By TARA COPP and REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security has asked for 20,000 National Guard troops to assist with immigration roundups across the country, and the Pentagon is reviewing the unusual request, a U.S. official confirmed to The Associated Press.

DHS asked for the troops to help carry out President Donald Trump’s “mandate from the American people to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens,” department spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said. She said DHS will ”use every tool and resource available” to do so because the “safety of American citizens comes first.”

Unlike the troops deployed at the southern border, these National Guard units would come from the states and be used to assist in deportation operations in the interior of the country.

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How the troops would be used may depend on whether they remain under state governors’ control. Under the Posse Comitatus Act, troops under federal orders cannot be used for domestic law enforcement, but units under state control can.

The addition of 20,000 National Guard troops would provide a huge boost to immigration enforcement. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the DHS agency responsible for immigration enforcement in the interior of the country, has a total staff of about 20,000 people spread across three divisions.

Enforcement and Removals Operations, which is the division directly responsible for arresting and removing people who do not have the right to stay in the country, has a total staff of roughly 7,700 people, including a little over 6,000 law enforcement officers.

It was unclear why the request was made to the Defense Department and not to the states. The U.S. official spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details not yet made public.

Trump has been carrying out a wide-ranging crackdown on illegal immigration, issuing a series of executive orders designed to stop what he has called the “invasion” of the United States.

The U.S. already has as many as 10,000 troops under state and federal orders along the U.S.-Mexico border, including some who are now empowered to detain migrants they encounter along a newly militarized narrow strip of land adjacent to the border.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testifies during a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

So far, these troops have largely been limited to providing airlift, bolstering the wall, surveillance and administrative support to free up border agents for arrests or detentions.

Along the newly militarized zone, troops have put up warning signs and accompanied border agents but left the detention of migrants crossing the border to other agencies.

In New Mexico, where the new militarized zone was first created, federal magistrate judges have started dismissing national security charges against migrants accused of crossing the southern U.S. border through the newly designated military zone, finding little evidence that they were aware of the zone.

The request for 20,000 troops was first reported by The New York Times.

Who can take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?

Mary Tyler Moore tosses her tam into the air after the unveiling of a statue capturing her flinging her tam in Minneapolis, Wednesday, May 8, 2002. (Joe Rossi / Pioneer Press)

Mary Tyler Moore — aka Mary Richards — of course.

Doyle Auctions perked up the day on Thursday with an announcement that “The Collection of Mary Tyler Moore” will go up for auction in June, including three renderings of the Minneapolis statue that celebrates the late actor’s hat-throwing moment from the opening sequence of  “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”

Also included in 348 lots is various memorabilia from the actor’s career, including original artwork, press kits, awards and other ephemera, in addition to jewelry, silver, Americana and other collections from various eras of her life that ultimately were culled from her home in Greenwich, Connecticut, which was also recently sold.

“The sale offers an exciting opportunity to acquire property from the personal collection of one of television’s most influential figures,” the auction house stated.

The auction for Moore’s collection is being handled by Doyle, a New York-based house with branches across the United States, and the items are consigned by Dr. S. Robert Levine, Moore’s widower.

While the sale will take place at Doyle New York on Wednesday, June 4, it will also be open to live bidding online (in addition to other ways to submit bids), plus exhibit previews in both Beverly Hills and New York. Register/view the collection now at doyle.com/auctions.

A ‘Minnesota’ icon

“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” co-stars – Ed Asner, Betty White, Mary Tyler Moore and Ted Knight – all won awards at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 28th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Shubert Theatre on May 17, 1976 in Los Angeles. (TVA/PictureGroup/Invision for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences/AP Images)

Moore, a native not of Minnesota but of New York, died at the age of 80 in 2017. In addition to her volunteer work fighting Type 1 diabetes and as an animal advocate, the star had many big roles in her acting life, from her role on TV as Laura Petrie in “The Dick Van Dyke Show” to her performance as Beth, a mother frozen by grief, in “Ordinary People,” for which she received an Academy Award nomination.

But, especially here in Minnesota, she is perhaps best known for her role as Mary Richards.

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It was in the 1970s when Moore, via “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” broke new ground with her Emmy-winning portrayal as Richards, a 30-year-old single woman who moves to Minneapolis to focus on her career as an associate producer at WJM-TV News.

In this award-winning ensemble show, Richards lives in the cozy, third-floor apartment of a house in the upscale Kenwood neighborhood, a house that has had fans driving by it ever since.

Many years later, in 2002, Moore was back in Minnesota for the unveiling of the bronze statue by Wisconsin sculptor Gwendolyn Gillen depicting the actor’s legendary tam toss at Seventh Street and Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis.

At the time, the Pioneer Press asked Moore if she thought the gesture would become so iconic.

“Not at all,” she said. “I didn’t even know it would make it into the opening. I remember it was a freezing day in February when we shot it.”

The collection

Included in the nearly 300 lots up for auction are three renderings of Mary Tyler Moore’s statue in Minneapolis. They were sent to Moore for approval from TV Land, which commissioned the sculpture. (Courtesy of Doyle Auctions)

Lot 73, described by Doyle as “Three renderings of the Mary Tyler Moore TV Land statue in Minneapolis,” has an estimated value of $200 to $300.

The description on the auction site includes the background of the renderings:

“Three renderings were sent to Mary Tyler Moore for review of the proposed TV Land sculptural portrait of her in downtown Minneapolis, with a letter from TV Land about the project. Each mounted to boards about 23 1/2 x 16 inches. One with a printed notice over the image.”

TV Land commissioned the sculpture as the cable company broadcast syndicated episodes of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”

Other career memorabilia in the auction includes the “M” mounted in Richards’ apartment ($5,000-$8,000); original Al Hirschfeld drawings highlighting Moore’s roles in “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” ($4,000-$6,000 each); an unused ticket to “The Last Show,” the 1977 series finale, along with a photo of the cast’s final curtain call ($400-600).

The wall-mounted "M" from Mary Richards’ apartment on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" includes Moore’s signature on the backside. Doyle lists the estimated value at $5,000-$8,000. (Courtesy of Doyle Auctions)

The “M,” which includes Moore’s fading signature on the back, is particularly recognizable to fans of the show.

“The ‘M’ from Mary Richards’ apartment is simply iconic,” says Peter Costanzo, a senior vice president at Doyle who is readying the career memorabilia for the upcoming auction.”It can be seen in almost every episode, starting in the first episode, and then it’s in one of the last scenes of the last episode. So that is a truly identifiable piece, it’s wonderful to have it in the auction.”

In addition, there are vintage publicity photographs, press kits, sketches, notes, career awards and more, including a signed photo of Moore by Annie Leibovitz as well as an unsigned Polaroid of Moore and Dick Van Dyke dressed as clowns for a famed 1995 photo shoot for “Vanity Fair.”

Beyond her career in show biz, Moore’s collection includes designer bags, artists’ portraits of her, silver pieces, jewelry, vintage toys, and other items from her home and life.

“If you notice, our sale is organized in a very specific way,” Costanzo told the Pioneer Press on the lots. “The sale opens with a large selection of jewelry and handbags and leads into the memorabilia before leading into the wonderful collections of American and Asian antiques and really liveable items.

“Mary Tyler Moore had previously lived in Millbrook, New York, and also in Manhattan,” Costanzo said. “Her Millbrook home was filled with American antiques, many of which are whimsical and lots of fun. And then her Manhattan apartment was more styled for the city. But she came to combine both properties into a large home in Greenwich, Connecticut, which is where material was coming from now.”

The lots provide a glimpse into Moore’s personal style as well as her career.

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“These items ran through the lens of Mary Tyler Moore’s creative vision,” said Costanzo. “She selected these pieces, she was very tasteful, she was definitely a collector of these items.”

Fans could possibly bid successfully on some of these items without spending a fortune. They probably wouldn’t cost too much to ship to Minnesota, either, or require much room to display, like Lot 214, a selection of about 40 small dog figurines, with an auction estimate of $200-$300.

“Most items in the sale are small,” Costanzo says. “It should be very easy for fans out there to select a couple of items that they like and not have to worry about making space for them, because most things will fit on a tabletop or shelf.”

Visit Doyle.com for more info.

Jewels and tuna fish

This is not the first auction of Moore’s belongings: A 2023 Sotheby’s auction, “Magnificent Jewels,” included jewels from Moore’s collection, with proceeds benefiting The Mary Tyler Moore Vision Initiative, the organization working to end vision loss and blindness from diabetes; Moore, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in her 30s, suffered from related visual impairment.

While this upcoming auction of her life’s collection also includes valuable jewelry, what Moore treasured most in life couldn’t be measured in the dollar value of jewels.

Mary Tyler Moore, 45, and her then fiance, Dr. S. Robert Levine, 29, dance at Tavern on the Green, Nov. 9, 1983 in New York. (Dick Drew / Associated Press)

In footage from her bridal shower shown in the 2023 documentary, “Being Mary Tyler Moore,” Moore recalls a simple but priceless moment: Levine made her a sandwich.

“He got up at 12 or 1 in the morning and made a tuna fish sandwich — not for him and me, but for me,” Moore told her friends, as reported in People magazine. “And it was the most loving thing that anybody had ever done for me before in my life.

“”I’ve been given jewels. I’ve been given a lot of things that we all think are obviously of value,” Moore said in the clip.

But those material gifts, Moore told her friends, couldn’t compare to the gesture of a sandwich made with love and care, “from someone who gave it only to me.”

 

ATLANTA — The case of a pregnant woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead and has been kept on life support for three months has given rise to complicated questions about fetal personhood and abortion laws.

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Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old nurse and mother, was about two months pregnant on Feb. 19 when she was declared brain dead, according to an online fundraising page started by her mother. Doctors said Georgia’s strict anti-abortion law requires that she remain on life support until the fetus has developed enough to be delivered, her mother wrote.

The law, one of a wave of measures enacted in conservative states after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, restricts abortion once cardiac activity is detected and gives personhood rights to a fetus.

Smith’s mother says it has left her family without a say in a difficult situation, and with her due date still months away, the family is left wondering whether the baby will be born with disabilities or can even survive. Some activists, many of them Black women like Smith, say it raises issues of racial equity.

What does the law say?

Emory Healthcare, which runs the hospital, has not explained how doctors decided to keep Smith on life support except to say in a statement they considered “Georgia’s abortion laws and all other applicable laws.”

The state adopted a law in 2019 to ban abortion after cardiac activity can be detected, about six weeks into pregnancy, that came into effect after Roe v. Wade was overturned.

That law does not explicitly address Smith’s situation, but allows abortion to preserve the life or physical health of the pregnant woman. Three other states have similar bans that kick in around the six-week mark and 12 bar abortion at all stages of pregnancy.

David S. Cohen, a professor at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law in Philadelphia, said the hospital might be most concerned about part of the law that gives fetuses legal rights as “members of the species Homo sapiens.”

Cohen said Emory may therefore consider Smith and the fetus as two patients and that once Smith was on life support, they had a legal obligation to keep the fetus alive, even after she died.

“These are the kind of cases that law professors have been talking about for a long time when they talk about fetal personhood,” he said.

Personhood divide within anti-abortion movement

Anti-abortion groups are divided over whether they should support personhood provisions, which are on the books in at least 17 states, according to the advocacy group Pregnancy Justice.

Some argue that fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses should be considered people with the same rights as those already born. This personhood concept seeks to give them rights under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which says a state can’t “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process or law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Some saw personhood as politically impractical, especially after personhood amendments to state constitutions were rejected by voters in Colorado, Mississippi and North Dakota between 2008 and 2014. Those who steered away sought laws and restrictions on abortion that stopped short of personhood, although they were often informed by the concept.

Personhood proponents argue this lacks moral clarity. Some personhood proponents have been sidelined in national anti-abortion groups; the National Right to Life Committee cut ties with its Georgia Right to Life affiliate in 2014 after the state wing opposed bills that restricted abortion but allowed exceptions for rape and incest.

Unequal access to care for Black women

The Associated Press has not been able to reach Smith’s mother, April Newkirk. But Newkirk told Atlanta TV station WXIA that her daughter went to a hospital complaining of headaches and was given medication and released. Then, her boyfriend awoke to her gasping for air and called 911. Emory University Hospital determined she had blood clots in her brain and she was declared brain dead.

It’s not clear what Smith said when she went to the hospital or whether the care she was given was standard for her symptoms. But Black women often complain their pain isn’t taken seriously, and an Associated Press investigation found that health outcomes for Black women are worse because of circumstances linked to racism and unequal access to care.

Monica Simpson, executive director of SisterSong, the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging Georgia’s abortion law, said: “Black women must be trusted when it comes to our health care decisions.”

“Like so many Black women, Adriana spoke up for herself. She expressed what she felt in her body, and as a health care provider, she knew how to navigate the medical system,” Simpson said, noting that by the time Smith was diagnosed “it was already too late.”

It’s unclear whether the clots in Smith’s brain were related to her pregnancy.

But her situation is undoubtedly alarming for those seeking solutions to disparities in the maternal mortality rate among Black women. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Black women had a mortality rate of 50.3 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2023. That’s more than three times the rate for white women, and it is higher than the rates for Hispanic and Asian women.

What is Smith’s current situation?

While Smith is on a ventilator and likely other life-support devices, being declared brain dead means she is dead.

Some experts refer to “life support” as “maintenance measures,” “organ support” or “somatic support,” which relates to the body as distinct from the mind.

Emory has not made public what is being done to allow Smith’s fetus to continue to develop.

In another case in Florida, doctors successfully delivered the baby of a 31-year-old woman who was declared brain-dead while 22 weeks pregnant, but not without weeks of sustained monitoring, testing and medical care. The woman’s family wanted to keep the fetus, physicians with the University of Florida College of Medicine said in a 2023 paper.

On her first day of admission, doctors administered hormones to raise her blood pressure and placed a feeding tube. After she was transferred to an intensive care unit, an obstetric nurse stayed by her bedside continuously to monitor the fetus’ heart rate and movements.

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She was on a ventilator, regularly received steroids and hormones, and needed multiple antibiotics to treat pneumonia. Her medical team encompassed multiple specialties: obstetrics, neonatology, radiology and endocrinology.

Doctors performed surgery to remove the fetus at 33 weeks when its heart rate fell, and the baby appeared to be in good health at birth.

“We don’t have great science to guide clinical decision making in these cases,” said Dr. Kavita Arora, an obstetrician and gynecologist in North Carolina who raised concerns about the effect of prolonged ventilator use on a fetus. “There simply aren’t a lot of cases like this.”

The 2023 paper warned that “costs should not be underestimated.”

While it is unclear how much it will cost to keep Smith on life support until the fetus can be delivered, or who will be responsible for that cost, her mother’s GoFundMe page mentions Smith’s 7-year-old son and notes that the baby could have significant disabilities as it aims to raise $275,000.

Associated Press writer Jeff Amy in Atlanta contributed reporting.

By MATT BROWN and MATT O’BRIEN

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans surprised tech industry watchers and outraged state governments when they added a clause to Republicans’ signature “ big, beautiful ” tax bill that would ban states and localities from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade.

The brief but consequential provision, tucked into the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s sweeping markup, would be a major boon to the AI industry, which has lobbied for uniform and light touch regulation as tech firms develop a technology they promise will transform society.

However, while the clause would be far-reaching if enacted, it faces long odds in the U.S. Senate, where procedural rules may doom its inclusion in the GOP legislation.

“I don’t know whether it will pass the Byrd Rule,” said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, referring to a provision that requires that all parts of a budget reconciliation bill, like the GOP plan, focus mainly on the budgetary matters rather than general policy aims.

“That sounds to me like a policy change. I’m not going to speculate what the parliamentarian is going to do but I think it is unlikely to make it,” Cornyn said.

Senators in both parties have expressed an interest in artificial intelligence and believe that Congress should take the lead in regulating the technology. But while lawmakers have introduced scores of bills, including some bipartisan efforts, that would impact artificial intelligence, few have seen any meaningful advancement in the deeply divided Congress.

An exception is a bipartisan bill expected to be signed into law by President Donald Trump next week that would enact stricter penalties on the distribution of intimate “revenge porn” images, both real and AI-generated, without a person’s consent.

“AI doesn’t understand state borders, so it is extraordinarily important for the federal government to be the one that sets interstate commerce. It’s in our Constitution. You can’t have a patchwork of 50 states,” said Sen. Bernie Moreno, an Ohio Republican. But Moreno said he was unsure if the House’s proposed ban could make it through Senate procedure.

The AI provision in the bill states that “no state or political subdivision may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems.” The language could bar regulations on systems ranging from popular commercial models like ChatGPT to those that help make decisions about who gets hired or finds housing.

State regulations on AI’s usage in business, research, public utilities, educational settings and government would be banned.

The congressional pushback against state-led AI regulation is part of a broader move led by the Trump administration to do away with policies and business approaches that have sought to limit AI’s harms and pervasive bias.

Half of all U.S. states so far have enacted legislation regulating AI deepfakes in political campaigns, according to a tracker from the watchdog organization Public Citizen.

Most of those laws were passed within the last year, as incidents in democratic elections around the globe in 2024 highlighted the threat of lifelike AI audio clips, videos and images to deceive voters.

California state Sen. Scott Wiener called the Republican proposal “truly gross” in a social media post. Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, authored landmark legislation last year that would have created first-in-the-nation safety measures for advanced artificial intelligence models. The bill was vetoed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a fellow San Francisco Democrat.

“Congress is incapable of meaningful AI regulation to protect the public. It is, however, quite capable of failing to act while also banning states from acting,” Wiener wrote.

A bipartisan group of dozens of state attorneys general also sent a letter to Congress on Friday opposing the bill.

“AI brings real promise, but also real danger, and South Carolina has been doing the hard work to protect our citizens,” said South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, a Republican, in a statement. “Now, instead of stepping up with real solutions, Congress wants to tie our hands and push a one-size-fits-all mandate from Washington without a clear direction. That’s not leadership, that’s federal overreach.”

As the debate unfolds, AI industry leaders are pressing ahead on research while competing with rivals to develop the best — and most widely used —AI systems. They have pushed federal lawmakers for uniform and unintrusive rules on the technology, saying they need to move quickly on the latest models to compete with Chinese firms.

Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, testified in a Senate hearing last week that a “patchwork” of AI regulations “would be quite burdensome and significantly impair our ability to do what we need to do.”

“One federal framework, that is light touch, that we can understand and that lets us move with the speed that this moment calls for seems important and fine,” Altman told Sen. Cynthia Lummis, a Wyoming Republican.

And Sen. Ted Cruz floated the idea of a 10-year “learning period” for AI at the same hearing, which included three other tech company executives.

“Would you support a 10-year learning period on states issuing comprehensive AI regulation, or some form of federal preemption to create an even playing field for AI developers and employers?” asked the Texas Republican.

Altman responded that he was “not sure what a 10-year learning period means, but I think having one federal approach focused on light touch and an even playing field sounds great to me.”

Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, also offered measured support for “giving the country time” in the way that limited U.S. regulation enabled early internet commerce to flourish.

“There’s a lot of details that need to be hammered out, but giving the federal government the ability to lead, especially in the areas around product safety and pre-release reviews and the like, would help this industry grow,” Smith said.

It was a change, at least in tone, for some of the executives. Altman had testified to Congress two years ago on the need for AI regulation, and Smith, five years ago, praised Microsoft’s home state of Washington for its “significant breakthrough” in passing first-in-the-nation guardrails on the use of facial recognition, a form of AI.

Ten GOP senators said they were sympathetic to the idea of creating a national framework for AI. But whether the majority can work with Democrats to find a filibuster-proof solution is unclear.

“I am not opposed to the concept. In fact, interstate commerce would suggest that it is the responsibility of Congress to regulate these types of activities and not the states,” said Sen. Mike Rounds, a South Dakota Republican.

“If we’re going to do it state by state we’re going to have a real mess on our hands,” Rounds said.

O’Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island. AP writers Ali Swenson in New York, Jesse Bedayn in Denver, Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina, and Trân Nguyễn in Sacramento, California contributed to this report.