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Trump sat in a reviewing stand on Constitution Avenue as armored vehicles dating from two world wars and overflights of 80-year-old bombers and modern helicopters shook downtown Washington. Read more
Officials said a gunman impersonating a police officer killed Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and wounded Sen. John A. Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in separate attacks at the lawmakers’ homes. Read more
About 200 Marines will be protecting a federal building in Los Angeles, Army Major General Scott Sherman, said today. The administration has authorized a total of 700 Marines to be deployed in the city. Read more
Earlier today, San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer found that Trump’s deployment of the Guard was unlawful. Breyer had ordered the National Guard to return to the control of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who had brought the case. Read more
The Republican-led Congress passed the resolutions in May to reverse the Biden administration’s approval of California’s electric vehicle efforts. Read more
“I am Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,” Padilla said during the press conference where Noem was discussing protests in Los Angeles over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Read more
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
“We have more assets now today than we did yesterday. We had more yesterday than we did the day before, so we are only building momentum,” Noem said during a press conference in the city. Read more
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
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In a social media post, Tulsi Gabbard hailed the end of Quiet Skies as “a meaningful step towards restoring the trust of the American people and defending liberty.” Read more
Weinstein, once one of the most powerful figures in Hollywood, is facing a retrial after a state appeals court last year overturned his 2020 conviction. Read more
Protests over President Donald Trump’s immigration raids have spread from California to other U.S. cities, with hundreds of nationwide demonstrations planned for Saturday. Read more
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
Expanding on conservatives’ success in overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, the vote signals growing evangelical ambitions to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court ruling that was handed down 10 years ago this month. Read more
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, whose office is handling the litigation on behalf of both Newsom and the state, said the restraining order was necessary to bring an immediate stop to the deployments Read more
“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
Los Angeles police arrested 197 people today and Mayor Karen Bass announced a curfew for a square mile of downtown Los Angeles that will last several days. Read more
The Korean American Federation of Los Angeles also said an operation by the U.S. administration to round up suspected undocumented immigrants lacked “due legal procedures.” Read more
The states in the lawsuit said such devices remain illegal to possess under federal law. Read more
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement that the man, Manuel Ruiz, 41, turned himself in today and would be charged with two counts of murder. Read more
More than 60 current employees sent their letter to NIH director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and members of Congress who oversee the NIH. Read more
