Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law opening student financial aid to all residents, regardless of immigration status, including for illegal immigrants.
President Trump announces plans for trilateral meeting with Putin and Zelenskyy after the pair meet one-on-one following Monday's peace talks with Europeans from the White House.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy returned to the White House to make his case on how to end Russia’s war with his battle-weary country. Key European leaders were there, too. President Trump spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin afterwards and said he’s now making arrangements for a trilateral meeting between the two warring countries and himself.
The visible parts of Mr. Trump’s meetings with Zelenskyy and European leaders went, by and large, “very, very well,” but the “proof will be in the pudding in the coming days,” said Bradley Bowman, senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Bowman said he had
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks about the “Election Rigging Response Act” at a press conference at the Democracy Center, Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, Calif., on Aug. 14, 2025. Mario Tama/Getty Images Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office has filed an official open records request to the Trump administration seeking information about a federal immigration
Following Texas Democratic lawmakers’ return on Monday, President Donald Trump urged the state legislature to move quickly to pass a highly controversial redistricting bill "ASAP."
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey will serve as the FBI’s co-deputy director, alongside the law enforcement agency’s current second-in-command, Dan Bongino. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed the news on X, saying Bailey “took on the swamp, fought weaponized government, and defended the Constitution” as Missouri’s top law enforcement official. Bailey will resign from his