Mark Masterson

Mark Masterson has written more than 1,700 articles for Live News Chat since 2022 and files most days. His beat is the news the networks on this site are carrying live: US politics, world affairs, breaking news, and the courts, with regular work on technology, sport and entertainment. Because the site exists to point readers at live coverage, most of his reporting is written within hours of the broadcast it follows, and is sourced from primary material where one exists: the filing, the transcript, the agency release, the company statement. Originally from Canada, he has worked in online publishing for over a decade. Corrections and story tips go to security@livenewschat.eu, and the standards his work is held to are set out in the Live News Chat editorial policy.

Christina Plante Found Alive: The Arizona Girl Who Vanished at 13 in 1994 Has Been Located 32 Years Later

Christina Plante Found Alive

Christina Marie Plante disappeared at age 13 in Star Valley, Arizona, on May 15, 1994, walking to a nearby horse stable. On Tuesday, the Gila County Sheriff’s Office announced she has been found alive at 44. It is one of the rarest outcomes in American cold case history, and the details remain sealed to protect her privacy.

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Birthright Citizenship Case Implodes in Real Time, With Trump Watching

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Trump became the first sitting president to attend Supreme Court oral arguments, and what he witnessed was a bipartisan demolition of his birthright citizenship executive order. Even his own judicial appointees weren’t buying it. A new study reveals the policy would disproportionately harm Asian immigrants, not the communities the administration has centered in its messaging.

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NASA’s Artemis II Is About to Launch the First Humans to the Moon in 54 Years: Everything You Need to Know

NASA's Artemis II Is About to Launch

NASA’s Artemis II mission launches April 1, sending four astronauts around the Moon for the first time since 1972. The crew includes the first woman, first person of color, and first non-American to travel beyond low Earth orbit. Here is everything you need to know.

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Out of the Nearly 1,600 Jan. 6 PardonedRioters At Least 33 Have Been Arrested Again, and the Crimes Are Getting Worse

Jan 6th money

At least 33 pardoned Jan. 6 defendants have been arrested, charged, or sentenced for new crimes since Trump’s mass clemency, including child molestation, child pornography, kidnapping, and conspiracy to murder FBI agents. Two March 2026 sentencings put the pattern in sharp focus.

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UConn’s Braylon Mullins Hits Buzzer-Beater to Stun Duke: The Shot That Will Define March Madness 2026 [MUST SEE VIDEO]

Uconn Buzzer Beater FINAL FOUR

UConn freshman Braylon Mullins stole the ball, sprinted to the logo, and buried a 35-foot three-pointer with 0.4 seconds left to complete a 19-point comeback and end Duke’s season 73-72 in the Elite Eight. It was revenge 36 years in the making, and it sent the Huskies to their third Final Four in four years.

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Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship Case: What Trump v. Barbara Could Mean for Every American Born on U.S. Soil

SUPREME COURT TO HEAR BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ARGUMENTS THIS WEEK IN POTENTIAL LANDMARK CASE

The Supreme Court hears oral arguments Tuesday in Trump v. Barbara, the administration’s challenge to birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment. Every lower court has struck down Trump’s executive order. But the stakes of even a partial ruling for the government could create what legal scholars are calling constitutional chaos for proving who is and isn’t an American.

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