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2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jenna Amatulli |Lauren Gambino

California senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a press conference held by homeland security secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles on Thursday. In video taken of the incident that has since gone viral on social media, Padilla is being restrained and removed from the room by multiple men. “I’m Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary,” Padilla is heard saying in the video as he struggles to get past the men removing him from the premises.

2 weeks ago | rsn.org | Lauren Gambino

ALSO SEE: DNC Establishment Takes Aim at David Hogg Vice-chair and Parkland survivor, 25, to leave after members voted to hold elections that could have led to his ousterDavid Hogg, the young vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee whose vow to unseat “asleep-at-the-wheel” Democrats roiled his party, said on Wednesday that he would step away from the high-ranking role in a move that ends months of internal infighting.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Rachel Leingang |Lauren Gambino

Donald Trump is targeting Los Angeles, the biggest city in deep-blue California – a sprawling metropolis shaped by immigrant communities that the president described on Tuesday as a “trash heap” – with a show of force many years in the making. After his first term, Trump expressed regret for not taking a more heavy-handed approach to the 2020 protests over George Floyd’s murder by police.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Oliver Holmes |Dani Anguiano |Edward Helmore |Lois Beckett |Sam Levin |Lauren Gambino

Los Angeles police have announced they are making mass arrests in the city’s downtown area, as people gathered in defiance of an overnight curfew imposed after days of protests against Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and military deployment. Late on Tuesday night local time, the LAPD wrote on X that “multiple groups” continued to congregate within the designated downtown curfew area. “Those groups are being addressed and mass arrests are being initiated,” it said.

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Richard Luscombe |Lauren Gambino

HomepageWorldHundreds of active-duty US marines are to be deployed in Los Angeles, the US military confirmed on Monday, making good on Donald Trump’s threat to send more troops to the city to quash protests against government immigration raids and deportations.