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Today — 9 October 2025Main stream

Texas’ Blue-State Deployments Shred Relations Between Governors

9 October 2025 at 06:23
State leaders have prided themselves on finding bipartisan consensus, but President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops from Texas to Illinois has ripped the veneer off that image.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

Members of the Texas National Guard at the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center in Elwood, Ill., a far southwest suburb of Chicago, on Tuesday.
Yesterday — 8 October 2025Main stream

Trump Says Chicago Mayor and Illinois Governor Should Be Jailed Amid National Guard Tensions

9 October 2025 at 01:33
In an early morning Truth Social post, the president said Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago should be jailed, accusing them of failing to protect ICE officers.

© Scott Olson/Getty Images

President Trump has repeatedly attacked Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago, shown here at a news conference on Monday in which they denounced the administration’s National Guard deployment to the Chicago area.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Trump Said He Could Invoke the Insurrection Act to Deploy Troops. Here’s What to Know.

7 October 2025 at 09:11
The president said he would invoke emergency powers to deploy the National Guard if “people were being killed, and courts were holding us up.”

© Anna Rose Layden for The New York Times

President Trump in the Oval Office on Monday.

Pritzker Says Federal Agents Are Trying to Make Chicago a ‘War Zone’

6 October 2025 at 02:38
Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois said he had ordered state agencies to investigate a raid on a Chicago apartment building where there had been reports of “nearly naked” children zip-tied by federal officers.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois has pushed against using federal agents in Chicago.
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