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Florida state senator joins US House member in expressing alarm over arbitrary measures to hunt down people'A co-founder of a group for Latinas who support Donald Trump has excoriated the president on some of the immigration-related arrests being carried out by his administration, which she called unacceptable and inhumane".In a statement posted on X over the weekend, Ileana Garcia wrote, This is not what we voted for." Continue reading...

Prominent Sikh gurdwara says Pennsylvania-based Hindu American Foundation has promoted interests of the BJP'One of the largest Sikh houses of worship in the US is calling on the Trump administration to investigate a non-profit it has alleged is working as a foreign agent" on behalf of the the Indian government and prime minister Narendra Modi.The Fremont Gurdwara Sahib, which said it draws 5,000 Sikh worshippers every week and is a fulcrum" of the Sikh community in the US and around the world, has asked the Department of Justice to launch a national security investigation into the Hindu American Foundation, to determine whether the Pennsylvania-based non-profit should be required to file as an Indian foreign agent. Continue reading...

The politician, who's been labeled too progressive, too Black' in the race for New Jersey governor, reflects on Trump, immigration and the power of poetryIt took about two minutes for Ras Baraka to be propelled from being a relatively obscure New Jersey politician into a nationwide avatar. The transformation happened on 9 May when he was trying to inspect Delaney Hall, a privately run federal immigration detention center that he accuses of violating safety protocols, when he was arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice).Video footage of those fateful minutes show burly Ice agents dressed in militarised fatigues dragging the mayor into the compound. Baraka, who was accompanying three congressmembers, has his hands yanked behind his back and is handcuffed. Continue reading...

Thousands take to streets to protest against Ice raids and president's deployment of national guard. Plus, single Black women on Covid, five years later

Much has been made of the falling out, but Doge's destruction continues and Musk's fate is entwined with Trump'sThinking about the constant stream of news about Elon Musk, one is tempted to adapt two of the most famous sentences from American literature. William Faulkner wrote: The past is never dead. It's not even past." What comes to mind about Musk is: He is not gone forever. He has not even left."It is profoundly misleading to frame Musk's departure this past week as disappointed reformer quits after finding it impossible to make bureaucracy efficient", just as it is wrong to think of this week's rift as Trump regime changes direction". After all, Musk's people are still there; and Musk-ism - understood as the wanton destruction of state capacity and cruel attacks on the poorest - will continue on ... what's the drug appropriate to mention here? Steroids? Not least, Trump's and Musk's fates remain entwined.Jan-Werner Muller is a Guardian US columnist and a professor of politics at Princeton University Continue reading...

From his so-called Muslim ban' to slashing DEI measures, the US president has turned taboo behaviour into normsThis month marks exactly 10 years since Donald Trump coasted down an escalator at Trump Tower, declared his run for US president and accused Mexico of sending drugs, criminals and rapists into the homeland. The past decade has been exercise in normalising.When Trump threatened to terminate Elon Musk's government contracts, and Musk linked Trump to the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, all because of a petty clash of egos, people were riveted but unsurprised. Likewise, when Trump ordered a travel ban on a dozen countries, many reacted with a collective shrug: well, of course he did. Continue reading...

The national guard's deployment in Los Angeles sets the US on a familiar authoritarian pathway. History shows the resultsNow that Donald Trump's tariffs have been halted, his big, beautiful bill has been stymied, and his multi-billionaire tech bro has turned on him, how does he demonstrate his power?On Friday morning, federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) conducted raids across Los Angeles - including at two Home Depots and a clothing wholesaler - in search of workers who they suspected of being undocumented immigrants.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com Continue reading...

The president vowed to crush opposition to his immigration raids - but his attempted show of force may have awoken something elseDonald Trump's administration promised to crush opposition in Los Angeles.Late on Saturday night, the US president deployed national guard soldiers in LA following protests against immigration raids in the city - a stunning escalation in the administration's promise of mass deportations". His administration has promised to quell protests, and warned local leaders to brace for at least 30 days of ramped-up immigration enforcement. Continue reading...

This liveblog is closed - you can read our new blog here.Here are a selection of photographs from protests in the early hours of Sunday morning.Immigration officers could be in California for a month, a Democrat congresswoman has been told. Continue reading...

Thousands take to LA streets to protest against Ice raids and president's deployment of national guard troops

Afghanistan, Haiti and Iran included in full 12-country ban and citizens from seven other countries partially restrictedDonald Trump's new ban on travel to the US by citizens of a dozen countries, mainly in Africa and the Middle East, went into effect at 12am ET on Monday, more than eight years after Trump's first travel ban sparked chaos, confusion, and months of legal battles.The new proclamation, which Trump signed last week, fully" restricts the nationals of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen from entering the US. The entry of nationals of Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela will be partially restricted. Continue reading...

National guard officers clashed with protesters in Los Angeles after arriving in the city on the orders of Donald Trump to quell demonstrations against his immigration crackdown. 'We know Trump doesn't like us' said California representative Maxine Waters. 'He's gonna try and make an example out of us,' she said. Asked if he planned to send US troops to Los Angeles, Trump replied, 'We're gonna have troops everywhere. We're not going to let this happen to our country. We're not going to let our country be torn apart like it was under Biden.'

Traffic stopped, signs were brandished, insults were hurled - and the size of the protest seemed to take police by surprise

The governor is in a showdown with the president over the policing of protests in LA and Paramount - key US politics stories from Sunday 8 June at a glanceCalifornia's governor, Gavin Newson, is leading criticism of Donald Trump over his decision to send 2,000 national guard troops to Los Angeles, likening his actions to those of a dictator".National guard troops clashed with demonstrators protesting Trump's controversial anti-immigration program on Sunday, while police fired teargas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds. Trump and his defense chief, Pete Hegseth, have also threatened to send in the Marines. Continue reading...

US national guard troops and LA police clashed with demonstrators on Sunday, as teargas and pepper spray were used to disperse the crowds who had been protesting against the raids by immigration authorities which began Friday afternoon Continue reading...

President's sweeping proclamation targets citizens of many countries and would dramatically reshape US border policyNearly five months into his second term, Donald Trump announced a new sweeping travel ban that could reshape the US's borders more dramatically than any policy in modern memory. The order, banning citizens of 12 countries, will come into effect at 12am ET in a move Trump said would protect the country from foreign terrorists".The proclamation represents one of the most ambitious attempts to reshape the US's approach to global mobility in modern history and potentially affects millions of people coming to the US for relocation, travel, work or school. Continue reading...

California governor made threat amid reports Trump is weighing huge federal funding cuts targeting stateThe US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has warned California governor Gavin Newsom that he would be guilty of criminal tax evasion" if he withholds his state's tax payments to the federal government amid threats of a funding cut by Donald Trump.Newsom had threatened to cut tax payments to the federal government two days ago after reports that Trump was preparing huge federal funding cuts targeting Democrat-dominated California, including its state university system. Continue reading...

Ed, a pet who went viral online during his disappearance, was airlifted after he was found safe in a pastureA runaway pet zebra that was on the loose for more than a week in Tennessee and became an internet sensation in the process was captured on Sunday, authorities said.Ed the zebra was captured safely after being located in a pasture near a subdivision in the Christiana community in central Tennessee, the Rutherford county sheriff's office confirmed. The sheriff's office said aviation crews captured the zebra. Continue reading...

Guardsmen pressed into service outside a federal complex to quell what Trump called a rebellion' against government

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 House aide Stephen Miller as richly endowed with the capacity for hatred" on social media.In a now deleted post, Terry Moran, who recently conducted an interview with Donald Trump, said that the president and his deputy chief of staff, Miller, were both world-class" haters. Continue reading...

Critics see deployment of national guard as an authoritarian flex by a strongman who has relentlessly trampled normsDonald Trump walked out to a thunderous standing ovation as Kid Rock's American Bad Ass" boomed from the sound system. He watched martial artists slug it out behind a chain-link fence. A female champion let the US president try on her gold belt. It was a night of machismo, spectacle and violence.Shortly before he joined an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday night, Trump had signed an order deploying 2,000 national guard troops to Los Angeles, where protests sparked by sweeping immigration raids led to clashes between authorities and demonstrators. Continue reading...

Top Democrat adds he would support tech billionaire sounding the alarm' to Americans on Trump bill amid feudA leading elected Democrat rejected the idea of taking campaign donations from tech billionaire Elon Musk, whose spectacular fallout with former ally Donald Trump has roiled American politics.Trump on Saturday said Musk will face serious consequences" if he moves to support Democratic political candidates in any upcoming elections, following a public rift between the two men over Musk's staunch opposition to the cost of US president's planned piece of landmark domestic legislation. Continue reading...

Senator says the future of the US rests with a small number of Republicans in the House and Senate who know better'Bernie Sanders warned of the US's slide into authoritarianism following Donald Trump's decision to deploy the national guard to Los Angeles over the city's protests against federal immigration raids.Speaking to CNN on Sunday, the leftwing Vermont senator said: We have a president who is moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism ... My understanding is that the governor of California, the mayor of the city of Los Angeles did not request the national guard but he thinks he has a right to do anything he wants." Continue reading...

Nick Stern to undergo surgery for wound sustained during the standoff between police and anti-Ice protestersNick Stern, a British news photographer based in Los Angeles, is set to undergo emergency surgery for a wound sustained during the standoff between police and anti-Ice protesters in Los Angeles on Saturday.Stern told the Guardian he had been covering the protest near a branch of Home Depot in Paramount, where immigrants workers are typically hired for day work, when he felt a sharp pain in his leg. Continue reading...

Deputy marshal fit the general description of a subject being sought' and was briefly detained, Marshals Service saysA US marshal was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents in Arizona, after being mistakenly identified as a man that agents were looking for, according to a statement from the US Marshals Service.The deputy marshal matched the fit the general description of a subject being sought by ICE" and was detained at a federal building in the Old Pueblo in Tucson. Continue reading...

Donald Trump authorised the deployment of 2,000 national guard troops to Los Angeles on Saturday after an immigration crackdown erupted into mass protests for a second day and police in riot gear used teargas on bystanders. The protests pit Democratic-run Los Angeles, where census data suggests a significant portion of the population is Hispanic and foreign-born, against Trump's Republican White House, which has made cracking down on immigration a hallmark of his second term

Former House speaker and Clinton antagonist sidesteps his own dubious ethics and gushes over Donald TrumpOver 280 pages, Newt Gingrich, House speaker turned Republican presidential hopeful turned prolific author of historical (and critics would say political) fantasy, goes all out to flatter the man in the Oval Office.President Trump's reelection was the triumph of a man and a movement," Gingrich writes. Each needed the other if America was to be saved."Trump's Triumph is published in the US by Hachette Continue reading...

US institutions have been doing Trump's bidding before he even comes after them. Here's the counterstrategyDuring the first 100-plus days of his presidency, Donald Trump has done his damnedest to remake the US in his image. Fearing Hurricane Donald, a host of universities, law firms, newspapers, public schools and Fortune 500 companies have rushed to do his bidding, bowing before he even comes calling. Other institutions cower, in hopes that they will go unnoticed.But this behavior, which social scientists call anticipatory compliance", smoothes the way to autocracy because it gives the Trump regime unlimited power without his having to lift a finger. Halting autocracy in its tracks demands a counter-strategy - let's call it anticipatory noncompliance. Continue reading...

John Maynard tells Guardian the US must consider new rules on betting ads as operators lobby against federal crackdownThe US gambling industry has become a highway without speed limits", according to a top state regulator, as the nationwide gambling boom continues at pace.Jordan Maynard, chair of the Massachusetts gaming commission, urged lawmakers in Washington to consider nationwide rules on advertising by betting firms. Operators have spent years lobbying against a federal crackdown. Continue reading...

The UK's strategic defence review risks normalising nuclear warfare. Don't believe the PR hype: these weapons are immoral, irrational and catastrophicPlans by Keir Starmer's government to modernise and potentially expand Britain's nuclear weapons arsenal, unveiled in the 2025 strategic defence review (SDR), seriously undermine international non-proliferation efforts. They will fuel a global nuclear arms race led by the US, China and Russia. And they increase the chances that lower-yield, so-called tactical nukes will be deployed and detonated in conflict zones.This dangerous path leads in one direction only: towards the normalisation of nuclear warfare.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator Continue reading...

California governor calls move purposefully inflammatory' and says it will escalate tensions' amid immigration crackdown Explainer: How can Trump use the national guard on US soil?Donald Trump on Saturday authorized the deployment of 2,000 national guard troops to Los Angeles, after an immigration crackdown erupted into mass protests for a second day and police in riot gear used teargas on bystanders.The California governor, Gavin Newsom, said in a statement on X that the federal government was moving to take over" the California national guard. Newsom said the mobilization was purposefully inflammatory" and warned that it would only escalate tensions". Continue reading...

Trump sends in national guard as aides talk tough; Vance says he's had bigger outbursts than Musk. Key US politics stories from Saturday 7 June at a glanceDonald Trump's homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, on Saturday pushed back against the protesters opposing immigration raids in Los Angeles: A message to the LA rioters: you will not stop us or slow us down. @Icegov will continue to enforce the law. And if you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."Stephen Miller, an immigration hardliner and the White House deputy chief of staff, described the protests as a violent insurrection". During protests at a federal detention facility in downtown LA, David Huerta, a senior union official, was arrested in a police response that included teargas and flash-bangs. Hospitalised for his injuries, Huerta released a statement: Hard-working people, and members of our family and our community, are being treated like criminals. We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice." Continue reading...

US president says he's too busy doing other things' to try to reconcile with erstwhile ally and campaign backerDonald Trump warned Elon Musk on Saturday that he faces very serious consequences" if he funds Democratic candidates following the pair's epic public bust-up this week.The warning, delivered in an interview with NBC News scheduled to broadcast on Sunday, follows days of feuding and threats after Musk called Republicans' budget legislation an abomination". Continue reading...

City mayor Karen Bass joins governor Gavin Newsom and others in denouncing arrests of at least 45 peopleThe Department of Homeland Security conducted raids on multiple locations across Los Angeles on Friday, clashing with the crowds of people who gathered to protest and prompting widespread criticism from California leaders.Masked agents were recorded pulling several people out of two LA-area Home Depot stores and the clothing manufacturer Ambient Apparel's headquarters in LA's Fashion District. Immigration advocates said the raids also included four other locations, including a doughnut shop. Continue reading...

Dogs discovered with skin and dental issues include toy poodle mixes, pomeranians, chihuahuas and yorkiesMore than 100 dogs were rescued from an apparent puppy mill in North Carolina where they were kept in egregious conditions", an animal shelter said.The SPCA of Wake county on Wednesday removed 101 dogs from a home that appeared to have been functioning as a puppy mill. In a statement online, the shelter said that the dogs had been surrounded by their own waste, packed 5 or 6 to a cage and stacked floor to ceiling, or free roaming in cramped quarters and filth". Continue reading...

Gauff claimed her first Roland Garros title, her second Grand Slam to deny the world No 1 in an epic three setsThe roof is open and the wind is blowing in, which adds a variable. It could get a bit swirly.Via the BBC, plucky Brit news:Teenager Hannah Klugman was unable to become the first Briton in almost 50 years to win a French Open juniors title after losing in the girls' singles final.The 16-year-old, competing in her first junior Grand Slam singles final, was beaten 6-2 6-0 by Austria's Lilli Tagger. Continue reading...

Rupa Marya, a doctor and professor at the university's San Francisco campus, says her free speech rights were violatedA professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, says the university violated her freedom of speech rights by suspending her for her online comments about Israel's war in Gaza in a new lawsuit.The suit was filed by Rupa Marya, an internal medicine physician and professor at UCSF, identified as an expert in decolonial theory. Marya was placed on leave in September 2024 and had her clinical privileges briefly suspended by the UCSF executive medical board following comments she made on X that questioned the impacts of Zionism as a supremacist, racist ideology" on healthcare. Continue reading...

Vice-president was interviewed by comedian Theo Von, who also asked him if he got high' on election nightJD Vance said Elon Musk was making a huge mistake" going after Donald Trump in a storm of bitter and inflammatory social media posts after a falling-out between the two men.But the US vice-president, in an interview released on Friday after the very public blowup between the world's richest person and arguably the world's most powerful, also tried to downplay Musk's blistering attacks as an emotional guy" who got frustrated. Continue reading...