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US judge bars Education Department emails blaming shutdown on Democrats  Reuters Editing federal employees’ emails to blame Democrats for shutdown violated their First Amendment rights, judge says  CNN Federal Judge Rules Against Trump Officials on Partisan Email Messages  The New York Times Education Department’s out-of-office messages blaming Democrats for the shutdown are unconstitutional, judge rules  NBC News Court rules Trump administration violated First Amendment …

What to Know About Trump’s Transgender Passport Policy After Supreme Court Ruling  The New York Times Supreme Court sides with Trump administration on sex designations on passports  SCOTUSblog Supreme Court allows Trump to limit passport sex markers for trans and nonbinary Americans  CNN Supreme Court allows Trump to prohibit gender election on passports  NPR Supreme Court shadow docket passport decision shows how Trump wins  MSNBC …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald 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 Republican 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 …

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A UPS cargo plane was nearly airborne when a bell sounded in the cockpit. For the next 25 seconds, the bell rang and the pilots tried to control the aircraft as it barely lifted off the runway, its left wing ablaze and missing an engine, and then plowed into the ground in a spectacular fireball, the …

US President Donald Trump says he will consider allowing Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban to buy Russian oil, in an exemption from sanctions aimed at helping to end the Ukraine war. Speaking on Friday during Orban’s visit to the White House, Trump said an allowance might be made because “it’s very difficult for him [Orban] to get the oil and …

US officials to boycott G20 summit in South Africa, Trump says  Politico Trump says U.S. will boycott G20 in South Africa, repeating claims about ‘abuses’ of white farmers  PBS Trump says US will skip G20 in South Africa  The Hill Trump says no US government official will attend G20 summit in South Africa  Reuters Trump, 79, Gets Basic Geography Wrong in Awkward Senior Moment  The …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald 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 Republican 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 of …

Trump says he brought down gas prices. The reality is more complicated.  Politico ‘Prices are not way down’: A Republican just broke Trump’s illusion wide open  The Mary Sue 🇺🇸 TRUMP: PRESS DOES NOT REPORT THAT PRICES ARE GOING DOWN “Our energy costs are way down. Our groceries are way down. Everything is way down. And the press does not report it. …

A federal judge in Oregon on Friday blocked Donald Trump from deploying national guard troops to Portland, ruling there was no evidence of widespread violence to justify federal intervention. The US district court judge, Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, delivered her final order in the case on Friday. She found that protests near Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility …