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WASHINGTON (AP) — A call to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide is on the agenda Friday for the justices’ closed-door conference. Among the new cases the justices are expected to consider is a longshot appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. …

President Trump on Friday accused foreign-owned meat packers of driving up the price of beef in the U.S. and asked the Department of Justice to open an investigation. The president announced the move on social media days after his party suffered losses in key elections in which the winning Democratic candidates focused relentlessly on the public’s concerns about the cost …

President Donald Trump launched into an angry tirade after being confronted about cost-of-living pressures, calling affordability a Democratic “con job” and insisting prices are “way down.” Days after Democrats won a clean sweep of elections, largely over concerns about the economy, the president was confronted about the issue during a meeting at the White House with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor …

‘A battlefield victory’: Trump’s tariff critics doubt they’ll win the war, even if Supreme Court steps in  Politico Did Trump’s Supreme Court Tariffs Brief Include a Strategic Blunder?  The New York Times What happens if the Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariffs? More tariffs  CNN How Far Can Donald Trump Take Emergency Power?  The New Yorker The most conservative Supreme Court justices will likely …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday the Pentagon is revamping how the military buys weapons, shifting the focus away from producing advanced and complex technology and toward products that can be made and delivered quickly. Hegseth, speaking to military leaders and defense contractors in Washington, said the “objective is simple: transform the entire acquisition system to operate …

A federal judge on Friday issued a ruling “permanently” blocking the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon. In late September, President Trump announced he would be deploying federal troops to Portland in response to downtown protests outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility over the administration’s immigration crackdown. The Trump administration later placed 200 Oregon National Guard …

Congressional Democrats have written at least eight letters seeking information about President Trump’s $300 million ballroom project. So far, those oversight requests have yielded few substantive responses from the administration and a nonprofit involved in the project.  The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Rep. Robert Garcia of California, received no response to his letter seeking architectural plans, budgets and …

Dr. James Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA double helix in his office at his Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory office in Cold Spring Harbor, New York on June 10, 2015. J. Conrad Williams, Jr./Newsday/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption J. Conrad Williams, Jr./Newsday/Getty Images For James Watson, DNA was everything — not just his life’s work, but the secret of life …

Ashlee Buzzard, the mother of 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard, who has been the subject of a missing person investigation, was taken into custody on Friday. Buzzard was seen handcuffed and being led by Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s officials from her Vandenberg Village home into a waiting sheriff’s vehicle. Sheriff’s officials say her arrest on a felony charge of false imprisonment is …

Trump says GOP would never lose an election again if filibuster is eliminated  Axios Trump wants to abolish the filibuster. GOP senators aren’t on board.  The Washington Post Trump Increases Pressure on His Own Party as the Shutdown Grinds On  The New York Times GOP support for eliminating filibuster picks up steam after Trump pressure  The Hill How Trump Wants to Help Democrats  The Atlantic …