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US judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from deploying national guard in Portland

By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) -A federal judge on Saturday temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump from deploying 200 Oregon National Guard troops to the city of Portland while a lawsuit challenging the move plays out. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut in Portland ...
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The GOP says it’s winning the shutdown. Some fear Trump’s cuts may change that

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has embraced the federal shutdown as an “unprecedented opportunity” to slash spending and shrink government, but new rounds of targeted spending cuts from the White House aimed at Democratic states and priorities are raising concerns among Republicans that ...
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In Tennessee, a US House primary special election draws a crowd

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee special election to replace a Republican congressman who stepped aside this summer has resulted in crowded primaries for both major parties, a new test for one of three districts that GOP lawmakers drew as safely red in 2022 ...
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Centrist Republicans warn against Trump’s partisan shutdown strategy

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s freezing of funds for Democratic-led states has raised concerns among some centrist Republicans in the U.S. Congress, who worry that leaning into these divisions could make it harder to end an ongoing government shutdown. “You’re going to create ...
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Analysis-Did Trump’s crime crackdown in Washington work? It’s complicated

By Jack Queen, Brad Heath and Kripa Jayaram WASHINGTON, October 4 (Reuters) -After mobilizing hundreds of federal agents and thousands of soldiers to the nation’s capital, President Donald Trump has declared victory over what he called a “crisis” of crime in Washington, and floated the ...
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George Clooney says Trump should create incentives, not tariffs, for movie industry

(Reuters) -Movie star George Clooney said on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 100% tariff on all films produced overseas was the wrong solution for a real issue.  Clooney spoke before the annual Albies awards ceremony in London, a program that ...
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Education Department altered employees’ emails to blame shutdown on Democrats, lawsuit says

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal workers’ union filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging the Trump administration’s alteration of furloughed U.S. Department of Education employees’ out-of-office email messages to include language blaming Democrats in the U.S. Senate for the government shutdown. The American Federation of Government ...
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Trump administration offers unaccompanied migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily leave US, letter shows

By Christian Martinez LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The Trump administration is offering unaccompanied migrant children $2,500 to leave the U.S. voluntarily, according to a letter seen by Reuters that was sent to migrant shelters. Officials at the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed ...
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US considers $1 Trump coin to mark 250th independence celebrations

By Costas Pitas and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Treasury is considering making a $1 coin featuring President Donald Trump to commemorate 250 years since the declaration of American independence in 2026, it said on Friday.   Images of the potential design showed Trump holding a ...
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Second US appeals court rejects Trump’s order curtailing birthright citizenship

By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s effort to curtail birthright citizenship was declared unconstitutional by a second U.S. appeals court on Friday, handing him another defeat on a core piece of his hardline immigration agenda whose ultimate fate may lay with the U.S. ...
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AP reader question: Have agencies violated the Hatch Act by using Democrat-blaming language online?

Here’s a question about the shutdown submitted by an Associated Press reader, Deanna: Experts disagree on whether the Democrat-blaming language on the website of HUD and various other government agencies reaches the threshold of violating the 1939 Hatch Act, which restricts certain political activities ...
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Key Democrat blasts ‘abrupt’ end of popular US tariff exemption for package shipments

By David Lawder and Lisa Baertlein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee accused the Trump administration of having inadequate customs procedures in place as it ended the “de minimis” U.S. tariff exemption for packages valued below $800, leading to severe ...
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