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5 min readSupreme Court Allows Trump Administration to Expand Voter Database
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Trump administration can use a federal immigration database to check whether registered voters are U.S. citizens, a decision that allows the government to continue building a voter verification system while legal challenges play out. The three liberal justices dissented. The system merges a database of immigrants' citizenship status with Social Security records, and a federal judge had blocked the expanded database this summer, ruling it was illegal for the government to share Social Security records in this way. Voting rights groups that sued the administration argue the database produces inaccurate results and could prevent eligible voters from casting ballots. The ruling is not final but lets the project proceed past the midterm elections.
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- 1 (00:46) **Supreme Court Allows Trump Voter Database** - The court lets the administration use a federal immigration database to check citizenship for voter rolls, though it’s not a final ruling.
- 2 (01:20) **Appeals Court Upholds Pentagon’s Security Risk Label for Anthropic** - A federal appeals court rules the defense secretary can designate the AI company a supply chain risk over its refusal to support mass surveillance or autonomous weapons.
- 3 (03:53) **Market Roundup: Bonds, Oil, and Stocks** - The global bond selloff pauses, but the 10-year Treasury yield closes the week at a 19-year high of 5.18%.
- 4 (04:27) **Ukraine War Threatens Global Wheat Supply and Food Prices** - Escalating drone and missile attacks in the Black Sea region are choking both Russian and Ukrainian grain exports, pushing U.S. wheat futures to three-year highs.
- 5 (07:55) **Blackstone Executive Joseph Baratta Set to Depart** - The top private equity executive at Blackstone is preparing to leave after nearly three decades, marking another senior leader exit from the firm.
- 6 (08:30) **Brightline Railroad Files for Bankruptcy** - The largest private passenger railroad in the U.S., operating between Miami and Orlando, files for Chapter 11 with $5.5 billion in debt.
- 7 (08:56) **AI Scandal Removes Novel from France’s Top Literary Prize** - Debut novelist Talison Aurelian’s book is pulled from the running for the Goncourt Prize after accusations of AI use surface online.
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P.M. Edition for Sept. 25. The Supreme Court said today that Trump administration officials could use an expanded federal immigration database to check whether voters are citizens, which some states want to use to scrub voter rolls. Plus, the Ukraine war is stopping grain exports from getting out of the Black Sea, sending U.S. wheat futures to three-year highs. We hear from Journal reporter Alexander Osipovich about what the disruptions could mean for food prices and the global food supply. And a debut novel by Canadian-Haitian writer Thélyson Orélien was nominated for some of the top literary prizes in France… until accusations that the author used AI sparked controversy. Reporter Anna Silman discusses how the publishing world is handling the rise of AI. Alex Ossola hosts.
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