Trump has long been a foe of California, which overwhelmingly rejected him in all three of his presidential campaigns.

Mayor Karen Bass issued a curfew for downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday “to stop the vandalism, to stop the looting.”

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom asked a court to put an emergency stop to the military helping federal immigration agents, with some guardsmen now standing in protection around agents as they carried out...

Gavin Newsom won praise on Wednesday for his speech Tuesday night seen by a national audience, something many Democrats saw as a shot across the bow to President Donald Trump that they can fight Trump -- and one that sparked new talk of Newsom as the party's standard-bearer in 2028.

More than 11 million immigrants are in the U.S. without proper approval, with millions more having arrived with temporary protections.

Commentators now think arresting Mr Newsom would turn him into a “martyr” and cement his status as Mr Trump’s most effective critic.

Bonta argued in the lawsuit that Trump's actions were both inappropriate and illegal, since he did not first seek Newsom's permission to federalize the troops.

Hundreds of Marines arrived in the L.A. area, the U.S. Northern Command confirmed on Tuesday.

Newsom called the deployments reckless and “disrespectful to our troops” in a post on the social platform X.

President Donald Trump and California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom are engaged in a bitter fight over the handling of protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement continue in Los Angeles-- and both also are framing their confrontation in familiar,