⭘ The abrupt announcement comes after Trump accused Canada of using a "fake" Ronald Reagan ad to sway U.S. courts, raising the stakes in an already tense trade dispute.
⭘ President Trump claimed Canada had ran an ad featuring former President Ronald Reagan talking about tariffs to influence a pending U.S. Supreme Court case.
⬤ The president said he was motivated by an ad, paid for by the province of Ontario, that featured Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs in a 1987 radio address.
⭘ Former NBA player and assistant coach Damon Jones apparently gave away non-public information about Los Angeles Lakers stars LeBron James and Anthony Davis as part of an alleged sports gambling ring.
⬤ Two indictments detailed schemes involving sports betting and rigged poker games, prosecutors said. The link was current and former N.B.A. players and coaches.
⭘ The Miami Heat guard was arrested in Orlando in a federal sports betting case that prosecutors say involved using confidential NBA information to place illegal wagers.
⭘ The Trump administration has finalized a plan to open the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, renewing long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one of the nation's most sensitive wilderness areas.
⬤ Critics are outraged over President Trump's demolition of the East Wing to make way for his $300 million ballroom. Others say it was time for change.
⭘ President Trump is plowing ahead with plans to build a grand ballroom where the East Wing of the White House currently stands. The plans have not gone through the committee tasked with overseeing such projects.
⭘ He has already turned the Oval Office into a wrestler's changing room. Now the president is building a place so gilded Nero would feel at home. Why did he pick an architect whose speciality is Catholic churches?
⭘ SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.
⬤ A Republican measure that would pay essential government employees faltered in the Senate, and the G.O.P. blocked a pair of Democratic bills to pay a broader swath of workers.
⭘ The Senate failed to advance two partisan bills that would have paid some federal workers during the shutdown. Democrats and Republicans remain deadlocked as the shutdown drags on.
⭘ Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy released a bombshell report on Thursday alleging that an Indian national involved in a fatal crash in California should have never had a license.
⭘ California transportation officials said the federal government approved Singh's Employment Authorization Documents, which allowed him to receive a federal REAL ID that confirmed his legal status.
⭘ An Illegal alien trucker failed a CDL test 10 times before allegedly causing a crash that killed three people, a senior official with the Florida Attorney General's Office says.
