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Trump says cities should be asking for National Guard troops as he mulls more deployments

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump on Monday said he is still prepared to order National Guard troops to American cities besides the nation's capital, but that he wanted local officials to request his help.The comments come after Trump threatened Chicago as the next city ...
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Trump says he’s firing Fed Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump announced that he is removing Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve Board Governor, from her position.In the letter addressed to Cook that was posted on social media Monday night, Trump said there was "sufficient evidence" that Cook made false statements ...
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Trump fires Fed’s Cook alleging false statements on mortgage forms

By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday took the unprecedented action of firing Lisa Cook, the first African-American woman to serve as a Federal Reserve governor, over claims of mortgage borrowing impropriety. The president had ...
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California Republicans sue to block Congressional redistricting plan

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) -California Republicans filed on Monday their second legal challenge against Governor Gavin Newsom’s redistricting plan, which aims to give Democrats five more Congressional seats amid a nationwide scramble for advantage in 2026 elections.  The lawsuit filed by Republican lawmakers argues that the ...
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Senate Republicans push back against Trump’s calls to end ‘blue slips’

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump is once again upping the pressure on Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley to do away with a century-old Senate tradition that places some constraints on the president's authority to appoint judicial nominees.Trump is targeting the Senate's "blue slip" ...
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DOJ to appeal ruling disqualifying Trump lawyer Habba as New Jersey prosecutor

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department on Monday indicated it would appeal a judge’s ruling barring Alina Habba, a former personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, from supervising federal cases as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor. Chief U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann of the Middle ...
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Trump says US military may or may not deploy to Chicago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that the U.S. military might deploy to Chicago and is ready to go anywhere on short notice to crack down on crime. “We can go anywhere on less than 24 hours’ notice,” Trump said when asked ...
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DC students head back to school amid Trump’s law enforcement surge

(WASHINGTON) -- Despite more than 2,000 National Guard troops authorized by President Donald Trump's crackdown on crime, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser said students in the nation's capital will not be aided by their presence as children return to school this week."We don't need ...
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‘No magic fixes’ for Democrats as party confronts internal and fundraising struggles

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ken Martin is in the fight of his life. The low-profile political operative from Minnesota, just six months on the job as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is charged with leading his party’s formal resistance to President Donald Trump and fixing ...
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Former CIA Director Petraeus says Putin is ‘the obstacle to peace’ in Ukraine

(WASHINGTON) -- Former CIA Director and retired Army Gen. David Petraeus said Sunday that he's dubious that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet to discuss ending the war in Ukraine."There's not that much right now that would lead us ...
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Trump has no basis to deploy troops to Chicago, Democratic leader Jeffries says

By Idrees Ali (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump does not have the authority to deploy troops to Chicago, Democratic House of Representatives Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries said on Sunday as the Pentagon carried out initial planning for a possible deployment. Trump, a Republican, has said ...
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Analysis-Trump’s redistricting push could bring decades of Republican rule to the US House

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s push for Republican-led states to redraw their U.S. House of Representatives districts to protect their majority in next year’s midterm elections could set the stage for Republicans to dominate the chamber in decades to come, political analysts and ...
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