First known civilian detained by Marines in LA recounts incident
U.S. Marines deployed to Los Angeles made their first detention of a civilian on Friday (June 13), the military said, part of a rare domestic use of its forces sent to the city after days of protests over immigration raids. The detained man, Marcos Leao, 27, an immigrant and a U.S. Army veteran, said he was told to get on the ground after venturing into a restricted area, as he crossed a line of yellow tape to avoid walking around the building.
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BBC News
15 minutes ago
- BBC News
Trump's investment claims - are tariffs boosting the US economy?
US President Donald Trump may have called tariffs his favourite word in the dictionary. But when it comes to obsessions, business investment has got to be close. As of last month, he said more than $12 trillion (£8.8tn) had been "practically committed" on his watch. "Nobody's ever seen numbers like we have," he said, crediting his agenda of tariffs, tax cuts and deregulation with making the true, the figure would indeed be astonishing, potentially tripling the roughly $4tn in gross private investment the US reported all of last is a sudden gush of business spending setting the stage for a new golden economic era as Trump claims, or is it all theatre? First things first: it is too early in Trump's tenure to have clear data to evaluate his claims. The US government publishes statistics on business investment only every three to March, which reflect two months of Trump's tenure, show a strong jump in business investment, albeit one that analysts said was partly due to data skewed by an earlier Boeing anecdotal and survey evidence indicates that Trump's impact on investment is far more incremental than he has claimed."We have hardly any data at this point and almost all the information we have is probably for investment projects that were planned and ordered last year," says economist Nick Bloom, a professor at Stanford University whose work looks at the impact of uncertainty on business investment. "My guess is business investment is down a little bit, not massively... primarily because uncertainty is quite high and that will pause it." Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche, which announced plans to invest $50bn in the US over five years in April, is a good example. Some of the projects included in the sum were already in the works. Executives have also warned that some of Trump's ideas - in particular a proposal to overhaul drug pricing - could imperil its plans."The pharma industry would need to review their expenses including investments," the company said. Trump typically makes his case pointing to investment promises made by high-profile firms such as Apple and White House keeps a running tally of those announcements, but at the start of June, it put total new investments at roughly $5.3tn - less than half the sum cited by that figure is inflated. Roughly a third of the 62 investments on the list include plans that were at least partially in the works before Trump took office. For example:US manufacturer Corning is listed for a $1.5bn investment in a new manufacturing plant, but the core $900m of the project was announced in early on the list for a $5bn plan to reopen a factory in Belvidere, Illinois, initially made that promise in commitments include items that are not traditionally considered investments at all - like Apple's $500bn spending pledge, which includes taxes and salaries paid to workers already at the company. An investment promise, by ADQ and Energy Capital, is not limited to the US. Falling 'well short' of headlines In reality, as of mid-May, new investment stemming from the announcements likely totalled something closer to $134bn, according to analysis by Goldman Sachs. That sum shrank to as little as $30bn, not including investments backed by foreign governments, once researchers factored in the risk that some projects might fail to materialise, or would have happened anyway."Though not negligible economically, such increases would fall well short of the recent headlines," they wrote. When pressed on the numbers, White House spokesman Kush Desai brushed off concerns that the administration's claims did not match reality. "The Trump administration is using a multifaceted approach to drive investment into the United States... and no amount of pointless nitpicking and hairsplitting can refute that it's paying off," he said in a statement, which noted that many firms had explicitly credited Trump and his policies for shaping their plans. The BBC approached more than two dozen firms with investments on the White House did not respond or referred to previous acknowledged that work on some of their projects pre-dated the current administration. Incentive to exaggerate Exaggeration by politicians and companies is hardly unexpected. But the Trump administration's willingness to radically intervene in the economy, with tariffs and other changes, has given companies reason to pump up their plans in ways that flatter the president, says Martin Chorzempa, senior fellow at the Petersen Institute of International Economics."A firm making an announcement is a way to get some current benefits, without necessarily being held to those [spending pledges] if the situation changes," he says. "There's a strong incentive for companies to provide as large a number as possible." That's not to say that Trump policies aren't making a tariff threats have "definitely been a catalyst" for pharmaceutical firms to plan more manufacturing in the US, a key source of sector profits, says Stephen Farrelly, global lead for pharma and healthcare at he adds, there are limits to what the threats can accomplish. The pharma investments are set to unfold over time - a decade in some cases - in a sector that was poised for growth anyway. And they have come from firms selling branded drugs - not the cheaper, generic medicines that many Americans rely on and that are made in China and India. Mr Farrelly also warned that the sector's investments may be at risk over the long term, given uncertainty about the government's approach to tariffs, drug pricing and scientific research. Overall, many analysts expect investment growth to slow in the US this year due to policy German Gutierrez of the University of Washington says Trump is right to want to boost investment in the US, but believes his emphasis on global competition misdiagnoses the own work has found the decline in investment is due in part to industry consolidation. Now a few large firms dominate sectors, there is less incentive to invest to compete. In addition, the kinds of investments firms are making are typically cheaper items such as software rather than machines and factories. Tariffs, Prof Gutierrez says, are unlikely to address those issues."The way it's being done and the type of instruments they are using are not the best ways to achieve this goal. It just takes a lot more to really get this going," he says.
Reuters
20 minutes ago
- Reuters
Once known for civility, Minnesota succumbs to spread of political violence
BLAINE, Minnesota, June 15 (Reuters) - From the pulpit on Sunday, Father Joe Whalen exhorted his parishioners to avoid the kind of extreme partisanship and hate that appeared to be behind the killing of one of the church's own, Democratic Minnesota state legislator Melissa Hortman. It was a message that Whalen felt his congregation needed to hear, even at the Catholic church where Hortman once taught Sunday school, and in a state known for the political civility of a bygone era. In his homily at the Church of St. Timothy, Whalen told his parish to adhere to the Christian message of peace and warned against responding to political discourse with unkindness or anger, especially when cloaked in anonymity online. "We can choose all that by our words, by our thoughts, by our actions or we can walk a different path, and we can invite the cycle of retribution," Whalen said. "We know what we need to do." Whalen spoke one day after a gunman killed Hortman and her husband -- a crime Governor Tim Walz characterized as a "politically motivated assassination" -- and shot and wounded State Senator John Hoffman and his wife. The suspect, whom police identified as 57-year-old Vance Boelter, remains at large. The shootings come amid the most sustained period of political violence in the United States since the 1970s. Reuters has documented more than 300 cases of politically motivated violent acts since supporters of President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Last summer, Trump, a Republican, survived two assassination attempts during his election campaign. In April, an assailant set fire to the official residence of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat. Yet the shootings outside Minneapolis seemed to deliver an outsized shock to many, arriving during a stretch of days in which protests over immigration roiled Los Angeles, a U.S. Senator was forcibly removed from a press conference and a rare military parade rolled though the streets of Washington. Not only did the shootings serve as a stark reminder of the spread of political violence, they occurred in a state perceived by many - rightly or wrongly - to be a haven of civic-mindedness and bipartisanship, an impression captured in the cultural stereotype "Minnesota nice". While Minnesota leans blue in state-wide races, control of the legislature is evenly split between the parties, requiring lawmakers to compromise to get anything done. Both Hortman and Hoffman were known to work across the aisle. "Minnesota has a unique reputation, and I think it's somewhat merited. We have typically, at least politically, not been as excessive as other places," David Hann, former chairman of the state Republican Party, told Reuters. "But I think that has changed." Several parishioners said the racial justice protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd, which were accompanied by looting and violence, had punctured any sense that their state was immune to the excesses of polarization. "The violence is here," said Carolyn Breitbach, 81, after attending Sunday Mass. "I think people are interested in their own agenda. They want to take things into their own hands and make things right." One of Hortman's last acts as a lawmaker was in fact a compromise. Last week, she cast the lone Democratic vote for a bill that cut healthcare benefits for adult undocumented immigrants -- a provision she and her party did not want -- to secure a budget deal for the state. Hortman, the top Democrat in the Minnesota House, teared up as she explained her vote. Larry Kraft, a Democratic colleague of Hortman in the House, said he has seen the rhetoric coarsen in the past few years. "How can it not? The discourse everywhere is becoming harsher and more partisan," Kraft told Reuters. "That said, I think we do a reasonable job in Minnesota of bridging that. We just did with the budget that we passed." The 2024 election ratcheted up political tensions in Minnesota as then-candidate Trump and his allies went hard after Walz, who was Vice President Kamala Harris's running mate, over Minnesota's expansions of abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. Harris won the state with 50.9% of the vote to Trump's 46.7%. Trump narrowed his margin of loss from 2020, however, suggesting a shift to the right. The last time a Republican won Minnesota was Richard Nixon in 1972. Trump condemned the shootings in Minnesota, but told ABC News on Sunday that he had not called Walz, while criticizing him as a "terrible governor" who was "grossly incompetent." Erin Koegel, a Democrat in the state House, pointed to those comments and said Trump was fanning political divisions. "He's the one who is lighting a fire," said Koegel, who attends St. Timothy, adding that she was disappointed that her Republican colleagues in Minnesota were not "stepping up to say that this isn't right." Koegel pointed to Hortman as a model of how a politician should behave, recalling how Hortman made her appointment to committee leadership positions contingent upon her promising to be kind and polite to her Republican counterparts. "That was something that she always preached," Koegel said. "And even when there were really divisive issues for debate on the floor, she would always just be like let's not be angry and mean. We need to be able to debate this civilly."
Daily Mail
21 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Olivia Rodrigo, Addison Rae, Jenna Ortega and Conan Grey speak out against anti-ICE protests and more
Just a day after sweeping anti-ICE protests sprouted up all over the country, some of music's biggest stars are speaking out. The protests were both an answer to President Donald Trump 's use of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to enact mass deportations in Los Angeles, and Trump's own military-style parade in Washington D.C. on Saturday, his birthday. The protests were attended by several celebrities including Jimmy Kimme l, Mark Ruffalo and many more. Others used their Instagram stories to protest, including Olivia Rodrigo, Addison Rae Jenna Ortega and Conan Grey. Rodrigo, a 22-year-old L.A. native, did not mince words in her Instagram story, opening with, 'I've lived in L.A. my whole life and I'm deeply upset about these violent deportations of my neighbors under the current administration.' 'LA simply wouldn't exist without immigrants. Treating hardworking community members with such little respect, empathy and due process is awful,' she added. 'I stand with the beautiful, diverse community of Los Angeles, and with immigrants all across America,' she added. 'I stand for our right to freedom of speech and freedom to protest,' Rodrigo concluded in her Instagram story post on Saturday. Rae added in her Instagram story post, 'I'm so disappointed and disturbed by what is happening across our nation. This country could not exist without immigrants.' 'Every human being deserves the right to exist in an environment that makes them feel safe, lovingly protected, and embraced,' she concluded. Ortega said, 'The world is crying all over. People in Los Angeles are being torn away from their everyday lives & love, the ones they built so tirelessly just like you. She added, 'Innocent civilians in Iran are caught in the middle of warfare… Palestinian cries are still being buried in every day media.' 'My thoughts are heavy, my heart follows. It is normal to feel confused & hopeless during this time... But I strongly advise you to never stop paying attention,' she said. 'How can we care about anything else as human freedoms spanning across seas are being violated with such violence?' she asked. Ortega said, 'The world is crying all over. People in Los Angeles are being torn away from their everyday lives & love, the ones they built so tirelessly just like you. 'Listen to one another & love; but be angry too. Educate yourself as best you can. To say this doesn't concern you, or that it isn't your problem, is a privilege under abuse,' she concluded. 'Listen to one another & love; but be angry too. Educate yourself as best you can. To say this doesn't concern you, or that it isn't your problem, is a privilege under abuse,' she concluded. Grey stated, 'Immigrants are the backbone of America. They are the foundation upon which this entire country was founded and deserve protection, respect and a right to free speech and protest.' 'What trump is doing with his mass deportations is not only anti-American, but anti-Constitutional,' he added. Grey continued in another slide, 'It is most important now to know your rights, and the rights of our immigrant friends and neighbors. He also shared a link to the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) concluding his post with, 'I stand with an America that is beautiful because of its diversity. You should too.'
