USS George Washington reportedly en route to relieve USS Abraham Lincoln amid concerns over conditions onboard – US politics live

Lincoln has been on record-breaking deployment for more than 200 days, with reports of service members attempting to jump overboard and chronic food shortages

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The Trump administration has asked ⁠the ⁠US supreme court to allow construction of his controversial $400m ⁠White House ballroom to proceed after ​an ‌appeals ‌court ordered work to halt.

In a case testing Donald Trump’s presidential authority, the Washington-based US ⁠court of ​appeals for the District of Columbia circuit ruled last week that the controversial ‌project lacked the necessary approval from US Congress.