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The protests in LA are what everyone feared, and a warning to countries that flirt with populism, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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

Kristi Noem, once a vocal defender of states' rights against federal use of the National Guard, now supports Trump's deployment of troops in California.

Sharon Van Etten’s bandmates had one stipulation when she told them her idea for the name of her seventh album

As the Trump administration stretches the boundaries of the law to carry out its mass deportation plans, some private citizens are eager to take matters into their own hands.

“No president has ever federalized the National Guard for purposes of responding to potential future civil unrest anywhere in the country.”

Violence has erupted on the streets of cities across southern California over the weekend, as protesters clashed with agents from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency detaining people they suspected to be illegal immigrants. The US president, Donald Trump, took the unusual decision on Saturday to deploy 2,000…

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