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Court Lets Trump Deploy National Guard Troops in Oregon

By Dareh Gregorian and Gary Grumbach A federal appeals court ruling Monday will allow the Trump administration to send National Guard troops into Oregon against the state’s wishes, hitting pause on a lower court’s order that had barred the deployment. “After considering the record at this preliminary stage, we conclude that it is likely that the President lawfully exercised his statutory authority,” the panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges wrote in a 2-1 ruling. Justice Department attorneys had argued in a court filing that U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut’s ruling temporarily halting the deployment “improperly impinges on the Commander in Chief’s supervision of military operations,

Kamala Harris Rallies Democrats Amid Government Shutdown

By Bill Barrow As Democrats dig in for a lengthening government shutdown, former Vice President Kamala Harris is cheering them on as she travels the country touting her presidential campaign memoir amid speculation about another White House run. The Democratic 2024 nominee told The Associated Press in an interview Friday that she remains in contact with Democrats on Capitol Hill, encouraging them to maintain their demands that President Donald Trump and the Republican congressional majority address looming spikes in Affordable Care Act health insurance premiums. “The Republicans control the House. They control the Senate. They control the White House. They are in charge,

‘No Kings’ Protests Erupt Nationwide Against Trump Rule

By  Mike Pesoli, Matt Brown And Gary Fields  Large crowds of protesters marched and rallied in cities across the U.S. Saturday for “ No Kings ” demonstrations decrying what participants see as the government’s swift drift into authoritarianism under President Donald Trump. People carrying signs with slogans such as “Nothing is more patriotic than protesting” or “Resist Fascism” packed into New York City’s Times Square and rallied by the thousands in parks in Boston, Atlanta and Chicago. Demonstrators marched through Washington and downtown Los Angeles and picketed outside capitols in several Republican-led states, a courthouse in Billings, Montana, and at hundreds of smaller

AWS Outage Disrupts Major Sites, Games & Services

By Patrick Smith A major cloud computing service went offline early Monday, causing problems for thousands of websites and services including leading retailers, publishers and games. Amazon Web Services first reported a problem at 12:11 a.m. PT (3:11 a.m. ET) and said it was dealing with an “operational issue” affecting 14 different services in its center in northern Virginia. “We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region,” the AWS health dashboard said. At 5:27 a.m. ET the dashboard said there were “significant signs of recovery” with most attempts to reach websites and services succeeding, despite

HBCUs Face New Challenges Under Parent Plus Loan Limits

By Danielle Chemtob Antonio Sweeney relied on a mix of private and school scholarships, plus a federal Pell Grant for low income students, to pay for his first two years at his dream school, Morehouse College, in Atlanta, the alma mater of Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Georgia) and Martin Luther King Jr. But by junior year, most of the outside scholarship money was used up and he had taken on so many activities–from serving as class president to running his own side businesses–that he hadn’t earned enough credits to keep his Morehouse academic scholarship. He filled the gap that year by taking out

Major News Networks Reject New Pentagon Press Policy

By Daniel Arkin Five major broadcast news networks announced Tuesday that they will not sign the Pentagon’s new press policy before an afternoon deadline, joining several other media organizations that have objected to a set of rules that many journalists consider restrictive. “Today, we join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon’s new requirements, which would restrict journalists’ ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues,” NBC News said in a joint statement with ABC News, CBS News, CNN and Fox News Media. “The policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic

Chicago Schools Face ICE Raids, Students Feel Unsafe

By Daniella Silva and Natasha Korecki A teacher said tear gas drifted toward a school playground, forcing students and recess indoors. A viral video recorded near another school showed law enforcement dragging a woman out of her van and onto the ground. And students say they have seen ICE vehicles in their neighborhoods, leading them to feel frightened, according to one instructor. Educators say those incidents and others that have taken place as federal immigration agents increase arrests in Chicago are disrupting their jobs, upending their communities and traumatizing their students. “Everyone’s very anxious,” said Sheena Shukla, a school social worker for Chicago

JD Vance Defends Young GOP Leaders Over Racist Chat

By Henry J. Gomez and Allan Smith Vice President JD Vance has come to the defense of young Republican leaders who are under scrutiny after Politico published “hundreds of racist and hateful messages” from what it reported was their private group chat. The “reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys,” Vance said Wednesday in an appearance on “The Charlie Kirk Show,” the podcast launched by the recently assassinated conservative activist who was a close ally of Vance and President Donald Trump. “They tell edgy, offensive jokes, like, that’s what kids do,” Vance continued. “And I really don’t want us to grow up

Judge Blocks Trump Layoffs of Federal Workers in Shutdown

By Fiona Glisson and Ryan J. Reilly A federal judge on Wednesday granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from laying off federal workers during the government shutdown, which has now stretched to two weeks. Two unions sued the Trump administration last month ahead of the shutdown after the White House signaled a plan to lay off workers through “reductions in force” (RIFs) at federal agencies. At a hearing on Wednesday, a federal judge in the Northern District of California granted the unions’ motion to issue a temporary restraining order preventing the layoffs, which began on Friday. “The activities that are being undertaken here

Trump Administration Cuts 600 CDC Jobs Amid Shutdown

By Pien Huag Around 600 workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were cut over the long weekend, as part of a wider push by the Trump Administration to slash the size of the federal workforce during the government shutdown. It was not a smooth process. On Friday, more than 1,300 CDC employees were notified that they had lost their jobs. Many of them were furloughed because of the shutdown, and found out only after Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, posted on X that “the RIFs have begun.” The next day, around 700 employees got emails revoking

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