Texas Republicans are moving closer to approving new congressional maps amid a Democratic show of protest over the GOP House speaker’s order that members who fled the state weeks earlier be placed under law enforcement watch.

The protest comes as West Virginia, South Carolina, and Ohio announced they would deploy hundreds of additional National Guard troops to the nation's capital.

Hundreds of people have joined an anti-immigration protest in Dudley in a demonstration over the use of hotels for asylum seekers. A small group of counter-protesters also gathered in Market Place on Sunday.

Several Texas state House Democrats plan to rip up the written agreements that allowed them to leave the chamber with a police escort on Monday and return to the House floor Tuesday night, the caucus announced.

Organizers say they’ll go topless in the hope that they can “encourage state lawmakers to end the oppression of women’s bodies."

Six people have been arrested following a protest outside a London hotel housing asylum seekers. Demonstrators gathered at the Britannia International Hotel in Canary Wharf on Sunday afternoon, with some seen setting off pink flares and waving England flags.

The Green Party said one of its councillors arrested at a protest would not be expelled from the party. Amanda Fox, who represents Mancroft ward on Norwich City Council, was one of 13 people arrested during a demonstration in support of the banned group Palestine Action in the city on Saturday.

Parents share how their family day turned into a nightmare after they were caught in the middle of a police intervention.