President Donald Trump is thanking an appeals court for freezing an order that he return control of National Guard troops to California.

U.S. President Donald Trump can keep his deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles, according to a court ruling, as protests against immigration raids look set to enter their second week in the strongest backlash since his return to power in January.

Protests against the Trump administration, which are set to continue this weekend after a week of uprising that spread from Los Angeles across the country, have energized a portion of the left-wing base that has been despondent since President Trump’s election.

Critics such as California Governor Gavin Newsom viewed Trump's decision to send in the National Guard as an abuse of power.

“Donald Trump is misreading the room,” Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House director of strategic communications in 2020, told CNN on Friday. “If he thinks that Americans want to see a clash between armed National Guard and U.S. protesters who are assembling, that‘s just not something that Americans want to see.”

A new poll shows a partisan split on President Donald Trump's troop deployment to quell Los Angeles protests, with 86% of Republicans supporting while Democrats strongly oppose it.

That's because an indefinite 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew imposed on downtown Los Angeles following days of immigration enforcement demonstrations has turned this nightlife hub into a practical ghost town.

The power of the US military will be sharply on display this weekend – on two different coasts and in two very different ways.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pledged to "liberate" Los Angeles on Thursday at a press conference that was dramatically interrupted when federal agents dragged a Democratic U.S.