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Illinois State Police and Cooks County Sheriffs move in to detain protesters outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Ill., Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)

Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to deploy troops to Illinois

President Trump on Friday asked the Supreme Court to deliver an initial blessing to his attempt to deploy National Guard troops to Illinois to quell anti-ICE violence, dropping another tricky case about presidential power in the justices' laps.

October 17, 2025
A person looks out a window from the Capitol to the Supreme Court on the ninth day of the government shutdown in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

Federal courts about to feel bite of government shutdown

The government shutdown is about to slam into the federal courts, which had been able to keep running but are about to exhaust their extra cash and will have to furlough employees starting early next week.

October 17, 2025
A sign for The New York Times hangs above the entrance to its building, May 6, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Trump re-files more careful lawsuit against The New York Times

President Trump filed a new version of his lawsuit against The New York Times and some of its staff Thursday, toning down the over-the-top language that got his first version tossed from a federal courtroom but still asking for $15 billion in damages for "false malicious and defamatory" coverage.

October 16, 2025
Police walk along as people march during Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights' "Chicago Says No Trump No Troops" protest Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Migrant was serving illegally as cop in Illinois: DHS

Homeland Security's deportation agency on Thursday said it arrested a Montenegro man who is in the country illegally but was sworn in this past summer as a police officer in the Chicago suburbs.

October 16, 2025
Voting rights activists gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, early Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, as the justices prepare to take up a major Republican-led challenge to the Voting Rights Act, the centerpiece legislation of the Civil Rights Movement. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Supreme Court poised to redraw part of Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court plowed into the thorniest of political issues Wednesday as the justices sought to sort out how much -- if at all -- states and judges can use race when they address discrimination in how congressional and state legislative district maps were drawn.

October 15, 2025
This March 22, 2013, photo, shows the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

IRS has a bizarre habit of hanging up on callers

The IRS can't seem to stop hanging up on taxpayers, according to a new audit by the agency's inspector general, which monitored hundreds of customer service calls and found that in 15% of them, the connection was broken before the conversation was completed.

October 13, 2025
New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks in New York on Feb. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) **FILE**

N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James indicted on fraud charge

New York Attorney General Letitia James, who once brought a business fraud case against President Trump, was indicted Thursday in federal court on fraud charges apparently related to a mortgage application she filed on a home in Virginia.

October 9, 2025