President Donald Trump authorized the deployment of 300 Illinois National Guard troops to protect federal officers and assets in Chicago on Saturday, marking the latest escalation of the his use of federal intervention in cities.
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Sunday that Republicans care more about thwarting the release of the Epstein files than negotiating a compromise to end the government shutdown.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers at an impasse on reopening the federal government provided few public signs Sunday of meaningful negotiations talking place to end what has so far been a five-day shutdown.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is raising alarm over what he describes as aggressive and indiscriminate immigration enforcement by the Trump administration in Chicago
President Donald Trump moved to deploy the National Guard in another city Saturday by authorizing 300 troops to protect federal officers and assets in Chicago, where the government said Border Patrol agents shot and injured a woman while firing at someone who tried to run them over.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said Sunday that the Trump administration is deploying 300 of his state’s National Guard troops to Portland, Ore., and he vowed he would sue over the move. On Saturday, a federal judge temporarily blocked the administration’s deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to the state’s largest city. U.S. District...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that an independent Palestinian state is “not even a realistic thing right now.” “It’s not even possible. That’s not even a realistic thing right now,” Rubio said on CBS’s "Face the Nation." “Because who would govern that Palestinian state, Hamas?” The Trump administration’s 20-point plan to end the...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the Trump administration’s plan to lay off thousands of federal workers is “regrettable,” but the fault is with Democrats who won’t agree to the Republicans’ proposal to reopen the government. In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” host Kristen Welker pressed Johnson on the administration’s unprecedented plan to...
President Trump called on Democratic Virginia attorney general nominee Jay Jones to drop out of his race over leaked text messages about former state House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R). “It has just come out that the Radical Left Lunatic, Jay Jones, who is running against Jason Miyares, the GREAT Attorney General in Virginia, made SICK...
Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the former Army vice chief of staff, said he is “concerned” about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “attack on women” in the military on Sunday. “I'm concerned about what I considered an attack on women, and the fact that there are people who say that women have been let into different combat fields...
