About 200 US marines arrived in Los Angeles on Friday morning and detained a man soon after in the first known detention by active-duty troops since their deployment.
Marines also took charge of a federal building in a rare domestic use of US troops after days of protests over immigration raids.
Federal troops continued to be on duty inLA’s streetson Friday after aseries of court rulingsand more arrived, with large protests planned in California and across the country this weekend against theTrump administration’saggressive anti-immigration raids and a big military parade in Washington DC.
Here’s our round-up of key Trump stories of the day:
US marines deployed to Los Angeles on Friday temporarily detained a civilian, the US military confirmed, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there byDonald Trump. Reuters images showed marines apprehending a man, restraining his hands with zip ties and then handing him over to civilians from the Department of Homeland Security. A US military spokesperson said active-duty forces “may temporarily detain an individual in specific circumstances”.
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Donald Trump andRepublicansin Washington on Friday cheeredIsraelfor carrying out long-threatened strikes onIran. But several Democrats accused the Israeli prime minister,Benjamin Netanyahu, of deliberately sabotaging talks to peacefully resolve the question of Tehran’s nuclear program.
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A second federal judge has rejected parts of Donald Trump’s executive order on elections, dealing another blow to the president’s directive that would require proof of citizenship to vote in US elections.
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Donald Trump’s military parade this weekend will bring thousands of troops out to march – and will also produce more than 2m kilograms of planet-heatingpollution, equivalent to the amount created by producing 67m plastic bags or the energy used to power about300 homes in one year, according to a review by a progressive thinktank and the Guardian.
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Kilmar Ábrego García, the man returned to the United States last week after being wrongfully deported to his nativeEl Salvador, pleaded not guilty on Friday to criminal charges of taking part in a conspiracy to smuggle migrants into the US.
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The president has lost his latest legal attempt to challenge the $5m in damages awarded against him for defamingE Jean Carroll, the New York writer who a jury found was sexually abused by Trump in the 1990s, before he embarked on his political career.
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Trump pulled the US government from a historic agreementto recover the salmon population in the Pacific north-west,calling the plan “radical environmentalism”.
Democrats are demanding the acting chairof the Equal Employment Opportunity Commissionenforce civil rights protections for transgender and nonbinary people.
A Republican member of South Carolina’s state househas been arrested and charged with 10 counts ofdistributing sexual abuse material involving children.
Catching up?Here’s what happened on12 June 2025.