Air Force Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was dismissed from his role after his agency produced a report contradicting Trump's claim that U.S. strikes had "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program. General Kruse was appointed by the Biden administration.

Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse has been removed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The latest military firing follows the agency's initial intelligence assessment of US bombings on Iran on 22 June set back Tehran's nuclear programme by just a few months which “angered” US President Donald Trump.

As the Trump administration escalates its deployment of troops in the nation’s capital and vows similar moves elsewhere, leaders of largely Democratic cities across the country are pushing back.

President Donald Trump teased the possibility of implementing a crime crackdown in Chicago that would be similar to the one he started in D.C. last week.

With more National Guard troops expected to be deployed in Washington as part of President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement crackdown, parts of the city have started to look like occupied territory.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard troops to start carrying firearms while patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump’s law enforcement crackdown

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His lawyers say he's being coerced into pleading guilty in a criminal case in order to not be sent to the African country.

Immigration officials intend to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda after he declined an offer to be deported to Costa Rica in exchange for remaining in jail and pleading guilty