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U.S. NEWS Saturday 8 November 2025
The government shutdown prompts the cancellation of some

Veterans Day events

they need, and unfortu- pate in its annual parade
nately with the shutdown because of the shutdown.
we’re unable to do that,” “Our veterans deserve to
Laura Herzog, founder and be recognized with great
CEO of Honoring Our Fall- pomp and circumstance,”
en, which organizes the Riv- Hampton City Manager
erside National Cemetery Mary Bunting said in a news
event. release. “Without the pres-
Many communities will still ence of our active-duty
hold Veterans Day gather- military, we are concerned
ings, including some of the that the parade would ap-
nation’s largest and well- pear sparse and that the
known events such as the recognition might fall short
annual observance at Ar- of the honor our veterans
lington National Cemetery so richly deserve.”
in Virginia and the New Organizers of Detroit’s an-
York Veterans Day Parade. nual Veterans Day parade
The disruption to a federal say they’re moving forward
holiday that is intended with the Sunday event, but
to honor those who have it won’t include an appear-
served in the armed forces ance by a U.S. Army band
comes as military families or a helicopter flyover.
face uncertainty week to Others are relying on even
Grave markers of U.S. veterans are shown at the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery where the week about their pay. The more help from volunteers
upcoming annual Veterans Day program has been canceled due to the federal government Trump administration has than usual to make up for
shutdown in Dallas, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. found ways to pay troops the lack of federal resourc-
Associated Press twice since the shutdown es.
By ANDREW DeMILLO emonies and other events said they couldn’t move began Oct. 1. The Wyoming Valley Veter-
Associated Press across the U.S. that are forward with the event on The Texas National Ceme- ans Day Parade, which has
Normally on Veterans Day, normally held to mark Vet- Tuesday without access to tery Foundation canceled been a tradition in Wilkes-
volunteers gather at the erans Day. It’s another fall- restrooms, traffic control an annual Veterans Day Barre, Pennsylvania, every
Riverside National Cem- out of the shutdown that and other needs for the event at the cemetery in year since 1945, will still take
etery in California to place has disrupted flights and thousands of participants. Dallas-Fort Worth, saying place Sunday. But organiz-
flags alongside more than food assistance, and was Elsewhere, a lack of fed- organizers wouldn’t have ers have had to scramble
300,000 gravesites. But not already being squarely felt eral employees and ac- time to stage the ceremo- because of the shutdown,
this year. by military families who are cess to military facilities has ny even if the shutdown asking veterans to partici-
The longest federal govern- worried about their pay- scrubbed other Veterans ended soon. In Virginia, city pate. And instead of mili-
ment shutdown on record checks. Day events. leaders in Hampton cited tary vehicles, the parade
is curtailing and outright In California, organizers “We have a responsibility to concerns about a lack of will feature motorcycle
canceling parades, cer- of “A Flag for Every Hero” provide them the resources servicemembers to partici- groups and car clubs.q

Supreme Court weighs longshot appeal to overturn decision

legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide

By MARK SHERMAN and attorney’s fees to a case. Alito has continued Rowan County when she ruling. She defied court
Associated Press couple whom she denied to criticize the decision, turned away same-sex orders to issue the licenses
WASHINGTON (AP) — A a marriage license. but said recently he was couples, saying her faith until a federal judge jailed
call to overturn the land- The justices could say as not advocating that it be prevented her from com- her for contempt of court
mark Supreme Court de- early as Monday what overturned. plying with the high court in September 2015.q
cision legalizing same-sex they’ll do. Justice Amy Coney Barrett,
marriage nationwide is on In urging the court to take who was not on the court
the agenda Friday for the up her case, Davis’ law- in 2015, has said there
justices’ closed-door con- yers repeatedly invoked are times when the court
ference. the words of Justice Clar- should correct mistakes
Among the new cases the ence Thomas, who alone and overturn decisions, as
justices are expected to among the nine justices it did in the 2022 case that
consider is a longshot ap- has called for erasing the ended a constitutional
peal from Kim Davis, the same-sex marriage ruling. right to abortion.
former Kentucky court Thomas was one of four But Barrett has suggested
clerk who refused to is- dissenting justices in 2015. recently that same-sex
sue marriage licenses to Chief Justice John Roberts marriage might be in a
same-sex couples follow- and Justice Samuel Alito different category than
ing the court’s 2015 ruling are the other dissenters abortion because people
in Obergefell v. Hodges. who also remain on the have relied on the decision
Davis had been trying to court. when they married and
get the court to overturn a Roberts has been silent on had children. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis makes a statement to the
media at the front door of the Rowan County Judicial Center in
lower court order for her to the subject since he wrote Davis drew national atten- Morehead, Ky. Sept. 14, 2015.
pay $360,000 in damages a dissenting opinion in the tion to eastern Kentucky’s Associated Press