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Protests in downtown LA turned violent after Ice detained at least 42 people on Friday in a series of raids in areas with prominent Latino populations. Four of those arrested are believed to have been deported to Mexico. Donald Trump deployed the national guard to the California city to crush the protests, which he called a rebellion'. The state of California said it would file a lawsuit against the Trump administration for unlawfully' federalising the national guard

Conservative channel MeritTV says psychologist and TV host was there to get first-hand look at targeted operations'The television personality Dr Phil was embedded with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers as they carried out controversial raids in Los Angeles that led to days of protests in California, his TV network said.Phil, whose full name is Phil McGraw, was with Ice before and after its agents conducted a series of raids on multiple locations across LA on Friday. Immigration advocates said at least 45 people were arrested, and the action was condemned by California's governor and LA's mayor. Continue reading...

Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden write to Maximus Inc, largest private contractor to states outsourcing benefitsTwo Democratic senators are demanding to know how a company that administers government benefits could profit from Republican-led cuts to Medicaid, the public health insurance program for people who are low-income, elderly and disabled.Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden sent the letter to Maximus, Inc on Monday. The company is the largest private contractor to states who seek to outsource their administration of government assistance, including health insurance and food aid. Continue reading...

Exclusive: ex-Doge staffer Justin Fulcher suggested he had evidence of wiretap that would help investigationDays before Pete Hegseth fired three top aides last month over a Pentagon leak investigation into the disclosure of classified materials, according to four people familiar with the episode, a recently hired senior adviser said he could help with the inquiry.The adviser, Justin Fulcher, suggested to Hegseth's then chief of staff, Joe Kasper, and Hegseth's personal lawyer, Tim Parlatore, that he knew of warrantless surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) that had identified the leakers. Continue reading...

Memo authorising the military to be deployed against anticipated protests is pre-emptive act - a first for the US

Outcry after report that private investigators had been trailing and recording pro-Palestinian protesters for monthsThe University of Michigan has canceled its contract for undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestininan campus groups, following outcry after a Guardian story revealed the private investigators had been trailing and recording students for months, and published damning video of one investigator's interaction with a student.We recently learned that an employee of one of our security contractors has acted in ways that go against our values and directives," the U-M president, Domenico Grasso, wrote in an email to students and faculty on Sunday night. Going forward, we are terminating all contracts with external vendors to provide plainclothes security on campus." Continue reading...

Ohio State to embed curriculum teaching undergraduates how artificial intelligence can be responsibly applied'Ohio State University has announced that all of its students will be using artificial intelligence later this year, requiring them to become fluent in combining conventional learning with AI.Ohio State has an opportunity and responsibility to prepare students to not just keep up, but lead in this workforce of the future," said the university's president, Walter Ted" Carter Jr. Continue reading...

The sanctuary city has a long history of protecting immigrant communitiesKnow Your Rights" posters, with critical information for interactions with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers, are all over the city of Chicago. Plastered across subways or advertised along local bus routes, the Know Your Rights campaign is a coordinated effort on the part of city officials and local immigration advocacy groups to alert individuals of their rights during interactions with Ice. The posters are evidence of Chicago's activism, long history of protecting its immigrant communities and resistance to attempts by previous administrations to weaken their protections.Now, as Donald Trump continues to roll out unprecedented attacks on immigrants - notably increased detentions and deportations without due process - organizers in the city are stretched thin and scrambling to expand traditional tools used in the fight for immigrant rights to accommodate ballooning needs. Continue reading...

Move comes ahead of Democratic primary for New York City mayor, where support for Israel has become key issueEric Adams, the mayor of New York City, signed an executive order this week adopting a controversial definition of antisemitism, as Israel's invasion of Gaza and alleged antisemitism continued to dominate the city's mayoral election.The mayor signed the order, which requires city agencies to use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's description of antisemitism, at a synagogue in Manhattan on Sunday. Adams described antisemitism as a vile disease that's been spreading across our nation and our city". Continue reading...

Members of Congress sought to check on individuals who were detained during immigration raids and protestsDemocratic members of Congress from California and New York say that they were blocked from entering federal detention facilities over the weekend while seeking to inspect conditions and check on individuals detained during immigration raids and related protests.In Los Angeles, the US House members Maxine Waters, Jimmy Gomez and Norma Torres each said that they were denied entry to the Metropolitan federal detention center, outside of which there had been anti-immigration customs enforcement (Ice) protests. Continue reading...

Marjorie Taylor Greene says 2,000 National Guard is not enough' as Democrats warn of path toward tyranny'

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Republicans portray those in poverty as lazy people who make poor decisions. They're using that trope to justify huge cuts to the social safety netAs they race to deliver Donald Trump's big, beautiful" tax bill, Republicans in Congress are using familiar tropes to justify massive cuts to the safety net that will leave millions of low-income children and families without healthcare or sufficient food. The programs, they argue, are rife with waste, fraud and abuse, and the people who use them just aren't working hard enough. So work requirements are necessary to force the obviously lazy able-bodied" people to get to work.Here's the reality check: a majority of those receiving this aid who can work are already working. More than 70% of working-age people who receive nutrition benefits or Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income children and adults that covers one in five Americans, are already working, according to the Government Accountability Office. Those who aren't working, research shows, are mostly ill, disabled, caring for a family member, or in school.Brigid Schulte is the director of New America's work-family justice program, Better Life Lab, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, and the author of Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life and the New York Times bestselling Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play when No One has the Time. Haley Swenson is a research and writing fellow for the Better Life Lab Continue reading...

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Decision comes as federal action to enforce US immigration laws inspired three days of protests in the LA area

Scores of National Institutes of Health researchers and staffers sign letter criticizing agency policies: We dissent'In his confirmation hearings to lead the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya pledged his openness to views that might conflict with his own. Dissent," he said, is the very essence of science."That commitment is being put to the test. Continue reading...

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...