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In a trial that opened on Monday, a high-ranking California National Guard officer stated he was called out and accused of disloyalty by a Customs official for balking at deploying his troops to the streets of Los Angeles due to ICE protests.

According to a report from Politico, the lawsuit brought by Governor Gavin Newsom against the Donald Trump administration claiming it violated the Posse Comitatus Act and the 10th Amendment when the streets were militarized to prevent anti-immigrant abduction protests.

President Donald Trump took to social media Tuesday to tease the upcoming Kennedy Center Honors award ceremony — while floating the idea of renaming the national cultural center after himself.

“Great nominees for the Trump/Kennedy Center, whoops, I mean, Kennedy Center, awards,” Trump wrote in an online post on his social media platform Truth Social. “They will be announced Wednesday. Tremendous work is being done, and money being spent, on bringing it back to the absolute top level of luxury, glamour, and entertainment.”

President Donald Trump is exacting "payback" on New York Attorney General Letitia James for winning a massive civil fraud judgment against him last year, wrote MSNBC legal analyst Anthony Coley on Tuesday — by tapping a pair of highly partisan and unfit prosecutors to dig into politically charged, baseless controversies.

It's part of a broader pattern of spurious legal attacks on Trump's political enemies that also involves Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA).

A press conference in which several victims of Jeffrey Epstein will speak publicly “for the first time” has been scheduled for early September in a bipartisan effort to force President Donald Trump’s hand in releasing files on the disgraced financier.

The presser is organized by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA), and is scheduled for Sept. 3 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. It is part of an ongoing bipartisan push to compel the Trump administration to release files on Epstein, who died in 2019 awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges and is alleged to have maintained a ‘client list’ of powerful figures for blackmail purposes.

Nothing is more illustrative of the corruption and ethical lapses within Donald Trump's administration than Kristi Noem's rumored relationship with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who has followed her in a "non-traditional role" at the Department of Homeland Security.

That is the opinion of Slate's Christina Cauterucci, who wrote Tuesday that the alleged relationship between the two has been an object of open speculation since Trump's first term — and has not died since.

President Donald Trump heaped praise onto longtime NBC journalist Chuck Todd Tuesday following remarks comparing Trump to former President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The gushing on Truth Social bucked years of bitter animosity between the two figures.

Donald Trump's decision to make himself the main character in every major effort by his administration runs the risk that he will make himself the central target of blame if any of those initiatives go south.

According to a report from the Washington Post, the president's decision to take federal control of the policing in Washington, D.C. is just another item he placed on his to-do list that includes negotiating with China on AI chip sales and brokering peace between Russia and Ukraine -- all of which could blow up in his face.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may have buried President Donald Trump with remarks made to celebrate his federal takeover of Washington, D.C.'s crime-fighting.

Trump announced Monday the takeover, vowing to eradicate “slums” and crack down on crime. But Hegseth's comments during the announcement could end up undermining Trump’s legal defense in a related court case.

Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have found a sneaky new way to gut Obamacare without the messy optics of an outright repeal—and experts say it could be even more damaging than their failed 2017 effort.

Unlike the dramatic showdown that saw John McCain's famous thumbs-down save the Affordable Care Act, Republicans barely mentioned healthcare while ramming through Trump's massive domestic agenda package this year. But they're quietly pushing through changes that cause severe damage to former President Barack Obama's signature act, CNN reported.

Vice President JD Vance may not be doing the president any favors in his attempts to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein story, according to one analyst.

Bill Kristol, executive editor of The Bulwark, said on a recent episode of The Bulwark Podcast that Vance appears to be "implicitly" knifing Trump with silence. Kristol was referring to comments Vance made during an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on her Sunday morning show, "Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo."

The panel on CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip" exploded after a right-wing podcaster gave President Donald Trump credit for declining crime rates across the U.S.

Ben Ferguson, host of the conservative talk show "The Ben Ferguson Show," claimed that the decline in violent crime seen across the U.S. was due to Trump's leadership.

A progressive lawyer issued a stark warning on Monday after President Donald Trump announced he was federalizing the Washington, D.C. police force.

"These are dangerous times we live in," Marc Elias, a voting rights lawyer and founder of Democracy Docket, told progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen on his show "No Lies."

The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board skewered President Donald Trump's latest economic maneuver in an editorial published on Monday.

Trump has consistently sought to exert his influence over the U.S. economy during his second term. His latest attempts involve requiring semiconductor companies to pay an export fee to sell their products in China. NVIDIA agreed to pay a 15% fee to sell its chips in China, and Trump posted on Truth Social that his administration is in talks with Intel.