In an executive order, the US president threatened state and local governments with both financial and legal sanctions if ...

He’s calling it “The Restraining Judicial Insurrectionists Act of 2025.” “Insurrection” has remained much on the public mind since 2021 when outgoing US president Donald Trump was ...

That is, unless the president were to invoke the Insurrection Act, which overrides Posse Comitatus and allows a president to deploy the army at home, a power most often used to break up riots.

The Insurrection Act of 1807 allows the president to use active-duty military personnel to perform law-enforcement duties inside the US. US media report that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth and ...

You can get in touch with Kate by emailing [email protected], or by following her on X at @kateeplummer. President Donald Trump's administration will on Sunday learn whether a report by its ...

It gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem 90 days to submit a report to him advising on conditions there and “whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of ...

He often claims – falsely, of course – to have set some kind of record there. Now we find out if Trump, on April 20, will ...