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By The Associated Press Rallies against President Donald Trump are expected across the U.S. on Saturday to coincide with the military parade in Washington marking the Army’s 250th anniversary, which also falls on Trump’s birthday. Trump warned that protests in the capital will be “met with very big force.” Tensions flared this week after Trump

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to overhaul elections in the U.S., siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who challenged the effort as unconstitutional. The Republican president’s March 25 executive order sought to compel officials to require documentary proof

ATLANTA (AP) — Judge blocks Trump’s election executive order, siding with Democratic state attorneys who called it overreach.

By ROBERT YOON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia Democrats will settle a crowded six-way primary for lieutenant governor on Tuesday as well as a contested nomination fight for state attorney general. Meanwhile, voters across the commonwealth will choose nominees for the state House of Delegates. The winners will advance to the general election in

By TRÂN NGUYỄN Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers on Friday approved a budget proposal to freeze enrollment in a state-funded health care program for immigrants without legal status to help close a $12 billion deficit. Their plan is a scaled-back version of a proposal Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom introduced in May. California,

By AMY TAXIN, LOLITA C. BALDOR and JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a week of protests over federal immigration raids, about 200 Marines moved into Los Angeles on Friday to guard a federal building in the city while communities across the country prepped for what’s anticipated to be a nationwide wave

By TRAVIS LOLLER, JONATHAN MATTISE and BEN FINLEY Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, pleaded not guilty Friday to human smuggling charges in a federal court in Tennessee. The hearing was the first chance the Maryland construction worker has

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight years after President Donald Trump was dazzled by a grand military parade down the Champs-Élysées in Paris, he is finally getting a chance to try to top the spectacle. His long-delayed dream is expected to be realized Saturday with an extravaganza of American military might

By The Associated Press More than 75 years after Flag Day became U.S. law, the stars and stripes grab our gaze these days in constant portraits of how Americans see their country’s promise — sometimes dotted along historic graves of military veterans, draped upside down over a protester, or painted on a barn. Flag Day

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press Zohran Mamdani has rocketed from relative obscurity to become one of the top contenders in the New York City mayor’s race. In a debate Thursday, he started catching heat for his place among the top of the heap. Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist, found himself the target of jabs from

By RIO YAMAT Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo unexpectedly vetoed a bill on Thursday that would have required voters in the swing state to show a photo ID at the polls — a conservative priority across the country and something that has long been on the governor’s legislative wish

LAS VEGAS (AP) — In an unexpected move, Nevada GOP Gov. Joe Lombardo vetoed a bill that would have required voters to show a photo ID.

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — When videos first rocketed around the internet Thursday afternoon showing security officers forcibly removing Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla from a news conference with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in California, senators in both parties were already gathered together for a long series of votes. There are

By KRYSTA FAURIA, MICHAEL R. BLOOD and LISA MASCARO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla on Thursday was forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles and handcuffed by officers as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in

By GISELA SALOMON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that it has begun notifying hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans that their temporary permission to live and work in the United States has been revoked and that they should leave the country. The termination notices are

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican tax bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives would cost the poorest Americans roughly $1,600 a year while increasing the income of the wealthiest households by an average of $12,000 annually, according to a new analysis released Thursday by the Congressional Budget Office. Middle-income

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two of the police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol from a mob of Trump supporters filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking to compel Congress to follow one of its own laws and install a memorial to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. The officers claim the failure

By JAYLEN GREEN and PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Mourners paid their respects to former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel as his body lay in state Thursday at New York City Hall, an honor bestowed to a short list of political figures, including U.S. presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. The outspoken,

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As protests erupt across the country over aggressive immigration enforcement tactics, Louisiana lawmakers approved a package of legislation this week that’ll aid the ongoing federal crackdown on deportation. Amid growing national tensions, Louisiana is the latest red state that expanded its immigration enforcement role —

By MICHELLE L. PRICE, SOPHIE AUSTIN and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed a resolution on Thursday that blocks California’s first-in-the-nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. The state quickly announced it was challenging the move in court, with California’s attorney general holding a news

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — More than 2 million acres of federal lands would be sold or transferred to states or other entities under a budget proposal from Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee, reviving a longtime ambition of Western conservatives to cede lands to local control after a similar proposal failed

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia have asked a federal judge in Maryland to impose fines against the Trump administration for contempt, arguing that it flagrantly ignored court ordersfor several weeks to return him to the U.S. from El Salvador. Abrego Garcia’s attorneys said the administration claimed to be powerless to

By DAVID KLEPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA released nearly 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and his 1968 assassination on Thursday, detailing the spy agency’s work to investigate his killing as well as previously unknown contacts between him and the agency. Kennedy met with

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump signs measure blocking California ban on new sales of gas cars. The state is expected to challenge.

By The Associated Press Democratic California U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed after he interrupted a Los Angeles press conference on immigration by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. He began shouting over her before he was removed from the room. Noem had promised to move forward with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown across Los

By SEUNG MIN KIM, ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and MICHAEL R. BLOOD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — It was earlier this year that California Gov. Gavin Newsom was making nice with President Donald Trump as he sought help for his wildfire-battered state and moderating his approach ahead of a potential bid for the White House. But

By KRYSTA FAURIA, OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pledged Thursday to carry on with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown despite waves of unrest across the U.S. Hours later a judge directed the president to return control to California over National Guard troops he

By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press Opponents of President Donald Trump’s administration are set to rally in hundreds of cities on Saturday during the military parade in Washington to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary, which coincides with Trump’s birthday. The “No Kings” protests are set to take place to counter what organizers say are Trump’s plans

By BILL BARROW Associated Press Troops marching in lockstep. Patriotic tunes filling the air. The commander in chief watching over it all. The military parade commemorating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday will be a new spectacle for many Americans. This will not be the first U.S. military

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — The ban on travel from certain countries that took effect Monday — reminiscent of President Donald Trump’s first-term restrictions that became known to many as the “ Muslim ban ” — is once again souring relationships among Arab American voters in the key battleground state of