Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Rules National Guard Deployment to Los Angeles Must End
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"National Guard deployment: A federal judge said the Trump administration must end its deployment of California National Guard troops in Los Angeles. The ruling said that the federal government had illegally kept troops in the city long after protests erupted this summer over immigration raids there. The order, which was stayed until Monday, requires the control of the troops return to Gov. Gavin Newsom. The Trump administration is expected to appeal. Read more ›
Epstein files: A federal judge granted the Justice Department’s request to unseal records of the grand jury investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a day after granting a similar request in the case against Ghislaine Maxwell, his accomplice. The rulings came in the wake of a new law requiring the department to release all its Epstein files by Dec. 19. Read more ›
Federal Reserve: The Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates on Wednesday at its final gathering of the year. During a speech on the economy on Monday, Mr. Trump claimed without evidence that four members of the central bank’s board may not have been legally appointed. Read more ›
The French presidency said in a statement that President Emmanuel Macron of France, Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain spoke with President Trump about the war in Ukraine on Wednesday.
“The leaders discussed the latest developments in the mediation efforts undertaken by the United States and praised their efforts to achieve a robust and lasting peace in Ukraine,” the statement said, adding that work “will continue in the coming days.” According to the statement, the leaders “agreed that this was a critical moment for Ukraine, its people, and the common security of the Euro-Atlantic region.”
A judge on Wednesday granted the Justice Department’s latest request to unseal records of the federal grand jury investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in the wake of a new law requiring the department to release all its Epstein files by Dec. 19.
The decision by Judge Richard M. Berman of Federal District Court in Manhattan came one day after another judge granted a similar request in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, who conspired with Mr. Epstein in his sex-trafficking scheme.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to immediately end its current deployment of California National Guard troops in Los Angeles, ruling that the federal government had illegally kept them in the city long after intense street protests had ended in the summer.
The ruling by Judge Charles R. Breyer of the Federal District Court in San Francisco applies to about 100 National Guard soldiers who remain in Los Angeles six months after protests erupted over immigration raids.
Representative Haley Stevens of Michigan, a Democrat running for Senate, filed articles of impeachment on Wednesday against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., making an all but certainly futile bid to charge him with undermining public health, diminishing decades of scientific and medical progress and imperiling the health of the American people.
In accusing Mr. Kennedy of an assault on the public health system that constitutes high crimes and misdemeanors, Ms. Stevens said the secretary had delayed biomedical innovation through the “far-reaching” and “haphazard” termination of working scientists. She cited Mr. Kennedy’s cancellation of $8.9 billion in federal research grants, and said he was “chilling medical innovation, including lifesaving clinical research” in what amounted to a violation of his oath of office.
The Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates on Wednesday at its final gathering of the year. Whether it marks the end of a series of reductions that began in September or if borrowing costs will fall further is up for debate.
The Fed finds itself in a uniquely complicated situation. The economy is sending mixed signals, and it is not entirely clear whether officials should be more concerned about inflation getting stuck above the central bank’s 2 percent target or the labor market suddenly weakening. The uncertainty has stoked intense divisions within the Fed, creating a conundrum for Jerome H. Powell, the chair, who is facing pressure from a multitude of fronts.
Facing criticism for rising costs for American consumers under his administration, President Trump stoked fear of immigrants from poor countries to rally a crowd of his supporters at a Pennsylvania casino on Tuesday.
In a speech that the White House billed as an address on the economy, amid a backlash driven in part by Mr. Trump’s sweeping tariffs, Mr. Trump veered between assurances that life was better than ever under his administration and blaming immigrants for the country’s economic woes.
President Trump on Tuesday night gave the first of a series of speeches intended to alleviate Americans’ concerns about the cost of living, but spent most of the time mocking the term “affordability” and insisting that Americans were doing better than they had ever done before.
Speaking to an enthusiastic group of supporters in a casino in Mt. Pocono, Pa., Mr. Trump plunged immediately into the case that Americans, and Pennsylvanians in particular, were actually doing very well, gliding by the evidence about reduced spending power for the middle class."
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