
Reis Thebault
West Coast Correspondent at The Washington Post
West Coast correspondent @washingtonpost
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washingtonpost.com | Reis Thebault
‘If you’re not here, you think L.A.’s burning’: Trump’s alarm meets city calm (washingtonpost.com) ‘If you’re not here, you think L.A.’s burning’: Trump’s alarm meets city calm By Reis Thebault 2025061116153600 LOS ANGELES — From the Griffith Observatory, a landmark perched on a hilltop 1,000 feet above sea level, Joe and Jolene McGuire had a prime view of this vast city, and they couldn't see what their friends and family back home in Nebraska were so worried about. For days — as social...
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flipboard.com | Reis Thebault
4 hours agoPresident Donald Trump says he sent in the National Guard and Marines to "liberate" Los Angeles from the violence of protesters, but some residents of Little Tokyo, a neighborhood hit hardest by the unrest say "no thanks" Mr President. They believe that Trump's use of the military was inflaming the …
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washingtonpost.com | Mark Berman |Reis Thebault |Molly Hennessy-Fiske |Erin Patrick O'Connor
Police face ‘a balancing act’ responding to L.A. immigration protests (washingtonpost.com) Police face ‘a balancing act’ responding to L.A. immigration protests By Mark Berman; Reis Thebault; Molly Hennessy-Fiske; Erin Patrick O'Connor 2025061111004600 President Donald Trump has boasted that the National Guard troops he dispatched to Los Angeles amid immigration protests are the only thing keeping peace in the city.
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washingtonpost.com | Matt Viser |Tim Craig |Reis Thebault
Trump defends sending troops to L.A.; Newsom warns democracy is ‘under assault’ (washingtonpost.com) Trump defends sending troops to L.A.; Newsom warns democracy is ‘under assault’ By Matt Viser; Tim Craig; Reis Thebault; Dan Lamothe 2025061106255400 FORT BRAGG, N.C. — President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that additional protests against federal immigration policies could be "met with equal or greater force" than the 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines he deployed to try to quell...
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postguam.com | Lindsey Underwood |Alex Horton |Reis Thebault |Molly Hennessy-Fiske
LOS ANGELES - The Pentagon on Monday ordered a battalion of 700 Marines to Los Angeles and mobilized an additional 2,000 National Guard troops as protests of the Trump administration’s immigration policies spilled into a fourth day, escalating a confrontation between the White House and the country’s most populous state.
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