By Antoinette Grajeda | Deputy Editor
Good morning, Advocate readers!
Officials are celebrating Arkansas’ expanding role in the defense industry. And news organizations barred from the White House have filed a lawsuit over the ban.
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Republican U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman chats with Col. Matthew Mason, commander of the Pine Bluff Arsenal, before a news conference at the U.S. Army facility on Sept. 21, 2026. (Photo by Tess Vrbin/Arkansas Advocate)
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
By Tess Vrbin
A South Korean company announced Monday it will build its first United States facility that produces artillery ammunition at Arkansas’ Pine Bluff Arsenal, creating about 400 jobs with an average wage of $50 per hour over seven years.
The White House, south facing, on June 11, 2026. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
By Jennifer Shutt
The three news organizations that President Donald Trump has barred from entering the White House filed a lawsuit against the administration on Monday.
A detainee is seen in a window of Delaney Hall, a detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on June 5, 2026. Some Democratic-led states are fighting to enforce their own health and safety standards at the sites. (Photo by Anne-Marie Caruso/New Jersey Monitor)
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
By Shalina Chatlani
Concerned about conditions in federal immigrant detention facilities but often barred from entering them, some Democratic-led states are fighting to enforce their own health and safety standards at the sites.
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