Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced late Tuesday he deployed Texas National Guard troops to San Antonio in advance of protests planned for Wednesday night against a Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants.

He also said he plans to send guardsmen elsewhere in the state to “uphold law and order,” days ahead of planned ...Read more

The Republican-led House of Representatives was poised Wednesday to hold a do-over vote on President Donald Trump’s sprawling budget bill to tweak some provisions that ran afoul of the complicated rules allowing the GOP to pass the bill using the arcane reconciliation process.

The amended Big, Beautiful Bill would nix a measure cracking down ...Read more

DENVER — Hundreds of Coloradans in Douglas County will mobilize Saturday for an anti-Trump rally, even after the town of Parker tried to shut them down, organizers say.

The Parker-led group will join thousands of people in cities across the country hosting “No Kings” rallies on Saturday, President Donald Trump’s birthday, “in response...Read more

Elon Musk, who served as a close adviser and confidant to President Donald Trump until a bitter public falling-out last week, issued his strongest sign of contrition yet over how he handled the rupture.

“I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week,” he said on his social-media platform, X. “They went too far.”

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CHICAGO — State election officials have informed Senate President Don Harmon that he will face more than $9.8 million in penalties pending an appeal of a case alleging he broke an Illinois election law designed to rein in big money in political campaigns.

The calculation of the potential penalty emerged only days after the Oak Park Democrat ...Read more

Elon Musk, who served as a close adviser and confidant to President Donald Trump until a bitter public falling out last week in a series of social-media posts, issued his strongest sign of contrition yet over how he handled the rupture.

“I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week,” he said on his social-media ...Read more

On April 24, President Donald Trump issued another questionable executive order, this one calling for deep-sea mining in both federal and international waters. The former is within his control; the latter would be a violation of international law.

Although the U.S. is not a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea— the...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump can continue to enforce his global tariffs for now, a federal appeals court held in a win for the president on one of his signature economic policies.

The order Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit extends an earlier, short-term reprieve for the administration as it presses a challenge to a ...Read more

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced this week he is joining a coalition of 15 other Democratic attorneys general in a lawsuit against the Trump administration to stop the redistribution of devices that the lawsuit claims enable firearms to fire like machine guns.

The Democrat’s latest lawsuit particularly targets the Bureau of ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned protesters to stay away from his controversial military parade planned for Saturday in Washington D.C. — or face “very big force.”

As he defends his crackdown on immigration protests in Los Angeles, Trump said authorities wouldn’t hesitate to flex their muscles if protesters seek to disrupt the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has shifted into a noticeably military mindset, just days before hundreds of tanks and combat vehicles will rumble along the streets of the nation’s capital.

“Those foolish enough to challenge America’s Army have been met with unyielding strength, unbreakable spirit and unstoppable, overwhelming force...Read more

President Donald Trump has publicly contemplated invoking a law that would allow him to use the military for almost unlimited domestic law enforcement nationwide in response to at-times violent protests in Los Angeles over immigration crackdowns.

Experts said use of the more than two-centuries-old Insurrection Act in this circumstance would ...Read more

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — The Home of the Airborne hosted President Donald Trump on Tuesday for one of the celebrations this week recognizing the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary.

The president greeted Fort Bragg by commending the service members in attendance and marking “250 years of valor, glory and triumph.”

Trump recognized service members ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s moves to deploy U.S. troops to Los Angeles and hold a splashy parade on the Army’s 250th birthday fulfills his longtime goal of leaning on the military for a show of force and political power.

Stymied in his first term by Cabinet members who resisted the use of soldiers on American soil, Trump has a ...Read more

NEW YORK — Veteran ABC News correspondent Terry Moran is leaving the network, following his suspension over social media posts that were harshly critical of the Trump White House.

Moran, 65, was suspended Sunday after statements on X that described President Donald Trump and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller as “world class” haters. He...Read more

In less than a week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom abandoned the uneasy armistice he forged with President Donald Trump after January’s wildfires. He dared federal officials to arrest him over his handling of immigration protests in Los Angeles, while competing narratives of whether the city had descended into anarchic chaos or was being ...Read more

In a move that contrasts with his administration’s increasingly restrictive immigration policies, President Donald Trump appears in a new official video welcoming those who have just become U.S. citizens.

The video, released by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), features a patriotic message from Trump addressed to newly ...Read more

WASHINGTON — During a news conference Tuesday morning at the U.S. Capitol, 16 House Democrats from California condemned the Trump administration’s actions in Los Angeles, accusing the president of attempting to incite unrest, test the limits of executive power and distract from the failures of his own leadership.

Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif.,...Read more

ATLANTA — The State Election Board exceeded its authority by passing new voting rules last year, the Georgia Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday, limiting the Republican-led board’s power.

The 96-page decision upholds a lower court decision that invalidated rules that would have required hand counts of ballots and election inquiries.

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