Former Attorney General Bill Barr slams Gov. Gavin Newsom’s lawsuit over Trump’s National Guard deployment, calling the claims ‘nonsense.'

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.

The California governor has leaned into opposing Trump’s actions in Los Angeles. The politics are tricky for potential 2028 presidential candidates.

"It clearly will not end here, other states will be next, democracy is next," the California governor says in a speech Tuesday night

Gavin Newsom won praise on Wednesday for his speech Tuesday night seen by a national audience, something many Democrats saw as a shot across the bow to President Donald Trump that they can fight Trump -- and one that sparked new talk of Newsom as the party's standard-bearer in 2028.

Cities across the U.S. are preparing for another day of immigration protests following a week of unrest that began in Los Angeles and spread nationwide. Los Angeles remains under an overnight curfew after demonstrations sparked by federal immigration raids turned violent.

But Newsom said there was no such call. "There was no call. Not even a voicemail," he tweeted after Trump spoke at an Oval Office news conference. "Americans should be alarmed tha