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Trump said Wednesday that the expansion of federal law enforcement in Chicago and Albuquerque, New Mexico, will address rising crime. The move sets up a showdown with state and local leaders, who have warned they will resist attempts to deploy federal agents in the way the administration did in Portland. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the agents coming to her city will aid in gun-violence investigations and that the city will challenge in court any deployment against protesters.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would remove statues and busts in the Capitol that honor individuals associated with slavery, the Confederacy and White supremacy. The measure, approved 305-113, would also commission a bust of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Supreme Court justice, to replace one of Roger Taney, author of a key Supreme Court decision backing slavery. Every Democrat voted in favor while Republicans split on the issue, 72 for and 113 against.
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