on soccer. He knows the game as well as anyone, but never aspired to be a coach. So, when he was asked to help lead his son’s under-7 soccer team, he was exposed to a new way of experiencing the sport.
The three months spent coaching , Rory wrote. He learned many things, including that some people take youth sports very seriously. But mostly, he learned about himself and “how much it can mean to be there with your child as they start to do this thing that you love, that you have loved, for so long, and to see it start to bring them the joy that it has brought you.”
Have a joyful evening.
Thanks for reading. I’ll be back tomorrow. — Matthew
Philip Pacheco was our photo editor today.
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