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WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk says on X that he regrets some posts attacking Donald Trump, saying they ‘went too far’.

By The Associated Press Protests that sprang up in Los Angeles over immigration enforcement raids have begun to spread across the country, with more demonstrations planned. ___ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER, AMY TAXIN, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JOHN SEEWER Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dozens of mayors from across the Los Angeles region banded together Wednesday to demand that the Trump administration stop the stepped-up immigration raids that have spread fear across their cities and sparked protests across the U.S. But there were

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” in Congress includes more than tax breaks and spending cuts — it also seeks to pour billions of dollars into the administration’s mass deportation agenda. Republican leaders capitalized Tuesday on the demonstrations in Los Angeles, where people are protesting Trump’s

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Republican Jack Ciattarelli, who had President Donald Trump’s endorsement, and Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill won their primary elections in New Jersey’s race for governor, setting the stage for a November election, poised to be fought in part over affordability and the president’s policies. Sherrill emerged from

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed a proposal that would have banned teaching antisemitism at the state’s public K-12 schools, universities and colleges and exposed educators who violate the new rules to discipline and lawsuits. The proposal would have prohibited teachers and administrators from teaching or promoting antisemitism or antisemitic actions that

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom says Trump is pulling ‘a military dragnet across LA’ and threatening democracy.

By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republicans at the North Carolina legislature gave final approval Tuesday to two pieces of legislation that would compel state agencies to participate in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and would toughen a recent law that required sheriffs to help federal agents seeking criminal defendants. The

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NORTH BERGEN, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey primary voters chose their nominees — and President Donald Trump notched a win in his endorsement belt — in one of two high-stakes governor’s races being held this year. While officials from both parties say November’s general election will hinge on local, pocketbook

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles mayor imposes overnight curfew on downtown following increased nighttime violence and vandalism.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mikie Sherrill wins Democratic nomination for governor in New Jersey primary election.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jack Ciattarelli wins Republican nomination for governor in New Jersey primary election.

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer Correspondent Terry Moran is out at ABC News, two days after the organization suspended its correspondent for a social media post that called Trump administration deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller a “world class hater.” The network said Tuesday that it was at the end of its contract with

By BEN FINLEY Associated Press Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are accusing President Donald Trump’s administration of pretending for weeks to be powerless to bring him back to the United States from El Salvador, despite orders from a federal judge and the Supreme Court to facilitate his return. Abrego Garcia’s attorneys made the allegation in

By SARA CLINE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers on Tuesday approved a measure that targets out-of-state doctors and activists who prescribe, sell, or provide pregnancy-ending drugs to residents in the reliably red state where abortions are banned with few exceptions. Louisiana law already allows women to sue doctors who perform abortions

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Votes won’t count for Democrat Daniel Blackman in the June 17 primary election for Georgia Public Service Commission after a judge ruled Tuesday that Blackman hadn’t proved that he had lived in Fulton County for the required year before the general election in November. Fulton County Superior

PHOENIX (AP) — A former Republican lawmaker in Arizona has been indicted on charges that he forged signatures on his nominating petitions for his 2024 reelection campaign. Austin Smith represented an Arizona House district in the suburbs northwest of Phoenix for one term before dropping his reelection bid in April 2024 when questions arose about

By MELISSA GOLDIN Associated Press As demonstrations in Los Angeles over immigration raids unfolded in recent days, social media users falsely cited a Craigslist ad as evidence that protesters had been paid to participate. “We are forming a select team of THE TOUGHEST dudes in the area,” the ad, which is no longer live, read.

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s highest court on Tuesday overturned four rules passed by the State Election Board just before last year’s general election, ruling the board overstepped its authority and intruded on lawmaking power reserved for legislators under the state constitution. The state Supreme Court’s unanimous decision limits the future

By FATIMA HUSSEIN and JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a major Palestinian legal group for prisoners and detainees along with five other charitable entities across the Middle East, Africa and Europe, accusing them of supporting Palestinian armed factions and militant groups, including Hamas’ military

By The Associated Press President Donald Trump visited Fort Bragg to mark the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army at the same time he deploys the U.S. Marines in response to immigration protests in Los Angeles. With Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other officials by his side, Trump watched as troops crawled through the marsh,

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ, JAIMIE DING, LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles leaders imposed a downtown curfew Tuesday on the fifth day of protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown as his use of the National Guard escalated and the governor accused him of drawing a “military dragnet”

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — President Donald Trump called protesters in Los Angeles “animals” and “a foreign enemy” in a speech at Fort Bragg on Tuesday as he defended deploying the military on demonstrators opposed to his immigration enforcement raids and as he vowed to “liberate”

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — One of the nation’s most prominent election conspiracy theorists, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, stuck by his false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen while testifying Monday during a defamation trial over statements he made about a former official for a leading voting equipment company. Taking

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press In one of his first acts of his second term as president, Donald Trumppardoned hundreds of people who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to try to keep him in office, including those who beat police officers. On Monday, Trump posted a warning on social media to those

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump made no secret of his willingness to exert a maximalist approach to enforcing immigration laws and keeping order as he campaigned to return to the White House. The fulfillment of that pledge is now on full display in Los Angeles. The president has put

By MEG KINNARD and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press The public fight between California Gov. Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump keeps intensifying, with name calling, insults and accusations traded over television and social media networks. For Newsom, a Democrat, the increasing presence of National Guard troops and Marines in his state’s largest city —

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said Monday that the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement must reconsider the cases of some migrant children who have been stuck in government custody since the Trump administration changed the identification requirements for would-be family sponsors. The opinion from U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The House Homeland Security Committee’s chairman, Republican Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee, announced Monday that he will retire from Congress once the House votes again on the sprawling tax and budget policy bill backed by President Donald Trump. In a statement, Green said he was offered

By SAFIYAH RIDDLE, CHARLOTTE KRAMON, and MATT BROWN Associated Press/Report For America President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles to stop protests against his immigration crackdown isn’t the first time an elected U.S. official has sent troops to thwart unrest over civil rights. But National Guard troops are typically deployed —