President Donald Trump, alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (R), speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Aug. 26, 2025. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump will attend a gathering near Washington with generals and other top military leaders this week, the president told the press
Missouri joins Texas in mid-decade redistricting efforts as Republicans and Democrats battle over congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Attorney General Dan Rayfield, Governor Tina Kotek and Mayor Keith Wilson challenged the Trump administration's National Guard deployment to Portland in federal court.
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Missouri has joined Texas and California in redrawing its congressional maps, as part of a redistricting push that could lead to Republicans drawing themselves as many as six extra House seats while Democrats’ efforts could help them pick up five. The redistricting gambit began with President Trump’s call for Texas Republicans to find more seats.
The state of Oregon has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration after the president said he will send troops to Portland, state Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced Sunday. It comes after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sent a memo to Gov. Tina Kotek authorizing 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to the city
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, said Sunday that she finds it “appalling” that President Trump alleged that the FBI had placed agents into the crowd as “agitators” during the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. “They were brought in because we needed help,” Klobuchar said on “Face the Nation with Margaret