61 m. ago The Guardian view on Trump and deportation protests: the king of confected emergencies | Editorial

Strongmen love inventing or exploiting crises to justify extreme measures and extended power. The US is taking another step towards authoritarianismDonald Trump will celebrate his birthday with a North Korean-style military parade costing tens of millions of dollars this weekend. He has gratefully accepted the early gift of the demonstrations, which have spread across the country, with more scheduled for Saturday. The president’s immigration crackdown spurred overwhelmingly peaceful protests in Los Angeles. Ordering in troops, over the governor’s head, then inflamed the situation and allowed the agent of chaos to portray himself as its nemesis once more.Mr Trump has diverted attention from his rift with Elon Musk, the stalling of his “big, beautiful” tax and spending bill, the court-ordered return of the wrongly deported Kilmar Ábrego García and the impending impact of tariffs. But underlying the manufactured crisis is a deeper agenda: reigniting fear of undocumented migrants, deleg...

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1 hour ago Hegseth defends use of troops to protect immigration raids in Los Angeles

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is defending his decision to order National Guard troops to provide security during immigrations raids in Los Angeles

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1 hour ago LA protests live updates: Marines ‘allowed to detain’ but not arrest citizens as US cities brace for more protests

A Trump-ordered battalion of U.S. Marines set to arrive in Los Angeles ‘soon’ after downtown nighttime curfew leads to dozens of arrests

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1 hour ago Marines in Los Angeles have power to detain people, says major general, as US cities brace for more protests – live

Maj Gen Scott Sherman says marines would be in the city ‘soon’; rallies protesting against sweeping immigration raids spread across USGovernor Greg Abbott has pledged to deploy National Guard troops across his state of Texas, becoming the first governor to do so as protests against Trump’s immigration raids spread throughout the United States.Abbott said on X that the Texas National Guard will “use every tool & strategy to help law enforcement maintain order”. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago IOC leaders praise Los Angeles amid unrest in 2028 Olympics host city

Olympic officials have met in Switzerland taking a calm, longer view of the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles

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2 h. ago US cities brace for further protests as Pam Bondi says Trump administration ‘not scared to go further’ in LA – live

Rallies protesting against sweeping immigration raids spread across the country as Trump officials double down on shows of forceGovernor Greg Abbott has pledged to deploy National Guard troops across his state of Texas, becoming the first governor to do so as protests against Trump’s immigration raids spread throughout the United States.Abbott said on X that the Texas National Guard will “use every tool & strategy to help law enforcement maintain order”. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago LA protests live updates: Curfew lifted after ‘mass arrests’ as troops ‘allowed to detain citizens’

A Trump-ordered battalion of U.S. Marines set to arrive in Los Angeles ‘soon’ after downtown nighttime curfew leads to dozens of arrests

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3 h. ago Noem asks Hegseth to exceed Trump’s order and force the military to arrest LA citizens to protect ICE agents

Noem wanted US troops to have arrest power to combat ‘foreign terrorist organizations’ she claimed were active in Los Angeles

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3 h. ago Curbing free speech at WC a ‘betrayal of the spirit of football’ – fans’ chief

The United States is co-hosting the 2026 tournament alongside Canada and Mexico, with FIFA’s Club World Cup starting in the US on Saturday.

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4 h. ago LA protests live: Curfew lifted after ‘mass arrests’ as Trump mulls sending troops to other cities

A Trump-ordered battalion of U.S. Marines is set to arrive in Los Angeles today as unrest continues for a sixth day

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4 h. ago The Latest: Protests over immigration raids pop up across the US, with more planned this week

Protests against immigration enforcement raids have sprung up across the country from Seattle and Austin to Chicago and Washington, D

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5 h. ago Ivanka Trump shredded online after posting photos of herself surfing as LA riots rage: ‘So tone deaf’

Ivanka Trump was slammed as “tone deaf” after sharing lighthearted images of herself surfing as protests rage on in Los Angeles

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6 h. ago As military is deployed to LA, rightwing media decry protesters as ‘invaders’

From Newsmax to Charlie Kirk, outlets and podcasts are calling for ‘hard actions’, arrests and the Insurrection ActThere were unsavory scenes in Los Angeles over the weekend, as police used teargas and “less-lethal munitions” on thousands of people gathered to protest against the arrest of undocumented people immigrants.The events playing out on rightwing TV channels and in the conservative podcasting realm were almost as miserable, as excitable media figures decried protesters as “invaders”, called for both the mass arrest of elected officials and the invocation of a two-century old laws and used the chaos to push racist conspiracy theories. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Voices: Trump’s response to the LA protests is a stark warning of what’s to come

The Trump administration has ignored the rule of law and demonised judges who stand in the president’s way, writes Eric Lewis. The attempt to suppress dissent in Los Angeles shows a hostility to any opposition

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7 h. ago Aid groups weigh how much more they can help if FEMA reduces its disaster response

With concern and confusion over how the federal government will respond to disasters this summer, aid groups are readying to expand the ways they help communities after hurricanes, fires and other storms

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8 h. ago Is it safe to travel to LA as protests and looting erupts across US city?

Tear gas and rubber bullets have been used by police, while projectiles have been thrown back by protestors as demonstrations turned violent

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8 h. ago Why is LA protesting? 700 Marines set to be deployed on streets as curfew hits Los Angeles

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass enforced a curfew in a broad swath of the city Tuesday night as the LAPD made ‘mass arrests’

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9 h. ago Trump is waging war against his own citizens in Los Angeles | Judith Levine

In its first months in office, the Trump administration enacted what could be called soft authoritarianism. Now we are in a second phaseOn Monday, the Pentagon sent 700 active-duty marines to Los Angeles and doubled the number of national guard troops deployed there to 4,000, to quell protests Donald Trump said on Sunday were already “under control”, “still simmering ... but not very much”.The same day, the US president used the word “insurrectionists” to describe demonstrators against the unprecedentedly large and fierce immigration deportation raids by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) that started on Friday in that city. The remark echoed his long-held desire to invoke the 1807 Insurrection Act, which would authorize him to send the military anywhere in the country to put down dissent. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Los Angeles protests: Everything we know as riots enter fifth day

Tensions are rising in the US, but why?

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11 h. ago LA protests live: ‘Mass arrests’ after curfew begins as Trump mulls sending troops to other cities

A Trump-ordered battalion of U.S. Marines is set to step foot in Los Angeles Wednesday morning as unrest continues for a sixth day

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