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Trump faces slew of court setbacks on education, congestion pricing and voting

Friday, April 25 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- In federal courthouses across the country Thursday, President Donald Trump's administration faced a series of legal setbacks to implementing the president’s agenda.On issues ranging from education policy and voting rights to congestion pricing, the series of rulings and developments marked the latest... Read More.

Trump claims 200 tariff deals, phone call with Chinese President Xi in wide-ranging interview

Friday, April 25 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump, in a wide-ranging interview with Time magazine published Friday, claimed he's already "made 200 deals" on tariffs and said he's spoken with Chinese President Xi Jinping.In the cover story, in which Trump's discussed his first 100 days in office,... Read More.

More Americans say US should bring back Abrego Garcia, views mixed on other deportation issues: POLL

Friday, April 25 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- Americans hold mixed views on President Donald Trump's immigration policies, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll.Voters are divided on sending migrants living in the United States lacking legal status who are accused of gang membership to an El Salvador prison... Read More.

A bad day in court for the Trump administration

Friday, April 25 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- In federal courthouses across the country Thursday, President Donald Trump's administration faced a series of legal setbacks to implementing the president’s agenda.On issues ranging from education policy and voting rights to congestion pricing, the series of rulings and developments marked the latest... Read More.

Hegseth threatened to polygraph top military officers

Friday, April 25 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- ABC News has confirmed that in at least two separate meetings Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused top-ranking military officers of leaking to the media and threatened to polygraph them.According to one person familiar with the exchanges, Hegseth was upset by media reports... Read More.

Trump grants interview to The Atlantics Jeffrey Goldberg despite Signal chat bombshell, past criticism

Thursday, April 24 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- For years, President Donald Trump has blasted politically damaging reporting by The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg as fake, made-up.His most recent criticism has been over Goldberg's bombshell story about a Signal chat he was accidentally invited to, one that included top members of... Read More.

Trump US attorney nominee distances himself from antisemitic Jan. 6 rioter he once praised

Thursday, April 24 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- Ed Martin, President Donald Trump's nominee for the next U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., apologized in a new interview for his past praise of a Jan. 6 rioter who had a lengthy history of antisemitic statements and infamously posted photos of himself... Read More.

Judge blocks Trump administration from requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote

Thursday, April 24 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- Donald Trump’s unilateral effort to reshape election processes is an attempt to “short-circuit Congress’s deliberative process by executive order,” a federal judge in Washington, D.C. wrote Thursday afternoon.In a 120-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly blocked the Trump administration from requiring... Read More.

Trump asks Supreme Court to lift block on transgender military ban

Thursday, April 24 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration has made a new emergency request of the U.S. Supreme Court seeking an immediate stay of a nationwide injunction blocking the ban on openly transgender military service members.Solicitor General John Sauer said the injunction, issued by a district court... Read More.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Arkansas lawmakers urge Trump to reconsider denial of disaster relief

Thursday, April 24 by ABC News

(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) -- Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the state's entire GOP congressional delegation are urging President Donald Trump to reconsider after the Federal Emergency Management denied the state's request for federal disaster relief following a series of deadly storms last month.After... Read More.