Trump admin live updates: Court rules against Trump's birthright citizenship EO

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, upheld a lower court ruling that President Donald Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship is very likely unconstitutional on its face and that a nationwide injunction precluding enforcement is the only way to provide complete relief to the state plaintiffs, pending litigation.

The states had brought the suit alleging that they would suffer irreparable harm from a redefinition of citizenship, including reduced population count for purposes of federal funding.

A federal judge in a separate case has already enjoined nationwide enforcement of the order against a certified class of individuals affected by the presidential action -- all newborns in the U.S. to noncitizens.

Practically speaking, the two decisions ensure Trump's redefinition of citizenship will not take effect on July 27 as litigation over the merits of the order continues.

The government is likely to appeal this decision back to the high court.

-ABC News' Devin Dwyer

Former President Barack Obama will headline a fundraiser next month in Martha’s Vineyard hosted by the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a source confirmed to ABC News.

The group is chaired by former Attorney General Eric Holder, who will also attend the event, alongside Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.

The fundraiser is scheduled for Aug. 19 and comes as Trump controversially encourages Republicans to take up redistricting mid-decade, particularly in Texas -- which has moved Democrats to suggest their states will hit back by redrawing their congressional districts.

This is Obama's second fundraiser since the 2024 presidential election following a recent event in New Jersey.

-ABC News’ Brittany Shepherd

Trump celebrated the Japan trade deal -- especially the $550 billion investment that the administration announced as part of the framework of the deal.

"But on the Japan deal, because it was literally just signed, letter was just signed, it gives us a sort of signing bonus. We'll bring it into sports talk -- a signing bonus like you have signing bonuses, too, I understand getting a lot of money 100, 100 million? That's not bad. But that's not as good as the signing bonus we got. We got a $550 billion signing bonus extension," Trump said.

"But now, if some of the countries that pay 25% or more on orders complain, remember that Japan was willing to pay up front the $550 billion for that privilege of negotiating with the United States of America," Trump later added.

But as the number of deals that the U.S. has achieved falls far short of the 90 deals in 90 days that the White House once promised, Trump said that negotiating with 200 countries is "too much for anybody."

"It's always nice when everybody can be happy, but mostly we’ll be charging straight tariffs to most of the rest of the world because we have over 200 countries, people don't realize it's a lot of -- that's a lot of deals. Even if you’re like me, a deal junkie, that's a lot of deals. That would be too much for anybody. How did we deal with this country that I never heard of?" Trump said.

-ABC News’ Lalee Ibssa

Plans for a military strike in Yemen shared on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Signal account came from a classified email marked “SECRET/NOFORN,” according to a person familiar with the matter.

The marking, first reported by the Washington Post and confirmed by ABC News, undercuts Hegseth’s insistence that he never shared classified information on the commercial app.

The Pentagon’s Office of the Inspector General is looking into whether Hegseth personally wrote the text messages, which included such operational details as when U.S. fighters planned to take off and when bombs were scheduled to hit their targets.

Sources say Gen. Erik Kurilla, head of U.S. Central Command, relayed the strike plans using a secure government system. Hegseth was with his acting chief of staff, Ricky Buria, at his personal residence at Fort McNair when the details were then relayed to others on Hegseth’s Signal account, according to two people familiar with details of the investigation.

Hegseth’s chief spokesperson, Sean Parnell, said the Defense Department stands behind its insistence that no classified information was shared on Signal.

“As we've said repeatedly, nobody was texting war plans and the success of the Department's recent operations -- from Operation Rough Rider to Operation Midnight Hammer -- are proof that our operational security and discipline are top notch,” Parnell wrote.

The Pentagon has not responded to repeated questions about its policy regarding Signal.

Under the Biden administration, government officials were told they could use the commercial app to communicate so long as the information was not sensitive and that they took steps to preserve any work-related information.

-ABC News’ Anne Flaherty