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States move to send hundreds of National Guard members to Washington

By MATT BROWN and MIKE PESOLI
Aug 16, 2025 8:17 pm - Three states moved to deploy hundreds of members of their National Guard to the nation’s capital as part of the Trump administration’s effort to overhaul policing in Washington through a federal crackdown on crime and homelessness.
Ukraine's Zelenskyy to meet Trump on Monday after US-Russia summit secured no halt to fighting

By SAMYA KULLAB and ELISE MORTON
Aug 16, 2025 6:52 am - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he will meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday after a Russia-U.S. summit ended without an agreement to stop the fighting in Ukraine after 3 1/2 years.
Trump administration agrees to keep DC police chief in place, but with immigration enforcement order

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and STEPHEN GROVES
Aug 15, 2025 8:48 pm - WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday reversed course and agreed to leave the Washington, D.C., police chief in control of the department, while Attorney Genera...
This back-to-school season, educators prepare for ICE encounters

By Tobi Raji and Angie Orellana Hernandez
Aug 15, 2025 8:38 pm - As tens of millions of U.S. public school students begin a new academic year, some of the nation’s largest school districts are taking steps to shield them from President Donald Trump’s expansive deportation operation.
Texas Republicans start another redistricting session. California Democrats will counter

By NADIA LATHAN, BILL BARROW, MICHAEL R. BLOOD and TRÂN NGUYỄN
Aug 15, 2025 4:52 pm - Texas Republicans on Friday began a second special session to approve new congressional maps sought by President Donald Trump to bolster his party ahead of the 2026 midterm elections as California Democrats prepared to unveil their own redistricting plan in an intensifying fight over control of Congress.
Across the land, rainbow crosswalks face orders to erase ‘asphalt art’

By Lori Rozsa
Aug 15, 2025 4:19 pm - Across the Florida and the country, thousands of other brightly painted street crossings would be paved over under guidance recently issued by the administrations of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and President Donald Trump. The dual directives call for the erasure of “asphalt art.”
Critics say Trump's push for fairness in college admissions is leaving out legacy preferences

By COLLIN BINKLEY
Aug 15, 2025 12:33 pm - President Donald Trump is attempting to reshape college admissions according to his definition of merit, with an emphasis on test scores and a blind eye toward diversity. Yet the Republican president’s critics and some allies question his silence on other admissions policies that give applicants a boost because of their wealth or family ties.
Kristi Noem is living rent free in home used by Coast Guard commandant

Marianne LeVine, Liz Goodwin, Dan Lamothe
Aug 15, 2025 12:28 pm - A DHS spokesman said Noem must live on the military base because she had been “so horribly doxxed and targeted that she is no longer able to safely live in her own apartment.”
Texas Republicans announce another redistricting session. California Democrats will counter

By NADIA LATHAN, BILL BARROW, MICHAEL R. BLOOD and TRÂN NGUYỄN
Aug 15, 2025 12:16 pm - Texas Republicans ended a legislative session Friday without approving new congressional maps, but they were ready to begin another to satisfy President Donald Trump’s wishes for redistricting that bolsters their party ahead of the 2026 midterm elections as a multistate fight over control of Congress intensifies.
Trump and Putin shake hands warmly in Alaska to kick off their summit on the war in Ukraine

By MICHELLE L. PRICE and WILL WEISSERT
Aug 15, 2025 9:49 am - President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin shook hands warmly at the start of their Alaska summit on Friday before heading into hours of discussions that could reshape the war in Ukraine and relations between Moscow and Washington.

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