The move came after the shooting of two National Guard members in D.C.
President Donald Trump, who is spending Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago, addressed the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the administration continues to conduct negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war, with White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner expected to travel to Russia and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to talk to the Ukrainians.
Key Headlines
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Nov 26, 2025, 11:09 PM EST
USCIS stops processing immigration requests related to Afghan nationals
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Nov 26, 2025, 5:23 PM EST
Trump won’t invite South Africa to G20 and will suspend payments
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Nov 26, 2025, 8:58 AM EST
Trump pushes back on NYT article on how he’s slowed down in 2nd term
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Nov 25, 2025, 9:40 PM EST
Trump says he doesn’t want to extend ACA subsidies but that it ‘may be necessary’
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Nov 26, 2025, 11:09 PM EST
USCIS stops processing immigration requests related to Afghan nationals
In a post on social media late Wednesday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced the “processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols.”
The announcement came shortly after remarks by President Donald Trump regarding the shooting of two National Guard members in D.C. identifying the suspected shooter as an Afghan national who entered the U.S. in 2021.
Trump said the U.S. “must now reexamine every single alien from Afghanistan who has entered our country under (former President Joe) Biden and we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here or add benefit to our country.”
Nov 26, 2025, 5:23 PM EST
Trump won’t invite South Africa to G20 and will suspend payments
Trump says that he will not invite South Africa to participate in next year’s G20 Summit hosted at his Doral golf course and stop all payments and subsidies to the country “effective immediately.”
“At the conclusion of the G20, South Africa refused to hand off the G20 Presidency to a Senior Representative from our U.S. Embassy, who attended the Closing Ceremony. Therefore, at my direction, South Africa will NOT be receiving an invitation to the 2026 G20, which will be hosted in the Great City of Miami, Florida next year,” Trump posted on his social media platform.
“We are going to stop all payments and subsidies to them, effective immediately.”
Trump refused to attend, or send a U.S. official to, the G20 summit this year in South Africa as he continues to amplify claims there have been targeted killings against white Afrikaners in the region.
-ABC News’ Lalee Ibssa
Nov 26, 2025, 1:53 PM EST
Driscoll will meet privately with Vance at Fort Campbell in Kentucky
A spokesperson for the Vice President JD Vance’s office says that Vance and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll will meet privately at Fort Campbell on Wednesday afternoon, before Vance serves food to the troops for Thanksgiving. Driscoll will not participate in any of the public portions of Vance’s visit to Kentucky.
Driscoll has been working on negotiations for the administration’s Russia-Ukraine peace proposal. Driscoll held secret talks on Monday with a Russian delegation in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates to follow up on this weekend’s talks with Ukraine in Geneva that were intended to move the peace process forward, a U.S. official told ABC News.
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he’s directed Driscoll to meet with the Ukrainians and White House special envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
-ABC News’ Hannah Demissie and Lusi Martinez
Nov 26, 2025, 12:43 PM EST
Supreme Court keeps top US copyright official on the job for now
The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to act on President Donald Trump’s request to greenlight his immediate removal of the director of the U.S. Copyright Office and Register of Copyrights at the Library of Congress, Shira Perlmutter.
The Supreme Court said it was deferring a decision until after it hears arguments in a pair of cases involving presidential firing power — Trump v. Slaughter, involving members of independent agencies like the FTC, and Trump v. Cook, involving governors of the Federal Reserve.
The move came over the lone dissent of Justice Clarence Thomas, who indicated that he would have allowed Trump to remove Perlmutter effective immediately, even as litigation proceeds.
The dispute centers on the unique status of the Library of Congress — inside which the U.S. Copyright Office resides — which was created by lawmakers and exercises functions not solely within the purview of the executive branch and executive power.
Attorneys for Perlmutter say she was improperly terminated by acting Librarian of Congress (and also deputy Attorney General) Todd Blanche because he was not properly installed under federal law.
-ABC News’ Devin Dwyer
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