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Today’s edition of quick hits.
* Guard deployment ruling: “A federal judge ruled late Sunday that the Trump administration cannot send in National Guard soldiers to Portland, Ore., for another five days, until she makes her final decision in the case. But she strongly suggested that she would keep them out permanently.”
* Strike #15: “U.S. forces carried out a strike on another suspected drug boat in international waters, killing all three people on board, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said late Saturday. ... The strike is at least the 15th since early September against vessels and crews in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific that the Trump administration has claimed were involved with drug trafficking. At least 64 people have been killed in the strikes, according to official estimates.”
* Mass shooting in Ohio on Sunday: “Police are investigating a shooting that left nine people injured early Sunday morning at an Airbnb rental home in Bath Township. Bath Township Police Chief Vito Sinopoli said officers were dispatched around 12:16 a.m. to reports of gunfire at a residence in the 900 block of Top of the Hill Drive.”
* Airport troubles: “As the government shutdown nears its second month, airports across the country are feeling its impact, with flight delays piling up because of staffing shortages.”
* Tidmarsh only started in July: “The head of the Food and Drug Administration’s drug center abruptly resigned Sunday after federal officials began reviewing ‘serious concerns about his personal conduct,’ according to a government spokesperson. Dr. George Tidmarsh, who was named to the FDA post in July, was placed on leave Friday after officials in the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of General Counsel were notified of the issues, HHS press secretary Emily Hilliard said in an email. Tidmarsh then resigned Sunday morning.”
* A welcome shift: “Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has quietly retreated from plans to eliminate Energy Star, a popular program whose iconic blue labels help consumers to choose energy efficient dishwashers, refrigerators and other home appliances.”
* Sandwich guy on trial: “Throwing a sandwich at a federal agent turned Sean Charles Dunn into a symbol of resistance against President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement surge in the nation’s capital. This week, federal prosecutors are trying to persuade a jury of fellow Washington, D.C., residents that Dunn simply broke the law.”
See you tomorrow.