Beijing said it will require Chinese government approval for any exports of magnets that contain even trace amounts of rare earth materials that originated from China, or that were produced with Chinese technology. The U.S. Trade Representative said this gives China broad power over the global economy by controlling the tech supply chain, making Australia’s mining economy a key alternative for critical minerals sought by the U.S.

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Appeals court weighs in on Oregon National Guard deployment

An appeals court has put a hold on a lower court ruling that kept President Trump from taking command of 200 Oregon National Guard troops. However, he is still barred from actually deploying those troops, at least for now.

U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued two temporary restraining orders early this month — one that prohibited Trump from calling up the troops so he could send them to Portland, and another that prohibited him from sending any National Guard members to Oregon at all, after the president tried to evade the first order by sending California troops instead.

The Justice Department appealed the first order, and in a 2-1 ruling, a panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the administration. The majority said the president was likely to succeed on his claim that he had the authority to federalize the troops because he had shown he was unable to enforce the laws in Portland without them. However, Immergut’s second order remains in effect, so no troops may immediately be deployed.

President Trump celebrates 2025 college baseball champions

NCAA baseball champs LSU and NAIA champs LSU-Shreveport were honored with a joint White House celebration to mark their stellar seasons.

The LSU Tigers swept Coastal Carolina in the College World Series, while LSU-Shreveport Pilots went a perfect 59-0 en route to their title.

“I think we should bring them into government,” Trump jokingly said of LSU head coach Jay Johnson and LSU-Shreveport’s Brad Neffendorf. “We can definitely use them.”

The Pilots standout left-handed pitcher Isaac Rohde was named the 2025 ABCA/Rawlings NAIA Pitcher of the Year. The Tigers championship team included nine players selected in the 2025 MLB draft.

It was LSU’s eighth national championship. Only USC, with 12, has won more College World Series titles.

Authorities charge 2 more suspects with attack on prominent DOGE employee

Two more suspects have been charged with the attempted carjacking and beating of a 19-year-old man who was working for the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency — a crime that was a catalyst for the White House’s law-enforcement surge in the nation’s capital.

Laurence Cotton-Powell, 19, and Anthony Taylor, 18, were arrested last week on charges stemming from the Aug. 3 attack on Edward Coristine, a prominent DOGE employee nicknamed “Big Balls.” Two 15-year-old suspects from Maryland previously were charged in Coristine’s beating.

“This case underscores the escalating challenges that we face in confronting crime in Washington, D.C.,” U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said at a news conference on Monday.

Coristine was walking a woman to her car in the city’s Logan Circle neighborhood when he was attacked by a group of teenagers who repeatedly punched and kicked him, authorities said. The suspects fled when they spotted a police officer nearby.

White House starts demolishing part of the East Wing to build Trump’s ballroom

The tear-down started on Monday.

The Washington Post was first to report on the demolition work, posting dramatic photos to its website of a backhoe ripping through the East Wing façade and windows and other parts of the building in tatters on the ground.

Trump is adding a 90,000-square-foot ballroom to the White House because he says the East Room is too small and he doesn’t like holding events in tents on the South Lawn.

The new ballroom, which is supposed to be completed before Trump’s term ends, will accommodate 999 people, he said last week.

Trump warns Hamas to ‘be good’ and uphold the ceasefire or ‘be eradicated’

Asked about maintaining the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, Trump said the U.S. will give the situation a “little chance” in hopes that there will be less violence.

Israeli forces on Sunday killed dozens in strikes in Gaza after it accused Hamas militants of killing two soldiers.

Trump said Hamas must behave or face consequences.

“They have to be good, and if they’re not good they’ll be eradicated,” he said.

The president warned, “If they keep doing it, then we’re going to go in and straighten it out, and it’ll happen very quickly and pretty violently.”

Trump said he wasn’t talking about U.S. boots on the ground, but some of the other countries that backed the ceasefire agreement.

Official defends tear gas in Chicago, says agents on immigration sweeps are wearing cameras

Federal officials are in court in Chicago to take questions about the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the region, which has produced more than 1,000 arrests.

The hearing comes a few days after a judge ordered uniformed immigration agents to wear body cameras, if available, and turn them on when engaged in arrests, frisks and building searches or when being deployed to protests.

Each Border Patrol agent who is part of Operation Midway Blitz “now has a body-worn camera,” said Kyle Harvick, deputy incident commander with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis last week said she was a “little startled” after seeing TV images of street confrontations that involved tear gas and other tactics during the immigration sweep.

“The longer we loiter on a scene and subjects come, the situation gets more and more dangerous,” Harvick testified.