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PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — New federal appeals court rulings will change how protests and crowd control are handled around the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in south Portland, and what rights demonstrators, journalists and nearby residents hold under the law. A panel of Ninth Circuit judges vacated major preliminary injunctions that previously barred federal officers’ use of non-lethal crowd-control measures like tear gas or pepper balls. It also applied strict limits on when and how they could deploy munitions near the Portland ICE facility. In both decisions handed down Tuesday, the judges sided 2-1 with the Trump administration. KATU...

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, will be President Donald Trump's top defender in Congress next year after winning a closed-door election for minority leader on Tuesday, sources told Fox News Digital. Jordan defeated Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., currently the House of Representatives' No. 2 leader, in what's believed to be a narrow race. Jordan received 106 votes to Scalise’s 73, sources in the room told Fox News Digital. Fox News Digital heard loud, sustained applause from outside in the hallway when Jordan’s win became official. Republicans huddled for a candidate forum on Tuesday morning where all GOP...

In 2008, workmen digging trenches for electrical cables in the Estonian island town of Salme uncovered human bones and a variety of objects that they piled next to their trench. At first the bones were thought to be from a soldier killed in World War II, but archaeologists realized that the objects dated to the Viking period. A small team of archaeologists working under Marge Konsa, an archaeologist at the University of Tartu, started excavating and soon found the hull of a ship. Nearly all of the ship's timber had rotted away, leaving behind only discolorations in the soil. But...

Twenty million new voter registrations. Thirty-seven states. No requirement to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship. Those are the striking figures circulating on social media after a viral post on X showed voter registration data from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. ... 20 million new voter registrations occurred between 2022 and 2024 in states that did not require documentary proof of citizenship. The controversy has reignited debate over the SAVE America Act, which would establish stricter citizenship verification requirements for federal voter registration. ... election officials processed more than 103 million voter registration transactions between the 2022 and 2024 general...

President Trump was told aboard Air Force One in May en route to China that the United States had obtained sensitive intelligence showing that Nvidia’s chief executive was in a relationship with a woman believed to be a Chinese spy, people with knowledge of the matter said. The message was delivered by Marco Rubio, his secretary of state and national security adviser, shortly before the Nvidia leader, Jensen Huang, joined the presidential trip to Beijing at Mr. Trump’s invitation. It marked at least the second time in seven months that the president had been told of intelligence about Mr. Huang’s...

Explanation: Sometimes Saturn disappears. It doesn't really go away, of course -- it just disappears from our view when Earth's Moon moves in front. Such a Saturnian eclipse, more formally called an occultation, was visible in early 2025 along a small swath of Earth -- from Greenland through central Europe and into northern Africa. The featured image is a digital fusion of three images, the first of just Saturn before it disappeared, and then two more of the Moon with different exposure lengths. The images were taken from Sardinia, Italy, after sunset. The bright dot near Saturn is not a...

There is no official scorecard on this one, but if there is one word I've heard more than any other from Democratic politicians over the past several years, it might be "democracy." Kamala Harris repeatedly made "democracy is on the ballot" a central theme of her presidential campaign. California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared that "democracy is under assault across this nation." Incoming House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries promised that "we are going to fight for our democracy, fight for the rule of law, and fight for the Constitution against those who want to turn back the clock." These are three examples...

A Ecuadorian-based cocaine and weapons trafficking ring has been broken up in New York. The network stretches from Columbia and Peru into Ecuador, then into Mexico, Texas and other southwest border states and to New York, where contraband is shipped to Europe, authorities say. The network has been operating in the U.S. for more than a decade. Five Ecuadorian nationals have been indicted in the Southern District of New York on charges of conspiring to import vast quantities of cocaine into the U.S. through the network. Those indicted include a former member of Ecuador’s National Assembly, a former Ecuadorian mayor...

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, on Monday insisted the United States “surrender” to Iran’s demands for unconditional concessions to allow for peace negotiations to begin. “The war on Iran has already wrecked the U.S. government. But Washington flails like a desperate gambler,” Rezaei sneered in a Monday night post on social media platform X. “FOLD YOUR HAND. STOP manufacturing FAKE NEWS about imaginary talks. Stop denying the West Asian NEW ORDER,” he wrote. “Time to SURRENDER to the seven conditions Iran has repeatedly set out,” he demanded. Rezaei’s tirade was...

[Catholic Caucus] Archbishop Héctor Agüer: Rest in Peace The best Argentine prelate of the past few decades, Archbishop Héctor Agüer, Emeritus of La Plata, died today. The history of the Church would have been very different if he had been the one made Archbishop of Buenos Aires and Cardinal by John Paul II.Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Hécton Ruben Agüer went to the seminary there, and was made auxiliary of Buenos Aires in February of 1992 -- Bergoglio was made Auxiliary months later, against the advice of the Superior General of the Jesuits. The same Bergoglio, as Francis, accepted...

The shrinking U.S. cattle herd is putting meatpackers out of business, fracturing the supply chain; ‘so difficult to get that capacity back’ EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Utah—Tyson Foods TSN 0.84%increase; green up pointing triangle maintenance worker Austin Campbell was checking his email in August for updates on a promotion when instead he saw a message from the company’s chief executive. “Our beef business is operating in a challenging environment due to the historic cattle shortage,” Donnie King, Tyson’s CEO at the time, wrote in an internal email announcing the closure of the Utah facility where Campbell worked. “These supply constraints are likely...

Right-wing activist Laura Loomer has taken payments from private clients to publish political posts on social media without disclosing them, The Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing Alex Bruesewitz, a former Trump campaign aide, and three other people familiar with the arrangements… Bank transaction emails and a wire transfer statement seen by the paper reportedly show four payments totaling more than $60,000 to Loomer and to King Breaker Media, a Florida-based company registered in her name, since May 2025… Bruesewitz first made his allegations against Loomer public on X on Thursday. In an interview with The Washington Post, he confirmed...

LIVERMORE, CA — Following the news that Chinese agents had been engaging in widespread "honeypot" operations across the United States for years, former Congressman Eric Swalwell was reportedly heartbroken to learn that Chinese intelligence had been seeing other people. Sources revealed that the disgraced former lawmaker was despondent upon finding out that, despite how much he had treasured the relationship, the Chinese government had been going behind his back and cheating on him this whole time. "This is really a kick in the gut," Swalwell reportedly said. "I really thought we had something special. Come to find out, the Chinese...

The Secretary of War’s sweeping Pentagon reforms are exactly the defense revolution America needs, and exactly why the Democrats want his head on a pike.In a cabinet of superstars, Pete Hegseth shines among the brightest. His willingness to take on the corrupt Pentagon procurement system and the Woke FOGO and Deep State establishment — oh, and his willingness to blow up pirates, smugglers, and drug runners just like in the earliest days of the U.S. Navy — has earned him the wrath of many on Capitol Hill, including the entire Democrat caucus and (of course) Thomas Massie. They would much...

A massive Bruce Springsteen fan club, with nearly 20,000 members on Facebook alone, has shut down as its members have been caught in constant cycle of bickering over Springsteen’s left-wing politics, especially since his endorsement of Michigan Democrat Senator-Elect Abdul El-Sayed. Bruce Springsteen Fan Club Shuts Down After His Left-Wing Activism, Abdul El-Sayed Endorsement Mariano Regidor/Redferns Warner Todd Huston10 Nov 2026371 3:23 A massive Bruce Springsteen fan club, with nearly 20,000 members on Facebook alone, has shut down as its members have been caught in constant cycle of bickering over Springsteen’s left-wing politics, especially since his endorsement of Michigan Democrat...

10 November 2026 Saint Leo the Great, Pope, Doctor on Tuesday of week 32 in Ordinary Time Altar of Saint Leo The Great, Basilica of Saint Peter's, Vatican These are the readings for the feriaFirst readingTitus 2:1-8,11-14You must preach the behaviour which goes with healthy doctrineIt is for you to preach the behaviour which goes with healthy doctrine. The older men should be reserved, dignified, moderate, sound in faith and love and constancy. Similarly, the older women should behave as though they were religious, with no scandal-mongering and no habitual wine-drinking – they are to be the teachers of...

Broken pieces of limestone from a 4,400-year-old tomb in Egypt carry one of the earliest known Egyptian autobiographies. In it, an official named Khuwy presents himself as an honest man who was close to the royal couple. An Egyptian official who lived some 4,400 years ago wanted to be remembered as a man who never took anything from anyone. His words survive only in fragments, but those fragments may help show where a long Egyptian habit began: carving your own life story on the walls of your tomb. The man was called Khuwy. His tomb was uncovered in 2019 at...

Americans have handed the new Congress its marching orders: Tackle the affordability crisis that’s keeping so many young people locked out of the housing market. Housing affordability was one of several key themes that resonated with voters from South Carolina and Ohio to Texas, Montana, and beyond, helping more than 40 Democrats to flip seats in both the Senate and House of Representatives during last week’s midterm elections... Earlier this year, the National Association of Realtors reported that the typical first-time homebuyer is now 40 years old, a record high and a sharp increase from even five years ago, when...

Migrant caravans are pushing north toward the United States just days after Democrats scored sweeping midterm victories, with some migrants openly admitting they believe the election results could make it easier to enter the country.Check Voting Info The movement comes as President Donald Trump’s administration continues enforcing its immigration crackdown, despite Democrats winning control of Congress and flipping the Texas governor’s mansion. Groups traveling from Honduras and El Salvador have begun making their way through Central America, hoping to reach the U.S. southern border. Some migrants told CNN they were encouraged by the Democratic victories and believe the political shift...

A stigma report from Austin reveals high levels of internalized stigma and a lack of social support for people aging with HIV. ___________________ In an effort to understand how stigma affects Central Texans living with HIV, public health advocates in Austin interviewed people with HIV in five counties over two years. Their results have been released in a report titled People Living with HIV Stigma Index 2.0. They summarize four main findings: 1. Internalized stigma is still common. 2. Stigma creates barriers to care and treatment. 3. Disclosure can bring support, but confidentiality concerns remain. 4. Stigma affects social and...