65 m. ago Trump deploys military to immigration courts to speed up mass deportations

Pentagon plan could send up to 600 military lawyers to immigration courts to speed up president’s mass removal agenda

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2 h. ago Trump reveals U.S. 'shot out a drug boat' carrying narcotics from Venezuela

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was briefed about a military operation where the U.S. 'shot out a boat' involved in the drug trade coming out of Venezuela.

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6 h. ago Will Trump really attack Venezuela? War of words with President Maduro escalates as US sends destroyers to region

The Venezuelan President has threatened to create a 'republic in arms' if the Trump administration takes military action against his country

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34 h. ago Soldiers are doing landscaping in DC parks. I’m thrilled for them | Dave Schilling

They were deployed to fight crime. Instead, some are spreading mulch. It’s almost sweet – if you remove the contextIf soldiers are going to be deployed to your city, what would you prefer they do: point a rifle in your face or mow your grass? This is not a question I ever expected to have to consider in my days on this planet, but life is full of surprises. As part of Donald Trump’s military deployment to address Washington DC’s so-called “crime emergency”, national guard troops are being tasked with various groundskeeping duties around the United States capital. These duties include spreading mulch around cherry trees, picking up trash and general maintenance of public spaces. The president must have been too embarrassed to get Four Seasons Total Landscaping involved again, so he got the military to do it instead.It’s a real “swords into ploughshares” moment, or in this case, “M4 rifles into those grabber sticks you use to pick up plastic bottles full of piss.” It’s almost sweet, i...

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5 d. ago US military academies are banning books and eliminating majors to align with Hegseth ‘warrior’ ideology

Trump administration has outlawed ‘gender ideology’ at service academies, and professors say they have faced censorship and political pressure

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5 d. ago Trump administration asks military base outside Chicago for support on immigration operations

The Trump administration has asked a military base outside Chicago for support on immigration operations, the base said, signaling a push to expand its law enforcement crackdown to other cities

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5 d. ago Shock poll shows how many Americans really back Trump's military takeover of top crime

New polling shows Americans are huge fans of President Donald Trump 's new crime crackdown.

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6 d. ago Trump looks to buy stakes in military corps raising concerns about private contractors and war conflicts

Howard Lutnick says ‘monstrous discussion’ underway at the Pentagon

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6 d. ago Military veteran detained after burning American flag in protest at Trump’s executive order

A military veteran was detained after burning an American flag outside the White House in protest of Donald Trump's executive order.

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6 d. ago America survived a coup attempt. Can it endure dictatorial creep? | Lawrence Douglas

Trump’s threat to deploy troops to Chicago is the latest example of a slow manipulation of the line between legal and illegalJanuary 6 demonstrated that longstanding democracies can readily resist a disorganized effort at a coup. They are less equipped to withstand the normalization of exceptional measures: the use of federal agents to quell domestic protest, the staging of police raids on the homes of leaders’ political opponents, the pretextual invocations of emergency powers. Each of these steps may seem temporary and targeted; they may even enjoy a thin patina of legality. But over time, a democratic order turns into what Ernst Fraenkel, a German-Jewish lawyer whose book The Dual State stands as one of the first and most perceptive examinations of Hitler’s regime, called a “prerogative state” – a government in which the executive “is released from all legal restraints and depends solely on the discretion of the persons wielding political power”.So let us be clear: Trump’s comman...

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7 d. ago Photos of week three of Washington's federal takeover, as troops on patrol start carrying guns

Washingtonians are in their third week of National Guard troops and federal law enforcement patrolling their streets, now carrying firearms and drawing sporadic protests against President Donald Trump's directive.

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8 d. ago Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker warns Trump ‘Do not come to Chicago’ with military troops

Illinois leaders said Trump’s threat to bring the military to Chicago was unwarranted and part of attempt to silence dissent

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8 d. ago National guard start carrying firearms in DC as Trump says Chicago may be next

Arming of some troops in US capital is latest escalation as president vows to target other cities led by Black DemocratsSome national guard units patrolling the US’s capital at the direction of Donald Trump have started carrying firearms, an escalation of the president’s military deployment that makes good on a directive issued late last week by his defense department.A defense department official who was not authorized to speak publicly said some units on certain missions in Washington DC would be armed – some with handguns and others with rifles. The spokesperson said that all units with firearms had been trained and were operating under strict rules for use of force. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Trump could send troops into Chicago within weeks as he expands military deployment into more cities: report

Pentagon reportedly plans to put military boots on the ground in America’s third-largest city as soon as September

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1 week ago Trump mobilizing up to 1,700 National Guard troops in 19 states to widen crime and immigration crackdown

Deployments reportedly set to take place largely in Republican-controlled states

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1 week ago Trump mobilizing up to 1,700 National Guardsman in 19 states to widen crime and immigration crackdown

Deployments reportedly set to take place largely in Republican-controlled states

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1 week ago The Maxwell interview knocks Trump’s Bolton revenge tour stop right off the page

Trump’s takeover of Washington and his revenge tour against a former aide are meant to turn the page on Epstein. But, Eric Garcia writes, the Maxwell transcript being released might make that harder

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1 week ago Trump threatens to put ‘regular military’ in Chicago to ‘straighten it out’ — and says New York City is after that

Trump doesn’t have the power to take over police departments in other cities apart from Washington

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1 week ago National Guard members on DC streets for Trump's crackdown will soon be armed, military says

The U.S. military says National Guard members who are on the streets in Washington for President Donald Trump’s crackdown will soon be armed

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1 week ago Canada finally faces a basic question: how do we defend ourselves? | Stephen Marche

For centuries, Canada hasn’t needed to prioritize its military. But the US transformation calls for a Finland-style approachThe second Trump administration has been worse than Canada’s worst nightmare. The largest military force in the history of the world, across a largely undefended border, is suddenly under the command of a president who has called for our annexation. Canada could not be less prepared. The possibility of American aggression has been so remote, for so long, that the idea has not been seriously considered in living memory. Donald Trump has focused on economic rather than military pressure, but the new tone in Washington is finally forcing Canada to ask itself the most basic question: how do we defend ourselves?For most other countries in the world, self-defence is the key to national identity. Canada’s immense good fortune has been that we haven’t really needed a strong military to build our country. In the war of 1812, we were British, and the British kept us aliv...

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