Acting defense secretary: ‘No determinations’ yet about redirecting funds to build border wall

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said late Saturday he has not reviewed President Trump’s proposed use of military funds to build a border wall — and that he’s unprepared to vouch for White House claims to have steered billions of dollars toward the project.

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Pentagon sending thousands more troops to southern border

The Pentagon announced on Sunday 3,750 additional U.S. forces will be deployed to the southern border to provide support to Customs and Border Protection.

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Trump signs bill ending longest shutdown in US history

President Trump signed a bill late Friday to end the partial government shutdown, the longest in the nation’s history.

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White House preparing emergency declaration to nab $7B for border barrier

President Trump’s staff is preparing an executive order-like mandate that would declare a national emergency at the southern border and make available $7 billion of federal money to enhance security at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a report published Thursday evening.

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Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’

Earth’s bugs outweigh humans 17 times over and are such a fundamental foundation of the food chain that scientists say a crash in insect numbers risks ‘ecological Armageddon’. When Lister’s study was published in October, one expert called the findings ‘hyper-alarming’.

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Support for Trump’s wall reaches all-time high: Poll

Support for President Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is at an all-time high weeks into a partial government shutdown that began over a border security dispute for funding.

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