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 spring of 2025 is ushering in one of the biggest showdowns of Donald Trump’s second term, as the president and California Gov. Gavin Newsom engage in a battle of political heavyweights.

The legal battle between President Donald Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom continues over National Guard troops in Los Angeles after an appeals court temporarily overturns a ruling against the president's deployment.

A federal judge has ruled that President Trump’s call-up of the California National Guard was illegal, prompting an immediate appeal from the Trump administration. The troops will remain in place for at least a few days after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals granted an administrative stay of the judges ruling.

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