Closing summary
This concludes our live coverage of another active day in the life of the second Trump administration. We will continue the chronicle on Tuesday. Here are the latest developments:
A three-judge panel of a federal appeals court lifted a block on the deployment of federal troops to Portland, Oregon by Donald Trump, but a procedural hurdle remains in place and the complex legal battle continues.
State and local officials promised to keep fighting the deployment, which is based on false claims from the president about local protests against immigration raids.
The ninth circuit court of appeals will vote on whether or not to reconsider the ruling by the three-judge panel and schedule a new hearing before a larger, 11-judge panel.
Two Republican senators said on Monday that they would not vote to confirm Paul Ingrassia, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead a government ethics office, after his racist text messages were reported by Politico.
Trump welcomed Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese to the White House, signing a rare earth minerals deal as trade tensions with China escalate.
One of the longest government shutdowns in US history got longer after the Senate again failed to pass a funding resolution.
Canadian province runs anti-tariff ad narrated by Ronald Reagan during Toronto-Seattle baseball game
As Carl Bergstrom, a biology professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, just pointed out on Bluesky, an anti-tariff ad, targeted to American workers, just ran during game 7 of the Major League Baseball series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Seatttle Mariners.
The twist is that the ad, paid for by the Canadian province of Ontario, features narration from a 1987 speech by Ronald Reagan.
