President Donald Trump says Chicago will likely be the next target of his efforts to address crime, homelessness and illegal immigration. On Friday, Trump mentioned that Chicago could receive similar treatment to Washington where 2,000 troops have been deployed. He also indicated plans to assist New York. Trump has often described some of the nation's largest cities as dangerous. On Friday, he singled out Chicago, calling it a "mess" and claiming residents are "screaming for us to come." City officials and advocates, meanwhile, slammed Trump's threats and emphasized drops in violent crime in Chicago.

An online spat between factions of Donald Trump's supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in the president-elect's political movement into public display. The argument previews fissures and contradictory views his coalition could bring to the White House. The rift laid bare tensions between the newest flank of Trump's movement — that is, wealthy members of the tech world who want more highly skilled workers in their industry — and people in Trump's Make America Great Again base who championed his hardline immigration policies.

After a resounding election victory, President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans say they have a mandate to govern. But it's opening an uneasy political question: Will there be any room for dissent in the U.S. Congress? Trump is laying down a gauntlet even before taking office. He is challenging the Senate to dare defy him over the nominations of Matt Gaetz, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other controversial choices for his administration. He even suggests Congress simply go on recess to allow his nominees to be installed without votes. It's forcing Congress to decide how far it will go in confronting Trump and opposing his wishes.

Donald Trump has made his opposition to transgender rights central to his closing argument before Election Day. He has used demeaning language and misrepresentations to paint a tiny slice of the U.S. population as a threat to national identity. The Republican nominee's campaign and aligned political action committees have spent tens of millions of dollars on advertising that attacks Democratic nominee Kamala Harris for previous statements supporting transgender rights. Harris is pushing back, noting that she has supported federal policies that were in place when Trump was president. LGBTQ advocates argue that Trump's rhetoric encourages hostility toward transgender people and fosters misunderstandings about who they are.

For a year, Project 2025 has endured as a persistent force in the presidential election. It's rare for a complex 900-page policy book to figure so dominantly in a political campaign. But the far-right proposals are being deployed by Democrats as a warning for Donald Trump's potential second-term agenda. Trump says he knows "nothing" about the Heritage Foundation project, which was organized by his former administration officials. The rise and fall and potential rise again of Project 2025 shows the unexpected ability of policy to light up the election and threaten not only Trump atop the ticket but down-ballot Republicans in races for Congress. Heritage's Kevin Roberts insists they "will not back down."

Former President Donald Trump is blasting federal emergency responders whose work in North Carolina has been stymied by armed harassment and a deluge of misinformation. But Trump said Monday that he was not concerned that the aftermath of Hurricane Helene would affect election results in the battleground state. Trump was asked whether it was helpful to criticize hurricane relief workers after the Federal Emergency Management Agency recently paused its work in the area because of reports they could be targeted by militia. He responded by again attacking the agency and repeating the falsehood that the response was hampered because FEMA spent its budget helping people who crossed the border illegally.

Donald Trump is spending time in a Colorado suburb away from battleground states. He's aiming to tie the arrivals of migrants to a perception of chaos in the heartland. He continues to double down on his pledge to carry out the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. Trump's rally on Friday in Aurora, Colorado, marks the first time either presidential campaign has visited this state that votes reliably Democratic in statewide races. Trump has been consistently loud in his statements on immigration. And over the last few months, he has pinpointed specific smaller communities that have seen large arrivals of migrants, where tensions are flaring over resources.

One presidential candidate is talking up gun ownership and promising tough new border security measures. The other vows to cap credit card interest rates and force insurance companies to cover in vitro fertilization. Which one is the Democrat and the Republican? The lines that have traditionally defined each party's policy priorities are blurring as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump fight to expand their political coalitions in the final days of the 2024 presidential contest. In both cases, the candidates are embracing positions and rhetoric that would have once been anathema to their political bases. But as the electoral landscape continues to evolve in the Trump era, Harris and Trump are tapping nontraditional policies to help win over persuadable voters from the other side.