Trump news at a glance: president ratchets up threats, troop deployment amid LA protests

Pentagon sending 700 marines to Los Angeles

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

The US military’s Northern Command said 700 marines would be sent to Los Angeles “temporarily” to protect federal personnel and property.

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This came as armed service veterans warned Trump’s deployment of national guard troops to Los Angeles despite opposition from the California governor was a major escalation that risks the politicisation of the US military.

“This is the politicisation of the armed forces,” said Maj Gen Paul Eaton. “It casts the military in a terrible light – it’s that man on horseback, who really doesn’t want to be there, out in front of American citizens.”

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California will sue over national guard deployment

California plans to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday, accusing the US president of “unlawfully” federalizing the state’s national guard to quell immigration protests in Los Angeles.

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Hegseth aide upended Pentagon leak inquiry with false wiretap claims

Days before Pete Hegseth fired three top aides last month over a Pentagon leak investigation into the disclosure of classified materials, according to four people familiar with the episode, a recently hired senior adviser said he could help with the inquiry.

The adviser, Justin Fulcher, suggested to Hegseth’s then chief of staff, Joe Kasper, and Hegseth’s personal lawyer, Tim Parlatore, that he knew of warrantless surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) that had identified the leakers.

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Trump travel ban goes into effect

Donald Trump’s new ban on travel to the US by citizens of a dozen countries, mainly in Africa and the Middle East, went into effect at midnight ET on Monday, more than eight years after Trump’s first travel ban sparked chaos, confusion, and months of legal battles.

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RFK Jr to remove all members of CDC panel advising on US vaccines

The health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, is getting rid of all members sitting on a key US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel of vaccine experts and reconstituting the committee, he said on Monday.

Kennedy is retiring and replacing all 17 members of the CDC’s advisory committee for immunization practices, he wrote in piece published in the Wall Street Journal.

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Trump announces $1,000 government-funded accounts for US babies

Donald Trump unveiled a federal program Monday providing $1,000 government-funded investment accounts for American babies, getting big-time backing from top business leaders who plan to contribute billions more to an initiative tied to “the big beautiful bill”.

At a White House roundtable with over a dozen CEOs, including from Uber, Goldman Sachs and Dell Technologies, Trump relayed the details of “Trump accounts” – tax-deferred investment accounts tracking stock market performance for children born between 2025 and 2029.

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