An escalating clash pits a Republican president looking to fulfill his mass deportation goals against a Democratic governor with White House aspirations hoping to mobilize opposition.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has been leaning into President Donald Trump’s team’s online tactics in his feud over the response to the Los Angeles riots. Newsom and Trump have been locked in an increasingly bitter public feud over the president’s decision to send in 4,

The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit blocks a federal judge’s earlier order to return control of the troops to California.

The civil unrest accompanying those protests fall “far short of ‘rebellion,” U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled, concluding that Trump’s attempt to equate the “spo