https://www.scmp.com/rss/521360/feed Protests broke out in June 2025 over sweeping US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the California city. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Bloomberg Bloomberg Canadian Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said China cannot serve as a substitute for the US, rebuking Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent outreach to the Asian superpower amid strained ties with the Trump administration. In a speech to business leaders on Thursday, Poilievre outlined his vision for the country’s relationship with the US and how his party would approach the trade war differently from the Carney government. “Canada’s prosperity and security are inseparable from a stable... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344791/china-cannot-replace-us-carneys-conservative-rival-warns?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3344791/china-cannot-replace-us-carneys-conservative-rival-warns?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:56:02 +0000 Reuters Reuters The ‌Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers in Alaska to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, the site of large protests against the government’s deportation drive, two US officials told ‍Reuters on Sunday. The US Army placed the units on prepare-to-deploy orders in case violence in the midwestern state escalates, the officials said, though it is not clear whether any of them will be sent. US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to use the Insurrection Act to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340355/pentagon-readies-1500-troops-potential-minnesota-deployment-us-officials-say?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340355/pentagon-readies-1500-troops-potential-minnesota-deployment-us-officials-say?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 18 Jan 2026 22:26:08 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Minneapolis was on edge as US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke an 1807 law and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to the city to enforce his administration’s massive immigration crackdown. The threat came a day after a man was shot and wounded by an immigration officer who had been attacked with a shovel and broom handle. That shooting further heightened the fear and anger that has radiated across the city since an Immigration and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340060/trump-threatens-use-insurrection-act-end-protests-minneapolis?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340060/trump-threatens-use-insurrection-act-end-protests-minneapolis?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:52:10 +0000 Reuters Reuters US ‌President Donald Trump said on Wednesday his administration was removing the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland ‍but he added in his social media post that federal forces would “come back” if crime rates go up. Local leaders in those cities and Democrats have said the deployments, which have faced legal setbacks and challenges, were unnecessary. They have accused the Trump administration of federal overreach and of exaggerating isolated episodes of violence ⁠to justify... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338353/trump-says-national-guard-being-removed-chicago-la-and-portland?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338353/trump-says-national-guard-being-removed-chicago-la-and-portland?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:11 +0000 Reuters Reuters The US Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to let Donald Trump send National Guard troops to the Chicago area ‌as the Republican president expands the use of the military for domestic purposes in a growing number of Democratic-led jurisdictions, a policy critics call an effort to punish adversaries and stifle dissent. The justices let stand for ‍now a judge’s order blocking the deployment of hundreds of National Guard troops in a legal challenge brought by Illinois officials and local leaders. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337553/us-supreme-court-blocks-trumps-national-guard-deployment-chicago?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337553/us-supreme-court-blocks-trumps-national-guard-deployment-chicago?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:19:02 +0000 Reuters Reuters A federal judge in California on Wednesday ordered an end to Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles and directed that they be returned to the control of the state’s Democratic governor, finding that the Republican US president had exceeded his authority. The ruling by San Francisco-based US District Judge Charles Breyer represented the latest legal setback for Trump in his efforts to deploy National Guard troops to Democratic-controlled cities, an extraordinary use of... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335964/us-judge-says-trump-must-end-national-guard-deployment-los-angeles?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335964/us-judge-says-trump-must-end-national-guard-deployment-los-angeles?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:00:12 +0000 Reuters Reuters The developer of the most popular app used to share information about sightings of federal immigration agents sued the Trump administration on Monday, alleging free speech violations after Apple removed ICEBlock from its online store. The lawsuit was filed in federal court by Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app that had over 1 million users before it was removed by Apple in October following pressure from the Trump administration, a rare instance of a tech company removing an app... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335670/us-government-sued-over-removal-app-tracking-immigration-agents-whereabouts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3335670/us-government-sued-over-removal-app-tracking-immigration-agents-whereabouts?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:37:00 +0000 Reuters Reuters Investigators led by the FBI’s joint terrorism task force sought clues on Thursday to what drove an Afghan immigrant to open fire on two National Guard soldiers mere blocks from the White House in what officials called an “ambush” attack on Thanksgiving eve. The two soldiers, part of a militarised law enforcement mission ordered by US President Donald Trump months ago and challenged in court by officials of the District of Columbia, were hospitalised in critical condition. The suspect, who was... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3334289/two-national-guard-soldiers-killed-shooting-near-white-house?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3334289/two-national-guard-soldiers-killed-shooting-near-white-house?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:03:50 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A US federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to end its months-long deployment of National Guard troops to help police the nation’s capital. US District Judge Jia Cobb concluded that President Donald Trump’s military takeover in Washington DC illegally intrudes on local officials’ authority to direct law enforcement in the district. She put her order on hold for 21 days to allow for an appeal, however. District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb sued to challenge the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333605/judge-orders-us-government-end-national-guard-deployment-washington?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3333605/judge-orders-us-government-end-national-guard-deployment-washington?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:02:15 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A US federal judge extended on Sunday an order blocking President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops in Portland, Oregon, for five days pending a final ruling. The Republican president has sent the National Guard to three Democratic-led cities this year – Los Angeles, Washington and Memphis – but his efforts to deploy soldiers in Portland and Chicago have been tied up in the courts. Trump has repeatedly called the Oregon city “war-ravaged”, and riddled with violent crime, to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331369/us-judge-extends-order-blocking-portland-national-guard-deployment?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331369/us-judge-extends-order-blocking-portland-national-guard-deployment?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:50:32 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Aggressive US immigration raids which have sparked protests and allegations of rights violations have not gone far enough, US President Donald Trump said in a CBS interview released on Sunday. Trump was interviewed on Friday by CBS’ 60 Minutes show, his first meeting with the broadcaster since it agreed to a US$16 million settlement with him. The Republican president had sued the Paramount-owned organisation over a 2024 pre-election interview with his Democratic opponent, former vice-president... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331262/trump-says-us-immigration-raids-havent-gone-far-enough?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3331262/trump-says-us-immigration-raids-havent-gone-far-enough?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 02 Nov 2025 23:49:39 +0000 Reuters Reuters A divided US appeals court ruled on Monday that Donald Trump can send National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon, despite objections by the leaders of the city and state, giving the Republican president an important legal victory as he dispatches military forces to a growing number of Democratic-led locales. A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals granted the Justice Department’s request to put on hold a judge’s order that had blocked the deployment while a legal challenge to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3329725/dangerous-us-appeal-court-lets-trump-send-national-guard-troops-portland?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3329725/dangerous-us-appeal-court-lets-trump-send-national-guard-troops-portland?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:53:22 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump called Wednesday for the Democratic governor of Illinois and mayor of Chicago to be jailed for resisting his mass deportation campaign, a day after armed troops from Texas arrived in the state. Chicago, the largest city in Illinois and third-largest in the country, has become the latest flashpoint in a crackdown by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents that has sparked allegations of rights abuses and myriad lawsuits. Masked ICE agents have surged into... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328277/trump-escalates-attacks-calls-jailing-democratic-chicago-mayor-illinois-governor?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328277/trump-escalates-attacks-calls-jailing-democratic-chicago-mayor-illinois-governor?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:47:52 +0000 Tribune News Service Tribune News Service In a scathing critique of US President Donald Trump, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday accused the Republican president of deploying National Guard troops to the Democratic cities of Chicago and Portland based on fixations that stem in part from his being mentally impaired. “This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” Pritzker said in a telephone interview with the Chicago Tribune. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head. He can’t get it out of his head. He doesn’t read. He... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328203/governor-says-trump-deploying-troops-chicago-due-dementia-obsessive-fixations?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328203/governor-says-trump-deploying-troops-chicago-due-dementia-obsessive-fixations?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Oct 2025 05:37:28 +0000 Reuters Reuters Hundreds of Texas National Guard soldiers gathered on Tuesday at an Army facility outside Chicago, as Donald Trump’s threat to invoke an anti-insurrection law and deploy troops to more US cities intensified the battle over the limits to his authority. The Republican president on Tuesday again left open the possibility that he might use the centuries-old Insurrection Act to sidestep any court rulings blocking the dispatch of Guard troops into Democratic-led cities, over the objections of local... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328166/trumps-insurrection-act-threat-escalates-showdown-democratic-us-cities?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328166/trumps-insurrection-act-threat-escalates-showdown-democratic-us-cities?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:21:31 +0000 Reuters Reuters The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago sued US President Donald Trump on Monday, seeking to block the deployment of federalised National Guard troops to Chicago, as hundreds of National Guard troops from Texas headed to the nation’s third-largest city. Trump then escalated the widening clash with Democratic-led states and cities over the domestic use of military forces, threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act as a means to circumvent court restrictions on deploying troops where they... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328057/illinois-leaders-sue-stop-trumps-national-guard-deployment-plan-after-portland-ruling?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3328057/illinois-leaders-sue-stop-trumps-national-guard-deployment-plan-after-portland-ruling?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:15:58 +0000 Reuters Reuters A federal judge in Oregon on Sunday temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s administration from sending any National Guard troops to police Portland, Oregon, a setback for the president as he seeks to dispatch the military to cities over the objections of their Democratic leaders. The ruling by US District Judge Karin Immergut followed the Trump administration’s decision to call in troops from California and Texas just one day after she temporarily blocked Trump from deploying 200 Oregon National... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3327936/newsom-says-he-will-sue-trump-sending-california-national-guard-oregon?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3327936/newsom-says-he-will-sue-trump-sending-california-national-guard-oregon?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 05 Oct 2025 18:42:58 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg US President Donald Trump authorised 300 National Guard troops for deployment to Illinois, over the objection of state officials, as part of his campaign to use state troops to aid federal officers conducting immigration arrests. “President Trump will not turn a blind eye to the lawlessness plaguing American cities,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said on Saturday. The order signals an escalation in the administration’s focus on Chicago, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3327896/trump-send-national-guard-illinois-he-puts-pressure-chicago?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3327896/trump-send-national-guard-illinois-he-puts-pressure-chicago?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 04 Oct 2025 23:46:41 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg US President Donald Trump said he plans to deploy federal troops to another US city, as he made a surprise visit to a Washington DC restaurant in a bid to argue his federal takeover of the city’s law enforcement is working. “We’ll announce it probably tomorrow, and it’s going to be something where we will do like we did here,” Trump told reporters Tuesday outside Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak and Stone Crab, an upscale surf and turf restaurant near the White House. The president said he was working... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324980/trump-dines-out-near-white-house-and-says-hell-send-troops-another-city?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324980/trump-dines-out-near-white-house-and-says-hell-send-troops-another-city?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Sep 2025 03:33:52 +0000 Reuters Reuters The Supreme Court again backed US President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration approach on Monday, letting agents proceed with Southern California raids targeting people for deportation based on their race or language in a decision that a dissenting justice said makes Latinos “fair game to be seized at any time”. The court granted a Justice Department request to put on hold a judge’s order temporarily barring agents from stopping or detaining people without “reasonable suspicion” that they are... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324803/us-supreme-court-backs-trump-aggressive-immigration-raids?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324803/us-supreme-court-backs-trump-aggressive-immigration-raids?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Sep 2025 19:01:30 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that New Orleans could be his next target for deploying the National Guard to fight crime, potentially expanding the number of cities around the nation where he may send federal law enforcement. Trump has already said he plans to send the National Guard into Chicago and Baltimore following his administration deploying troops and federal agents to patrol the streets of Washington last month. “So we’re making a determination now,” Trump told reporters... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324251/trump-hints-us-troops-could-go-new-orleans-blue-city-red-state?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324251/trump-hints-us-troops-could-go-new-orleans-blue-city-red-state?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:31:11 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would deploy National Guard troops to fight crime in Chicago, an extraordinary effort to militarise the country’s third-largest city that was likely to trigger a legal battle with local officials. “We’re going in. I didn’t say when, but we’re going in,” Trump told reporters at the White House. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson swiftly condemned the action. “He just wants his own secret police force that will do publicity stunts whenever his poll numbers... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324117/trump-send-national-guard-troops-chicago-were-going?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324117/trump-send-national-guard-troops-chicago-were-going?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:54:51 +0000 Reuters Reuters A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard in California to fight crime. San Francisco-based US District Judge Charles Breyer issued the order for the US District Court, Northern District of California, according to a court filing. He put the ruling on hold until September 12. The Trump administration is likely to appeal. Trump ordered 4,000 National Guard and 700 active duty US Marines to Los Angeles in June in response to protests against... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324097/trump-broke-law-when-he-deployed-national-guard-los-angeles-judge-rules?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3324097/trump-broke-law-when-he-deployed-national-guard-los-angeles-judge-rules?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:04:20 +0000 Ali Ünal Ali Ünal Western media outlets and think tanks have warned that artificial intelligence (AI) could pose an existential threat to democracy. The early internet and digital communication tools helped disperse political power and strengthen public participation. But today’s advanced algorithms and data-driven systems are often seen as doing the opposite: centralising influence rather than fostering openness. Another common fear is that AI-generated texts, images and voices could be weaponised to manipulate... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3323765/western-democracies-are-facing-their-greatest-test-and-its-not-ai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3323765/western-democracies-are-facing-their-greatest-test-and-its-not-ai?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:30:09 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The mayor of Chicago pushed back on Saturday against what he called the “out-of-control” Trump administration’s plan to surge federal officers into the nation’s third-largest city, which could take place within days. The Chicago Police Department will be barred from helping federal authorities with civil immigration enforcement or any related patrols, traffic stops and checkpoints during the surge, according to an executive order signed by Mayor Brandon Johnson. The mayor directed all city... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323795/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-defies-trumps-immigration-crackdown-plan-city?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323795/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-defies-trumps-immigration-crackdown-plan-city?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Aug 2025 23:47:01 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Thousands of people protested on Saturday against Israel’s siege of Gaza on the sidelines of the Venice Film Festival, seeking to move the spotlight from movie drama to real-world trauma. Organised by left-wing political groups in northeast Italy, the demonstration began in the early evening a few kilometres from the festival where top Hollywood talent from George Clooney and Julia Roberts to Emma Stone have walked the red carpet in recent days. The protesters, whose numbers Agence France-Presse... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3323787/thousands-protest-against-israeli-siege-gaza-near-venice-film-festival?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3323787/thousands-protest-against-israeli-siege-gaza-near-venice-film-festival?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Aug 2025 19:13:34 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump on Monday suggested Americans would like a dictator as he signed orders to tighten his federal clampdown on the capital Washington and to prosecute flag-burners. In a rambling 80-minute event in the Oval Office, Trump lambasted critics and the media as he complained that he was not getting credit for his National Guard-backed crackdown on crime and immigration. “They say ‘We don’t need him. Freedom, freedom. He’s a dictator. He’s a dictator.’ A lot of people are saying:... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323116/trump-suggests-americans-dictator-he-signs-order-washington-clampdown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323116/trump-suggests-americans-dictator-he-signs-order-washington-clampdown?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:57:33 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to expand his military deployments to more Democratic-led cities, responding to an offer by Maryland’s governor to join him in a tour of Baltimore by saying he might instead “send in the troops”. Last week, Trump said he was considering Chicago and New York for troop deployments similar to what he has unleashed on the nation’s capital, where thousands of National Guard and federal police officers are patrolling the streets. Trump made the threat to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323005/trump-expands-cities-targeted-possible-military-deployment-baltimore?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323005/trump-expands-cities-targeted-possible-military-deployment-baltimore?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 24 Aug 2025 23:09:27 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump’s law enforcement crackdown will start carrying firearms, the Pentagon said on Friday. The Defence Department did not offer any other details about the new development or why it was needed. The step is an escalation in Trump’s intervention into policing in the nation’s capital and comes as nearly 2,000 National Guard members have been stationed in the heavily... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3322889/national-guard-troops-washington-be-armed-trump-escalates-policing-role?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3322889/national-guard-troops-washington-be-armed-trump-escalates-policing-role?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:16:54 +0000 Thomson Reuters Foundation Thomson Reuters Foundation Blanca and her family fled a deadly wildfire in January that devastated her Los Angeles area neighbourhood and burned the clothing alterations business she had owned for six years to the ground. Her rented flat in Altadena was spared but uninhabitable, with no gas, electricity or hot water, and contaminated with toxic ash and soot. But she was ineligible for federal help for her business or her home because she is undocumented. Now 48, she came from Mexico more than 20 years ago with one... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3322878/undocumented-renters-caught-between-fire-and-ice-los-angeles-burn-zone?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3322878/undocumented-renters-caught-between-fire-and-ice-los-angeles-burn-zone?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:00:12 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg US President Donald Trump visited a Park Police operations facility on Thursday to thank federal law enforcement officers he deployed to patrol the streets of Washington, saying he expected their deployment to last “for a while”. “We’re going to then go on to other places, but we’re going to stay here for a while,” Trump said. “We want to make this absolutely perfect, it’s our capital.” The visit to the building in Washington’s Anacostia neighbourhood appeared less dramatic than his suggestion... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3322718/trump-says-hell-join-us-troops-patrol-streets-washington?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3322718/trump-says-hell-join-us-troops-patrol-streets-washington?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:41:26 +0000 Reuters Reuters The Republican governors of three states are deploying hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington DC at the request of the administration of President Donald Trump, who has portrayed the city as awash in crime. The announcements on Saturday of troops from hundreds of kilometres away in West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio came a day after DC officials and the Trump administration negotiated a deal to keep Mayor Muriel Bowser’s appointed police chief, Pamela Smith, in charge of the police... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3322109/trumps-request-west-virginia-sending-national-guard-troops-washington?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3322109/trumps-request-west-virginia-sending-national-guard-troops-washington?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 16 Aug 2025 21:19:00 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse California unveiled plans to redraw its electoral districts on Thursday, as Democrats push back on what they say is Donald Trump’s effort to rig next year’s Congressional elections to safeguard his slim Republican majority. Governor Gavin Newsom said he would ask voters to approve new maps that would effectively neutralise changes Texas is planning that are expected to give Republicans more seats in the House of Representatives. “Today is Liberation Day in the State of California,” Newsom told... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3321917/california-redraw-election-maps-counter-texas-changes-pushed-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3321917/california-redraw-election-maps-counter-texas-changes-pushed-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:36:44 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The Los Angeles field office director for the Department of Homeland Security testified on Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers desperately needed the help of military personnel in carrying out arrests. The question was whether US President Donald Trump’s deployment of armed forces goes against US law that generally prohibits the president from using the military to police domestic affairs. Ernesto Santacruz Jnr testified at the start of a three-day trial in San Francisco... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3321507/trial-starts-over-trumps-deployment-national-guard-los-angeles-during-protests?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3321507/trial-starts-over-trumps-deployment-national-guard-los-angeles-during-protests?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 11 Aug 2025 22:25:36 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The Pentagon said Tuesday it is ending the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles, accounting for nearly half of the soldiers sent to the city to deal with protests over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Roughly 4,000 National Guard soldiers and 700 Marines have been in the city since early June. It was not immediately clear what prompted the 60-day deployment to end suddenly, nor was it immediately clear how long the rest of the troops would stay in the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3318360/trump-administration-calling-back-2000-national-guard-troops-los-angeles?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3318360/trump-administration-calling-back-2000-national-guard-troops-los-angeles?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 15 Jul 2025 22:58:45 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump’s administration sued Los Angeles on Monday over policies limiting city cooperation with federal immigration authorities, continuing a confrontation over the Republican’s deportation efforts in a largely Democratic city. The lawsuit, filed by the US Justice Department, alleges that policies barring city resources from aiding in immigration enforcement operations or collecting information about individuals’ citizenship status violate federal law. “We will keep enforcing... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3316441/trump-administration-sues-los-angeles-over-immigration-enforcement?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3316441/trump-administration-sues-los-angeles-over-immigration-enforcement?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:20:54 +0000 Reuters Reuters Lisa Tate is a sixth-generation farmer in Ventura County, California, an area that produces billions of dollars' worth of fruit and vegetables each year, much of it hand-picked by immigrants in the US illegally. Tate knows the farms around her well. And she says she can see with her own eyes how raids carried out by agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the area’s fields earlier this month, part of President Donald Trump’s migration crackdown, have frightened off... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3316398/trumps-ice-raids-leave-70-california-crops-unpicked-workers-vanish?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3316398/trumps-ice-raids-leave-70-california-crops-unpicked-workers-vanish?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:00:14 +0000 Tribune News Service Tribune News Service As federal immigration raids continue to upend life in Los Angeles, Asian-American leaders were rallying their communities to raise their voices in support of Latinos, who have been the primary targets of the enforcement sweeps, warning that neighbourhoods frequented by Asian immigrants could be next. Organisers say many Asian immigrants have already been affected by the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants working in the country without documentation. Dozens of Southeast Asian... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3316054/los-angeles-asian-americans-call-solidarity-latinos-against-ice-raids?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3316054/los-angeles-asian-americans-call-solidarity-latinos-against-ice-raids?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 27 Jun 2025 05:19:26 +0000 Rob York Rob York Law enforcement agencies empowered by the government to carry out the agenda of an ageing president eager to settle political scores. Politicians, media and judges facing harassment and even arrest by forces loyal to the president. A ruling party in lockstep with its autocratic leader, unwilling to challenge him amid a combination of ideological factors but also careerism. Police forces dispatched with emergency powers into strongholds of the political opposition. Politicians associated with the... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3315171/political-violence-rises-us-only-americans-can-save-themselves?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3315171/political-violence-rises-us-only-americans-can-save-themselves?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 Jun 2025 12:30:07 +0000 Reuters Reuters Republican Vice-President J.D. Vance on Friday met troops who have been deployed in Los Angeles to quell protests against immigration raids, as he accused Democratic state and city leaders of encouraging immigrants to cross the US border illegally. Vance, who met some of the 700 US Marines and 4,000 National Guard troops recently deployed to Los Angeles by President Donald Trump, also accused the Democratic leaders of failing to support local law enforcement. Trump deployed the California... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/politics/article/3315316/us-vance-says-troops-los-angeles-need-stay-slams-newsom-inaction?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/politics/article/3315316/us-vance-says-troops-los-angeles-need-stay-slams-newsom-inaction?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 Jun 2025 02:05:59 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press An appeals court on Thursday allowed US President Donald Trump to keep control of National Guard troops he deployed to Los Angeles following protests over immigration raids. The decision halts a ruling from a lower court judge who found Trump acted illegally when he activated the soldiers over opposition from California Governor Gavin Newsom. The deployment was the first by a president of a state National Guard without the governor’s permission since 1965. In its decision, a three-judge panel on... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3315167/us-court-lets-trump-keep-control-national-guard-troops-deployed-los-angeles?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3315167/us-court-lets-trump-keep-control-national-guard-troops-deployed-los-angeles?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 20 Jun 2025 05:03:57 +0000 Jianlu Bi Jianlu Bi The streets of Los Angeles have erupted in recent days, manifesting deep-seated tensions triggered by US President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policies. Sparked by high-profile Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids across the city, targeting workplaces and even prompting the arrest of a prominent union leader, thousands have taken to the streets in protest. Mayor Karen Bass has condemned the actions: “When you raid Home Depots and workplaces, when you tear parents and... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3314648/behind-trumps-deportation-theatre-lies-american-tragedy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3314648/behind-trumps-deportation-theatre-lies-american-tragedy?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:30:09 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass lifted a curfew in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday that was first imposed in response to clashes with police, looting and vandalism amid protests against US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in the city. The curfew imposed June 10 provided “successful crime prevention and suppression efforts” and protected stores, restaurants, businesses and residents from people engaging in violence and vandalism, Bass, a Democrat, said. On Monday, she trimmed back the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3314840/los-angeles-mayor-lifts-curfew-imposed-during-protests-against-trump-immigration-raids?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3314840/los-angeles-mayor-lifts-curfew-imposed-during-protests-against-trump-immigration-raids?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:48:08 +0000 Robert Delaney Robert Delaney There was nothing wrong with the idea that America might want a 250th anniversary celebration of the US Army. The celebration that US President Donald Trump finally got after pushing for it since his first term could have been billed as a front-running event connected to the country’s 250th birthday, since we are almost one year away from that significant date. And for those longing for a break from the blood sport that US politics has become, the event did not end up as Trumpian as might have... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3314560/despite-growing-anger-trump-marches-his-projections-power?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3314560/despite-growing-anger-trump-marches-his-projections-power?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:30:08 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump on Sunday directed federal authorities to ramp up deportation efforts in Democratic-led cities, doubling down on a politicised anti-immigration drive after major protests in Los Angeles. “We must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform. “These, and other such Cities, are the core of the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3314567/trump-orders-major-deportation-expansion-democratic-cities?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3314567/trump-orders-major-deportation-expansion-democratic-cities?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 16 Jun 2025 05:34:48 +0000 Sam Beltran Sam Beltran The Asian community in the United States, including Filipinos, is reporting an atmosphere of “agitation, fear and pain” as protesters in Los Angeles continue to rally against raids by immigration agents amid US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. “What we’ve witnessed are military-style raids where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), along with other federal agencies and the military, are going to the communities with their faces covered, armed and taking people from their... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3314557/meet-asians-front-lines-trumps-immigration-crackdown-los-angeles?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3314557/meet-asians-front-lines-trumps-immigration-crackdown-los-angeles?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 16 Jun 2025 04:07:23 +0000 Kawala Xie Kawala Xie Chinese state media were quick to declare the decline of the United States as protests throughout the country highlighted social divisions and overshadowed the pageantry of a large military parade in Washington on the weekend. The three-hour parade on Saturday was the first in the US in decades and staged to mark the 250th anniversary of the US Army. The event also coincided with the birthday of US President Donald Trump. But as soldiers and tanks were rolling past Trump in Washington,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3314508/setting-sun-chinese-media-contrasts-us-pageantry-and-violence-trumps-parade-day?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3314508/setting-sun-chinese-media-contrasts-us-pageantry-and-violence-trumps-parade-day?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 15 Jun 2025 08:25:48 +0000 SCMP Reporters SCMP Reporters This live blog has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Get faster notifications on the latest updates by downloading our app. For the first time in more than three decades, the United States has held a major military parade in the nation’s capital – fulfilling a long-standing desire of US President Donald Trump on a day that was marred by a political assassination. Echoing displays more typically seen in... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3314482/trumps-military-parade-start-day-marked-assassination-no-kings-protests?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3314482/trumps-military-parade-start-day-marked-assassination-no-kings-protests?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 14 Jun 2025 21:30:15 +0000 Bochen Han,Khushboo Razdan,Zhao Ziwen Bochen Han,Khushboo Razdan,Zhao Ziwen A politically motivated assassination in Minnesota on Saturday sent shock waves across the US just hours before the start of a major military parade in the nation’s capital. The killing of former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the wounding of a second state lawmaker, took place in the early hours of a day that was expected to highlight America’s political divisions. The parade – the first of its kind in over three decades – fulfils a long-standing desire of US President... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3314418/trump-military-parade-set-washington-while-mass-protests-are-planned-around-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3314418/trump-military-parade-set-washington-while-mass-protests-are-planned-around-us?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 14 Jun 2025 10:00:12 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Armed Marines arrived on the streets of Los Angeles Friday, part of a large deployment of troops ordered by Donald Trump that has raised the stakes between the US president and opponents claiming growing authoritarianism. Men in fatigues and carrying semi-automatic rifles were seen around a federal building, where passers-by questioned why they were in an area 18km (11 miles) from the protests against immigration raids. Marines temporarily detained a man at the Wilshire Federal Building after he... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3314431/armed-us-marines-deploy-los-angeles-ahead-mass-anti-trump-protests?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3314431/armed-us-marines-deploy-los-angeles-ahead-mass-anti-trump-protests?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 14 Jun 2025 04:11:05 +0000