Republicans and Democrats traded barbs after President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles amid massive protests against increasing and divisive immigration raids.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has called the deployment of National Guard troops on the streets of Los Angeles ‘unlawful.’ Idrees Ali is on the Reuters World News podcast to discuss the legality of Trump’s move, plus the possibility of Marines being deployed.Trump and his Republican allies in Congress are determined to enact his tax-cut agenda in a political push that has largely abandoned longtime party claims of fiscal discipline, by simply denying warnings that the measure will balloon the federal debt.
Israeli naval forces boarded and seized a charity vessel that had tried to break a naval blockade of the war-torn Gaza Strip. The boat with its crew of 12, including activist Greta Thunberg, is now heading to a port in Israel.
The US believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threatened retaliation against Ukraine over its drone attack last weekend has not happened yet in earnest and is likely to be a significant, multi-pronged strike, US officials told Reuters
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will use a speech in London to say the military alliance needs a 400% increase in air and missile defence, one of the priorities for a summit of members in the Hague later this month.
Voting resumed for Italy’s two-day referendum on proposals to make it easier to obtain Italian citizenship and strengthen labour rights, but low turnout looked set to make the vote invalid.
Argentina’s firebrand right-wing President Javier Milei has largely tamed runaway inflation with a ruthless austerity plan and he aims to solidify power when his party and its allies take on a divided opposition in legislative elections in October.