Ron Elving

The Pentagon under Secretary Pete Hegseth put limits on where reporters could go, who they could talk to, and a long list of news organizations, the New York Times, other newspapers, also NPR and PBS and the cable and broadcast TV operations all refused to live under those conditions.

So we're barred.

We were barred.

The others were barred from the Pentagon.

A federal judge has now ruled that was a clear violation of the First Amendment rights of news reporters and news consumers, with a compelling interest in the Pentagon and the government in general.

There's plenty of money on hand for ICE to continue operations, even as other parts of the Department of Homeland Security have to shut down or cut back.

That's because ICE got a huge war chest from the last big funding bill, the one Trump called the One Big Beautiful Bill.

This may be one reason he liked it so much.

So Democrats know this won't keep ICE from operating, but they hope it will call attention to the relationship between ICE and DHS and put more heat on the administration of the overall agency.

There's plenty of money on hand for ICE to continue operations, even as other parts of the Department of Homeland Security have to shut down or cut back.

That's because ICE got a huge war chest from the last big funding bill, the one Trump called the One Big Beautiful Bill.

This may be one reason he liked it so much.

So Democrats know this won't keep ICE from operating, but they hope it will call attention to the relationship between ICE and DHS and put more heat

administration of the overall agency.

There's plenty of money on hand for ICE to continue operations, even as other parts of the Department of Homeland Security have to shut down or cut back.

That's because ICE got a huge war chest from the last big funding bill, the one Trump called the One Big Beautiful Bill.

This may be one reason he liked it so much.

So Democrats know this won't keep ICE from operating, but they hope it will call attention to the relationship between ICE and DHS and put more heat on the administration of the overall agency.

We don't have all the details yet, and there's a good deal yet to be learned.

We expect to see more mining of strategic materials, such as the rare earths, essential to computers and other high-tech products.