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The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to intervene and issue an order that would allow it to move forward and use military funds for a wall on the southern border. In the filing, the administration asked the court to lift a district court order that placed a permanent injunction on the Trump administration’s diversion of some military funds for the border wall. Solicitor General Noel Francisco wrote in his filing that he is asking for the justices to issue an “immediate administrative stay” of the injunction, as the Department of Justice appeals it to the Ninth Circuit....

The man in charge of safeguarding the United States against a ballistic missile attack warned members of the House Armed Services Committee's Strategic Forces Subcommittee on March 25 that in the coming years the country will face a ballistic threat from a variety of sources. Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronald T. Kadish is director of the Missile Defense Agency, which has the task of building the nation's missile defense capability. He told the committee that intelligence estimates and Libya's recent admissions concerning its ballistic missile and weapons-of-mass-destruction programs show the United States is vulnerable. Kadish was on Capitol Hill to...