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Protesters confront Los Angeles Police Department personnel in riot gear in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, June 9, 2025. Eric Thayer/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Thayer/AP As a weekend of protests against immigration raids in California have continued into this week, the Trump administration has responded by deploying more Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles, sparking heated exchanges with politicians in the state. Los Angeles police said that while the protests have mostly been peaceful, some violence has occurred. Though, several officials have rebuffed the president’s intervention, saying they have it handled. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass…

Armed National Guard troops mobilized by President Trump accompanied federal immigration enforcement officers on raids in Los Angeles on Tuesday, a move that the state of California has called unlawful and inflammatory.Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, confirmed Tuesday evening that the National Guard was accompanying Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on their operations.The Trump administration deployed nearly 5,000 National Guard troops and Marines to the Los Angeles area to stop protests. The deployment enraged officials in California, who filed lawsuits asking the court to intervene in what they said were illegal and provocative moves.Earlier in…

Senior U.S. and Chinese negotiators have agreed on a “framework” to move forward on trade talks after a series of disputes had threatened to derail them, representatives from both sides said.The disputes — over visas, minerals and microchips — had shaken a fragile truce reached in Geneva last month to ease some of the massive tariffs that both countries had imposed on each other, leading to a phone call last week between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to try to calm the waters. Tuesday night’s announcement of an apparent thaw in relations followed two days of talks in…

Books & the Arts / June 10, 2025 Where can the overworked and unhoused go? Brian Goldstone’s There Is No Place For Us is an enraging book about the intertwined calamities of homelessness and wage labor. Ad Policy Atlanta during a heat wave in 2022.(Dustin Chambers / Getty Images) This article appears in the July/August 2025 issue. Americans are unusually preoccupied with work. It is not just that we think about work all the time, that we feel guilty about not working, that we don’t take off all of our paid vacation days. It’s that we are constantly worrying about…

Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles announced at a news conference on Tuesday evening that the city will begin imposing a curfew in downtown Los Angeles as part of its strategy to quell protests that were entering a fifth night.The curfew will begin at 8 p.m. Pacific time and lift at 6 a.m. The mayor said the police will arrest anyone who defies the order. The curfew is expected to last for several days.Protests have broken out in parts of downtown Los Angeles in the daytime and evening hours starting Friday night and continuing on Tuesday. Dozens of demonstrators have…

Protests that sprang up in Los Angeles over immigration enforcement raids and prompted President Trump to mobilize National Guard troops and Marines have begun to spread across the country, with more planned into the weekend.The protests in Los Angeles began Friday as Immigration and Customs Enforcement executed several raids in and around the country’s second-largest city. The raids and protests continued throughout the weekend sometimes resulting in clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement, prompting the Trump administration to mobilize thousands of National Guard troops despite California Gov. Gavin Newsom not requesting them and later asking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to withdraw the…

A federal appeals court on Tuesday said the Trump administration did not have to comply for now with a judge’s order to give due process to scores of Venezuelan immigrants who were deported to El Salvador under a wartime law.The ruling, by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, came one day before the administration was supposed to outline for a lower-court judge how to allow nearly 140 deported Venezuelans to challenge their expulsion. The men, accused of being members of a violent street gang called Tren de Aragua, are being held in a maximum-security Salvadoran…

The standoff between President Trump’s negotiating team and Iran boils down to this: whether the United States is willing to risk allowing Iran to continue producing nuclear fuel if the alternative is no deal and the possibility of another war in the Middle East.To Mr. Trump and his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, the negotiations with Iran are a new experience, and Iran’s insistence that it will never surrender its ability to enrich uranium on its soil threatens to scuttle an agreement that the president only a few weeks ago had confidently predicted was within reach.But it is almost exactly the…

A New Jersey grand jury on Tuesday indicted Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey on three charges of assaulting federal law enforcement officers during a clash last month outside of a Newark ICE detention center, interim New Jersey U.S. Attorney Alina Habba announced on X. In May, Habba announced her office was charging McIver with two counts of “assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement,” after a clash between law enforcement, lawmakers and protesters who claimed conditions at the Delaney Hall detention center were unsafe and illegal. On May 9, McIver and two other members of Congress went to Delaney Hall and…

National Guard troops stand outside the Metropolitan Detention Center, MDC on June 08, in Los Angeles. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images Top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee Adam Smith said he fears President Trump wants to use the U.S. military as his “personal police force.” “President Trump wants this confrontation partially because he wants to emphasize the issue of immigration enforcement,” Smith told Morning Edition. “But more, I fear, because he wants to politicize the U.S. military and legitimize using it as a law enforcement tool, which is incredibly dangerous.” In Los Angeles…