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2 weeks ago | 
spectrumlocalnews.com | Taylor Popielarz |Joseph Konig
The Trump administration is deploying 500 active-duty U.S. Marines to Los Angeles "to help protect federal agents and buildings" amid protests against the president's immigration enforcement efforts, a senior administration official told Spectrum News. The Marines are currently stationed at Camp Pendleton, a major military base about 80 miles south of Los Angeles, the official said.
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2 weeks ago | 
ny1.com | Samantha Liebman |Joseph Konig
NEW YORK — Protesters angered by President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and deportations of immigrants rallied outside of 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan on Saturday in an attempt to stop vehicles exiting the building they believed had detainees in them, though authorities did not confirm if that was the case.
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2 months ago | 
spectrumnews1.com | Maddie Gannon |Joseph Konig
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled his long-pledged and highly anticipated sweeping new tariffs on nations across the globe, establishing a 10% baseline on nearly all imports while upping the rate to impose higher individual rates on dozens of countries with which the U.S. has a deficit on trade, including key allies like the European Union and geopolitical rivals like China.
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
baynews9.com | Joseph Konig
WASHINGTON — Earlier this month, Vice President JD Vance debated the merits of U.S. airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels with the country’s top national security officials, questioning President Donald Trump’s judgment ahead of the deadly bombings that ultimately were carried out.
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Mar 25, 2025 | 
spectrumnews1.com | Joseph Konig |Cassandra Semyon
WASHINGTON — Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, D-Ca., told reporters Tuesday that Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer should “of course” remain in his role after she criticized her Senate colleagues last week for conceding the fight on the Republican spending bill. Pelosi also said her successor, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, is the leader the party needs headed into next year’s midterm elections. She encouraged him to take a page out of the playbooks of fellow New York Rep.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
spectrumlocalnews.com | Joseph Konig
WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and other senior national security and White House officials earlier this month planned bombings on Houthi rebels in Yemen in a text message group chat on the app Signal that accidentally included The Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, according to the longtime foreign policy reporter.
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Mar 20, 2025 | 
spectrumnews1.com | Joseph Konig
WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump continues to institute a massive restructuring of the federal government, two of the top Republicans in Congress overseeing the Pentagon said in a public statement they were “very concerned” by reports that the U.S. may no longer appoint a general to serve as NATO’s supreme allied commander Europe, consolidate some of the military’s 11 combatant commands and cancel an expansion of U.S. operations in Japan.
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
spectrumlocalnews.com | Joseph Konig
“I think if he would have declared he's a terrorist, we would have never let him in,” Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Troy Edgar told NPR’s “Morning Edition” when pressed on what law or rule Mahmoud Khalil is alleged to have broken. The 30-year-old is a Columbia University graduate student and legal permanent resident with a green card who was born and raised in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria.
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
baynews9.com | Joseph Konig
WASHINGTON — As U.S. markets shudder in response to President Donald Trump’s tariff-heavy economic agenda and the president himself openly speculates about a recession, a pitch he made during last week’s joint congressional address — urging Congress to repeal the CHIPS and Science Act — is being rebuked by senior members of his own party for fear it would hamper U.S. efforts to compete with China’s semiconductor industry and risk tens of thousands of American jobs.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
spectrumnews1.com | Joseph Konig |Maddie Gannon |Susan Carpenter |Ryan Chatelain
In his first address to a joint session of Congress since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump touted his accomplishments over his six weeks back in office while also sparring with Democrats.
