The Daily Brief
Today
Good morning. Multiple people, including two police officers, were injured Wednesday afternoon in a shooting in downtown Minneapolis, prompting the Minneapolis police department to warn the public away from the convention center.
A federal judge in Maryland blocked President Donald Trump's latest executive order targeting birthright citizenship, [with U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman granting a preliminary injunction and torching the administration's "distorted" reading of the Supreme Court's June ruling](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-birthright-citizenship-2677812089). [The Maryland judge said that the Supreme Court's decision in June was the law of the land and the White House needed to follow it](https://www.newsweek.com/trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order-blocked-supreme-court-12397735).
ICE plans to spend up to $2 million on four-legged robots built by Boston Dynamics for use in raids, [a purchase the World Socialist Web Site describes as the latest addition to an arsenal the Trump administration has been assembling for ICE with terrifying speed](https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/02/lifq-s02.html).
[The prolonged conflict with Iran is inflicting a major dent on the global economy, Eurasia Group chairman emeritus Cliff Kupchan warned on PBS NewsHour](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/prolonged-iran-war-creating-major-dent-in-global-economy-cliff-kupchan-says). [Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, rejected claims the regime is near collapse and cautioned that further economic pressure risks blowback on American consumers through higher energy and goods prices](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-09-02/rep-himes-iran-regime-not-on-the-verge-of-collapse-video).