Chicago experienced a chaotic — and violent — weekend of clashes between federal law enforcement and protesters, prompting President Trump to call up hundreds of National Guard members in Illinois on Saturday.
The big picture: Gov. JB Pritzker said the Trump administration's War Department presented him with an ultimatum earlier in the day: "'call up your troops, or we will.'"
President Trump said Sunday the UFC fight at the White House that's part of celebrations marking 250 years since the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence will take place on June 14.
The big picture: Trump didn't mention it during his speech at a celebration of the Navy's 250th anniversary in Norfolk, Virginia, which revealed for the first time the date of the "America250" event and that it would be "at the White House on the grounds," but June 14 is also his 80th birthday.
President Trump pledged raises for U.S. services members as he blamed Democrats for the government shutdown during a 250th anniversary celebration of the Navy on Sunday at Norfolk naval base in Virginia.
The big picture: "Despite the Democrat-induced shutdown, we will get our service members every last penny," Trump said at the event of the standoff that Democrats blame the president for. "It's all coming, and even more because I'm supporting the across-the-board pay raises for every sailor and service member in the United States armed forces."
A jazz vocalist from Mexico is giving a new romantic and modern spin to the Mexican folklore of La Llorona, a crying female spirit who is said to take children.
The big picture: The song's release on Friday,ahead of Día de los Muertos, comes at a time when Mexican families in the U.S. face anxiety of immigration raids and racial profiling.
President Trump told reporters on Sunday that he thinks the negotiations on the implementation of his plan to release all remaining hostages held by Hamas and end the war in Gaza will be successfully concluded within the next few days.
Why it matters: Trump and his team are pushing hard for both Israel and Hamas to move forward with the implementation of the deal without delay, U.S. officials say.
More Americans disapprove of how Republicans and President Trump are handling the government shutdown than disapprove of congressional Democrats — but no one appears to be sailing smoothly in a new poll released Sunday.
The big picture: The government shutdown has prompted an avalanche of finger pointing and social media trolling. Americans appear divided on who should shoulder the blame, though severalrecentpolls have showed more think the onus is on the GOP.
Bad Bunny responded to MAGA critics upset he'll be the 2026Super Bowl halftime performer during his Saturday Night Live monologue on Saturday by speaking in Spanish — then telling them they have four months to learn what he just said.
Why it matters: It was the first time Bad Bunny, one of the world's most popular performers, had responded to far-right commentators, and signals he has no intention of pulling back on a potentially provocative and political performance in February.
President Trump's threats of mid-shutdown mass firings are contingent on whether Democrats cave amid a government funding standoff, National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett suggested Sunday.
The big picture: The shutdown, which Trump has framed as an "unprecedented opportunity" to make cuts to agencies, has seemingly emboldened a White House that's been eager to concentrate the president's power in unprecedented ways.
When Hamas came back with a "yes, but" to President Trump's Gaza peace proposal on Friday, Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss what he saw as good news.
Netanyahu felt differently. "Bibi told Trump this is nothing to celebrate, and that it doesn't mean anything," a U.S. official with knowledge of the call told Axios.
Trump fired back: "I don't know why you're always so f***ing negative. This is a win. Take it."
Why it matters: The exchange, which a second U.S. official confirmed, reflects how determined Trump is to push through Netanyahu's reservations, and convince him to end the war if Hamas will make a deal.
Top Democratic Party officials are increasingly frustrated with their leadership for not doing more to support Zohran Mamdani's campaign for mayor of New York City, several people familiar with the situation tell Axios.
Why it matters: The rise of Mamdani, a democratic socialist, has split top Democrats in D.C. and New York, some of whom fear his left-wing views and criticism of Israel will damage the party's national brand.
The Trump administration's rush to quickly deport immigrants with criminal records has led U.S. officials to send several men to prisons in Africa even though their home countries would have taken them back, Axios has learned.
Why it matters:President Trump's team has justified deportations to prisons in Eswatini and South Sudan by claiming that no other countries — including the immigrants' homelands — would accept criminals ousted from the U.S.
A proposed 47% cut to NASA science from the Trump administration has sounded the alarm among scientists and space advocates — and Bill Nye is leading the charge to stop it.
Driving the news: Nye — known as "the Science Guy" — will join more than 300 advocates from a coalition of nearly 20 science and education groups in Washington for a Day of Action on Monday, urging Congress to save NASA science.
