Good Wednesday morning. Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today.
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• President Trump said he was preparing an executive order to end the long-accepted constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship in the United States. Read about his latest immigration-focused maneuver days before the midterms.
• Despite Mr. Trump’s proposal, past Supreme Court decisions and constitutional scholars say that the 14th Amendment is clear: Any child born in the United States is automatically a citizen.
• Frustrated that other topics have come to dominate the news, the president has sought to seize back the national stage with a series of ad hoc ideas in the last stretch of midterm campaigning.
• The Trump administration is working to salvage rules that allow employers to deny insurance coverage of contraceptives for women based on religious or moral objections. Here’s what the revisions would do.
• In an email sent to journalists, a woman said she had been promised money…
