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Trump administration asks military base outside Chicago for support on immigration operations

Aug 28, 2025 9:12 am - President Donald Trump's administration has asked a military base outside Chicago for support on immigration operations, the base said Thursday, signaling a push to expand its law enforcement crackdown to other cities.
Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook sues Trump administration to block her attempted firing

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Aug 28, 2025 8:52 am - Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook has sued the Trump administration in an effort to overturn the president’s attempt to fire her, launching an unprecedented legal battle that could significantly reshape the Fed’s longstanding political independence.
‘We’ve been fighting crime,’ Pritzker tells AP during tour of city to counter Trump’s crime claims

By SOPHIA TAREEN
Aug 28, 2025 8:00 am - Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is doubling down on his message to President Donald Trump that the nation’s third-largest city doesn’t need or want military intervention to fight crime, showing off parts of the city where violent crime has decreased and saying sending in the National Guard could only escalate problems.
Mystery surrounds $1.2 billion Army contract to build huge detention tent camp in Texas desert

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and JOSHUA GOODMAN
Aug 28, 2025 7:12 am - When President Donald Trump's administration last month awarded a contract worth up to $1.2 billion to build and operate what it says will become the nation’s largest immigration detention complex, it didn’t turn to a large government contractor or even a firm that specializes in private prisons.
Trump, Gabbard purged top CIA Russia expert days after Alaska summit

By Warren P. Strobel, Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller and Karen DeYoung
Aug 27, 2025 10:38 pm - In the days leading up to President Donald Trump’s Aug. 15 Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, one of the CIA’s senior-most Russia experts worked gruelin...
National Guard troops deployed in DC add sanitation, landscaping duties

By Tara Copp
Aug 27, 2025 8:57 pm - The August air was crisp Tuesday as members of D.C’s National Guard, a key component of President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the District, scooped, spread and smoothed mounds of mulch around the city’s treasured Tidal Basin cherry trees.As they raked, specks of dirt and mulch floated upward into early morning sunbeams, an idyllic image starkly at odds with the president’s portrayal of Washington as a violent, lawless dystopia.
Louisiana urges Supreme Court to bar use of race in redistricting, in attack on Voting Rights Act

By MARK SHERMAN
Aug 27, 2025 8:16 pm - Louisiana on Wednesday abandoned its defense of a political map that elected two Black members of Congress and instead called on the Supreme Court to reject any consideration of race in redistricting in a case that could bring major changes to the Voting Rights Act.
CDC director being ousted refuses to resign, says RFK Jr. is ‘weaponizing public health’

By Lena H. Sun, Dan Diamond and Lauren Weber
Aug 27, 2025 8:06 pm - The Trump administration moved Wednesday to oust Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after she faced pressure to change vaccine policy, sparking the resignation of other senior CDC officials and a showdown over whether she could be removed.Hours after the Department of Health and Human Services announced Monarez was no longer the director, her lawyers responded with a fiery statement saying she has not resigned or been fired.
Denmark summons US diplomat over alleged influence campaign in Greenland

By Vivian Ho and William Booth
Aug 27, 2025 6:25 pm - Denmark’s foreign minister summoned the most senior U.S. diplomat in the country Wednesday after the nation’s public broadcaster reported that Americans have been conducting influence operations in Greenland, the semiautonomous territory that President Donald Trump wants the United States to control.
RFK Jr. targets one of the strongest state school vaccine mandate laws

By Anumita Kaur
Aug 27, 2025 4:38 pm - The Trump administration is urging West Virginia to offer religious exemptions from school vaccine mandates, alarming public health advocates who see it as part of a broader campaign to undermine an effective immunization strategy.West Virginia, which has one of the nation’s strictest vaccine mandates, has been embroiled in a dispute over Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s (R) demand to let parents decline shots for their children by invoking their religious beliefs.

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