Los Angeles is facing the fourth day of protests as anger has grown in the city about president Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, and his decision to deploy the national guard to quell the protests against it.
Protests showed no signs of stopping on Monday, as families of detained immigrants pleaded for their loved ones to be released.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has officially requested Trump to rescind his order on the national guard deployment, while the president has threatened to arrest him.
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Hundreds of active-duty US marines are to be deployed to Los Angeles, making good onDonald Trump’s threatto send more troops to the city to quashprotestsagainst government immigration raids and deportations.
The US military’s Northern Command said 700 marines would be sent to Los Angeles “temporarily” to protect federal personnel and property.
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This came as armed service veterans warned Trump’s deployment of national guard troops to Los Angeles despite opposition from the California governor was a major escalation that risks the politicisation of the US military.
“This is the politicisation of the armed forces,” said Maj Gen Paul Eaton. “It casts the military in a terrible light – it’s that man on horseback, who really doesn’t want to be there, out in front of American citizens.”
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California plans to file a lawsuit against theTrump administrationon Monday, accusing the US president of “unlawfully” federalizing the state’s national guard to quell immigration protests in Los Angeles.
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Days beforePete Hegsethfired three top aides last month over a Pentagon leak investigation into the disclosure of classified materials, according to four people familiar with the episode, a recently hired senior adviser said he could help with the inquiry.
The adviser, Justin Fulcher, suggested to Hegseth’s then chief of staff, Joe Kasper, and Hegseth’s personal lawyer, Tim Parlatore, that he knew of warrantless surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) that had identified the leakers.
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Donald Trump’s new ban on travel to the US by citizens of a dozen countries, mainly in Africa and the Middle East, went into effect at midnight ET on Monday, more than eight years after Trump’s first travel ban sparked chaos, confusion, andmonths of legal battles.
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The health secretary,Robert F Kennedy Jr, is getting rid of all members sitting on a key US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel of vaccine experts and reconstituting the committee, he said on Monday.
Kennedy is retiring and replacing all 17 members of the CDC’s advisory committee for immunization practices, he wrote in piece published in the Wall Street Journal.
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Donald Trump unveiled a federal program Monday providing $1,000 government-funded investment accounts for American babies, getting big-time backing from top business leaders who plan to contribute billions more to an initiative tied to “the big beautiful bill”.
At a White House roundtable with over a dozen CEOs, including from Uber,Goldman Sachsand Dell Technologies, Trump relayed the details of “Trump accounts” – tax-deferred investment accounts tracking stock market performance for children born between 2025 and 2029.
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The television personality Dr Phil was embedded with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officersas theycarried out controversial raids in Los Angeles that led to days of protests in California, his TV network said.
Scores of National Institutes of Health researchersand staffers signed a lettercriticizing agency policies that have changed since Trump took office.
One of the largest US Sikh houses of worship is calling on the Trump administrationto investigate a non-profit itaccused of working as a “foreign agent” on behalf of the Indian government.
A co-founder of a group for Latinas who support Donald Trump has excoriated the president on some of the immigration-relatedarrests being carried out by his administration, which she called “unacceptable and inhumane”.
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