Weekend protests planned nationwide as DC prepares for military parade

What to Know

• Trump today met with national security advisors to discuss Israel's strikes on Iran and Iran's retaliation as tensions heighten in the region. Read full coverage here.
• Protesters are planning "No Kings" rallies in cities nationwide on Saturday while a military parade in Washington will mark the Army’s 250th anniversary — and coincide with Trump's 79th birthday.
• The Trump administration can maintain control of National Guard troops in California and continue to deploy them in Los Angeles amid ICE protests, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.
• Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was erroneously sent to a prison in El Salvador and returned to the U.S. last week, pleaded not guilty today to human smuggling charges in Tennessee.
• The Republican House speaker today suggested that Sen. Alex Padilla should be censured after the California Democrat was forcibly removed yesterday from a Homeland Security news conference in LA.
• Trump issued an executive order on Friday approving U.S. Steel’s merger with Japan’s Nippon Steel, after the companies signed a national security agreement with the U.S. government.