A Veteran Was Detained by Marines. It Highlights Concerns over the Military's Growing Ties to Law Enforcement. Marcos Leao's detention by Marines marks what many legal, defense and policy experts say is an unprecedented violation of the...
How Trump Is Leaning on the Military to Fulfill His Hopes of Mass Deportations and an Immigration Freeze For transportation, detention, and potentially apprehension of migrants, the Trump administration is looking to the military.
Appeals Court Seems Likely to Keep Trump In Control of National Guard Deployed in Los Angeles The three-judge panel is set to hear oral arguments via video, and protests outside the downtown San Francisco court are...
Military Moves Ships, Aircraft to Middle East as Senator Seeks to Stop US Action Against Iran The U.S. military has moved additional ships and tanker aircraft into the Middle East and hurried a carrier to the region...
Marines Temporarily Detain Man While Guarding LA Federal Building Marcos Leao, a former Army combat engineer, said he was rushing to get to a Veterans Affairs appointment when he stepped past...
The Marines Are in Los Angeles Around 200 Marines armed with rifles, riot control equipment, gas masks, roughly 20 hours of civil disturbance training and...
Hegseth Won't Say He'd Follow Court Order on LA Troop Deployment Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused to say Thursday whether he would follow a federal district court order if it rules...
Marines Authorized to Temporarily Detain Protesters in LA, Raising Legal Concerns A legal expert said that even granting temporary detention authority to troops can be construed as a law enforcement act...
Hegseth Suggests LA-Style Troop Deployments Could Happen Anywhere in US 'if Necessary' Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth added that "hopefully" governors in other states would mobilize their Guards themselves and...
Army Birthday Celebration Falls in Shadow of LA Military Deployment, Immigration Policy Protests This week marks a jarring collision of the military and civilian relationship, one that has traditionally remained carefully...
Guardsmen Patrolling DC Will Soon Be Armed, Pentagon Says Guardsmen have mostly been patrolling tourist areas not known for high crime rates, such as the National Mall and a transit...
Air Force Top Enlisted Leader Says Service Oath Isn't Made to 'Any Individual' Amid General's Retirement Chief Master Sgt. David Flosi's message to the force seemingly sought to calm the rank and file as the Pentagon goes through...
Veterans Stole over $150K from Air Force Base’s Sports Program in Florida, Feds Say Keith Pilawski, 63, and Edwin Ortiz, 58, defrauded the sports program from 2009 until 2024, the U.S. Attorney's Office for...
Why Is the Army Chopping Away at Its Chopper Fleet? The cuts are part of a larger reorganization as the Army prepares for the changing landscape of warfare with one of the...
Hegseth Fires General Whose Agency's Intel Assessment of Damage from Iran Strikes Angered Trump Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse will no longer serve as head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, according to the people, who...
![Protester standing in front of a California National Guard](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-06/ApNewsroom_US_Protests_Los_Angeles_23881.jpg?itok=RqZ9PHdT "A protester waves a folding fan while standing in front of a California National Guard member outside the North Los Angeles Federal Building during a "No Kings" protest in response to a series of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids, in Los Angeles, Calif., Saturday, June 14, 2025. (Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)")
