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CONWAY — The puck drops for the 19th annual Dave Dore Winter Classic women’s hockey tournament at the Ham Arena in Conway on Jan. 3, with three days of action on the ice through Jan. 5. Sixteen teams, including four local teams, will compete in games throughout the weekend, with four teams competing in each of the four skill-based divisions. Most of the teams are from the New England region, but two of the teams are based in New York and Texas. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has promised to end birthright citizenship as soon as he gets into office to make good on campaign promises aiming to restrict immigration and redefining what it means to be American. But any efforts to halt the policy would face steep legal hurdles. Birthright citizenship means anyone born in the United States automatically becomes an American citizen. It’s been in place for decades and applies to children born to someone in the country illegally or in the U.S. on a tourist or student visa who plans to return to their home country. It’s not the practice of every country, and Trump and his supporters have argued that the system is being abused and that there should be tougher standards for becoming an American citizen. But others say this is a right enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, it would be extremely difficult to overturn and even if it’s possible, it’s a bad idea. Here’s a look at birthright citizenship, what Trump has said about it and the prospects for ending it: RELATED COVERAGE Five years since its inception, a US development agency competes with China on global projects Biden creates Native American boarding school national monument to mark era of forced assimilation Trump has flip-flopped on abortion policy. His appointees may offer clues to what happens next What Trump has said about birthright citizenship During an interview Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Trump said he “absolutely” planned to halt birthright citizenship once in office. “We’re going to end that because it’s ridiculous,” he said. Trump and other opponents of birthright citizenship have argued that it creates an incentive for people to come to the U.S. illegally or take part in “birth tourism,” in which pregnant women enter the U.S. specifically to give birth so their children can have citizenship before returning to their home countries. “Simply crossing the border and having a child should not entitle anyone to citizenship,” said Eric Ruark, director of research for NumbersUSA, which argues for reducing immigration. The organization supports changes that would require at least one parent to be a permanent legal resident or a U.S. citizen for their children to automatically get citizenship. Others have argued that ending birthright citizenship would profoundly damage the country. “One of our big benefits is that people born here are citizens, are not an illegal underclass. There’s better assimilation and integration of immigrants and their children because of birthright citizenship,” said Alex Nowrasteh, vice president for economic and social policy studies at the pro-immigration Cato Institute. In 2019, the Migration Policy Institute estimated that 5.5 million children under age 18 lived with at least one parent in the country illegally in 2019, representing 7% of the U.S. child population. The vast majority of those children were U.S. citizens. The nonpartisan think tank said during Trump’s campaign for president in 2015 that the number of people in the country illegally would “balloon” if birthright citizenship were repealed, creating “a self-perpetuating class that would be excluded from social membership for generations.” What does the law say? In the aftermath of the Civil War, Congress ratified the 14th Amendment in July 1868. That amendment assured citizenship for all, including Black people. “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” the 14th Amendment says. “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” But the 14th Amendment didn’t always translate to everyone being afforded birthright citizenship. For example, it wasn’t until 1924 that Congress finally granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. A key case in the history of birthright citizenship came in 1898, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Wong Kim Ark, born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrants, was a U.S. citizen because he was born in the states. The federal government had tried to deny him reentry into the county after a trip abroad on grounds he wasn’t a citizen under the Chinese Exclusion Act. But some have argued that the 1898 case clearly applied to children born of parents who are both legal immigrants to America but that it’s less clear whether it applies to children born to parents without legal status or, for example, who come for a short-term like a tourist visa. “That is the leading case on this. In fact, it’s the only case on this,” said Andrew Arthur, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, which supports immigration restrictions. “It’s a lot more of an open legal question than most people think.” Some proponents of immigration restrictions have argued the words “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” in the 14th Amendment allows the U.S. to deny citizenship to babies born to those in the country illegally. Trump himself used that language in his 2023 announcement that he would aim to end birthright citizenship if reelected. So what could Trump do and would it be successful? Trump wasn’t clear in his Sunday interview how he aims to end birthright citizenship. Asked how he could get around the 14th Amendment with an executive action, Trump said: “Well, we’re going to have to get it changed. We’ll maybe have to go back to the people. But we have to end it.” Pressed further on whether he’d use an executive order, Trump said “if we can, through executive action.” He gave a lot more details in a 2023 post on his campaign website . In it, he said he would issue an executive order the first day of his presidency, making it clear that federal agencies “require that at least one parent be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident for their future children to become automatic U.S. citizens.” Trump wrote that the executive order would make clear that children of people in the U.S. illegally “should not be issued passports, Social Security numbers, or be eligible for certain taxpayer funded welfare benefits.” This would almost certainly end up in litigation. Nowrasteh from the Cato Institute said the law is clear that birthright citizenship can’t be ended by executive order but that Trump may be inclined to take a shot anyway through the courts. “I don’t take his statements very seriously. He has been saying things like this for almost a decade,” Nowrasteh said. “He didn’t do anything to further this agenda when he was president before. The law and judges are near uniformly opposed to his legal theory that the children of illegal immigrants born in the United States are not citizens.” Trump could steer Congress to pass a law to end birthright citizenship but would still face a legal challenge that it violates the Constitution. __ Associated Press reporter Elliot Spagat in San Diego contributed to this report.Moyinoluwa Olajide and Idowu Abdullahi A 52-year-old woman, Mrs Temitope Familusi, has revealed that she almost killed herself after her first In Vitro Fertilisation failed. IVF is one of the available assisted reproductive technologies utilised to help persons with fertility problems have a baby. During IVF, “an egg is removed from the woman’s ovaries and fertilised with sperm in a laboratory. The fertilised egg, called an embryo, is then returned to the woman’s womb to grow and develop”, according to the National Health Service of the United Kingdom. According to the World Fertility Services, Nigeria has a high success rate of IVF treatment.. The woman, who welcomed triplets with her husband in 2024 after 24 years of marriage, said she hid her pain from those mocking her while she cried her eyes out behind closed doors. “It was a long journey that made me cry. When people abused me, I don’t cry in front of them. I will go to the back and cry because I don’t want them to know I am in pain,” she said in an interview with PUNCH. While recounting her ordeals, Temitope, who is a teacher, explained that she married her husband, Gabriel Familusi, on August 26, 2000, adding that they had three failed IVF attempts before their triplets. She said, “We married on August 26, 2000 and since then, we have been looking for the fruit of the womb. We tried a lot, nothing happened. We did IVF and three failed. The first one I did, I felt like killing myself because I tried drinking snipper, it was one of my neighbors that saved me that day. It was a long journey that made me cry. When people abuse me, I don’t cry in front of them. I will go to the back and cry because I don’t want them to know I am in pain. “There was a time one of my sisters gave me one of her grandsons to stay with me and when she came to pick up the baby, I cried because when he left, there’s no one to call me mummy again.” She said despite her age, she was strong and agile during the pregnancy phase and never faced any difficulty. “I gave birth to my children in July 2024, since then, I have been happy. When I look at them, I always feel happy because I know that I am not alone. Carrying the pregnancy to term wasn’t stressful, even at the hospital I used – General Hospital, Ikorodu – some people will look at me and be like look at this old woman carrying a pregnancy and still looking fine. So, I can say God gave me more strength during that time. I thank God today that I have them and I have proven to mockers that I am not barren,” Temitope said. Also speaking, Gabriel explained that it was soothing to experience answered prayers, adding that it was hope in God that kept them going when they had no kids. “We have been to different kinds of hospitals where we did various tests and nothing happened. But we believed in God, prayed and had that hope that one day, we’d have a child. “The last IVF which was last year, the doctor told us she was pregnant and when they did the scan, they discovered that it was two babies. When she went for the second scan, they now discovered that they were three and we were happy that what we have been praying for has been answered by God. Now, I am happy and feel on top of the world,” Gabriel said. Tags poison pregnancy tripletsRisk adjusted net present value: What is the current valuation of Vertex Pharmaceuticals’s Vanzacaftor + Deutivacaftor + Tezacaftor?
Oshkosh Corporation Names Matthew Field as Chief Financial OfficerWith just under two minutes left in the third quarter, the Bulls were as close to a guaranteed victory as possible — leading by the Hawks by 21 points and holding a win probability of 99.2% as they coasted toward the final 12 minutes of regulation. But when the final buzzer sounded, the Bulls staggered away from a 141-133 loss. It all came down to a brief stretch in the fourth quarter. Three minutes, 23 seconds isn’t all that long, even in the context of an NBA game. But on Thursday, it was long enough for the Hawks to score 20 unanswered points as the Bulls collapsed, plagued by two familiar weaknesses. The first problem: When push comes to shove, the Bulls don’t have a defense. Not really. And with Ayo Dosunmu and Lonzo Ball both unavailable, the Bulls floundered fully into disrepair. The Hawks muscled inside for offensive rebounds and slung 3-pointers and charged up the paint. And in return, the Bulls offered no resistance as the Hawks scored 50 points in the final quarter. The second problem: The offense is one-dimensional. The Bulls usually are unconquerable when hitting from 3-point range. But when the shooting from behind the arc dries up, they still haven’t found another source of scoring. During their scoreless stretch, the Bulls missed three shots, had two others blocked and committed two turnovers — a reflection of an inability to pressure the rim. By the time the Bulls finally snapped the 20-0 run, the game was lost. The Hawks had taken a four-point lead with two minutes remaining. Frustration reigned as shots continued to fall short and off target. When Nikola Vučević chucked the ball downcourt with 29.6 seconds remaining — earning a technical as he showed frustration with a late foul — the Bulls seemed to have accepted their fate. The Hawks outscored the Bulls 31-7 in the final 5:23. Jalen Johnson scored a career-high 30 points and added 15 rebounds, and Trae Young had 27 points and 13 assists for the hosts. The Bulls lost their third straight and dropped to 10th place in the Eastern Conference. Here are three takeaways from the loss. 1. Jevon Carter delivered standout shooting. December games in the NBA often call for an unlikely hero. Injuries begin to escalate from nagging to debilitating, the winter ushers in a wave of illness and coaches begin to look to the end of their benches for a solution. On Thursday, Carter was that solution. The Bulls were missing four regular rotation players: Lonzo Ball and Matas Buzelis were sidelined due to illness while Ayo Dosunmu (Achilles) and Josh Giddy (ankle sprain) remained unavailable. Before Thursday, Carter had scored a total of 22 points in 61 minutes this season. He spent a five-game stretch at the start of December confined to the bench as a healthy scratch. But Carter was ready to offer a crucial boost when he was injected back into the rotation Thursday. Carter couldn’t miss in the first quarter. He went 6-for-6 from 3-point range, scoring 19 points as the only Bulls player to make a 3 in the quarter. Carter cooled off in the second half but finished with a season-high 26 points on 9-for-15 shooting — including 7-for-11 on 3-pointers — and added five assists in 35:57. 2. Zach LaVine caught fire in a third-quarter frenzy. LaVine showcased an uncanny ease to score in the quarter. He went 6-for-6 from 3-point range and missed only two shots from inside the arc, rattling off 22 points and adding four assists as the Bulls offense suddenly clicked into gear. The Bulls made 10 shots from behind the arc in the 44-point quarter and finished 22-for-43 (51.2%) from 3-point range. Coby White’s shooting was also vital in the third as the guard regained some footing, going 3-for-5 from deep. He finished with 23 points. LaVine poured in a season-high 37 points, hitting 14 of 25 shots overall and 7 of 9 3-pointers. 3. Dalen Terry had a rough first start. Because of injury and illness, the Bulls tapped the third-year wing to join the starting lineup for the first time this season. Terry struggled with that assignment from the opening whistle, picking up an offensive foul off a sloppy moving screen in the opening two minutes. He ultimately played only 9:08 in the loss, finishing with four fouls, one turnover, zero points and one assist.
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