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President Trump says the U.S.

will begin producing battleships for the first time since World War II, the announcement made at the president's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

From member station WHRO in Norfolk, Steve Walsh has more on the newest warships in the pipeline.

President Trump is raising the ire of officials in Denmark and Greenland with his new special envoy to Greenland.

And he's also raising a tricky question domestically with the appointment of a sitting governor to serve in that post.

Brooke Thornton of member station W.R.K.F.

has more on the appointment of Louisiana's Governor Jeff Landry.

to the so-called voluntary position.

Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, a Salvadoran national living in Maryland, remains free after a federal judge ordered his release earlier in the month.

He'd been mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March and after returning in June was arrested, charged with human smuggling, then held in Tennessee before being freed once more.

Now, U.S.

District Judge Paula Zinnis, noting the government had no final removal order to deport him, is ruling that Abrego Garcia should continue to remain free, at least for now, while she reviews the government's latest arguments.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the Wagovi pill, a drug designed to assist in weight loss.

Novo Nordisk says the bill is the first approved oral GLP-1 therapy.

The Dow closed up 227.

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