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November 16, 2025
Texas, California National Guard members to leave Portland and Chicago
November 15, 2025, 4:48 PM The 200 federalized California National Guard members sent to Portland, Oregon, and another 200 federalized Texas National Guard members sent to Chicago will return to their home states, according to two U.S. officials. The federalized Guard troops arrived in those cities in early October but never deployed operationally because of legal challenges that continue playing out in the courts. Late Friday night, U.S. Northern Command hinted that changes were coming t ...
Go to discussionSmithsonian museums, National Zoo reopenings bring flocks of visitors
PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2025, 4:25 PM ET Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo are welcoming members of the public back after weeks of closures because of the government shutdown. The Smithsonian Institution, which receives federal funding and comprises the largest museum complex in the world, closed as the shutdown entered its third week after initially using budget funds from previous years to stay open. The facilities are now reopening on a rolling basis through Monday. After a month shuttere ...
Go to discussionTrump buys at least $82 million in bonds since late August, disclosures show
November 15, 2025 7:06 PM EST Updated 11 hours ago WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump bought at least $82 million in corporate and municipal bonds from late August to early October including new investments in sectors benefiting from his policies, financial disclosures made public on Saturday showed. According to the forms released by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, Trump carried out more than 175 financial purchases from August 28 through October 2. The disclosu ...
Go to discussionAlice Wong, disability rights activist and writer, dies at 51
Nov. 15, 2025, 5:57 PM EST SAN FRANCISCO — Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and author whose independence and writing inspired others, has died. She was 51. Wong died Friday because of an infection at a hospital in San Francisco, said Sandy Ho, a close friend who has been in touch with Wong’s family. Ho called her friend a “luminary of the disability justice movement” who wanted to see a world where people with disabilities, especially ones of marginalized demographics who were peopl ...
Go to discussionDOJ Defends Reassignment of Military Lawyers to Serve as Immigration Judges
Published Nov 15, 2025 at 05:36 PM EST updated Nov 15, 2025 at 05:46 PM EST The Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a 13-page defense of the decision to temporarily reassign Defense Department lawyers to immigration tasks, saying that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may do so since the lawyers will work "on a full-time basis, in an entirely civilian capacity, under the supervision of civilian DOJ supervisors." "Under our longstanding view, those conditions are sufficient to compl ...
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