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By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press President Donald Trump’s efforts to send National Guard troops into U.S. cities — including Los Angeles; Portland, Oregon; and Chicago — over the objections of Democratic mayors and governors have prompted a host of questions about the president’s authority and who controls the Guard. A judge in California has ruled

By MIKE CATALINI and OLIVIA DIAZ Associated Press GLEN RIDGE, N.J. (AP) — Democrats say fallout from the Trump administration’s aggressive tactics during the shutdown of the federal government could give them a welcome boost in the only two governors’ races on the ballot this year. In Virginia, 175,000 people work for the federal government,

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press A judge Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from requiring recipients of federal teen pregnancy prevention grants to comply with Trump’s orders aimed at curtailing “radical indoctrination” and “gender ideology.” The ruling is a victory for three Planned Parenthood affiliates — in California, Iowa and New York — that sued

By The Associated Press President Donald Trump’s administration is warning Tuesday of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers during a government shutdown, reversing what has been longstanding policy for some 750,000 furloughed employees, according to a memo being circulated by the White House. The move was widely seen as a strongarm tactic to pressure

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul announced Tuesday that he will not run for governor, opting instead to seek a third term as the state’s top law enforcement official. The governor’s race is wide open after Democratic incumbent Tony Evers, 73, announced this summer that he

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press The Democratic governors of California and Illinois are threatening to leave the National Governors Association because of its silence on President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops across state lines despite objections from the receiving states’ leaders. “If we cannot come together, on a bipartisan

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Two men last weekend were wrongly charged under a far-reaching Florida immigration law that’s currently suspended by a judicial order, according to a Monday report from the state attorney general’s office. Both men were charged in separate instances in Bradenton under a Florida law that outlaws