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Nov 20 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday halted for now President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Washington D.C., dealing Trump a temporary legal setback to his efforts to send the military to American cities over the objections of local leaders.U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to enforce the law in the nation’s capital without approval from its mayor.Read about innovative ideas and the people working on solutions to global crises with the Reuters Beacon newsletter. Sign up here.Cobb paused...

A critical mount that kept the left engine attached to the UPS flight that crashed in Louisville earlier this month failed only moments after the doomed flight broke ground, according to a new report from the National Transportation Safety Board The report includes stunning frame-by-frame photos of the left engine of three-engined McDonnell Douglas MD-11F separating from the plane and going up and over the wing and igniting a fireball seen in a sequence of six extraordinary new images obtained by investigators. The three pilots of UPS flight 2976 and 11 people on the ground were killed when the beleaguered...

Political figures from across the aisle gathered Thursday in Washington, DC, for former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral — sending off a key figure of pre-MAGA Republican politics. The funeral, which was attended by two former presidents and all living former vice presidents, was a bipartisan who’s who of Washington dignitaries yet with the notable absence of two of the country’s current leaders. Neither President Donald Trump nor Vice President JD Vance attended the service, and they were not invited to the funeral, according to a source familiar with the matter. Vance said Thursday that the former vice president was...

Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki opens up about uncovering secrets, working with Pamela Anderson, and the global power struggle that turned the WikiLeaks founder into a political target. For filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, the story of The Six Billion Dollar Man began with a leak — one that shook even a seasoned documentarian known for tackling political corruption and moral collapse. “It started about five years ago,” Jarecki says. “My producing partner Kathleen Fournier and I came into possession of absolutely groundbreaking and shattering information on the Assange case that had never been seen by the public before.” That information, he adds, revealed...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican opens ‘listening space’ in St. Peter’s Basilica for ‘encounter’ with visitorsThe Vatican has installed a non-sacramental ‘listening space’ in St. Peter’s Basilica for dialogue between visitors and priests, nuns, or laypeople. The Vatican is opening up “listening spaces” in St. Peter’s Basilica, despite the presence of dozens of confessionals.According to the Agencia Informativa Católica Argentina (AICA) news agency, the Vatican is establishing a Spazio d’Ascolto, translated to “Listening Space,” in St. Peter’s Basilica to allow visitors dialogue with priests, nuns, or lay people.“The Holy Door, opened at the time, inspired us to open ‘another door’ in St....

Volodymyr Zelensky will speak to Donald Trump after the US presented Ukraine with a draft peace plan to end the war with Russia. The plan was reportedly drafted by US special envoy Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart Kirill Dmitriev, without Ukraine's involvement. In a statement, Zelensky's office said the US believed the draft plan could "help reinvigorate diplomacy" and added that Ukraine had "agreed to work on the plan's provisions in a way that would bring about a just end to the war". Kyiv supported "all substantive proposals capable of bringing genuine peace closer," the statement said. The Ukrainians...

Emerging footage of the Red Fort bomber rationalising the attack highlights extremist mindset amid ongoing investigation.delhi PIB_India/X, News ‘Suicide Bombing a Misunderstood Concept’: Spine-Chilling Video of Suspected Delhi Bomber Dr Umar Nabi Emerges Emerging footage of the Red Fort bomber rationalising the attack highlights extremist mindset amid ongoing investigation. Picture of Aanchal Mishra Aanchal Mishra November 19, 2025 A self-recorded video of Dr Umar un Nabi, accused suicide bomber in the November 10 2025 Delhi car blast, has emerged, where he justifies the attack as a “martyrdom operation,” claiming suicide bombing is a “misunderstood concept” in Islam. The blast killed...

The Trump administration has canceled several New York judicial citizenship ceremonies over unmet legal requirements and will no longer let county courts or state supreme court justices preside over them.U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is "dedicated to ensuring that all aspects of the naturalization process comply with federal law," agency spokesperson Matthew Tragesser told TV station WSYR on Wednesday.“After reviewing the jurisdiction of certain New York County courts under the Immigration and Nationality Act, we have determined that these courts do not meet the statutory requirements to conduct naturalization ceremonies," he said. \As a result, the agency will USCIS move...

https://babylonbee.com/news/in-show-of-support-for-immigrants-pope-leo-dons-new-papal-sombrero VATICAN — In a powerful show of solidarity with people who cross America's southern border illegally, Pope Leo XIV unveiled a brand new Papal Sombrero at the Vatican. The ornate Spanish headwear is trimmed with real gold and cost $12 million, according to sources. "Church teaching is clear on this. Walls are racist, and deporting illegal immigrants is a mortal sin," said Pope Leo as the Sistine Chapel Choir sang a lively rendition of "La Cucaracha" in Latin. "Also, our Catholic NGOs at the southern border are strapped for cash, and withholding these needed funds is an affront to...

The Muslim Brotherhood is halfway through its plan to “transform Western society from within” by covertly embedding its allies and ideology on college campuses and in other mainstays of American life, a new report warns. The analysis, published Wednesday by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), calls on the US to designate the Islamist group a terror organization to thwart its efforts to penetrate all aspects of American life. “We are now 50 years into the Brotherhood’s 100-year plan to entrench themselves into key institutions in the United States and other Western societies to undermine...

The Epstein files were the latest Never Trump plot to take down Trump. It failed. When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene apologized to CNN, went on The View, blamed Trump for supposed death threats, was hailed by the Washington Post and welcomed to join the Democrats by Rep. Jamie Raskin, many in MAGA compared her to Rep. Liz Cheney. The original Never Trump is long since dead, its leading lights indistinguishable from Democrats, hammered home by Bill Kristol’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani, but a new Never Trump 2.0 has formed, once again made up of Republicans like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene...

More mush from the wimps. Donald Trump is very bad, because mumble mumble mumble.Even by the pathetic standards of congressional Democrats, this is unusually idiotic. Note what they don’t say. They say that the American military is being “pitted against” their own countrymen, and they say to service members that “you can refuse illegal orders…” …but they don’t say, even once, even in a pretty clear hint, precisely what illegal orders Trump has issued. He’s being vaguely bad, so you don’t have to obey him. The serious version would look like this: On [date here], the president of the United...

NEW YORK, NY — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced plans on Thursday to specifically target the rich with a new tax on anyone who makes more than $0.00 a year. The plan, dubbed the "How Much You Got?" Tax, was expected to go into effect in January after Mamdani officially takes office. He has called the tax a day-one initiative, claiming his bread lines would be a disaster without the increased revenue from taking all of everyone's money. "Everything will be free because we'll use everyone's money to pay for it," Mamdani said. "It's basic economics. You wouldn't understand." Officially, Mamdani...

Explanation: Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka are the bright bluish stars from east to west (upper right to lower left) along the diagonal in this cosmic vista. Otherwise known as the Belt of Orion, these three blue supergiant stars are hotter and much more massive than the Sun. They lie from 700 to 2,000 light-years away, born of Orion's well-studied interstellar clouds. In fact, clouds of gas and dust adrift in this region have some surprisingly familiar shapes, including the dark Horsehead Nebula and Flame Nebula near Alnitak at the upper right. The famous Orion Nebula itself is off the right...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced on Thursday new oil drilling off the California and Florida coasts for the first time in decades, advancing a project that critics say could harm coastal communities and ecosystems, as President Donald Trump seeks to expand U.S. oil production. The oil industry has been seeking access to new offshore areas, including Southern California and off the coast of Florida, as a way to boost U.S. energy security and jobs. The federal government has not allowed drilling in federal waters in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, which includes offshore Florida and part of offshore...

Lee Zeldin responds after Rep. Jasmine Crockett falsely links him to Jeffrey Epstein. Zeldin breaks down the mix-up, the fake “donation,” and why the claims collapsed instantly. Pat presses on political spin, media framing, and what really happened.

President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order that would sharply limit state authority over artificial intelligence (AI). The draft, reported by The Verge, casts AI innovation as a national-security priority and warns that state rules threaten economic growth and technological leadership. Yet the plan likely violates the 10th Amendment, which reserves core regulatory and police powers to the states. It also outlines an unusually aggressive federal campaign to preempt and override state laws.Trump previewed the move in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday:Investment in AI is helping to make the U.S. Economy the “HOTTEST” in the World, but...

As a Catholic, I've always thought the argument about women priests was a waste of time. There aren't going to be any, given Catholic Church doctrine. The Vatican is lately stringing the wokester women of the Church along on maybe deacons, but that's settled, too, the answer will be 'no.' It's hardly something to get upset about. Being a priest is just a role, and it doesn't give anyone an express route to Heaven if they don't behave. Why fuss about different roles played and insist on changing tradition which dates back to the Apostles when the idea is to...

But remember, the UN, politicians, and bureaucrats can control temperatures, sea levels, and storms if we just give up our quality of life and money. The green pushers never answer why all their previous dire forecasts have been wrong, but that doesn’t seem to slow them down: global bureaucrats and politicians are about to wrap up COP30, their 30th annual gabfest where they pretend they can control the climate forever. For this conference, they flew into Brazil in their private jets as they lectured us not to use oil. They tore down a massive swath of the rainforest so they...

American troops have stormed a Mexican beach setting off a diplomatic firestorm amid soaring tensions after Donald Trump threatened to bomb the country. US 'contractors' arrived by boat on Monday to 'Playa Bagdad', driving signs into the sand near where the Rio Grande empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Alarmed witnesses quickly alerted officials and heavily-armed Mexican security personnel rushed to the scene on trucks mounted with machine guns in a terrifying standoff.