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Democratic governors clash with House GOP on immigration

Governors JB Pritzker of Illinois, Tim Walz of Minnesota and Kathy Hochul of New York appeared before the Republican-controlled House of Representatives Oversight Committee a week into protests in downtown Los Angeles over the Trump administration’s aggressive ramping up of arrests of migrants. Read more

Trump could send troops to more cities as protests expand

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told senators at an Appropriations Committee hearing on Wednesday that the same legal authorities the Pentagon used to send nearly 5,000 Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles in recent days could be employed in other cities “if there are riots in places where law enforcement officers are threatened.” Read more

Musk says some of his posts about Trump ‘went too far’

Trump said on Saturday his relationship with Musk was over after they exchanged insults on social media, with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO describing the president’s sweeping tax and spending bill as a “disgusting abomination.” Read more

Pentagon defends troop deployments to Los Angeles

“We believe ICE agents should be allowed to be safe in doing their operations, and we have deployed National Guard and the Marines to protect them in the execution of their duties,” Hegseth told a hearing in Congress. Read more

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