{"id":167843,"date":"2025-10-13T02:07:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T02:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-insurrection-act-on-the-cards-says-vance-as-president-touts-peace-in-the-middle-east-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T02:07:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T02:07:45","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-insurrection-act-on-the-cards-says-vance-as-president-touts-peace-in-the-middle-east-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-insurrection-act-on-the-cards-says-vance-as-president-touts-peace-in-the-middle-east-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Insurrection Act on the cards, says Vance, as president touts peace in the Middle East – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

JD Vance confirms White House seriously considering invoking 1807 insurrection act as Trump heads to Israel. Key US politics stories from Sunday 12 October at a glance.
The Trump administration<\/a> is considering ways to invoke emergency powers, including utilising the Insurrection Act of 1807, which would allow president Donald Trump to deploy troops on US soil in the event of major unrest.
Despite legal pushback, vice-president JD Vance has confirmed the White is seriously considering the idea. \u201cThe president\u2019s looking at all of his options,\u201d he told NBC\u2019s News\u2019s Meet the Press on Sunday, adding that \u201cwe are talking about this because crime has gotten out of control in our cities\u201d.
The acknowledgment came as president Trump boarded a plane for Jerusalem, where he is scheduled to speak at the Knesset and meet families of hostages set to be released from Gaza on Monday after helping to broker a major peace deal.
The war, he proclaimed, \u201cwas over\u201d, adding that relations in the Middle East would \u201cnormalize\u201d.
Here are the key stories:
The White House is talking about invoking the Insurrection Act<\/a> that would allow the deployment of military troops on US soil to quell domestic unrest amid legal challenges over the moves, JD Vance<\/a> confirmed on Sunday.
Vance was asked on NBC News\u2019s Meet the Press whether Donald Trump<\/a> was seriously considering invoking the emergency power to deploy national guard forces and even the US military in domestic settings.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The war in Gaza<\/a> has ended and the Middle East is going to \u201cnormalize\u201d, Donald Trump<\/a> said on Sunday as he flew to Israel<\/a>, which was waiting for Hamas to release<\/a> Israeli hostages as world leaders were gathering to discuss the next steps toward peace.
\u201cThe war is over, you understand that,\u201d Trump told reporters onboard Air Force One as he began a flight from Washington DC to Israel<\/a>.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Beijing has told the US it will retaliate if Donald Trump<\/a> fails to back down on his threat to impose 100% tariffs<\/a> on Chinese<\/a> imports as investors brace for another bout of trade war turmoil.
China\u2019s commerce ministry blamed Washington for raising trade tensions between the two countries after Trump announced on Friday that he would impose the additional tariffs on China\u2019s exports to the US<\/a>, along with new controls on critical software, by 1 November.<\/strong>
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Officials in the Trump administration<\/a> are reportedly weighing the possibility of selling portions of the federal government\u2019s $1.6tn student loan portfolio to private investors, which experts say could carry risks for both taxpayers and borrowers \u2013 potentially reshaping the student loan landscape in unpredictable ways.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Donald Trump is not known for taking advice, especially from foreign leaders who often seek to flatter and compliment the US president, writes the Guardian\u2019s Jason Wilson in this feature on the El Salvadorian leader\u2019s thoughts on the US judiciary.
El Salvador\u2019s authoritarian leader Nayib Bukele has followed a different tack, he writes, by calling on the Trump administration to follow his example in impeaching \u201ccorrupt judges\u201d.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
\u2018Cavalier and aggressive\u2019: why are border agents flooding into US cities? <\/strong>The <\/strong>Guardian\u2019s Maanvi Singh has this piece<\/a> on how border agents have become a key force in Trump\u2019s migrant crackdown<\/strong>.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 11 October, 2025<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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JD Vance confirms White House seriously considering invoking 1807 insurrection act as Trump heads to Israel. Key US politics stories from Sunday 12 October at a glance.The Trump administration is considering ways to invoke emergency powers, including utilising the Insurrection Act of 1807, which would allow president Donald Trump to deploy troops on US soil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}