Trump troop deployment to Oregon, Illinois intensifies confrontation with Democratic-led states

Trump troop deployment to Oregon, Illinois intensifies confrontation with Democratic-led states

Federal agents, including members of the Department of Homeland Security, the Border Patrol, and police, attempt to keep protesters back outside a downtown U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on Saturday in Portland, Oregon (Spencer Platt/Getty Images). WASHINGTON — The White House slammed a President Donald Trump-appointed federal judge Monday for blocking the deployment of…

Missouri attorney general subpoenas Planned Parenthood for patient abortion records

Missouri attorney general subpoenas Planned Parenthood for patient abortion records

An abortion procedure room pictured on March 3 at Planned Parenthood in Columbia (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent). The Missouri Attorney General’s Office is demanding health records of Planned Parenthood abortion patients in an effort to argue in favor of keeping in place several regulations that limit access to the procedure. The office is asking for patient…

Trump administration wants to remove wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Eswatini

Trump administration wants to remove wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Eswatini

The Rev. Michael Vanacore leads a prayer before a rally ends Oct. 6, 2025, outside U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland,  before a hearing in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia (William J. Ford/Maryland Matters). GREENBELT, Md. — A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to produce evidence within 48 hours on its efforts…

Deportation protections for 300,000 Venezuelans denied again by US Supreme Court

Deportation protections for 300,000 Venezuelans denied again by US Supreme Court

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a Nashville press conference on July 18, 2025, to discuss arrests of immigrants during recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps (John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)/ WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Friday again allowed the Trump administration to strip temporary protections for more than 300,000 Venezuelans, opening them up…

Focus on individual conduct instead of massacre doomed Wounded Knee medals review, panelist says

Focus on individual conduct instead of massacre doomed Wounded Knee medals review, panelist says

A monument erected to victims of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre stands in the middle of the memorial and cemetery on June 30, 2024. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) A man who served on the panel that reviewed medals awarded for the Wounded Knee Massacre said a majority of the members focused on individual soldier conduct…

Appeals court hears case dealing with information-sharing between the IRS and ICE

Appeals court hears case dealing with information-sharing between the IRS and ICE

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service Processing Center in El Centro, Calif., on May 27, 2022.  (Photo by Matt Gush/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — A panel of judges on an appeals court Friday seemed split about whether the Trump administration’s move to request taxpayer information from the Internal Revenue Service for the purposes of immigration enforcement…

Government shutdown primed to roll into next week after US Senate deadlocks again

Government shutdown primed to roll into next week after US Senate deadlocks again

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York speaks to reporters at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol during the third day of a federal government shutdown, on Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — An agreement to reopen the federal government was nowhere in sight Friday after U.S. Senate…

Trump cancels blue-state projects, trolls Dems on social media as shutdown drags on

Trump cancels blue-state projects, trolls Dems on social media as shutdown drags on

White House budget director Russ Vought, who is depicted as the Grim Reaper in a video posted by President Donald Trump during the shutdown in October 2025,  speaks with reporters inside the U.S. Capitol building on July 15, 2025. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — Trump administration officials on Friday defended the decision to…

Economists say job losses likely, even as shutdown delays report

Economists say job losses likely, even as shutdown delays report

Oil pumpjacks are seen in a field near a wind turbine in April in Close City, Texas. Weak oil prices have led to recent energy layoffs in Texas and North Dakota. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Friday’s jobs report is missing in action because of the federal shutdown, but economists are finding other ways of…

Hawley and Sanders question Boeing’s labor attorney about St. Louis strike

Hawley and Sanders question Boeing’s labor attorney about St. Louis strike

Missouri Republican U.S. Senator Josh Hawley questions Boeing attorney Scott Mayer in a confirmation hearing for his nomination to be a member of the National Labor Relations Board. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.) The nine-week strike at Boeing’s St. Louis-area defense plants is not settled because the…