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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
The Legal Issues Surrounding Trump's Plan to Use Troops to Suppress Protests — President Trump has long mused about using troops to crush violent protests or riots in blue-state cities. He is now moving to do so in Los Angeles. — Setting up a rare use of military force on domestic soil …
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Wall Street Journal:
The Deportation Wars Begin — Trump has a mandate, but protests in California show the trouble that might lie ahead. — Rounding up and deporting millions of illegal migrants was never going to go down without protest. But President Trump is determined to do it, and no one can say he didn't tell voters during the campaign.
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Mediaite, Human Events, RealClearPolitics, The Free Press, ABC7, The Independent, Twitchy and BBC
Tyler Pager / New York Times:
Trump Jumps at the Chance for a Standoff in California Over Immigration — The situation has all the elements that the president seeks: a showdown with a top political rival in a deep blue state over an issue core to his agenda. — It is the fight President Trump had been waiting for …
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NBC News, The Guardian and Governor of California
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Using the National Guard as Bait — Don't give him the pretext he wants. — President donald trump is about to launch yet another assault on democracy, the Constitution, and American traditions of civil-military relations, this time in Los Angeles.
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MSNBC:
'Tom, arrest me. Let's go.': Gov. Gavin Newsom responds to Trump border czar's threat — In an exclusive interview with NBC News' Jacob Soboroff, California Governor Gavin Newsom said that President Trump “has created the conditions” surrounding the Los Angeles protests.
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NBC Los Angeles:
Live updates: Protest spills onto 101 Freeway in downtown LA … What to Know — Crowds gathered in downtown Los Angeles and Boyle Heights Sunday for a third straight day of protests over recent immigration raids. — A march that began Sunday in Boyle Heights arrived …
Colin Meyn / The Hill:
Trump says he's meeting with military leaders at Camp David — President Trump told reporters on Sunday that he's heading to Camp David to meet with military leaders, among others, shortly before he posted a message online calling Los Angeles protesters an “insurrectionist mob.”
Los Angeles Times:
What really happened outside the Paramount Home Depot? The reality on the ground vs. the rhetoric — It began as another Saturday morning at the Home Depot in Paramount, a working class, predominantly Latino suburb south of downtown Los Angeles. — Typically, the store that is nestled along …
Associated Press:
Live Updates: L.A. Quiet as National Guard Troops Begin to Arrive
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NBC News:
Trump's border czar threatens arrest for immigration interference, warns Newsom and Bass not to ‘cross that line’
Trump's border czar threatens arrest for immigration interference, warns Newsom and Bass not to ‘cross that line’
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Erkki Forster / The Daily Beast:
Trump Border Czar Threatens to Arrest Newsom and LA Mayor
Trump Border Czar Threatens to Arrest Newsom and LA Mayor
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Asher Notheis / Washington Examiner:
LA anti-ICE riots are latest instance of Democrats ‘on the wrong side’: Joe Concha
LA anti-ICE riots are latest instance of Democrats ‘on the wrong side’: Joe Concha
NBC News:
Border czar says top California officials could get arrested if they impede raids
Border czar says top California officials could get arrested if they impede raids
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat / Lucid:
What Trump and Hegseth Really Fear
ABC7:
LIVE UPDATES: Anti-ICE protesters clash with police officers in chaotic confrontation in downtown LA
LIVE UPDATES: Anti-ICE protesters clash with police officers in chaotic confrontation in downtown LA
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The Economist:
Sending the National Guard to LA is not about stopping rioting
Sending the National Guard to LA is not about stopping rioting
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Chris Mirasola / Lawfare:
The National Guard in Los Angeles
The National Guard in Los Angeles
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Associated Press:
Protests intensify in Los Angeles after Trump deploys hundreds of National Guard troops
Protests intensify in Los Angeles after Trump deploys hundreds of National Guard troops
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Advisers Once Opposed Using Active-Duty Troops at Protests. Not Anymore.
Trump Advisers Once Opposed Using Active-Duty Troops at Protests. Not Anymore.
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New York Times:
2 New York Representatives Are Denied Access to ICE Facility — Representatives Adriano Espaillat and Nydia Velázquez were turned away when seeking to inspect a migrant detention area inside a Manhattan federal building. — Federal officials prevented two members of Congress on Sunday …
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New York Daily News and The City
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
The Bluesky bubble hurts liberals and their causes — The social media network was doomed to fail as users tried to re-create Twitter. — Ever since Elon Musk bought Twitter, changed the social media site's name to X and altered its moderation policies, progressives have been hunting for a substitute.
Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
ABC News suspends journalist after calling Trump and adviser ‘world-class’ haters — Terry Moran to be evaluated after now deleted post said Stephen Miller is ‘richly endowed with capacity for hatred’ — ABC News has suspended its senior national correspondent after he described top White …
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Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Melts Down at ABC Reporter Over Stephen Miller Takedown
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Ryan King / New York Post:
ABC correspondent Terry Moran suspended after wild rant against top Trump adviser Stephen Miller: ‘He eats his hate’
ABC correspondent Terry Moran suspended after wild rant against top Trump adviser Stephen Miller: ‘He eats his hate’
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Yesica Fisch / Associated Press:
Israeli forces prevent aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists from reaching Gaza — Israeli forces stopped a Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists early Monday and diverted it to Israel, enforcing a longstanding blockade of the Palestinian territory …
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Leonie Cater / Politico:
Israeli military ordered to block aid flotilla carrying Greta Thunberg
Israeli military ordered to block aid flotilla carrying Greta Thunberg
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Graham Lanktree / Politico:
Trump promised Britain a trade deal. So where is it? — A month after the “historic” trade deal between the two sides was announced, duties remain in place with no clear timeline for when they'll lift. — LONDON — In a much-hyped split-screen Oval Office phone call a month ago …
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
‘You essentially destroyed any chance I have,’ DNC chair told David Hogg in private meeting — Ken Martin expressed frustration and self-doubt in a meeting with other party leaders, according to a two-minute recording obtained by POLITICO. — Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin …
Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
The U.S. Economy Is Headed Toward an Uncomfortable Summer — Companies are freezing hiring and investment to deal with shifting tariff policies. 'Even Trump doesn't know what Trump will do next.' — The U.S. economy, which weathered false recession alarms in 2023 and 2024, is entering another uncomfortable summer.
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
DOGE employees are ‘being pushed out’ without Musk to protect them: report — Now that billionaire Elon Musk has stepped away from his White House job as a “special government employee,” the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers he brought on board are exiting too — some not because they want to leave.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump's Feud With Musk Highlights His View of Government Power: It's Personal … President Trump's second term so far has been a 139-day quest for retribution.Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times — Amid the fireworks of his spectacular breakup with Elon Musk last week was a striking admission …
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