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The Supreme Court extended its order blocking Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, food assistance payments until at least Thursday as lawmakers in Congress debate a bill that could reopen the government, according to a new report.

The order was not unanimous, with liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson filing a dissent, according to a report by Kate Buehler, Supreme Court reporter for Law360. It comes at a time when Democrats have agreed to vote for a series of short-term spending bills in exchange for a vote on the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies in December.

Bill Pulte, the director of President Donald Trump's Federal Housing Finance Agency, was under investigation by ethics watchdogs shortly before the ethics office overseeing the agency was cleaned out by layoffs, reported The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.

According to the report, the ethics office for Fannie Mae "had received internal complaints alleging senior officials had improperly directed staff to access ... mortgage documents" for officials who have criticized or legally fought Trump, including New York Attorney General Letitia James. "The Fannie investigators were probing to find out who had made the orders, whether Pulte had the authority to seek the documents and whether or not they had followed proper procedure, the people said."

President Donald Trump shocked and disgusted onlookers by glorifying war in a Veterans' Day speech at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

The president marked the occasion Tuesday afternoon at Arlington National Cemetery, where he praised his Cabinet secretaries in attendance, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who prefers to use the historical honorific of the Department of War for the office, used before it was changed as part of a post-World War II reorganization of the military and intelligence services.

A surprise meeting held Monday afternoon by U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones in Florida exposed a continuing rift between Donald Trump-appointed DOJ officials and career prosecutors who want nothing to do with the president’s desire to have his detractors prosecuted, a report stated Tuesday.

According to MSNBC, the impromptu meeting was called after two prosecutors tendered their resignations after being ordered “to take part in a vast ‘conspiracy’ investigation into former intelligence and law enforcement officials.”

The first woman nominated to lead the Naval Special Warfare command overseeing Navy SEALs had her promotion abruptly canceled — and military sources blame Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's hostility to women in combat roles.

CNN reported the Navy captain, a troop commander with Navy SEAL Team Six and a Purple Heart recipient, had been ranked the top officer for promotion in her cohort and was in line to take charge over the elite unit until the plans were scrapped just two weeks before a formal ceremony was scheduled, and thanks to the Navy's “up or out” policy, her military career was effectively ended.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) delivered a brutal putdown to President Donald Trump on Tuesday in response to the president’s attack on her the day before.

In an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingram that aired Monday, Trump aimed an onslaught at Omar and her country of birth, Somalia.

Donald Trump’s drive to get the new stadium being built for the NFL Washington Commanders named after himself was on the receiving end of a beat-down Tuesday morning from conservative columnist Jim Geraghty, who found himself wondering if he has ever heard of a worse facility-naming proposal.

Geraghty, a regular columnist for the conservative National Review, took to the editorial pages of the Washington Post to point out that a stadium in Washington, DC, would be a disaster.

Both President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) are set to face a reckoning this week as the government appears poised to re-open — and one that political science professor Costas Panagopoulos said the two have “dreaded” for a long time.

That reckoning is over Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted child sex abuser who died in 2019 awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges and who once called Trump his “closest friend for 10 years.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was warned Tuesday that, just because a faction of Democrats caved on the government shutdown, his path to getting the House up and running smoothly again is still fraught with peril.

Above and beyond facing a vote on releasing the notorious Jeffrey Epstein files, which has the White House on edge, Johnson is facing a fractious caucus concerned by the state of the economy — with the midterm elections just one year away.