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-Female military recruits surge across all service branches
-Climate group scrubs judges' names from website after unearthed chats unmasked cozy ties
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The federal government argued before a California judge -- the brother of a retired Supreme Court justice -- that President Donald Trump acted within his legal authority by deploying the National Guard and Marines to quell immigration riots in Los Angeles earlier this year.
Judge Charles Breyer – sibling of President Bill Clinton-appointed Justice Stephen Breyer – heard testimony in the case brought by the Newsom administration over whether the federal government violated federal law in its use of the military on domestic soil and/or the 10th Amendment.
The case is expected to test the limits of a president’s power as commander in chief, as the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act — born out of Reconstruction — requires either an act of Congress or constitutional authorization to use the U.S. military for domestic law enforcement…READ MORE.
Members of the U.S. National Guard are deployed around downtown Los Angeles, Sunday, June 8, 2025, following an immigration raid protest the night before. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer) (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
BOOTS ON STANDBY: Pentagon drawing up quick reaction force of National Guard ready to quell civil unrest at any moment: report
DOGE VICTORY: DOGE lands big legal win as appeals court strikes down preliminary injunction
'UNFORTUNATE': White House criticizes judge's decision not to unseal Epstein associate grand jury testimony
L - Pricing National Security Multi-Mission Vessel (NSMV) at the Philadelphia shipyard R - President Joe Biden (Getty)
DICTATOR'S REIGN: Venezuela human rights hit new low as US puts $50M bounty on Maduro's head: State Department
NEW FINDINGS: State Department report condemns South Africa over 'extrajudicial killings' in annual Human Rights report
Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on April 26, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images)
RED STATE REBELLION: Bernie Sanders brings 'Fighting Oligarchy Tour' to Trump strongholds across deep-red West Virginia
FLORIDA'S 'CHUCK NORRIS': DeSantis picks ‘the Chuck Norris of Florida politics’ as new top deputy
Democratic socialist mayoral candidate Omar Fateh is seen in Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 19, 2025 (Omar Fateh campaign)
LIVING 'RENT-FREE': Mamdani zings Cuomo in rent-stabilized housing spat during anti-Trump tour stop
'WORST OF THE WORST': ICE Houston arrests more than 350 gang members -- and it's not just MS-13
DC VIOLENCE: Man in DC shot and killed hours after Trump federalizes city's police department
Police respond to the scene of a shooting on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, in Washington D.C.'s Logan Circle neighborhood. (WTTG)
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