A federal appeals court on Wednesday lifted a judge's order blocking President Trump from calling Oregon National Guard troops into federal service but he still may not deploy them, for now. The temporary, administrative stay puts U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut's order halting Trump's federalization of the National Guard members on hold while the appeals court weighs whether to extend the pause as it considers the administration's appeal. But it keeps in place her second order barring the president from sending the troops anywhere in the state while the appeals court weighs the administration's appeal. Read more here. |
The Senate failed to reopen the federal government Wednesday as the shutdown stretches into its eighth day. Read more. |
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the formation of a new "barracks task force" to improve living conditions for U.S. service members during his Tuesday speech to new military recruits at the Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia. Read more. |
Former White House aide Steve Bannon bemoaned that former FBI Director James Comey did not walk through the front door of the Virginia courthouse where he was arraigned Wednesday on charges linked to his 2020 congressional testimony about the investigation into Russian ties to President Trump's 2016 campaign. Read more. |
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) predicted Wednesday that dozens of Republicans may ultimately support legislation requiring the Department of Justice to release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Read more. |
Shutdown jockeying over health care is intensifying, with Republicans showing some cracks in their unity and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) insisting Democrats will only agree to a permanent extension of enhanced ObamaCare subsidies. Read more. |
Staffing shortages are contributing to ground delays, longer wait times and travel modifications at airports across the country due to the government shutdown. Read more. |
The Trump administration can't force organizations that receive federal teen pregnancy prevention grants to comply with an executive order against "indoctrinating" children about "radical gender ideology," a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Read more. |
Florida state Rep. Kevin Steele (R) filed a bill Tuesday that threatens state funding to public universities and colleges if they do not rename specific roads after conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Read more. |
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