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A federal judge on Saturday ordered a temporary stop to any work at a historic Washington, D.C., public golf course not far from the White House, blocking for now President Donald Trump’s push to redevelop the site along the Potomac River into a championship-level venue.U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes issued the temporary restraining order before East Potomac Golf Links was due to close Sunday for 15 months. Trump had announced work would begin that day despite the legal challenge initiated against the project in February by the DC Preservation League and two local golfers.The plaintiffs argue that Trump’s plan would change the character of the accessible golf course and make it unaffordable, something the Republican president denies. They had sought the stop-work order, saying that closing the course and launching work on the project would "irreparably injure plaintiffs and the public interest.”The park's redevelopment is one of multiple projects in the nation’s capital that Trump has championed to remake the city. They include a large memorial arch, a White House ballroom and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, among others.Reyes had signaled throughout a five-hour court hearing Friday that she was likely to issue some stoppage for the park closure. The only issue was how expansive it might be. Justice Department lawyer Adam Gustafson argued that the entire East Potomac Park, which includes three golf courses, a miniature course, bike riding lanes and other recreational areas, was being closed because of safety factors. He also noted that the lease between the government and the current operator, National Links Trust, was ending Sunday.Reyes pointed out that safety had not been part of the discussion over the closure for months and that ending the lease felt more like an action that provided a premise for the closure rather than an action that led to the closure of the course about 2 miles from the White House.She also rejected Gustafson’s argument that the closure was separate from Trump’s repeated pronouncements that he wanted the course to be closed and renovated into a world-class venue and had called repeatedly for the park’s closure by the deadline as part of what is known as the Washington National plan.Even before the order, Trump lashed out in a social media post Saturday, contending that Reyes "doesn't want us to quickly and inexpensively fix up the Course which is, also, very dangerous." He said people who live in the Washington area would get a 50% discount on "any and all Rates charged" and that the redevelopment would "evolve into something very special, something which the Judge will be able to take great pride in seeing!"Reyes' order was the latest in a series of rulings in lawsuits challenging Trump's projects that were issued just hours before construction was expected to begin. A different judge recently ordered a 14-day delay on work for the arch, a decision that came shortly after a key planning commission stacked with Trump appointees approved plans for the project. Reyes, who was nominated to the court by Democratic President Joe Biden, had for months been reticent about approving the plaintiffs' requests for work stoppages. The plaintiffs had argued the administration was moving ahead with work related to the project despite the pending lawsuit.Her reluctance to issue orders ended in October, spurred in part by a tree-cutting spree by the administration over a holiday weekend with little notification to the judge or plaintiffs. Officials and government lawyers said the tree work was part of a 2019 plan that recommended the cutting. In response, the judge confronted the administration over what she portrayed as deceitful actions over its intentions for the project.Reyes has repeatedly expressed frustration over the minute planning details she has been asked to adjudicate, including over the trees being cut down at the 106-year-old park. The Justice Department filed a request that Reyes be removed from the case because of what it called her "egregious behavior" and questioned her impartiality. Reyes has not recused herself. Trump Administration Sep 17 Park Service quietly awards contracts to work on Trump's takeover of D.C. golf course The restraining order was one of two issues Reyes took up during Friday’s hearing.She announced plans last week to name Jessie Liu, a former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, to examine whether officials with the Interior Department and the National Park Service and attorneys with the Justice Department had violated ethics or misled her during the course of the case. Gustafson asked her to reconsider and give the Justice Department the opportunity to show an outside investigator was unnecessary. "It’s quite a cloud on the people it affects," he said. Reyes said she understood. "To be frank with you I don't want to do this," she said, but she had an ethical obligation to at least look because “I think there is enough smoke that someone needs to consider whether there's been fire."
This single photo triggers nausea for even Trump's most ardent fans
Never has the old saying that "a picture is worth 1,000 words" been more applicable than to the latest viral image of Trump's vaulting ballroom currently taking shape, imposing at such a scale as to symbolically shove aside the White House. To wit:I hope everyone takes a good hard look at this picture.Trump's under-construction ballroom is now bigger than the rest of the White House. Much bigger.The contrast says everything you need to know about this President and his priorities.[image or embed]— James E. Clyburn (@repjamesclyburn.bsky.social) November 11, 2026 at 6:15 PMSet aside all the laughable talk about lasers, drones, AAA, moats, all that Trump mouth trash serving to cast the entire production as partly needed for national security. The office of the president has an ironlike grip on all such concerns. The more he talks about defense, the more wiggle room he has in litigation meant to stall construction of the monstrosity. This is a ballroom, nothing more, built to fit Trump's insatiable appetite for luxury and built with other people's money, a mix so combustible as to be nuclear.The White House looks like nothing in its shadow, nothing, never mind the West Wing, and the now no more Rose Garden and uninterrupted lawn, existing only in quaint memory of the pre-Trump era. In a sense, the ballroom is already performing a primary service to the man, casting Trump's shadow over everything that came before him, up to and including the very presidency.To be sure, the architectural desecration of the grounds, one matched in intensity only by the gilded version occurring inside, causes waves of nausea even in many Trump voters. But symbolically, it is also so much more. Yes, including the aesthetics.The United States is a young nation. Having just fought a war to displace a king, we didn't start building Euro-type palaces, gilded or otherwise, for our own king. We don't cover every frame in gold because we haven't spent 1,000 years of colonial exploitation collecting the gaudy stuff. We were too busy building a new nation, one with interstates, airports, yes, plenty of aircraft carriers, and banks — new money, not old. In our system, our leaders were mere renters; it never really occurred to anyone to build anything too palatial for any one person. We built monuments to the greats, not Buckingham for Buchanan. Understated was our style.Until Trump.And so look at that picture again and breathe in the symbolism of the man who still seeks to make himself king, building the ballroom only he needed, one that dwarfs what, until him, was the only truly important portion of the grounds, that area where decisions that impact billions get made. The most important square acre on earth sits now under the shadow of the monstrosity meant to engulf one man's entertainment, Trump's luxuriation in being Trump. The midterms didn't cut off Trump's political power (only his legislative and historical fate); he's imbued himself with too much power in that office. But when was the last time you saw Trump care so deeply about an issue like his ballroom? Is he going to care what goes on down the street, up on that hill, investigations and legislation? Will any of his people even show up, knowing Blanche isn't prosecuting anyone for "taking a pass"? No, Trump cares as little about Congress as he does about the average American. But he deeply cares about what's going up across the lawn; he slavishly cares. And that's precisely why Democrats should do all they can to hold it up.To the extent that Dems can halt the construction of this whitest of elephants, by all means, do so. To the extent they cannot, make Trump beg for every square foot. Make him fight for his golden chandeliers, spend time arguing about the colonnades; force him to explain why he needed the most exquisite and expensive marble; do that all alongside fighting for healthcare, women's rights, making life more affordable, increasing wages, investigations, Epstein, all of it. Give the American people an even greater means to appreciate that Trump cares far more about the shadow of that massive building than he does about the shadow now falling over the fate of the rural hospital. The 2026 elections constituted a historic "bluenami" in large part because the nation's revulsion outmatched the corrupt self-obsession of the man working within what soon may look like the "Outhouse" beside the scale of Trump's ballroom. (Go ahead, it's going to be hated if completed; name it after him as an ever-present reminder). But there's no rule saying an even bigger blue wave cannot happen again in 2028. So, Democrats? The charge remains the same with one small tweak: pump out legislation for his veto pen once a week, make sure the bills are aptly named for what Trump rejects. "Healthcare for All," "Nutrition Rebates," "The World Class VA Care Act"— all of it, alongside the investigations.But it may be just as politically important to stay as far under the man's skin as possible and, by all accounts, that means delaying and obstructing these monuments to himself to the point of hyperventilation. Let him [continue] to support what matters in his mind, make the GOP genuflect to the only desires for which he'll go to the mat. Let the cameras capture every cry, kick, scream, all about his ballroom.Oh, and don't forget to regularly display "it," as it sits in the picture, the greatest self-given trophy in history, or at least recent history, in the country least likely to tolerate it. The picture is worth more than 1,000 words. If you don't believe the reasoning offered above, trust in Rep. Clyburn and his post, the man whose formerly impenetrable blood-red state just turned blue against all things Trump, none of which will "stand out" more than America's modern Versailles. We know what happened there.Set up the storm for a new blue wave and start with things as small as big pictures of a monstrosity fit for this presidency.Jason Miciak is a Raw Story columnist, former editor at Occupy Democrats, author, attorney, consultant, and single parent girldad. Please follow on Bluesky, and he can be reached at [email protected]
Rosters set for 113th Grey Cup: Two starters return for Alouettes, Elks make one change - TSN
Rosters set for 113th Grey Cup: Two starters return for Alouettes, Elks make one change TSNEdmonton and Montreal battle for the last Grey Cup of this era CBC3 takeaways from the Als, Elks Grey Cup Saturday walkthroughs CFLWho is primed to be a difference maker in the 113th Grey Cup? TSNCFL Legends assemble at Grey Cup Festival Calgary Herald
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Grant Wilson came back for his seventh college season because he wanted to win a second national championship.On Saturday, he kept the defending champions in the title mix. Air Travel 13 hours ago U.S. air travel should normalize by Sunday after ground stop triggers mass cancellations, FAA says Air Travel 13 hours ago What to know about flights after the U.S. nationwide ground stop Wilson threw two touchdown passes in his first start with No. 6 Indiana, Khobie Martin broke a tie with a 1-yard TD run late in the third quarter and two late interceptions helped the Hoosiers preserve a 27-13 victory over No. 15 USC."It’s been a long time, seven years, and it’s just such a blessing to be here with these fans and these players," said Wilson, who played previously at Fordham and Old Dominion.Wilson replaced injured starter Josh Hoover at halftime two weeks ago and rallied the Hoosiers (9-1, 6-1 Big Ten, No. 9 CFP) to an overtime win over Minnesota. Coach Curt Cignetti said he made the decision to start Wilson following that win as Hoover continued to recover from a right shoulder injury.But with Hoover apparently healthy and available, Cignetti stuck with Wilson, who was 17 of 27 for 305 yards with one interception. Cignetti did not say whether Wilson would remain the starter."Grant made some good plays, and he left some out there on the field," Cignetti said. "Now we’ll figure out where we are and move forward."Indiana’s first victory over a Top 25 opponent, by two touchdowns, and the fact they did it with their No. 2 quarterback may help Indiana solidify its postseason resume after sliding five spots in this week’s playoff rankings.Lee Beebe Jr. led the Hoosiers with 16 carries for 71 yards while Martin had 10 carries for 70 yards and the tiebreaking score with 2:39 left in the third quarter. Charlie Becker added a 42-yard TD catch with 3:30 left, making 27-13.The Trojans (7-3, 4-3, No. 18) needed a win to keep their playoff and Big Ten title hopes alive. But they scored only one TD in five red-zone trips as Jayden Maiava went 26 of 42 for 311 yards and one TD. He was also picked off three times — twice in the fourth quarter, one of those inside the Hoosiers’ 5."He was a big part of us moving the ball the way we did, and the first interception he made a good decision on," coach Lincoln Riley said. "But the red-zone (interception), that one really hurt us."Wilson connected with Shazz Peterson on a 47-yard pass on Indiana’s third play. It set up Wilson’s 13-yard TD pass to Brock Schott for a 7-0 lead.USC answered with a 29-yard field goal and then the offenses bogged down until Indiana turned Maiava’s interception into a 21-yard field goal and Maiava capitalized on Wilson’s interception with a 51-yard pass to Kayden Dixon-Wyatt and a 7-yard TD pass to Zacharyus Williams on a 7-yard TD pass to tie the score at 10.After trading short field goals in the third quarter, Martin cashed in with his TD run one play after a replay review denied him a 38-yard TD run and put the ball inside USC’s 1.Becker’s score — and the two interceptions — sealed it.USC receiver Trent Mosley caught nine passes for 130 yards.The takeawayUSC: Riley’s record against ranked opponents on the road dropped to 1-8. The Trojans certainly could have changed those numbers had it not been for the red-zone woes and two missed field goals. Instead, their Big Ten title hopes are probably gone, too.Indiana: The Hoosiers have struggled offensively in five consecutive games, but they just keep finding ways to win. This was the biggest one of all because a loss may have essentially eliminated them from the conference and playoff title chases.No problemUSC avoided the travel issues other teams had this weekend because their flight had already taken off Friday when the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights nationwide for several hours.It wasn’t just the football team, either. The school band also made it on time and paraded through the Memorial Stadium parking lots before kickoff as it extended its streak of performing at 490 consecutive games.
Judge halts Trump plan to redevelop Washington, DC, golf course
A federal judge halted President Donald Trump's plan to renovate a municipal golf course in Washington, DC, on Saturday night, issuing a temporary order that requires the administration keep the course open after Trump said it would be closed on Sunday for the overhaul.
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A federal judge on Saturday ordered a temporary stop to any work at a historic Washington, D.C., public golf course not far from the White House, blocking for now President Donald Trump’s push to redevelop the site along the Potomac River into a championship-level venue.U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes issued the temporary restraining order before East Potomac Golf Links was due to close Sunday for 15 months. Trump had announced work would begin that day despite the legal challenge initiated against the project in February by the DC Preservation League and two local golfers.The plaintiffs argue that Trump’s plan would change the character of the accessible golf course and make it unaffordable, something the Republican president denies. They had sought the stop-work order, saying that closing the course and launching work on the project would "irreparably injure plaintiffs and the public interest.”The park's redevelopment is one of multiple projects in the nation’s capital that Trump has championed to remake the city. They include a large memorial arch, a White House ballroom and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, among others.Reyes had signaled throughout a five-hour court hearing Friday that she was likely to issue some stoppage for the park closure. The only issue was how expansive it might be. Justice Department lawyer Adam Gustafson argued that the entire East Potomac Park, which includes three golf courses, a miniature course, bike riding lanes and other recreational areas, was being closed because of safety factors. He also noted that the lease between the government and the current operator, National Links Trust, was ending Sunday.Reyes pointed out that safety had not been part of the discussion over the closure for months and that ending the lease felt more like an action that provided a premise for the closure rather than an action that led to the closure of the course about 2 miles from the White House.She also rejected Gustafson’s argument that the closure was separate from Trump’s repeated pronouncements that he wanted the course to be closed and renovated into a world-class venue and had called repeatedly for the park’s closure by the deadline as part of what is known as the Washington National plan.Even before the order, Trump lashed out in a social media post Saturday, contending that Reyes "doesn't want us to quickly and inexpensively fix up the Course which is, also, very dangerous." He said people who live in the Washington area would get a 50% discount on "any and all Rates charged" and that the redevelopment would "evolve into something very special, something which the Judge will be able to take great pride in seeing!"Reyes' order was the latest in a series of rulings in lawsuits challenging Trump's projects that were issued just hours before construction was expected to begin. A different judge recently ordered a 14-day delay on work for the arch, a decision that came shortly after a key planning commission stacked with Trump appointees approved plans for the project. Reyes, who was nominated to the court by Democratic President Joe Biden, had for months been reticent about approving the plaintiffs' requests for work stoppages. The plaintiffs had argued the administration was moving ahead with work related to the project despite the pending lawsuit.Her reluctance to issue orders ended in October, spurred in part by a tree-cutting spree by the administration over a holiday weekend with little notification to the judge or plaintiffs. Officials and government lawyers said the tree work was part of a 2019 plan that recommended the cutting. In response, the judge confronted the administration over what she portrayed as deceitful actions over its intentions for the project.Reyes has repeatedly expressed frustration over the minute planning details she has been asked to adjudicate, including over the trees being cut down at the 106-year-old park. The Justice Department filed a request that Reyes be removed from the case because of what it called her "egregious behavior" and questioned her impartiality. Reyes has not recused herself. Trump administration Sep 17 Park Service quietly awards contracts to work on Trump's takeover of D.C. golf course The restraining order was one of two issues Reyes took up during Friday’s hearing.She announced plans last week to name Jessie Liu, a former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, to examine whether officials with the Interior Department and the National Park Service and attorneys with the Justice Department had violated ethics or misled her during the course of the case. Gustafson asked her to reconsider and give the Justice Department the opportunity to show an outside investigator was unnecessary. "It’s quite a cloud on the people it affects," he said. Reyes said she understood. "To be frank with you I don't want to do this," she said, but she had an ethical obligation to at least look because “I think there is enough smoke that someone needs to consider whether there's been fire."
McDavid chasing history as Maple Leafs look to avoid historic home losing streak - TSN
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Fox reporter blasts 'MAGA idiocy' in spy scandal: 'Can't believe I'm siding with NYT'
Fox Business senior correspondent Charles Gasparino spent Saturday morning brawling with Trump supporters on X over the scandal surrounding Nvidia's Jensen Huang, and he didn't hold back.The fight started when Gasparino broke with David Sacks, a tech investor and Trump ally who co-chairs the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Sacks has been accusing The New York Times of "trafficking in unsubstantiated allegations" in its reporting on Huang's relationship with Alice Huang, a Chinese national who runs one of the company's vendors."I can't believe I'm siding w the @nytimes on this one but the problem w David's analysis is that it suggests China Inc doesn't ultimately answer to the CCP," Gasparino wrote. "Whether Alice Huang is an official spy or not doesn't really matter. What @JensenHuang did with her was too reckless."Gasparino, who is also a New York Post columnist and the author of "Go Woke Go Broke," then went after the "MAGA conspiracy theorists" defending the now-departed CEO."There's no way his resignation is part of a master plan by China to cripple the US in tech by leaking his BS and forcing him to resign. If you're China you want him to STAY," he wrote. "Sorry he needed to go because it ain't worth the national security risk to have a company this important run like the CEO's private playpen."When one user demanded to know who had leaked a classified memo to the Times, Gasparino fired back."Another MAGA idiocy: The cultists appear to care more about a leak than the substance of the leak showing a very weird relationship between the CEO of our most important company and a Chinese national running a wonky foreign vender," he wrote. "This guy probably thinks the Pentagon Papers should have remained hidden."Another user accused him of "siding with the NYT's anonymous spy claims while AG Blanche and intel officials say nothing's established." Gasparino didn't budge."Local idiot thinks it ok for the ceo of a company handling the most sensitive of public policy and biz matters to be humping a vender who is also a Chinese national running a wonky company," he wrote. "This is why we get targeted by the CCP; Americans are this dumb."The pushback kept coming. One user told Gasparino his "big head is so far up Murdochs a-- it's laughable." Another, who said he watched Gasparino "quite regularly" on Fox Business, said he would "have a different perspective" after seeing "that level of arrogance.""I can't unsee this lack of critical reasoning good thing he hides it behind a dope fake name," Gasparino responded.When a critic accused him of "crucifying the CEO of NVDA in the Press, with MALICE," Gasparino issued a challenge."Come and get me dummy!" he wrote.He made clear he has no plans to stop."It gives me license to do what I have been doing and I'm not going to stop," Gasparino wrote. "So deal with it or drink heavily sad ha!"Another point is worth making to the MAGA conspiracy theorists and @JensenHuang supporters: There's no way his resignation is part of a master plan by China to cripple the US in tech by leaking his BS and forcing him to resign. If you're China you want him to STAY. He was an advocate of open trade with the CCP-led business community, aka China Inc. They want access to him through whatever means because he was tight w Trump and the admin in its AI policy formation. Sorry he needed to go because it ain't worth the national security risk to have a company this important run like the CEO's private playpen and that's before considering the substantial corp gov flaws and how that might impact its financials. I suspect we will discover the latter soon enough— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) November 14, 2026
Fifth soldier dead from injuries suffered in CFB Wainwright fire, officials say - CBC
Fifth soldier dead from injuries suffered in CFB Wainwright fire, officials say CBCFifth Canadian soldier has died after fire in Wainwright, CAF says Global News'We are heartbroken': Fifth soldier dies following CFB Wainwright fire CTV NewsFifth Canadian soldier dies from injuries suffered in military training fire AP NewsFort Saskatchewan Legion donates 100K from its Poppy Fund to victims of CFB Wainwright fire Edmonton Journal
Sunday shows preview: Democrats gear Trump administration probes amid leadership disputes
Democrats are charting their political future and issuing warnings to exercise their oversight powers against the Trump administration after gaining control of Congress with sweeping midterm election wins. This week, more races were called in Democrats' favor in Mississippi and Colorado. The Alaska Senate race remains uncalled as of Saturday afternoon, but new ballot counts...
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When Moe has trouble sleeping, he enrolls in a brand-new sleep study that gives him the greatest romantic comedy dreams of his life. But unbeknownst to him, his beautiful fantasy comes at a nightmarish price.

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