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.

Democrat Gavin Newsom has not been afraid to square off against the president - but this confrontational strategy is not without political risk.

President Donald Trump hit back at Gov. Gavin Newsom's claims that the president did not call him recently, showing a screenshot of the call to Fox News.

Gavin Newsom’s renewed control of the California National Guard didn’t last more than a few hours thanks to a federal appeals court. “The request for an administrative stay is GRANTED,” the court wrote in a short order tonight after the White House and DOJ came up short this afternoon in their bid

A federal judge is siding with Governor Gavin Newsom on giving California, not President Donald Trump, control over the state's National Guard.

A federal judge on Thursday ruled in favor of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, granting a temporary restraining order that directs President Donald Trump to return control of the National Guard to the governor.

A California Republican Assemblyman and Gov. Gavin Newsom's spokesman got into a brief war of words on social media Thursday, after California's U.S. Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security press conference.

A judge temporarily halted the Trump administration’s National Guard deployment in Los Angeles, writing that the federal government did not have the authority to nationalize California’s National Guard. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer issued the temporary restraining order today after an hourlong hearing in a San Francisco federal court.

Democratic governors on Thursday slammed President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and Marines to California amid protests over the administration’s immigration enforcement policies.

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom says the federal military intervention in Los Angeles marks the onset of a much broader effort by President Donald Trump to overturn political and cultural norms at the heart of the nation’s democracy.