RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — With trumpets blaring, cannons booming and fighter jets streaking overhead trailed by red, white and blue contrails, President Trump arrived in the scorching heat of the Arabian desert on Saturday hoping to realign the politics and diplomacy of the Middle East by forcefully reasserting American support for Sunni Muslim countries and Israel against Iran’s Shiite-led government.

The start of Mr. Trump’s first trip abroad since becoming president — coming amid the scandals and chaos engulfing his administration — was intended to be a blunt rejection of President Barack Obama’s vision for the region. Mr. Obama sought a reconciliation with Iran and negotiated a deal intended to keep Tehran from developing nuclear weapons.

The day proved to be almost everything a besieged White House could have wanted. After weeks of stormy politics and out-of-control news cycles, the president stayed rigorously on script and restrained himself on Twitter. His staff boasted about the business deals being signed, and the visual images beamed to Americans back home showed a president seemingly in command of a world stage.

The Saudis treated him like royalty, with red carpets, lavish meals and American flags flying everywhere. They repeatedly used the word “historic” to describe his visit, gave him a medal, projected a multistory image of his face on the side of the palatial Ritz-Carlton hotel where he was staying, and treated him to a colorful dance display in which his staff joined in with scores of white-robed Saudis and even the president swayed back and forth.</s>RIYADH — King Salman presented US President Donald Trump with the King Abdulaziz medal at al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh Saturday.— Al Arabiya</s>Officials in the village of Nebo, Illinois said all the residents are under a boil order.

According to officials, there are issues going on at the water plant and residents will be on a boil order until further notice.

There is no timetable on when the boil order will be lifted.

This only effects residents in the village, not anyone residing elsewhere in Pike County.</s>The brief was filed Wednesday with the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 9th District. We're told the brief supports the U.S. Department of Justice in defending President Trump’s executive order on immigration. A judge on the 9th Circuit called for the en banc court to stay a decision by three of its judges that upheld a temporary restraining order blocking key provisions of the order.

A release from Paxton's office said, "Attorney General Paxton’s brief demonstrates that the president’s immigration order is a lawful exercise of congressionally delegated executive power over foreign affairs and national security."

“The law makes it very clear that the president has discretion to protect the safety of the American people and our nation’s institutions with respect to who can come into this country,” Attorney General Paxton said. “The safety of the American people and the security of our country are President Trump’s major responsibilities under the law.”

Statutory authority for the president’s executive order on immigration is expressly provided for in 8 U.S. Code § 1182, which states: “Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”

To read the full brief, click here.</s>This one’s for the servers out there! Young Jeffrey is taking on Creed in this week’s Song Of The Week!
U.S. President Trump is awarded his first foreign order, the Order of King Abdulaziz.