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The remarks contrast with Border Czar Tom Homan's softer messaging earlier this year, after two U.S. citizens were killed by immigration officials in Minneapolis.
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California says it will train 988 responders to support LGBTQ+ youth calling for help. -
Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said that children without legal status cannot enroll in Head Start — effective immediately. But without implementation guidelines, providers say they're in a holding pattern. -
Undocumented immigrants and mixed-status families are learning how to assert themselves — and prepare for worst-case scenarios.
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San Diego’s community college district finds itself directly in Trump’s crosshairs: Its “pride centers” were the only items called out by name in the administration’s plan to slash more than $10 billion of federal spending on education. -
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s announcement of the intent to revoke Chinese student visas could affect more than 50,000 at California universities and colleges. -
The Port of Los Angeles reported that it expected 80 ships to arrive in May, but 17 have been canceled.
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South Park skewered President Trump. Stephen Colbert isn't holding back. This week, comedians on Paramount-owned shows aired their grievances against both their parent company and Trump.
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The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA's workforce.
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President Trump is expected to spend much of his time at his golf courses. He'll also meet with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
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Trump’s call to enforce bans on encampments echoes Gov. Gavin Newsom’s policy. But the president wants to upend two other core tenants of California’s homelessness response.
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The grants fund a wide range of education programs, including migrant education, services for English language learners and adult education.
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President Donald Trump visited the Federal Reserve to inspect an ongoing renovation and disagreed with the Fed chair about the project's final cost in an extraordinary moment.
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The Federal Communications Commission approved the sale of Paramount Global after the buyer made pledges to showcase a diversity of viewpoints and root out alleged bias in CBS' news coverage.
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It's just the start of a summer recess for Congress, but already House Republicans are being asked questions back home about the push to release records related to the late Jeffrey Epstein.
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The White House directive calls for prioritizing money for programs that require sobriety and treatment, and for cities that enforce homeless camping bans.
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The decision is the latest blow to these services since the Trump administration began seeking to ban them nationwide six months ago.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced withering questioning from skeptical Democrats.
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The president's messaging about a strong economy is at odds with widespread voter sentiment that he's not doing enough to tackle rising costs.
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The department said recalling these fired staffers would "bolster and refocus" civil rights enforcement "in a way that serves and benefits parents, students, and families."
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Changes to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are taking an axe to the agency's traditional mission of ensuring people lawfully immigrate and stay in the U.S.
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On the road in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, President Trump said he objected to taking immigrants from "hellholes like Afghanistan, Haiti, Somalia and many other countries."
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Legal challenges put SAVE borrowers in limbo for months, a time during which they were not required to make payments on their loans.
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The payments are targeted at row crop farmers in the wake of this year's tariff hikes.
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Republicans in Congress have shown some willingness to push back on President Trump, but it is not clear how far they are willing to push back.
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The app lets people anonymously share the locations of immigration agents but Apple removed it from its app store under pressure from the Trump administration.
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The FBI agents kneeled during a protest in 2020 not to reflect a left-wing political view, but to de-escalate a volatile situation, they say in court papers.
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Trump has prompted a redistricting race as he tries to maintain Republican control of the House in the 2026 elections. Democrats have fewer options to counter.
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The Supreme Court hears arguments in a case about President Trump's firing of a Federal Trade Commissioner. At stake is a 90-year precedent.
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The Trump administration has railed against what it describes as "woke" policies.
