Security services prepared for Trump congressional address: DHS
The Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Secret Service are prepared for the annual State of the Union address, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said on Wednesday, despite a partial government shutdown that has affected federal work…
Pentagon defeats U.S. cities’ appeal over gun check flaws: court
A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected an effort by New York City, Philadelphia and San Francisco to require the Pentagon to do a better job of reporting service members who were disqualified from owning weapons to a national background check sy…
On Prohibition milestone’s anniversary, U.S. top court hears booze case
A case testing the constitutionality of state regulations on the sale of alcohol enacted after the Prohibition era brewed before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, with the justices appearing sympathetic toward a challenge to Tennessee’s residency re…
Migrants depart from El Salvador as new U.S.-bound caravan forms
At least 150 Salvadoran migrants departed in a group for the United States on Wednesday, the latest in a string of such ‘caravans’ that U.S. President Donald Trump has used to build his case for a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border.
As shutdown lingers, Pelosi asks Trump to delay State of Union address
With the U.S. government shutdown dragging into its 26th day, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday urged President Donald Trump to reschedule his State of the Union address – a move that could deny the president the opportunity to use the pageantry …
Trump meeting with lawmaker group was ‘constructive’: White House
President Donald Trump and a bipartisan group of lawmakers dubbed the Problem Solvers Caucus held a “constructive” meeting on Wednesday, the White House said, as a partial shutdown of the U.S. government stretched into its 26th day.
USDA recalls workers for three days to help with farm loans, taxes
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will reopen about 980 Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices for three days starting on Thursday to help process farm loans and tax documents during the partial government shutdown, it said in a statement on Wednesday.
Head of striking Los Angeles teachers’ union aims to resume talks ‘soon’
The head of the Los Angeles teachers union said he hoped to resume talks “very soon” as a strike that has interrupted classes for some 492,000 students in the second-largest U.S. public school system ticked into a third day on Wednesday.
As shutdown lingers, Pelosi urges Trump to reschedule State of the Union
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday asked President Donald Trump to reschedule the annual State of the Union address until the federal government fully reopens, as a partial shutdown stretched into its 26th day with no signs of resolution.
USDA recalls workers to help process farm loans, tax documents: statement
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will temporarily reopen its Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices starting on Thursday to help process farm loans and tax documents, it said in a statement on Wednesday.
