2 w. ago LA protests: US court allows Trump to keep control of California national guard while lawsuit proceeds

Appeals court in San Francisco extends pause on district judge ruling that president called troops into federal service unlawfullyA US appeals court has let Donald Trump retain control over California’s national guard while the state’s Democratic governor proceeds with a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Republican president’s use of the troops to quell protests and unrest in Los Angeles.A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th US circuit court of appeals on Thursday extended a pause it had placed on US district Judge Charles Breyer’s 12 June ruling that Trump had called the national guard into federal service unlawfully. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Kendall Jenner goes woke as she shares shocking political message amid Trump's LA crackdown

Kendall Jenner shocked fans with a politically charged message on Saturday amid ongoing unrest in Los Angeles over ICE raids ordered by President Donald Trump.

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3 w. ago As legal fight over Guard deployment plays out, Noem vows to continue Trump's immigration crackdown

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is promising to move forward with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Los Angeles despite the waves of unrest

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3 w. ago Michael Johnson cancels Los Angeles Grand Slam Track meeting

Emergency meeting held with athletes over decisionDecision leaves LA without major meeting this summerMichael Johnson cancelled the final leg of the new Grand Slam Track series in Los Angeles before an emergency meeting with athletes on Thursday night, leaving the host of the 2028 Olympics and the country’s second-largest city without a major track meeting this summer.Johnson raised around $30m to launch Grand Slam Track this spring, promising a new way of doing track – involving a group of runners under contract racing twice over a weekend and focusing more on where they finished than actual times. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Karoline Leavitt gets fiery as she’s pressed on Trump’s military response to Los Angeles protests

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt got into a heated back and forth with reporters on Wednesday as she held her first briefing since President Donald Trump’ federalized the National Guard in California and sent active-duty Marines to join them in cracking down on protests and unrest over immigration roundups in Los Angeles.

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3 w. ago Los Angeles protests: mayor says unrest ‘provoked by White House’ after more than 200 arrested during curfew – live

Karen Bass condemns Trump administration for disrupting peace with immigration raids; LAPD says people were arrested for failing to observe curfewGovernor 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. ago Trump sends US Marines to Los Angeles and says it would be 'great' to arrest California Governor Gavin Newsom

Trump backs call to arrest California Governor Gavin Newsom who brands decision to send Marines into Los Angeles as a ‘deranged fantasy’

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3 w. ago Newsom taunts Trump’s ‘tough guy’ border czar to ‘come get me’ after arrest threat

California governor throws down gauntlet to Tom Homan as he rages against administration’s intervention in Los Angeles unrest, accusing president of ‘manufacturing a crisis’

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3 w. ago Trump praises ‘great job’ by national guard in calming LA protests, as mayor says troops are not in the city – US politics live

Mayor Karen Bass disputes president’s claim as she thanks local law enforcement for dealing with unrest following immigration crackdownPresident Trump appears to have used federal law to order the national guard to go to Los Angeles, rather than the 18th century Insurrection Act.The national guard is a hybrid entity that serves both state and federal interests. Often, it operates under state command and control, using state funding. Sometimes national guard troops will be assigned by their state to serve federal missions, remaining under state command but using federal funding.Great job by the National Guard in Los Angeles after two days of violence, clashes and unrest. We have an incompetent Governor (Newscum) and Mayor (Bass) who were, as usual (just look at how they handled the fires, and now their VERY SLOW PERMITTING disaster. Federal permitting is complete!), unable to to handle the task.These Radical Left protests, by instigators and often paid troublemakers, will NOT BE TOLE...

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