Texas Democrats have ended a two-week walkout that stalled efforts to redraw congressional districts as part of a national partisan brawl over President Donald Trump’s desire to reshape U.S. House maps to his advantage.

A California hearing on Democrats' redistricting effort turned into a shouting match Tuesday.

The Menendez brothers are set to make their cases for parole this week.

The California Legislature comes back from a summer recess and is slated to vote on a partisan plan to redraw congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Conservative activist Laura Loomer complained on social media about children from Gaza arriving in the U.S. for medical treatment and questioned how they got visas.

Democrats have struggled to find effective ways to oppose President Donald Trump, and even some Democratic voters describe the party as weak.

California is stepping into a national redistricting battle after President Donald Trump urged Texas Republicans to redraw maps to maintain their U.S. House majority.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin have not reached a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Democrats have unveiled a proposal that could give California’s dominant political party an additional five U.S. House seats in a bid to win the fight to control Congress next year.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for a special election on Nov. 4 to introduce new U.S. House maps.

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A general has testified that National Guard troops repeatedly rehearsed their role in an operation at a Los Angeles park intended as a show of force against people protesting immigration raids.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is escalating the partisan redistricting fight by asking a judge to hold progressive activist Beto O'Rourke in contempt.

Mexico is expelling 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States in the latest major deal with the President Donald Trump‘s administration.

FIFA is testing a new protocol for the 2026 World Cup in North America, requiring host committees to develop human rights action plans.

President Donald Trump's rhetoric in his federal takeover of Washington police echoes that of conservative politicians going back decades who've denounced American cities with majority non-white populations or progressive leaders as crime-ridden and in need of outside intervention.

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Texas Republicans are trying to reconvene the state Legislature to vote on redrawing congressional maps in their party's favor.

A federal judge is hearing arguments on whether military troops deployed this summer by the Trump administration to Los Angeles violated a federal law that bars troops from conducting law enforcement duties within the country.

Texas Republicans have escalated the penalties against Democrats as they enter a second week camped out in states across the country to block new U.S. House maps pushed for by President Donald Trump to win more seats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have appeared shoulder-to-shoulder with Texas Democratic lawmakers in a show of support for their nearly weeklong walkout.

California Democrats are rushing to schedule an election to remake U.S. House districts to counter plans to boost Republican seats in Texas.

Texas Republicans and President Donald Trump are pushing to redraw congressional maps to secure more GOP seats in the U.S. House next year.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer met with President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss the impact tariffs and Medicaid changes are having on her state.

The House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, part of a congressional probe that lawmakers believe may show links to President Donald Trump and other former top officials.

Texas and California are at the center of a national political power struggle that could reshape Trump's second presidency.

California Democrats are weighing new political maps that could slash five Republican-held House seats in the liberal-leaning state while bolstering Democratic incumbents in other battleground districts.

Dozens of Democratic state lawmakers in Texas have scattered across the country in a last-ditch effort to prevent Republicans from adopting U.S. House maps that President Donald Trump wants in place before the 2026 midterm elections.

Democrats are out of power in Washington but hold 23 governors' seats, including in five of the seven presidential battlegrounds Donald Trump swept last year.

Texas Democrats have prevented their state’s House of Representatives from moving forward, at least for now, with a redrawn congressional map sought by President Donald Trump.

Texas Democrats have left the state in an attempt to prevent the state House from holding a vote Monday on new congressional maps that Republicans hope will net them several additional U.S. House seats in the 2026 midterm elections.

Some Republican-controlled states are moving to redraw legislative maps to pad their party's narrow House majority in Washington.

The race to become California’s next governor has kicked into a new gear.

The Pentagon is ending the deployment of all but 250 National Guard troops that remained in Los Angeles who were originally sent to the city to deal with protests over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris says she will not run for California governor next year, leaving open the possibility that she could mount a third run for the White House in 2028.

The White House is acknowledging that President Donald Trump meets with candidates for promotion to the rank of four-star general.

The new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research polling tracker shows that overall views of President Donald Trump’s job performance have been steady over the past few months.

Redistricting usually happens after the once-a-decade population count by the U.S. Census Bureau or in response to a court ruling.

Homeless advocates are criticizing an executive order President Donald Trump signed this week to restore order.

The White House is focusing on redistricting efforts beyond Texas to help Republicans maintain control of the U.S. House in 2026.

Texas Democrats on Thursday slammed the GOP's unusual push to redraw the state's House maps to win more seats ahead of the 2026 elections.

Erik Menendez has been hospitalized, and his attorney wants him released from prison ahead of an upcoming parole hearing.

The Pentagon has ordered U.S. Marines to leave Los Angeles after more than a month in the city.

Texas Republicans are poised to redraw the state’s congressional map during a special session that starts Monday.

Three Democratic-led states that led the way in offering free health care to low-income people who are in the U.S. without legal permission are either limiting or ending the programs because of significant budget concerns.

An explosion at a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department training facility killed three veteran deputies from the arson and explosives unit.

San Jose’s mayor is using AI tools like ChatGPT to streamline city operations and improve services for its 1 million residents.

The Trump administration has revoked $4 billion in federal funding for California's long-delayed high speed rail project.

The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey and a prosecutor in the federal cases against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein.

The Trump administration said Tuesday it is ending the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles.

President Donald Trump is pushing Republicans in Texas to redraw the state's congressional maps to help ensure the party keeps its majority in the U.S. House in next year's midterm elections.

The voters in early presidential nominating states are used to seeing contenders months or even years before most of the country.

A farmworker who fell from a greenhouse roof during a chaotic ICE raid this week at a California cannabis facility has died.

The Trump administration is suing California over its animal welfare laws, claiming they unconstitutionally raised egg prices.

President Donald Trump's administration has sued the California Department of Education for allowing transgender girls to compete on girls sports teams.

A day after federal officers and National Guard troops descended on MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, immigrant residents of the surrounding neighborhood were coming to grips with the operation that local officials said seemed designed to sow fear.

Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil Rights Movement and key architect of the March on Washington.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has launched a two-day tour in South Carolina, urging rural voters to stand up to President Donald Trump and challenge Republicans in the 2026 midterms.

U.S. military troops and federal immigration officers have made a brief but mighty show of force at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles.

Rescue crews are searching for seven people still missing days after an explosion at a fireworks warehouse in Northern California shook a tiny farming community and forced the cancellation of nearby July Fourth celebrations.

The top military commander in charge of troops deployed to Los Angeles to respond to protests against immigration raids has asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth if 200 of those forces could be returned to wildfire fighting duty.

Possible changes to President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts are being considered, though most of the amendments are expected to fail.

The California Legislature has approved a budget that pares back a number of progressive priorities to close a $12 billion deficit.

The Trump administration says California must change its policies allowing transgender girls to compete on sports teams consistent with their gender identity.

Vice President JD Vance is accusing California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass of encouraging violent immigration protests.

A federal judge held a brief hearing over whether the Trump administration should continue its deployment of troops to Los Angeles.

A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration’s efforts to keep Harvard University from hosting international students.

An appeals court is allowing President Donald Trump to keep control of National Guard troops he deployed to Los Angeles following protests over immigration raids.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon has provided possible options to President Donald Trump as he decides any next steps on Iran.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco has heard arguments on whether the Trump administration should return control of National Guard troops to California.

Jose Abel Garcia is a Guatemalan immigrant who says President Donald Trump's latest promise to expand deportations in Democratic-led cities doesn't change much.

A massive military parade has been held to celebrate the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary, requested by President Donald Trump to coincide with his birthday.

The grand military parade that President Donald Trump wanted for eight years has barreled down Constitution Avenue in Washington with tanks, troops and a 21-gun salute.

President Donald Trump has already eroded many of the U.S.’s democratic safeguards and traditions in the initial months of his second term.

President Donald Trump's administration has released to deportation officials the personal data for millions of Medicaid enrollees, including their immigration status.

The California Legislature approves a proposal Friday to freeze enrollment in a state-funded health care program for immigrants without legal status.

After a week of protests over federal immigration raids, about 200 Marines have moved into Los Angeles to guard a federal building and personnel in the city.

Protests over federal immigration enforcement raids are flaring up around the country, and officials in cities large and small are preparing for major demonstrations against President Donald Trump this weekend.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he has ordered the deployment of more than 5,000 Texas National Guard troops across the state, along with more than 2,000 state police.

President Donald Trump signed a resolution on Thursday that blocks California’s first-in-the-nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

California U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed after he interrupted a Los Angeles press conference on immigration by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Republicans in Congress called several Democratic governors to Washington on Thursday to question them over policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

An escalating clash pits a Republican president looking to fulfill his mass deportation goals against a Democratic governor with White House aspirations hoping to mobilize opposition.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is promising to move forward with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Los Angeles despite the waves of unrest.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called President Donald Trump's military intervention in Los Angeles an assault on democracy.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily blocked a federal judge’s order that directed President Donald Trump to return control of National Guard troops to California after he deployed them there following protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a measure Thursday that blocks California’s first-in-the-nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom looked straight into the camera and offered a stark moment for his Democratic Party.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is defending his decision to order National Guard troops to provide security during immigrations raids in Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Police Department has made nearly 400 arrests and detentions since Saturday in connection to immigration protests.

The United States is reducing the number of people deemed nonessential to operations in the Middle East, the State Department has announced.

Dozens of mayors from across the Los Angeles region banded together to demand that the Trump administration stop the stepped-up immigration raids that have spread fear across their cities and sparked protests across the U.S. They also called on President Donald Trump to pull back from using troops alongside immigration agents during the raids.

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom says the federal military intervention in Los Angeles marks the onset of a much broader effort by President Donald Trump to overturn political and cultural norms at the heart of the nation’s democracy.

President Donald Trump in recent days has sent thousands of National Guard troops and 700 active duty Marines to quell Los Angeles-area protests over immigration enforcement actions, despite the objections of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and local leaders.

The City Council of San Jose, California, is voting on a controversial proposal that would make homeless people eligible for arrest if they reject three offers of housing.

The current unrest in Los Angeles is a lot different from the last time a U.S. president called out the National Guard to respond to violence on the streets.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has filed an emergency motion in federal court to block National Guard members and Marines from assisting with immigration raids in Los Angeles.

President Donald Trump has called Los Angeles a “trash heap” and promised to “liberate” it from criminals in a speech to troops at Fort Bragg to mark the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said President Donald Trump is “pulling a military dragnet” across Los Angeles during a brief public address on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump has authorized the deployment of an additional 2,000 National Guard members to help respond to protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids.