Illinois governor says President Trump is ‘taking away people’s rights’. Plus, the key stats highlighting Israel’s destruction of Gaza

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Texas national guard troops arrived in the Chicago area on Tuesday, marking an escalation of Donald Trump’s crackdown on the city, in a move condemned as “military invasion”.

How are elected Illinois officials responding to Trump’s incursion? The state’s governor, JB Pritzker, decried the move, saying: “Any kind of troops on the streets of an American city don’t belong unless there is an insurrection … I’m going to do everything I can to stop him from taking away people’s rights and from using the military to invade states”.

How has Trump tried to weaponize the attorney general’s office? The president has overtly piled pressure on Bondi to more aggressively pursue senior public officials he regards as his political enemies, including Comey.

How did Bondi respond to Democratic senators’ questioning? When pressed during the five-hour hearing, she personally attacked several senators or invoked the ongoing government shutdown to depict them as negligent.