Texas has stopped putting new money toward building a U.S.-Mexico border wall, shifting course after installing only a fraction of the hundreds of miles of potential barrier that Republican Gov. Greg Abbott set out to construct four years ago.

He campaigned against involvement in foreign wars and promised to bring world peace. But now President Trump is grappling with involving the U.S. in an expanding war in the Middle East, and it's ignited a meltdown among his supporters.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was taken to a hospital in Washington on Tuesday for an allergic reaction, the department said.

Federal appeals court judges seemed inclined to bless President Trump's decision to deploy the National Guard to quell unrest in Los Angeles over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom, suggesting that the administration is on solid legal ground.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday that Congress does not yet need to weigh in on potential U.S. intervention in the Israel-Iran war, dismissing a Senate Democrat's plan to force a vote on a war powers resolution as "getting the cart ahead of the horse."