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The first contingent of President Trump's call-up of National Guard troops arrived in Illinois on Tuesday as the administration pushes to crack down on crime in some of the country's major cities.

Reporters won't need military officials' formal approval before they are permitted to publish articles, according to the latest draft of the Defense Department's strategy to control press access at the Pentagon.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday confirmed 107 of President Trump's nominees to executive roles, taking advantage of their recent rules change to clear most of the backlog that built up amid Democrats' universal filibuster of the president's personnel.

Taiwan must sharply increase its defense spending, but weapons will continue to flow to Taipei from the U.S., a Pentagon official slated for a key defense policy post told the Senate Tuesday.

Republicans are intensifying pressure on Democrats to end the government shutdown as critical deadlines approach.

The NFL said Tuesday it has fined Jerry Jones $250,000 for an obscene gesture toward fans at MetLife Stadium that the Dallas owner said was "inadvertent" and intended for fans of the Cowboys, not the New York Jets.

Senate Democrats on Tuesday said they wanted to see more evidence that President Biden's FBI spied on Republican lawmakers before they would believe there was wrongdoing.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Tuesday signed into law a new 24% tax on marijuana sales between producers and dispensaries, creating revenue to partially fund her long-promised effort to improve the state's roads.

Three former upstate New York prison guards on trial in the fatal beating of a Black handcuffed inmate took part in an act of "sheer, unimaginable brutality," a prosecutor told a jury Tuesday.

Attorney General Pam Bondi repeatedly deflected questions as she sought during a combative congressional hearing on Tuesday to defend herself against growing criticism that she's turning the law enforcement agency into a weapon to seek vengeance ...