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What’s next after Trump deployed National Guard troops to D.C. – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump is increasing the number of National Guard troops on patrol in the nation’s capital and said he would seek to extend his takeover of the D.C. police for more than the allowed month. Scott MacFarlane has the latest. Source link

The trial over President Trump’s deployment of thousands of National Guard troops to Los Angeles earlier this summer reached its third and final day Wednesday, as lawyers for the Justice Department and the state of California argued over the validity of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s lawsuit and whether the Posse Comitatus Act — which generally bars the military from engaging in domestic law enforcement – applied to the troop deployment.Mr. Trump in June deployed 4,000 California National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles, saying they were needed to protect federal property and law enforcement agents amid June protests against…

A man wearing a “Latinos for America” T-shirt attends a campaign event for Republican congressional candidates at University Drafthouse in McAllen, Texas, in 2022. Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty Images Support for President Trump and his party is starting to wane among Latino voters. According to Equis Research, a Latino polling organization, about a third of Latinos who supported Trump last year “are not set on voting for a Republican” during next year’s midterms. Caitlin Jury, a research director at Equis Research, told NPR that economic issues such as persistently high prices…

Washington — President Trump said Wednesday that the White House will seek “long-term extensions” from Congress to maintain control of D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department, part of the president’s push to crack down on crime in the nation’s capital. “I think the Republicans in Congress will approve this pretty much unanimously,” Mr. Trump said.Mr. Trump announced the deployment of members of the National Guard to D.C. on Monday and said the federal government would also take control of the D.C. police. In an executive order Monday, the president directed the D.C. mayor to provide the services of the Metropolitan Police Department for…

August 13, 2025 Trump and RFK Jr. have made every effort to undermine one of the major civilizing advances of the 20th century—our public health infrastructure Ad Policy US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks behind President Donald Trump during an executive orders signing event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 5, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski / Getty Images) This article was originally published at The Guardian and is republished here with permission. New data from the CDC suggests a grim back-to-school tradition emerging: In 2024, kindergarten vaccination rates…

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House Democrats convened a virtual call Wednesday amid an escalating national redistricting controversy that could have widespread implications on next year’s midterm elections. The call, hosted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, featured former Attorney General Eric Holder, chair of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York was also on the call.A source familiar with the call said Holder provided “a high-level overview to the House Democratic Caucus on the latest in the fight against Donald Trump’s gerrymandering scheme in Texas and across the country.” Texas has become ground zero in the redistricting battle…

The U.S. Capitol is shown at dusk in Washington, D.C., on April 4. Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images Since President Trump returned to the White House this year, a record number of members are eyeing the exits as the Republican-led Congress has largely ceded its power to Trump’s vision of the country. With just under 15 months to go until the 2026 midterms, nine senators and 21 House members have announced they don’t plan to run for reelection, each a modern record for this point before the election, according to an…

Alaska’s capital city faced record floodwaters Wednesday stemming from a basin dammed by the Mendenhall Glacier, which released an “outburst flood” that threatened parts of Juneau. Water levels in the Mendenhall River, which flows through Juneau, reached unprecedented heights in the early morning hours and peaked at around 7:15 a.m. local time before beginning to fall, the National Weather Service said. At its peak, the river’s flood stage rose to 16.65 feet, topping the previous record of 15.99 feet set last year, according to forecasters.The Mendenhall Glacier is about 12 miles from downtown Juneau and is a popular tourist attraction due…

On the Fourth of July, a friend interrupted my doomscrolling to send me a copy of Anne Lamott’s Washington Post column “Does Trumpland chaos bode better times ahead? I say yes. Happy Fourth!” It was a lifeline. Lamott wrote, “I am calling for us to move into a new phase of resistance: hope and joy. In ghastly times, these are subversive.”Lamott is the igniter of the raw-truth-mother-writing explosion. With her bestselling book Operating Instructions, she gave mothers permission to admit that—despite your best intentions—you will screw up and you may think unthinkable things about the same child you love beyond…