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Your Local Post Office will be Closed in Recognition of Veterans Day
 

Rhode Island - Post offices across the state will be closed on Friday, November 11, in honor of Veterans Day. There will be no street delivery, except for guaranteed overnight parcels, and all retail operations will be closed for the day. Full retail and delivery operations will resume on Saturday, November 12.

As one of the largest employers of US veterans, nearly 10% of our workforce nationally, the Postal Service is proud to honor the men and women who have selflessly served our country in war and in peacetime and those who continue that tradition today. As the saying goes, “America is the land of the free because of the brave.”

The Postal Service generally receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.

 

 
Democratic leaders in Minnesota are announcing a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security. The lawsuit is over the surge of additional ICE agents to Minneapolis following the deadly shooting involving an ICE agent. The state's Attorney General Keith Ellison says the agents are untrained and are making illegal arrests, causing chaos, and targeting people based on the color of their skin. Protests in Minneapolis have been ongoing since the shooting in Minneapolis last week.        The Supreme Court is set to hear a pair of cases involving transgender athlete bans on Tuesday. The justices will hear the cases -- one out of Idaho, the other from West Virginia -- challenging whether states can ban transgender girls from participating in girls' and women's sports. The decisions on those cases will impact similar bans already enacted in about half of the U.S.        The Clintons could be slapped with a contempt of Congress charge if they don't show up for a House committee hearing in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were originally ordered to appear before the GOP-led committee in December, but asked that the date get pushed back to January 13th. Now a committee spokesperson says neither has confirmed they will appear, and Congressman James Comer, the chairman of the panel, said he'll slap them with contempt if they don't show.        Thousands of nurses in New York City are on strike today over a contract dispute, with the largest sticking point being salary. The nurse's union wants a 40 percent bump, but the hospitals impacted, including Mount Sinai and New York-Presbyterian, say that demand is reckless. The hospitals say patients won't be impacted as travel nurses have now taken the floors.        Arizona Senator Mark Kelly is taking legal action against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth over the punishment for a video where he told service members to refuse illegal orders. The Democrat filed the federal civil lawsuit in the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday. Hegseth called the video "seditious" and said the Department of War initiated retirement grade determination proceedings that would result in a lost of pay.        Muhammad Ali will be honored with his own postal stamp this week. The USPS will hold a first-day-of-issue event in the boxing legend's hometown of Louisville, Kentucky on Thursday. The stamps feature a black-and-white photo of Ali in his famous boxing pose along with his name in large capital letters.       

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