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In announcing that Space Command would be headquartered in Alabama, Trump said the “big problem” he has with Colorado is its use of mail-in voting. Trump has long claimed without clear evidence that mail-in voting increases fraud and he’s seeking to ban it as a practice by states in U.S. elections.

“So that played a big factor,” Trump said of relocating Space Force’s command center.

The president said that mail-in voting leads to “automatically crooked elections.”

Trump’s predecessor in the White House, Joe Biden, had placed Space Command’s headquarters in Colorado, a choice he reversed on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump speaks about the relocation of U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado to Alabama in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump has officially announced that Space Force’s headquarters will be moving to Alabama.

“The U.S. Space Command HQ will move to the beautiful locale of a place called Huntsville, Alabama, forever to be known from this point forward as Rocket City,” Trump said.

He said that when he created Space Command in his first term, he planned to make its headquarters in Alabama but that the Biden administration established it instead in Colorado.

Trump said one of his issues with Colorado was that it allowed all-mail in voting — which he suggested encouraged fraud.

The president said in an interview taped Tuesday morning with conservative commentator Scott Jennings that he will be “going in as an emergency” to the high court and would “probably” be seeking it Wednesday.

He said the judges who issued the appeals court ruling last week were “a very liberal court” and said that “they don’t care about the country and “they don’t love the country.”

“It will be a disaster if that is lost for our country,” Trump said of his tariffs.

When Trump makes his announcement about Space Command’s new headquarters, it will be the first time he’s spoken publicly for a week.

Although he was spotted heading to his golf course over the weekend and he granted some interviews, he was largely out of sight for an unusually long stretch of time.

On Sunday, the 79-year-old president posted “NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE” on social media.

We’ll see how long Trump talks during the announcement. His participation in a Cabinet meeting last Tuesday stretched for three hours, including a monologue, conversations with top officials and questions from reporters.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press.

The military will begin sending groups of 150 attorneys — both military and civilians — to the Justice Department “as soon as practicable” and the military services should have the first round of people identified by next week, according to the memo, dated Aug. 27.

After Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst made her retirement official on Tuesday, one House Republican widely speculated to launch a statewide bid teased an “announcement soon” on the race.

Rep. Ashley Hinson, who represents an eastern Iowa district, praised Ernst’s time in military and government service as a “powerful example of the American dream.”

“As we look forward, President Trump needs a fighter in the Senate who will always have his back to continue to cut spending, deport illegal aliens, and put working families first,” Hinson said in a post on the social media site X. “I’ve stood shoulder to shoulder with the President to pass this America First agenda in the House and I would be his strongest ally in the Senate.”

Her family will have an “announcement soon about how we believe we can best serve Iowa,” she says.

A leading vaccine researcher and critic of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will no longer serve as a government adviser, after U.S. officials declined to extend his term on a federal panel.

Dr. Paul Offit told the Associated Press Tuesday that he learned his appointment to a Food and Drug Administration vaccine panel would not be renewed.

Offit, a vaccine inventor and pediatric specialist, has been a prominent critic of Kennedy, repeatedly calling for his resignation over recent changes to vaccine access and information.

The FDA’s vaccine advisory panel meets regularly to make recommendations for seasonal shots and to review the safety and effectiveness of new vaccines.

Offit served two four-year terms on the panel. He says he was asked to extend his time by an additional two years and filed paperwork to serve until 2027.

But Offit said he was told that Kennedy’s department decided not to renew his appointment.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio attended an awards ceremony in his native Miami where Polish officials recognized one of Cuba’s best known dissidents.

Rubio appeared alongside his Polish counterpart, Radoslaw Sikorski, and spoke briefly to praise Berta Soler’s refusal to leave Cuba while also thanking Poland for its actions to throw off communist rule and support other countries on the same path.

“I’m not being critical of anybody, but it is easier to be critical of the regime, like many of us are on social media and in press releases. It’s a lot harder to actually confront it in person with real consequences in your daily life,” Rubio said. Soler did not attend the event and recorded a video from Cuba.

Later on Tuesday, Rubio is set to travel to Mexico in what will be his fourth foreign trip in the Western Hemisphere. He will also visit Ecuador.

A federal judge was wrong to block the Trump administration from freezing billions of dollars and terminating contracts for nonprofits to run a “green bank” aimed at financing climate-friendly projects, a divided appeals court ruled Tuesday.

It said the challenge belongs in a federal claims court as a breach of contract case.

The ruling is a win for the Trump administration that had blasted the program as a waste of taxpayer money and tried to claw back funding. It’s a loss for Climate United Fund and other nonprofits who wanted the federal court system to ensure it quickly received its funding.

The groups sued the EPA, its administrator Lee Zeldin and Citibank, which held the grant money, saying they had illegally denied the groups access to funds awarded last year. They wanted access to those funds again, saying the freeze had paralyzed their work and jeopardized their basic operations.

Almost all are Venezuelan, and they’ve reversed course since Trump’s immigration crackdown began, according to a report published by the governments of Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica, with support of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.

This “reverse flow” migration is largely made up of migrants who fled Venezuela’s long-running economic, social and political crises only to encounter U.S. immigration policy no longer open to asylum-seekers. Migration through the treacherous Darien Gap on the border of Colombia and Panama peaked in 2023 when more than half a million migrants crossed. That flow slowed somewhat in 2024, but dried up almost completely early this year.

Judge Breyer noted in his ruling the Trump administration’s possible plans to call National Guard troops into other U.S. cities.

Newsom posted on X, in an all-caps reflection of the president’s own social media style, “DONALD TRUMP LOSES AGAIN. The courts agree — his militarization of our streets and use of the military against US citizens is ILLEGAL.”

The White House and the Defense Department did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.

Trump deployed roughly 4,000 National Guard soldiers and 700 Marines in Southern California over the objections of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, citing a law that applies when the nation “is invaded,” when “there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government,” or when the president is otherwise unable “to execute the laws of the United States.”

Breyer accused the Trump administration of “willfully” violating the law, saying it used troops for functions barred by their training, refused to “meaningfully coordinate with state and local officials” and “coached” federal law enforcement agencies as it used armed soldiers and military vehicles to block traffic, engage in crowd control and otherwise act beyond its authority.

The executive order signed by Mayor Brandon Johnson on Saturday pushes back against what he called the “out-of-control” Trump administration’s plan to surge federal officers into the nation’s third-largest city. It prohibits Chicago Police from helping federal authorities with civil immigration enforcement or any related patrols, traffic stops and checkpoints during the surge.

Brandon said all city departments must guard the constitutional rights of Chicago residents “amidst the possibility of imminent militarized immigration or National Guard deployment by the federal government.”

The federal surge into Chicago could start as early as Sept. 5 and last about 30 days, according to two U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss plans that had not been made public.

The Trump administration is piling new restrictions on Palestinian visa applicants, making it nearly impossible for anyone holding a Palestinian Authority passport to receive the travel documents needed to visit the U.S. for business, work, pleasure or educational purposes.

Palestinian applicants who hold non-Palestinian Authority passports also may face difficulties, should they need a U.S. visa.

The State Department has tightened what it says are temporary policies to intensify the vetting of Palestinians seeking to travel to the United States. Now, virtually all applications will either be denied or not accepted for processing.

The administration is changing how U.S. visas are issued as it cracks down on illegal migration from around the world, but these steps against Palestinians appear more far-reaching that those directed at other nationalities, many of which include exemptions for official travel to the U.S.

The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned the Iraqi-Kittitian businessman Waleed al-Samarra’i and firms associated with him, accusing him of smuggling Iranian oil disguised as Iraqi oil through a network of shipping companies and ships.

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control alleges that al-Samarra’i covertly blends Iranian oil with Iraqi oil to avoid sanctions and has made hundreds of millions of dollars from the scheme.

“By targeting Iran’s oil revenue stream, Treasury will further degrade the regime’s ability to carry out attacks against the United States and its allies,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in a news release. “We remain committed to an oil supply free from Iran and will continue our efforts to disrupt the ongoing attempts by Tehran to evade U.S. sanctions.”

Survivors of abuse from Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, putting pressure on Congress to take action to force more disclosure of the evidence in the case.

A group of both Republicans and Democrats on the House Oversight Committee will meet with the survivors on Tuesday afternoon. The committee has been conducting an inquiry into how the Justice Department handled Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in 2019 as he faced sex trafficking charges.

Several survivors are also expected to join a rally on Wednesday as well as a news conference with lawmakers who are pushing for legislation that would force the Trump administration to release the case files.

The move will reverse a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado, according to a person familiar with the announcement.

Trump is expected to speak Tuesday afternoon, and he will give the new location, according to the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity to confirm the plans ahead of the official announcement. A Pentagon website set up to livestream the remarks described the event as a “U.S. Space Command HQ Announcement.”

Space Command’s functions include conducting operations like enabling satellite-based navigation and troop communication and providing warning of missile launches. Alabama and Colorado have long battled to claim Space Command because it has significant implications for the local economies. The Air Force in 2021 identified Army Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville as the preferred location.

The Television Academy is honoring the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with its Governors Award as the organization winds down its work of nearly 60 years due to the Trump administration’s withdrawal of its funding.

The organization has helped pay for PBS, NPR, 1,500 local radio and TV stations as well as programs like “Sesame Street” and “Finding Your Roots.”

Trump signed a bill in July canceling about $1.1 billion already approved for the public media system, calling it politically biased and an unnecessary expense. The corporation told employees that most staff positions will end with the fiscal year on Sept. 30. A small transition team will stay until January.

Previous Governors Award recipients include Jerry Lewis, John Walsh, Bob Hope, Ted Turner, Tyler Perry, “Star Trek,” “American Idol” and Debbie Allen.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats “are willing to work in a bipartisan way” to avoid a government shutdown when the fiscal year ends on Sept. 30.

Republicans will need votes from both parties to pass a short term funding measure while they finish the full package of spending bills, and Democrats will want some concessions to agree.

Schumer received blowback from his party in March when he voted with Republicans to keep the government open. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries voted against that short term spending measure, arguing that Republicans had cut Democrats out.

Schumer’s letter to colleagues Tuesday morning said he and Jeffries “are aligned,” and that “Senate Republicans must decide: Stand up for the legislative branch or enable Trump’s slide toward authoritarianism.”

The price of silver was up 1.8% at $41.46 an ounce on Tuesday, surpassing $40 an ounce for the first time since 2011.

“That’s not just a price tick; it’s the market’s confession that faith in fiat is wobbling,” Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management said in a commentary. He noted that the price of the precious metal has nearly doubled since early 2023.

Fiat currency is money with value rooted in the trust and authority of the issuing government, rather than a fixed value or an asset like gold or silver.

Investors have been shifting away from U.S. Treasuries for years but that shift has accelerated this year due to worries over U.S. government debt, trade tensions and geopolitical risks, said Ipek Ozkardeskaya, a senior analyst at Swissquote Bank.

The S&P 500 sank 1.3% early Tuesday, on track for its worst loss in a month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 571 points, and the Nasdaq composite sank 1.7%.

Nvidia and other companies that have benefited from the frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology were some of the heaviest weights on the market. The overall stock market was feeling pressure from rising bond yields, which are climbing around the world. And the spot price of gold, traditionally a haven for investors in times of uncertainty, hit a new record of $3,578.40 per ounce early Tuesday.

Trump’ s challenges to the U.S. Federal Reserve and other institutions have shaken faith in the U.S. dollar, prompting a shift into other investment options such as gold and silver, analysts say.

Judge Charles Breyer ruled that the Trump administration violated federal law by sending troops to accompany federal agents on immigration raids.

California sued, saying the troops sent to Los Angeles over the summer were violating a law that prohibits military enforcement of domestic laws.

Lawyers for the administration have argued the Posse Comitatus Act doesn’t apply because the troops were protecting federal officers, not enforcing laws. They say the troops were mobilized under an authority that allows the president to deploy them.

CORRECTS earlier reference to judge’s location; he’s in San Francisco, not Washington, D.C.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, one of Trump’s closest congressional allies, has pushed the president for months to support his sweeping bipartisan sanctions bill that would impose steep tariffs on countries fueling Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by buying its oil, gas, uranium, and other exports.

The legislation has the backing of 85 senators, but Trump has yet to endorse it, and Republican leaders have so far said they won’t move without him.

Exasperated Republicans fled for the month after making little headway as Senate Democrats forced delays in confirmations, angering Trump as many of his administration’s positions remain unfilled.

Republican leaders called it quits after a rare Saturday session that ended with a breakdown in bipartisan negotiations and Trump posting on social media that Chuck Schumer could “GO TO HELL!”

Republicans now say they’re ready to try and change Senate rules to get around the Democratic delays, and are expected to spend the next several weeks discussing how that might work.

The most urgent task for Congress is to avoid a government shutdown on Sept. 30, when federal funding runs out. Just how Republicans and Democrats will be able to agree on this remains unclear.

Congress will have to pass a short-term spending measure to keep the government funded for a few weeks or months while they try to finish the full-year package. But Republicans will need Democratic votes to pass an extension, and Democrats will want significant concessions.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s vote with Republicans to avoid a shutdown in March prompted furious backlash within his party.

A man charged with trying to assassinate President Donald Trump last year in South Florida is set to represent himself during a pretrial conference on Tuesday, as final preparations are made for trial.

Barring any delays, jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in Fort Pierce federal court for the case against Ryan Routh. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon signed off on Routh’s request to represent himself in July but said court-appointed attorneys need to remain as standby counsel.

The trial will begin nearly a year after prosecutors say a U.S. Secret Service agent thwarted Routh’s attempt to shoot Trump as he played golf. Routh, 59, has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate, assaulting a federal officer and several firearm violations.

Trump’s administration has started requiring parents looking to reunite with their children who crossed into the U.S. alone to show up for interviews where immigration officers may question them, according to a policy memo obtained by The Associated Press.

Neha Desai, managing director of human rights at the National Center for Youth Law, said the change provides U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement a “built-in opportunity” to arrest parents while the children remain in custody — something she said has already happened.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not confirm that or answer questions about the July 9 directive, instead referring in a statement to the Biden administration’s struggles to properly vet and monitor homes where children were placed.

Immigrants make up almost 20% of the U.S. workforce — 45% of workers in farming, fishing and forestry; about 30% of all construction workers, and 24% of service workers, according to Pew senior researcher Stephanie Kramer.