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"How'm I doin'?" the late New York Mayor Ed Koch used to ask constituents on his travels through the city. President Donald Trump, in the opinion of most ...

The deployment of federal troops in Los Angeles has sparked concerns among some legal experts about the future of ...

Splashy raids and deportations likely have hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of illegal immigrants thinking about what ...

The heavy-handed responses by the Trump administration to ongoing protests in Los Angeles reveal how little imagination our ...

The disagreement between President Donald Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom over Trump deploying state National Guard ...

Around 200 Marines armed with rifles, riot control equipment, gas masks, roughly 20 hours of civil disturbance training and ...

Federalizing the National Guard and using the military is tantamount to doing nothing in circumstances like this. It is nothing more than a show of neutered power. The local police can fire at people ...

Americans are not enamored of his signature policy bill. They don’t like his tariffs, nor do they like the actual carrying ...

Over the past week, President Trump has deployed more military troops to the streets of Los Angeles than there are stationed ...

There's ample historic precedent for Trump's action as well. Dwight Eisenhower in 1957 and Lyndon Johnson in 1965 sent in ...

The protests in Los Angeles are ... s use of the military is a far cry from the most celebrated examples of the second half of the 20th century. When President Dwight Eisenhower called out the 101st ...