Governor Tina Kotek of Oregon said in a statement on Monday that every member of the state’s national guard called into federal service by the Pentagon should be sent home to their families since a federal judge issued a permanent injunction calling Donald Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland illegal.

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Kotek said that the 100 members of Oregon’s national guard remain mobilized in response to the president’s wildly false claims about a small anti-ICE protest in Portland.

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According to the governor, all 200 California national guard troops sent to Oregon by the Pentagon are scheduled to return to their home state on Monday, and 100 members of Oregon’s national guard called into federal service in September have been demobilized by the US army’s Northern Command.

n “President Trump’s disregard for the rule of law has real human consequences,” Kotek said in a statement. “Members of the Oregon National Guard, who are our friends and neighbors, have been away from their families and jobs for 50 days on an unnecessary deployment. With the holidays approaching, every single member deserves to go home.”

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Troy Nehls, a Texas Republican and Trump loyalist, who pledged three days ago that he would “be voting NO on the Epstein Hoax”, has reportedly had a change of heart, telling a New York Times reporter on Monday that he now intends to vote yes.

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Nehls, a former sheriff, was sworn in for his first term as a congressman on 3 January 2021. Three days later, he was caught on video by a member of the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol telling a rioter through the battered door of the House chamber that he was “ashamed” of him.

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The president has doubled down on his promise that the revenue raised from his sweeping tariffs will result in $2,000 checks for American families. “We’re going to be issuing dividends later on, some somewhere prior to probably in the middle of next year,” he said. “We have a lot of money from tariffs. If we didn’t have tariffs, this nation would be in serious trouble.”

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This, despite the fact the president cannot unilaterally decide how tariff income will be spent. Federal law confers that power to Congress. Also, the supreme court is now deliberating the legality of the levies. Earlier this month, liberal and conservative justices alike seemed skeptical of the means and methods of the administration’s tariff policy.

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In the Oval Office, the president said today that he would sign a bill to release the complete tranche of Epstein files if it ends up on his desk.

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“All I want is, I want for people to recognize a great job that I’ve done on pricing, on affordability, because we brought prices way down,” Trump said. “I just don’t want Epstein to detract from the great success of the Republican Party, including the fact that the Democrats are totally blamed for the shutdown.”

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We’ll give them everything. Sure. I would let them, let the Senate look at it, let anybody look at it, but don’t talk about it too much, because honestly, I don’t want to take it away from us. It’s really a Democrat problem. The Democrats were Epstein’s friends, all of them, and it’s a hoax.

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Donald Trump said he doesn’t “rule out anything” when asked about the possibility of troops on the ground in Venezuela.

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“We just have to take care of Venezuela. They dumped hundreds of 1000s of people into our country from prisons,” the president added, while underscoring that Nicolás Maduro has done “done tremendous damage” to the US “primarily because of drugs”.

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As the redistricting battle continues across several states, Donald Trump said that he will be “endorsing against” any Indiana lawmaker who “votes against the Republican Party, and our Nation, by not allowing for Redistricting for Congressional seats”.

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This comes as the speaker in the Hoosier state’s senate president said that there weren’t enough votes to accomplish a mid-decade redistricting plan at the behest of Trump. For his part, Indiana GOP governor Mike Braun said that he “had a great call” with the president today, and urged state legislators to “show up for work and take a public vote for fair maps to counter the gerrymandering in California and Illinois”.

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Braun added: “I told him [Trump] I remain committed to standing with him on the critical issue of passing fair maps in Indiana to ensure the MAGA agenda is successful in Congress.”

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Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has called for Harvard University to sever ties with its former president Larry Summers, in an interview with CNN. This comes as several emails between Summers and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appeared in the trove of documents released by the House oversight committee last week. The pair maintained a friendship for years.

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“For decades, Larry Summers has demonstrated his attraction to serving the wealthy and well-connected, but his willingness to cozy up to a convicted sex offender demonstrates monumentally bad judgment,” Warren told CNN. “If he had so little ability to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein even after all that was publicly known about Epstein’s sex offenses involving underage girls, then Summers cannot be trusted to advise our nation’s politicians, policymakers, and institutions – or teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else.”

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Summers, who previously served as treasury secretary under Bill Clinton, is now the subject of a new investigation that Trump initiated last week. The president instructed attorney general Pam Bondi to launch a probe into several Democrats and institutions after their names appeared in the latest tranche of documents, which included emails that seemed to suggest Trump himself might have known about Epstein’s conduct.

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David Richardson, the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), has resigned after a brief stint leading the agency, according to the Washington Post.

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The Post cites people familiar with the matter, and notes that Richardson “kept a low profile and was known for frequently being inaccessible, including during the early hours of the flood disaster in Texas over the Fourth of July weekend”.

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The Trump administration has been vocal about wanting to dismantle Fema, and Richardson’s boss – homeland security secretary Kristi Noem – stopped him from doing interviews or answering other media requests, according to an official with knowledge of the situation who spoke on the Post condition of anonymity.

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A US judge has found evidence of “government misconduct” in how a prosecutor aligned with Donald Trump secured criminal charges against former FBI director James Comey and ordered that grand jury materials be turned over to Comey’s defense team.

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Last week, prosecutors were ordered to produce a trove of materials from the investigation, with the court saying it was concerned that the US justice department’s position on Comey had been to “indict first and investigate later”.

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Comey is charged with lying to Congress in 2020 in a case filed days after the US president appeared to urge his attorney general to prosecute the former FBI director and other perceived political enemies. He has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyers have argued that it is a vindictive prosecution brought at the direction of the Republican president and must be dismissed.

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Former national security adviser and noted Trump adversary John Bolton said that he supports “the idea of returning the government of Venezuela to its own people” in an interview with CNN today. But he remains “troubled” because he doesn’t “see what the plan is”.

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If it’s simply about illegal narcotics, that’s one thing. But it seems to be about overthrowing Maduro. Why else bring the Gerald R Ford carrier strike group from the European theater to the Caribbean? Trump has now put the gun on the table. The question is, is he going to use it or not?

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It’s worth remembering that FBI searched Bolton’s home earlier this year, and he was later charged with transmitting and retaining highly classified information under the Espionage Act. He pleaded not guilty, following his indictment last month.

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Several of Jeffrey Epstein’s survivors appear in a new public service announcement to encourage House lawmakers to vote for the complete release of justice department files on the late sex offender.

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In the video, produced by anti-trafficking organization World Without Exploitation, the survivors hold pictures of their younger selves. “It’s time to bring the secrets out of the shadows,” one says. The video ends with the screen reading: “Five administrations and we’re still in the dark.”

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Robert Garcia, the ranking member of the House oversight committee, which released the tranche of new Epstein documents last week, said that Donald Trump “has tried everything to kill our Jeffrey Epstein investigation”.

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The Democrat went on to say: “Now [Trump’s] panicking and has realized he is about to lose this Epstein vote to force the Department of Justice to release the files.

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“Let’s be crystal clear: Trump has the power to release all the files today,” Garcia added in a statment. “But instead, he wants to continue this cover-up and launch bogus new investigations to deflect and slow down our investigation. It won’t work. We will get justice for the survivors.”

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Joe Walsh, the former Republican congressman from Illinois, has offered some words of advice to Marjorie Taylor Greene, as she continues to speak out against Donald Trump’s claims that she’s a “traitor” for pushing for the complete release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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“As a onetime divisive right-wing political asshole, I publicly came out against Trump & stopped being a divisive asshole over 7yrs ago,” Walsh wrote. A reminder, that the former representative was a loyal Republican until the end of Trump’s first term when he mounted a short-lived primary challenge against the president in 2020. Walsh has since been a vocal critic of the Trump administration and became a registered Democrat this year.

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“I’ve spent every day these past 7yrs proving the sincerity of my conversion, and doing all I can to defeat Trump/Trumpism. MTG will have to walk down this same road,” he added in his post on X.“ I appreciate her pledging to no longer be a divisive asshole, but now she’s gotta prove it.”

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The BBC chair, Samir Shah, has told staff that the corporation is “determined” to fight any defamation action brought by Donald Trump. The president has no case, Shah says.

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In a note to staff seen by PA Media, Shah says:

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There is a lot being written, said and speculated upon about the possibility of legal action, including potential costs or settlements.

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In all this we are, of course, acutely aware of the privilege of our funding and the need to protect our licence fee payers, the British public.

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I want to be very clear with you – our position has not changed. There is no basis for a defamation case and we are determined to fight this.

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Last week I took the opportunity to speak with the executive team and am reassured of their resolute focus on ensuring the BBC continues to deliver on behalf of audiences and staff.

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I know they plan to spend as much time as possible with their teams over the coming weeks to reinforce the importance of that work and answer your questions.

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As her fallout with the president continues over her push for the full release of the Epstein files, Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said that the “hoax pizza deliveries have started now, to my house and my family members”.

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She also noted that her construction company’s office building received a “pipe bomb threat”.

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“Unfortunately, I’ve been down this road before. As a matter of fact, as I campaigned all over the country and defended President Trump, I received dozens of swatting calls on my house,” the lawmaker said in a post on X. “When the President of the United States irresponsibly calls a Member of Congress of his own party, traitor, he is signaling what must be done to a traitor.”

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US Border Patrol officials said they had arrested 81 people over five hours in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday, the first day of the targeted operation.

n The crackdown involving federal agents was only announced last week.

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Mass deportation and strict enforcement of immigration laws have been a key part of Trump’s agenda since returning to office this year.

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The president has pardoned for the second time a militia member involved in the Capitol riots, who had not been released from jail yet due to a firearms conviction.

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Dan Wilson was already pardoned by Trump earlier this year, when the US president granted clemency on his first day in office to more than 1,500 Capitol rioters.

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But Wilson, a member of the far-right Oath Keepers group, had another conviction for illegal possession of firearms. For that crime he was supposed to serve time until 2028.

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However the new presidential decree now states that the latest pardon is “full and unconditional.” Wilson’s lawyers said he was now home “with his loved ones” after seven months behind bars.

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Trump has regularly downplayed the seriousness of the Capitol riot, calling it a “day of love” and “outpouring of affection” for him. Hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the seat of Congress on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s victory.

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The United States conducted another attack on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Saturday, killing three people aboard, the Pentagon said on Sunday.

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“Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics,” the US Southern Command announced in a post on social media.

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It came as Donald Trump said the US may open talks with Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan president, who faces escalating pressure from Washington amid a huge US military buildup in the Caribbean.

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“We may be having some discussions with Maduro, and we’ll see how that turns out. They would like to talk,” the US president said on Sunday, in one of the first signs of a possible path to defusing the increasingly tense situation in the region.

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The US has accused Maduro of ties to the illegal drug trade, which Maduro denies.

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The US Southern Command’s post on Sunday said the boat was in international waters when it was struck by the Southern Spear joint taskforce. It did not give details on where the vessel was traveling from or what organization it was associated with.

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The latest operation was the 21st known attack on drug boats by the US military since early September in what it has called a justified effort to disrupt the flow of narcotics into the US.

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The strikes have killed more than 80 people, according to Pentagon figures. Lawmakers in Congress, human rights groups and US allies have raised questions about the legality of the attacks.

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The Trump administration has said it has the legal authority to carry out the strikes, with the justice department providing a legal opinion that justifies them and argues that US military personnel who carry out the operations are immune from prosecution. The administration also has not publicly explained the legal justification for the decision to attack the boats rather than stop them and arrest those on board.

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The latest deadly strike came as the US navy announced its most advanced aircraft carrier had arrived in the Caribbean Sea on Sunday in a display of power that raised questions about what the new influx of troops and weaponry could signal for the Trump administration’s intentions in South America.

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The arrival of the USS Gerald R Ford and other warships rounds off the largest buildup of US firepower in the region in generations. With its arrival, the Operation Southern Spear mission includes nearly a dozen navy ships and about 12,000 sailors and marines.

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The carrier strike group, which includes squadrons of fighter jets and guided-missile destroyers, transited the Anegada Passage near the British Virgin Islands on Sunday morning, the navy said.

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President Donald Trump indicated Sunday that he plans to meet with New York City’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and said they will “work something out”, AP reported.

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Trump has for months slammed Mamdani, falsely labeling him as a “communist” and predicting the ruin of his hometown, New York, if the democratic socialist was elected. He also threatened to deport Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and became a naturalized American citizen, and to pull federal money from the city.

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Mamdani rose from an obscure state lawmaker to become a social media star and symbol of the resistance against Trump during his mayoral campaign. He campaigned on an array of progressive policies and a message that was stark in its opposition to the aggressive, anti-immigrant agenda Trump has rolled out in his second White House term.

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The 34-year-old appealed to a broad cross-section of New Yorkers and defeated one of its political heavyweights, former governor Andrew Cuomo, by nearly 9 percentage points.

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In his election night victory speech, Mamdani said he wanted New York to show the country how to defeat the president. But the day after, while speaking about his plans for “Trump-proofing” New York once he takes office in January, the incoming mayor also said he was willing to work with anyone, including the president, if it can help New Yorkers.

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Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I am Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next few hours.

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We start with the news that president Donald Trump doubled down on his attacks against Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene on Sunday, despite his reversal on resisting the release of the Epstein files.

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He continued to dismiss her claim that his criticism was endangering her and said he did not believe anyone was targeting her. Greene said on Saturday that Trump’s online criticism had unleashed a surge of threats directed at her.

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On Sunday morning, she told CNN that Trump calling her a traitor was the “most hurtful” part of his remarks. Trump repeated the insult hours later.

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“Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Greene,” he said, referring to the lawmaker. “I don’t think her life is in danger… I don’t think anybody cares about her,” the president told reporters before boarding Air Force One on Sunday night for a return to Washington, DC from his Mar-a-Lago social club in Florida.

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Greene, a US House of Representatives member from Georgia who was long known as a Trump loyalist, has recently taken positions at odds with the president. She said on Saturday she has been contacted by private security firms warning about her safety and that harsh attacks against her have previously resulted in death threats.

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The public fallout came as Trump urged his fellow Republicans in Congress to vote for the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, reversing his earlier resistance to such a move.

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Trump’s post on his Truth Social came after House speaker Mike Johnson said earlier that he believed a vote on releasing justice department documents in the Epstein case should help put to rest allegations “that he [Trump] has something to do with it”.

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Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Sunday: “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide.

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“And it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party, including our recent Victory on the Democrat ‘Shutdown’” he said.

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Although Trump and Epstein were photographed together decades ago, the president has said the two men fell out before Epstein’s convictions. Emails released last week by a House committee showed the disgraced financier, who died by suicide in jail in 2019, believed Trump “knew about the girls,” though it was not clear what that phrase meant.

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Read the full story here:

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  Trump said the US may open talks with Nicolas Maduro, the Venezuelan president, who faces escalating pressure from Washington amid a huge US military buildup in the Caribbean. “We may be having some discussions with Maduro, and we’ll see how that turns out. They would like to talk,” the US president said on Sunday, in one of the first signs of a possible path to defusing the increasingly tense situation in the region.

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  Trump on Sunday brushed aside concerns about conservative commentator Tucker Carlson‘s recent interview with a far-right activist known for his antisemitic views, which has caused a schism within the Republican party. Trump defended Carlson, saying the former Fox News host has “said good things about me over the years.” He said if Carlson wants to interview Nick Fuentes, whose followers see themselves as working to preserve America’s white, Christian identity, then “people have to decide.” Trump did not criticize Carlson or Fuentes.

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  Trump indicated on Sunday that he plans to meet with New York City’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and said they will “work something out”, in what could be a detente for the Republican president and Democratic political star who have cast each other as political foils. Trump has for months slammed Mamdani, falsely labelling him as a “communist” and predicting the ruin of his hometown, New York, if the democratic socialist were elected.

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  A group of 17 transgender US air force members has sued the Trump administration for denying them early retirement pensions and benefits. The complaint, submitted in federal court, describes the government’s move against them as “unlawful and invalid”.

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Oregon governor calls for full demobilization of national guard troops judge blocked Trump from deploying to Portland

Governor Tina Kotek of Oregon said in a statement on Monday that every member of the state’s national guard called into federal service by the Pentagon should be sent home to their families since a federal judge issued a permanent injunction calling Donald Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland illegal.

Kotek said that the 100 members of Oregon’s national guard remain mobilized in response to the president’s wildly false claims about a small anti-ICE protest in Portland.

According to the governor, all 200 California national guard troops sent to Oregon by the Pentagon are scheduled to return to their home state on Monday, and 100 members of Oregon’s national guard called into federal service in September have been demobilized by the US army’s Northern Command.

“President Trump’s disregard for the rule of law has real human consequences,” Kotek said in a statement. “Members of the Oregon National Guard, who are our friends and neighbors, have been away from their families and jobs for 50 days on an unnecessary deployment. With the holidays approaching, every single member deserves to go home.”

Maga Texas congressman flips from no to yes on release of Epstein files – report

Troy Nehls, a Texas Republican and Trump loyalist, who pledged three days ago that he would “be voting NO on the Epstein Hoax”, has reportedly had a change of heart, telling a New York Times reporter on Monday that he now intends to vote yes.

Nehls, a former sheriff, was sworn in for his first term as a congressman on 3 January 2021. Three days later, he was caught on video by a member of the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol telling a rioter through the battered door of the House chamber that he was “ashamed” of him.

Trump says that tariff checks will ‘probably come in the middle of next year’

The president has doubled down on his promise that the revenue raised from his sweeping tariffs will result in $2,000 checks for American families. “We’re going to be issuing dividends later on, some somewhere prior to probably in the middle of next year,” he said. “We have a lot of money from tariffs. If we didn’t have tariffs, this nation would be in serious trouble.”

This, despite the fact the president cannot unilaterally decide how tariff income will be spent. Federal law confers that power to Congress. Also, the supreme court is now deliberating the legality of the levies. Earlier this month, liberal and conservative justices alike seemed skeptical of the means and methods of the administration’s tariff policy.

While addressing reporters’ questions today on the Epstein vote, Trump appeared frustrated.

“Unfortunately, like with the Kennedy situation, with the Martin Luther King situation, not to put Jeffrey Epstein in the same category, but no matter what we give, it’s never enough,” the president said. “It’s just a Russia, Russia, Russia hoax as it pertains to the Republicans.”

Earlier, Trump repeated his intent to investigate prominent Democrats’ links to Epstein. “They were with him all the time. I wasn’t, I wasn’t at all,” he said today. A reminder, that US attorney for the southern district of New York, Jay Clayton, was assigned to lead the probe against these noted adversaries of the president, including Bill Clinton.

‘We’ll give them everything,’ Trump says ahead of upcoming vote on Epstein files, adds that he doesn’t want it to ‘detract’ from Republican successes

In the Oval Office, the president said today that he would sign a bill to release the complete tranche of Epstein files if it ends up on his desk.

“All I want is, I want for people to recognize a great job that I’ve done on pricing, on affordability, because we brought prices way down,” Trump said. “I just don’t want Epstein to detract from the great success of the Republican Party, including the fact that the Democrats are totally blamed for the shutdown.”

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We’ll give them everything. Sure. I would let them, let the Senate look at it, let anybody look at it, but don’t talk about it too much, because honestly, I don’t want to take it away from us. It’s really a Democrat problem. The Democrats were Epstein’s friends, all of them, and it’s a hoax.

Speaking today, the president’s voice sounded notably raspy. He said that the hoarseness was the result of “shouting at people because they were stupid about something having to do with trade”.

“I blew my stack,” Trump added, before clarifying that one country in particular “wanted to try and renegotiate the terms of their trade deal”. However, he refused to name the country when pressed by a reporter.

President says he doesn’t ‘rule out anything’ on Venezuela amid military escalation

Donald Trump said he doesn’t “rule out anything” when asked about the possibility of troops on the ground in Venezuela.

“We just have to take care of Venezuela. They dumped hundreds of 1000s of people into our country from prisons,” the president added, while underscoring that Nicolás Maduro has done “done tremendous damage” to the US “primarily because of drugs”.

Donald Trump, joined by Fifa president Gianni Infantino, just touted the economic impact of the 2026 World Cup. “It’s expected to drive more than $30bn,” he said. “And it’s going to create nearly 200,000 jobs for America.”

He added that the games would remedy the effects of the “shutdown caused by Democrats”.

Trump says he will be ‘endorsing against’ Indiana Republicans who inhibit redistricting effort in the state

As the redistricting battle continues across several states, Donald Trump said that he will be “endorsing against” any Indiana lawmaker who “votes against the Republican Party, and our Nation, by not allowing for Redistricting for Congressional seats”.

This comes as the speaker in the Hoosier state’s senate president said that there weren’t enough votes to accomplish a mid-decade redistricting plan at the behest of Trump. For his part, Indiana GOP governor Mike Braun said that he “had a great call” with the president today, and urged state legislators to “show up for work and take a public vote for fair maps to counter the gerrymandering in California and Illinois”.

Braun added: “I told him [Trump] I remain committed to standing with him on the critical issue of passing fair maps in Indiana to ensure the MAGA agenda is successful in Congress.”

Warren calls for Harvard to sever ties with former university president Larry Summers, following Epstein emails

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has called for Harvard University to sever ties with its former president Larry Summers, in an interview with CNN. This comes as several emails between Summers and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appeared in the trove of documents released by the House oversight committee last week. The pair maintained a friendship for years.

“For decades, Larry Summers has demonstrated his attraction to serving the wealthy and well-connected, but his willingness to cozy up to a convicted sex offender demonstrates monumentally bad judgment,” Warren told CNN. “If he had so little ability to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein even after all that was publicly known about Epstein’s sex offenses involving underage girls, then Summers cannot be trusted to advise our nation’s politicians, policymakers, and institutions – or teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else.”

Summers, who previously served as treasury secretary under Bill Clinton, is now the subject of a new investigation that Trump initiated last week. The president instructed attorney general Pam Bondi to launch a probe into several Democrats and institutions after their names appeared in the latest tranche of documents, which included emails that seemed to suggest Trump himself might have known about Epstein’s conduct.

In a short while, we’ll hear from Donald Trump, as he meets with the White House taskforce about the 2026 World Cup.

We’ll make sure to bring you the latest lines, as this will be the first chance reporters have to ask him questions since he seemed to pivot on House Republicans voting to release the full trove of justice department files on Jeffrey Epstein.

Acting head of Fema resigns following response to deadly Texas floods – report

David Richardson, the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), has resigned after a brief stint leading the agency, according to the Washington Post.

The Post cites people familiar with the matter, and notes that Richardson “kept a low profile and was known for frequently being inaccessible, including during the early hours of the flood disaster in Texas over the Fourth of July weekend”.

The Trump administration has been vocal about wanting to dismantle Fema, and Richardson’s boss – homeland security secretary Kristi Noem – stopped him from doing interviews or answering other media requests, according to an official with knowledge of the situation who spoke on the Post condition of anonymity.