Latest Headlines

California Gov. Gavin Newsom slammed President Donald Trump's administration with a fact check over its latest effort to claim his state's tolerance of immigrants is getting people killed.

The controversy stems from a Fox News report from Bill Melugin, posted to X on Friday, that "An official with the California State Transportation Agency confirms to @FoxNews that Indian illegal alien truck driver Jashanpreet Singh’s California CDL is also a federal REAL ID, 'which he was entitled to receive given the federal gov’s confirmation of his legal status.'” Singh is currently facing charges for a deadly DUI.

Donald Trump took to Truth Social late Thursday to rant "ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED” — an angry response to a Canadian ad showing President Ronald Reagan criticizing tariffs.

But if Trump intended to instill fear throughout Canada, his staff might want to keep the Toronto Star off his reading list. The Star reported Friday that the all-caps drew anything but a panicked response.

Stephen Miller's grim threat that Democratic officials could face arrest for "seditious conspiracy" if they try to hinder President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown was met with widespread backlash Friday night.

During a conversation with Fox News host Will Cain, Miller threatened that any official, including Pritzker, may be engaged in criminal activity if they participate in what he referred to as a "criminal conspiracy" to obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration laws or to illegally instruct police or officials to interfere with or even arrest Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

The purge of top U.S. military officials reached a new plateau this week with the nomination of Lt. Gen. Christopher LaNeve to replace Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Mingus, according to reporting today at Politico.

The choice of LaNeve sent a message, according to the report.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) got a smackdown from an Arkansas state judge over her plan to hold open a vacant state legislative seat for eight months before holding a special election.

According to Law & Crime, Sanders set the special election date to replace Republican state Sen. Gary Stubblefield to June of next year — well past the state law requirement to call it within 150 days of the vacancy.

The Oklahoma State Board of Education plans to review, and possibly dismantle, social studies academic standards approved during the tenure of controversial former state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters.

The Oklahoman reports "the controversy surrounding the standards started with how they were approved."

The conservative editorial board for the National Review delivered choice words regarding President Donald Trump’s strategy to charge U.S. taxpayers $230 million over his prosecution for alleged criminal behavior.

“Donald Trump is in the odd position, by his own admission, of ‘suing myself,’” the Board notes. “It’s a case he should drop. … Trump reached for whatever legal levers he could grasp to fight back."

Stephen Miller, the deputy chief of staff for policy in President Donald Trump’s administration, issued an ominous threat Friday that Gov J.B. Pritzker could face arrest for "seditious conspiracy."

Miller made the remarkable comment during a Friday interview with Fox News' Will Cain.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit just temporarily paused a ruling from a split three-judge panel that would have allowed President Donald Trump to call up the National Guard in Portland, Oregon, against protesters at that city's Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

That means that, for the time being, Trump remains stymied from calling up the Guard in Portland.

A protester who claims to have been arrested for exercising his First Amendment rights against the Trump administration spoke out to MSNBC's Jason Johnson on Friday.

The protester, Sam O'Hara, was briefly detained by the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C. for following behind National Guard troops Trump deployed to the city, blasting "The Imperial March," an iconic Star Wars track also known colloquially as Darth Vader's theme. The song is heavily associated in pop culture with villainy and totalitarianism.

With a majority of Americans now recognizing that President Donald Trump is weaponizing the US Department of Justice, the DOJ’s Friday announcement that it will send election monitors to California and New Jersey is generating alarm.

Republicans in both states had written to the DOJ, requesting monitors for the Nov. 4 general elections in which Californians will vote on Proposition 50, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s answer to Trump’s mid-decade gerrymandering in GOP-led states, and New Jersey residents will pick their next governor.

Unaccompanied immigrant teenagers are being slapped with $5,000 fines from the federal government as a way to pressure them to return to their home countries, according to reporting Friday at The Intercept.

“It’s really about creating fear,” attorney Ana Raquel Devereaux said. “There’s no way that a child in this situation would be able to pay this, and the penalties are so severe.”

President Donald Trump's Justice Department is planning to send federal election monitors to California and New Jersey next month after receiving requests from state Republican officials.

The Justice Department said it would send monitors to Passaic County, New Jersey, as well as to Los Angeles, Orange, Kern, Riverside and Fresno counties in California.