Ed Kalecki

Trump's move comes with lawmakers deadlocked on how to end the shutdown.

Democrats are seeking changes to Trump's immigration enforcement policies, but congressional Republicans and the White House have balked at those demands.

The president's directive, which he announced earlier this week that he intended to sign, led House Republicans to abandon talk of cutting short a two-week Easter recess to try to end the impasse.

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A second US Air Force plane crashed in the Persian Gulf region Friday, with the US already carrying out search and rescue operations from another incident in which Iran downed a fighter jet.

The A-10 Warthog went down near the Strait of Hormuz around the same time that Iran shot down a U.S.

F-15E fighter jet.

The lone pilot was safely rescued.

The U.S.

has rescued one of the two-man crew from the F-15 incident.

A search operation was underway for the second crew member.

In an interview, President Trump declined to discuss the search and rescue operations.

He said the events would not affect the ongoing negotiations with Iran, this according to an NBC News reporter.

The Justice Department lost its bid to continue an investigation into building renovation cost overruns by the Federal Reserve, setting the stage for an appeal that could eventually reach the Supreme Court.

U.S.

District Chief Judge James Bosberg upheld an earlier ruling he made.

to quash two grand jury subpoenas issued to the central bank by U.S.

Attorney Jeanine Pirro as part of a criminal investigation into the cost overruns and congressional testimony Chair Jerome Powell provided on the matter.