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Live from MPR News, I'm Trial Snyder, the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments this week

on birthright citizenship.

It's guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but President Trump argues

that citizenship should not be guaranteed at birth if the parents came to the U.S. illegally.

Impares to Minigo Montenarro says public opinion is split on the matter.

It's complicated and nuanced.

I mean, Americans are heavily in favor of granting citizenship to children born to parents

who were also born in the United States or those who immigrated to the U.S. legally,

but their split on are much less in support of automatic citizenship for children born

to parents who immigrated illegally.

For example, a Pew Research Center survey found 9 and 10 are for it for children born

to U.S. citizens, but they were split 50 to 49 for babies born to those without legal

status or who crossed the border illegally.

You go found it to be even lower than that, and I'll note that there's a wide range

of percentages when you look at other polls on this, even among a very reputable surveys.

With President Trump renewing threats to attack Iranian oil plants and energy infrastructure

of the Strait of Hormuz has not reopened.

Officials say three UN peacekeepers have been killed in Lebanon over the past 24 hours.

UN has not determined yet, too, was responsible, but has condemned the attacks as MPR's

Michelle Kellerman reports.

The head of UN peacekeeping, Jumpier LaQuasse, says two Indonesian peacekeepers were killed

in an explosion that hit a logistics confoy.

Another Indonesian was killed Sunday when a UN base was shelled.

LaQuasse's both incidents are under investigation, and it's not clear if the latest attack was

a shelling or a roadside bomb.

We strongly condemn these unacceptable incidents, and peacekeepers must never be a target.

LaQuasse's he's in constant contact with the Israeli military, which has expanded what

he described as a buffer zone inside Lebanon, as it tries to push his bluff for their

north.

The UN is constrained in what it can do, LaQuasse says.

The UN's mandate there ends this year.

Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the State Department.

And the New York federal prosecutors are examining whether large payouts on prediction

market sites like Polymarket have violated insider trading laws.

And here's Bobby Allen reports.

Polymarket betters earned hundreds of thousands of dollars on the timing of military strikes

in Iran, and when Venezuelan leader Nikolas Maduro was captured.

Now prosecutors in the southern district of New York are investigating the traits, CNN

first reported the probe.

Both Polymarket and its main competitor, Kowshi, say they ban insider trading, but policing

is largely left up to the platforms themselves.

Polymarket has had many markets on wars and military actions.

It operates an overseas exchange based in Panama.

The spokesman for New York's U.S. Attorney's office said prediction markets are not outside

the scope of anti-money laundering and insider trading laws.

Billions of dollars are bet every week on Polymarket in Kowshi, Bobby Allen and PR News.

This is NPR.

The Transportation Security Administration says most of its officers started receiving

their back pay Monday for working during the Homeland Security shutdown.

President Trump on Friday ordered the department to pay them to ease bottlenecks at several

major American airports.

The DHS shut down meanwhile is ongoing with few signs of progress on Capitol Hill after

a Senate agreement fell apart last week.

Mary Beth Hurt has died of Alzheimer's.

She appeared in dozens of movies mostly in the 1980s and 90s Jeff London reports.

An Iowa native, Mary Beth Hurt had a famous actress as her babysitter, Gene Seaburg.

She studied acting at New York University and made her film debut in Woody Allen's 1978 drama

interiors as an unhappy literary agent.

I sit there all day reading other people's manuscripts and halfway through I lose interest.

I get headaches from the words and then I'm supposed to sit down and write an opinion.

It's not fear to the authors.

Hurt starred on Broadway and Beth Henley's crimes of the heart for which she received one of her

three-tony nominations.

She also appeared in the films The World According to Garb and the Age of Innocence,

as well as in many television shows.

For NPR News, I'm Jeff London in New York.

NASA has begun counting down to the first launch of astronauts to the moon in more than 50 years.

The countdown clock started ticking late Monday afternoon at Florida's Kennedy Space Center

Blastoff scheduled for Wednesday evening with four astronauts.

This is NPR News.

This week on the NPR Politics Podcast.

In Iran, President Trump is both escalating and de-escalating,

pausing strikes on energy sites claiming Iran wants to make a deal,

but also moving troops to the region.

We unpack what we know about where those troops are headed and how talks are playing out

behind closed doors.

This week on the NPR Politics Podcast, listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.