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Trump’s use of National Guard during Los Angeles immigration protests is illegal, a judge rules

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
Sep 02, 2025 8:56 am - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration violated federal law in the use of National Guard troops amid Southern California immigration enforcement operations and accompanying protests.
Nationwide Labor Day protests denounce billionaires in Trump’s orbit

By Gaya Gupta
Sep 01, 2025 6:04 pm - Crowds gathered in cities like Chicago, San Diego and D.C. on Labor Day to denounce what they see as the undue influence of America’s business tycoons and corporations over the second Trump administration.
Trump plans a hefty tax on imported drugs, risking higher prices and shortages

By PAUL WISEMAN and TOM MURPHY
Sep 01, 2025 6:03 pm - President Donald Trump has plastered tariffs on products from almost every country on earth. He’s targeted specific imports including autos, steel and aluminum.But he isn’t done yet.Trump has promised to impose hefty import taxes on pharmaceuticals, a category of products he’s largely spared in his trade war. For decades, in fact, imported medicine has mostly been allowed to enter the United States duty free.
1.2 million immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows

By COREY WILLIAMS
Sep 01, 2025 3:33 pm - As parades and other events celebrating the contributions of workers in the U.S. are held Monday for the Labor Day holiday, experts say President Donald Trump’s stepped-up immigration policies are impacting the nation's labor force. More than 1.2 million immigrants disappeared from the labor force from January through the end of July, according to preliminary Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center. That includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents.
Government shutdown looms as Congress returns after monthlong August recess

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, KEVIN FREKING and STEPHEN GROVES
Sep 01, 2025 11:44 am - Congressional Republicans scored a massive victory this summer when they passed President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cuts without a single Democratic vote. But as th...
From Jackson to McKinley: What Trump’s new choice of presidential hero says about his evolving goals

By WILL WEISSERT
Sep 01, 2025 11:43 am - WASHINGTON (AP) — In his first term, Donald Trump's favorite president, other than himself, was Andrew Jackson, the hatchet-faced, self-made populist who relished turning...
Rudy Giuliani injured in New Hampshire car crash, his spokesperson says

By JACK BROOK
Aug 31, 2025 5:14 pm - Rudy Giuliani is recovering from a fractured vertebra and other injuries following a car crash in New Hampshire in which he was a passenger, a spokesperson for the fo...
Iran-backed Houthis raid UN offices in Yemen and detain at least 11 employees

By SAMY MAGDY
Aug 31, 2025 4:53 pm - CAIRO (AP) — Iran-backed Houthis on Sunday raided offices of the United Nations’ food, health and children's agencies in Yemen’s capital, detaining 11 U.N. employees, off...
As Guatemalan kids sit in planes on tarmac, judge orders they stay in the US, for now

By VALERIE GONZALEZ, REBECCA SANTANA and JENNIFER PELTZ
Aug 31, 2025 4:49 pm - HARLINGEN, Texas (AP) — After the U.S. government loaded children onto planes overnight to be sent back to their native Guatemala, a federal judge temporarily blocked the...
Daley, LaHood leading revived ‘fair maps’ campaign in Illinois

By Peter Hancock
Aug 31, 2025 4:15 pm - Two veteran federal officials from Illinois are relaunching an effort to amend the Illinois Constitution and end partisan gerrymandering in state legislative districts.

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