Donald Trump kicked off a fresh legal and political battle Friday by signing executive orders targeting birthright citizenship, a move that will almost certainly face immediate court challenges and sets up a constitutional clash over the 14th Amendment. That news was balanced by a pair of setbacks for the former president: a federal appeals court blocked his $400 million White House ballroom renovation project, and his effort to fire a sitting Federal Reserve governor appears headed for a fight. In a lighter Washington note, Trump's push to modernize Dulles Airport is drawing bipartisan praise for the first tangible infrastructure win of his current term.

Across South Asia, two different kinds of upheaval. Sri Lankan authorities confirmed that unrest at the Kuruwita, Pallansena, and Magazine prisons left three inmates dead and more than 50 injured before security forces regained control. President Dissanayake chaired an emergency review of safety protocols across all 33 prisons. Meanwhile, Sri Lanka's textile and apparel sector took a major blow as Hela Apparel Holdings filed for winding up, a collapse that extends to its operations in Kenya and threatens thousands of jobs in an industry already under pressure from global demand shifts. India and Sri Lanka did launch a new textile trade forum this week, but