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Trump Deploys National Guard to LA to Quell Protests

Move comes over Gov. Gavin Newsom's objections

(Newser) - President Trump is deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops over the governor's objections to Los Angeles where protests Saturday led to clashes between immigration authorities and demonstrators. The White House said Saturday that Trump was deploying the Guardsmen to "address the lawlessness that has been allowed to...

ICE Presses Raids in LA as Trump Officials Taunt Bass

'You have no say in this at all,' Stephen Miller tells mayor

(Newser) - Trump administration officials mocked Mayor Karen Bass on Saturday while pressing their immigration raids and battles with protesters in Los Angeles. A standoff lasted hours outside an industrial park, with Border Patrol personnel deploying tear gas while bystanders and protesters standing on medians and across the street chanted "Fuera...

Judge: Trump Can Go Ahead With Library Cuts

Richard Leon denied ALA's ask to halt dismantling of Institute of Museum and Library Services

(Newser) - A federal judge on Friday denied a request by the American Library Association to halt the Trump administration's further dismantling of an agency that funds and promotes libraries across the country, saying that recent court decisions suggested his court lacked jurisdiction to hear the matter. US District Judge Richard...

Trump-Musk Fight Puts JD Vance in a Jam

Vice president can't afford to alienate either man

(Newser) - The feud between President Trump and Elon Musk has put a number of Republicans in a difficult spot, but an analysis at Politico finds that Vice President JD Vance "could be the biggest loser of the blowout." The reason isn't hard to suss out: Vance is an...

Trump to SCOTUS: Reinstate Education Layoffs

Emergency appeal to the high court says US district judge exceeded his authority

(Newser) - President Trump's administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to pause a court order to reinstate Education Department employees who were fired in mass layoffs as part of his plan to dismantle the agency. The Justice Department's emergency appeal to the high court said US District Judge Myong...

ICE Officers, Detainees Stuck in Sweltering Shipping Container

Court order has left them all in harsh, unsafe conditions in Djibouti

(Newser) - A group of nearly a dozen US immigration officers and eight deportees have been stranded for more than two weeks at a US military base in Djibouti after a federal judge in Boston halted a deportation flight. The detainees, who include individuals convicted of crimes like murder and armed...

State Rejects Demand From Administration on Mascots

New York officials say they could widen the policy

(Newser) - New York officials on Thursday answered the Trump administration's demand that the state drop its ban on Native American mascots and team names for schools. Not only did they decline the opportunity, the AP reports, the education officials suggested they might just widen their ban to cover names and...

Man in Charge of Homeland Security's Terror Office Is 22

Former officials say Thomas Fugate shouldn't even quality for a junior role with CP3

(Newser) - Just a year after graduating college, Thomas Fugate is now in charge of the government's main anti-terrorism office, raising alarm among national security experts. A ProPublica report highlights controversy over the appointment of the 22-year-old to oversee the Department of Homeland Security's Center for Prevention Programs and...

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Trump Institutes New Travel Bans

Nationals from 12 countries will be banned outright, another 7 face partial bans

(Newser) - President Trump on Wednesday announced travel bans barring nationals from 12 countries from entering the United States. Another seven countries were also placed under travel restrictions, though not outright bans, NBC News reports. The restrictions, which hearken back to travel bans on Muslim-majority countries Trump instituted during his first term,...

Judge Orders Due Process for 137 Deportees in El Salvador

Boasberg cites evidence that many of the men aren't tied to Venezuelan gang

(Newser) - A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration must give more than 100 migrants sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador a chance to challenge their deportations. US District Chief Judge James Boasberg said people who were sent to the prison in March under an 18th-century wartime...

Administration Challenges Columbia's Accreditation Status

University has been out of compliance since Hamas attacked Israel, agencies say

(Newser) - The Trump administration on Wednesday opened a new front in its battle against Columbia University, accusing the prestigious school of violating antidiscrimination laws and threatening its accreditation. The Education Department said it will notify the organization that decides accreditations that its Office for Civil Rights has determined that Columbia has...

CBO: Budget Bill Slashes Taxes by $3.7T, Adds $2.4T to Deficit

White House preemptively pushes back against report, calling office 'historically wrong'

(Newser) - President Trump's big budget bill making its way through Congress will cut taxes by $3.7 trillion but also increase deficits by $2.4 trillion over the next decade, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The analysis comes at a crucial moment in...

Trump Revokes Emergency Abortion Policy

It directed hospitals to provide abortions needed to stabilize medical condition

(Newser) - The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it would revoke guidance to the nation's hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions to women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical condition. That guidance was issued to hospitals in 2022, weeks after the Supreme Court upended national abortion...

Greene: I Would Have Voted No If I Knew What Was in Bill

Leading some critics to suggest she maybe should have read all of it first

(Newser) - Marjorie Taylor Greene apparently admitted to not reading all of President Trump's "one big, beautiful bill" before voting for it in the House of Representatives. "Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to...

Consumers Hedge on Shopping, but Not Here

Dollar General posts record sales amid tariffs; its stock rises, as does Dollar Tree's

(Newser) - Dollar General set a quarterly sales record and upgraded its annual profit and sales outlook as Americans tighten their budgets and spend more at bargain stores amid economic uncertainty. The US economy shrank at a 0.2% annual pace from January through March, the first drop in three years, as...

Schwarzenegger to Tree Huggers: 'Stop Whining and Get to Work'

Governator has little patience for those wringing their hands over Trump's policies

(Newser) - Arnold Schwarzenegger has a message for environmentalists who despair at the approach of President Trump's administration: Quit your bellyaching. The new US administration has taken an ax to Biden-era environmental ambitions, rolled back landmark regulations, withdrawn climate project funding, and instead bolstered support for oil and gas production in...

Trump Angrily Breaks With Federalist Society

Post suggests an end to the alliance that picked much of the federal bench, including the Supreme Court

(Newser) - After regularly attacking judges who didn't rule his way, President Trump has turned to the organization that recommended nominees for the federal bench to him. "I am so disappointed in The Federalist Society because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations," Trump wrote...

Trump Says He's Firing National Portrait Gallery Chief

Whether he has the authority to remove Kim Sajet, the first woman in that role, remains unclear

(Newser) - President Trump announced Friday he has fired Kim Sajet, the longtime director of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. Sajet, who was the first woman in the role, led the gallery for 12 years. Trump made the move public in a Truth Social post , citing recommendations from "many...

Trump Tries to Ease Workers' Minds on Nippon-US Steel Deal

President says US Steel will 'stay an American company,' vows to double steel tariffs to 50%

(Newser) - President Trump on Friday told Pennsylvania steelworkers he's doubling the tariff on steel imports to 50% to protect their industry, a dramatic increase that could further push up prices for a metal used to make housing, autos, and other goods. In a post later on his Truth Social platform,...

PBS Sues Trump Over Executive Order to End Funding

President can't decide programming, filing argues

(Newser) - PBS sued President Trump on Friday to keep his executive order to end its federal funding from taking effect, calling the government's action unconstitutional. The suit filed in US District Court in Washington contends that the Trump administration violated the public broadcaster's First Amendment rights and the law...

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