Donald Trump met with ‘thunderous applause' at UFC 316
Sky News host Rita Panahi says US President Donald Trump was met with 'thunderous applause' during his customary walk-in at the UFC 316 event.
'As soon as the big fights were won, the fighters were jumping out of the cage to shake Trump's hand,' Ms Panahi said.
'You are seeing Trump embrace these sporting events, particularly the UFC, but also football games, and he's enormously popular, even in places you wouldn't expect him to be popular.'
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The Age
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- The Age
Nine reporter caught up in LA protests as governor hits out at Trump
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'It's a bald-faced lie for Newsom to claim there was no problem in Los Angeles before President Trump got involved,' White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement. The protests began on Friday in downtown LA before spreading on Saturday to Paramount, a heavily Latino city south of the city, and neighbouring Compton. Federal agents arrested immigrants in LA's fashion district, in a Home Depot parking lot and at several other locations on Friday. The next day, they were staging at a Department of Homeland Security office near another Home Depot in Paramount, which drew out protesters who suspected another raid. By midday on Sunday, hundreds of people had gathered outside the Metropolitan Detention Centre, chanting 'shame' and 'go home' to members of the National Guard, who stood shoulder to shoulder, carrying long guns and riot shields. After some protesters closely approached the guard members, a different set of uniformed officers advanced, shooting smoke-filled canisters into the street. Minutes later, the Los Angeles Police Department fired rounds of crowd-control munitions to disperse the protesters. Police declared an unlawful assembly, and by early evening many people had left. But those who remained grabbed chairs from a nearby public park to form a makeshift barrier, throwing objects at police on the other side. Others standing above the closed southbound 101 Freeway threw chunks of concrete, rocks, electric scooters and fireworks at highway patrol officers. Video footage showed the National Guard troops were largely refraining from clashing with the demonstrators, The New York Times reported. Trump called the demonstrators 'violent, insurrectionist mobs' in a social media post on Sunday and said he was directing his cabinet officers 'to take all such action necessary' to stop what he described as 'riots'. Speaking to reporters in New Jersey, he threatened violence against demonstrators who spit on police or National Guard troops, saying, 'They spit, we hit'. He did not cite any specific incidents. 'If we see danger to our country and to our citizens, it will be very, very strong in terms of law and order,' Trump said as he headed to Camp David. 'We're going to have troops everywhere, we're not going to let this happen to our country. 'Last night in Los Angeles, we watched it very closely, there was a lot of violence there – there was a lot of violence, and it could have gotten much worse.' Why did Trump send in the National Guard? Trump border tsar Tom Homan told NBC News that Newsom and Bass, the mayor, should be thanking the president for helping restore order, and warned the leaders they could be arrested if they obstructed immigration enforcement efforts. Trump's decision to send in troops and bypass Newsom keeps with promises he made during last year's election campaign to deploy the military more aggressively in the nation's cities. During his first term of office, in the summer of 2020, Trump pushed to send active-duty military troops to quell racial protests across the US, former defence secretary Mark Esper told a House committee years later. Esper said that he and others had to convince Trump there was no predicate for that use of the military. At the time, Trump felt that the civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota made the US look weak, Esper told the committee. During an election campaign event in Iowa in 2023, Trump labelled several big cities 'crime dens' and said he had previously held back from sending in the military. 'You're supposed to not be involved in that – you just have to be asked by the governor or the mayor to come in. The next time, I'm not waiting,' Trump said at the Iowa event. To deploy the National Guard, Trump invoked a legal provision that allows him to deploy federal service members when there is 'a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States'. The White House cited what Trump described as credible threats of violence that could obstruct enforcement efforts and 'constitute a form of rebellion' against the US government. But the legal basis for the decision could face challenges. Federal law strictly limits the deployment of federal troops within US borders. The 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, along with amendments and supporting regulations, generally bars the use of the active-duty US military – the army, navy, air force and marines – from carrying out domestic law enforcement. The law doesn't apply to state-controlled National Guard forces. Trump directed US Northern Command to assume control of the National Guard and dispatch 2000 soldiers to the area 'for 60 days or at the discretion of the secretary of defence', the White House said in a statement. About 300 soldiers have since been deployed to three locations in greater Los Angeles, according to US Northern Command. The deployed troops are part of the California National Guard's 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, primarily a combat unit, although it has previously been called up to support civilian authorities, and a unit that most recently responded to the wildfires in LA this year. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Saturday (Sunday AEST) that Marines could be sent next if protests intensified. Newsom called Hegseth's suggestion of deploying the Marines from nearby Camp Pendleton 'deranged'. Hegseth countered overnight that Newsom had allowed violence to get out of hand. 'Deranged = allowing your city to burn & law enforcement to be attacked,' Hegseth said in a post on X. 'There is plenty of room for peaceful protest, but ZERO tolerance for attacking federal agents who are doing their job.' Vermont senator Bernie Sanders said the order by Trump to deploy the Guard reflected 'a president moving this country rapidly into authoritarianism' and 'usurping the powers of the United States Congress'. LA Police Chief Jim McDonnell has stressed that his officers are not working with federal agents on civil immigration enforcement and the department follows a long-standing policy that bars officers from stopping people solely to determine their immigration status. 'Everyone has the right to peacefully assemble and voice their opinions,' the department said in a statement on X. 'However, vandalising property and attempting to seriously injure officers, whether Federal or LAPD, is not peaceful.' Loading What is ICE? 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US and Chinese officials meet in the UK for trade talks
Top US and Chinese officials are meeting in London to try to defuse a high-stakes trade dispute that has widened beyond tit-for-tat tariffs to restrictions over rare earths, threatening to cripple supply chains and slow global growth. Officials from the two superpowers were meeting at the ornate Lancaster House to try to get back on track with a preliminary agreement struck last month in Geneva that had briefly lowered the temperature between the United States and China. Since then the US has accused China of slow-walking on its commitments, particularly around rare earths shipments. US economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Monday that the US team wanted a handshake from China on rare earths after Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping spoke last week. "The purpose of the meeting today is to make sure that they're serious, but to literally get handshakes," Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, told CNBC in an interview. He said the expectation was that immediately after the handshake, export controls would be eased and rare earths released in volume. The talks, which could run into Tuesday, come at a crucial time for both economies, with investors looking for relief from Trump's cascade of tariff orders since his return to the White House in January. China's export growth slowed to a three-month low in May while its factory-gate deflation deepened to its worst level in two years. In the US, the trade war has put a huge dent in business and household confidence, and first-quarter gross domestic product contracted due to a record surge in imports as people front-loaded purchases to beat anticipated price increases. But for now, the effect on inflation has been muted, and the jobs market has remained fairly resilient, although economists expect cracks to become more apparent over the northern hemisphere summer. Attending the talks in London will be US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, and a Chinese contingent helmed by Vice Premier He Lifeng. The inclusion of Lutnick, whose agency oversees export controls for the US, is one indication of how central rare earths have become. China holds a near-monopoly on rare earth magnets, a crucial component in electric vehicle motors. Lutnick did not attend the Geneva talks at which the countries struck a 90-day deal to roll back some of the triple-digit tariffs they had placed on each other. The second round of meetings comes four days after Trump and Xi spoke by phone, their first direct interaction since Trump's January 20 inauguration. During the more than one-hour-long call, Xi told Trump to back down from trade measures that roiled the global economy and warned him against threatening steps on Taiwan, according to a Chinese government summary. But Trump said on social media the talks focused primarily on trade led to "a very positive conclusion," setting the stage for Monday's meeting in London. The next day, Trump said Xi had agreed to resume shipments to the US of rare earths minerals and magnets and Reuters reported on Friday that China has granted temporary export licences to rare-earth suppliers of the top three US car makers. China's decision in April to suspend exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets upended the supply chains central to car makers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told Fox News on Sunday that the US wanted the two sides to build on the progress made in Geneva in the hope they could move towards more comprehensive trade talks. While the UK government will provide a venue for Monday's discussions, it will not be party to them and will have separate talks later in the week with the Chinese delegation. The US dollar slipped against all major currencies on Monday as investors waited for news, while oil prices were little changed. Top US and Chinese officials are meeting in London to try to defuse a high-stakes trade dispute that has widened beyond tit-for-tat tariffs to restrictions over rare earths, threatening to cripple supply chains and slow global growth. Officials from the two superpowers were meeting at the ornate Lancaster House to try to get back on track with a preliminary agreement struck last month in Geneva that had briefly lowered the temperature between the United States and China. Since then the US has accused China of slow-walking on its commitments, particularly around rare earths shipments. US economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Monday that the US team wanted a handshake from China on rare earths after Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping spoke last week. "The purpose of the meeting today is to make sure that they're serious, but to literally get handshakes," Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, told CNBC in an interview. He said the expectation was that immediately after the handshake, export controls would be eased and rare earths released in volume. The talks, which could run into Tuesday, come at a crucial time for both economies, with investors looking for relief from Trump's cascade of tariff orders since his return to the White House in January. China's export growth slowed to a three-month low in May while its factory-gate deflation deepened to its worst level in two years. In the US, the trade war has put a huge dent in business and household confidence, and first-quarter gross domestic product contracted due to a record surge in imports as people front-loaded purchases to beat anticipated price increases. But for now, the effect on inflation has been muted, and the jobs market has remained fairly resilient, although economists expect cracks to become more apparent over the northern hemisphere summer. Attending the talks in London will be US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, and a Chinese contingent helmed by Vice Premier He Lifeng. The inclusion of Lutnick, whose agency oversees export controls for the US, is one indication of how central rare earths have become. China holds a near-monopoly on rare earth magnets, a crucial component in electric vehicle motors. Lutnick did not attend the Geneva talks at which the countries struck a 90-day deal to roll back some of the triple-digit tariffs they had placed on each other. The second round of meetings comes four days after Trump and Xi spoke by phone, their first direct interaction since Trump's January 20 inauguration. During the more than one-hour-long call, Xi told Trump to back down from trade measures that roiled the global economy and warned him against threatening steps on Taiwan, according to a Chinese government summary. But Trump said on social media the talks focused primarily on trade led to "a very positive conclusion," setting the stage for Monday's meeting in London. The next day, Trump said Xi had agreed to resume shipments to the US of rare earths minerals and magnets and Reuters reported on Friday that China has granted temporary export licences to rare-earth suppliers of the top three US car makers. China's decision in April to suspend exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets upended the supply chains central to car makers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told Fox News on Sunday that the US wanted the two sides to build on the progress made in Geneva in the hope they could move towards more comprehensive trade talks. While the UK government will provide a venue for Monday's discussions, it will not be party to them and will have separate talks later in the week with the Chinese delegation. The US dollar slipped against all major currencies on Monday as investors waited for news, while oil prices were little changed. Top US and Chinese officials are meeting in London to try to defuse a high-stakes trade dispute that has widened beyond tit-for-tat tariffs to restrictions over rare earths, threatening to cripple supply chains and slow global growth. Officials from the two superpowers were meeting at the ornate Lancaster House to try to get back on track with a preliminary agreement struck last month in Geneva that had briefly lowered the temperature between the United States and China. Since then the US has accused China of slow-walking on its commitments, particularly around rare earths shipments. US economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Monday that the US team wanted a handshake from China on rare earths after Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping spoke last week. "The purpose of the meeting today is to make sure that they're serious, but to literally get handshakes," Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, told CNBC in an interview. He said the expectation was that immediately after the handshake, export controls would be eased and rare earths released in volume. The talks, which could run into Tuesday, come at a crucial time for both economies, with investors looking for relief from Trump's cascade of tariff orders since his return to the White House in January. China's export growth slowed to a three-month low in May while its factory-gate deflation deepened to its worst level in two years. In the US, the trade war has put a huge dent in business and household confidence, and first-quarter gross domestic product contracted due to a record surge in imports as people front-loaded purchases to beat anticipated price increases. But for now, the effect on inflation has been muted, and the jobs market has remained fairly resilient, although economists expect cracks to become more apparent over the northern hemisphere summer. Attending the talks in London will be US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, and a Chinese contingent helmed by Vice Premier He Lifeng. The inclusion of Lutnick, whose agency oversees export controls for the US, is one indication of how central rare earths have become. China holds a near-monopoly on rare earth magnets, a crucial component in electric vehicle motors. Lutnick did not attend the Geneva talks at which the countries struck a 90-day deal to roll back some of the triple-digit tariffs they had placed on each other. The second round of meetings comes four days after Trump and Xi spoke by phone, their first direct interaction since Trump's January 20 inauguration. During the more than one-hour-long call, Xi told Trump to back down from trade measures that roiled the global economy and warned him against threatening steps on Taiwan, according to a Chinese government summary. But Trump said on social media the talks focused primarily on trade led to "a very positive conclusion," setting the stage for Monday's meeting in London. The next day, Trump said Xi had agreed to resume shipments to the US of rare earths minerals and magnets and Reuters reported on Friday that China has granted temporary export licences to rare-earth suppliers of the top three US car makers. China's decision in April to suspend exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets upended the supply chains central to car makers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told Fox News on Sunday that the US wanted the two sides to build on the progress made in Geneva in the hope they could move towards more comprehensive trade talks. While the UK government will provide a venue for Monday's discussions, it will not be party to them and will have separate talks later in the week with the Chinese delegation. The US dollar slipped against all major currencies on Monday as investors waited for news, while oil prices were little changed. Top US and Chinese officials are meeting in London to try to defuse a high-stakes trade dispute that has widened beyond tit-for-tat tariffs to restrictions over rare earths, threatening to cripple supply chains and slow global growth. Officials from the two superpowers were meeting at the ornate Lancaster House to try to get back on track with a preliminary agreement struck last month in Geneva that had briefly lowered the temperature between the United States and China. Since then the US has accused China of slow-walking on its commitments, particularly around rare earths shipments. US economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Monday that the US team wanted a handshake from China on rare earths after Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping spoke last week. "The purpose of the meeting today is to make sure that they're serious, but to literally get handshakes," Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, told CNBC in an interview. He said the expectation was that immediately after the handshake, export controls would be eased and rare earths released in volume. The talks, which could run into Tuesday, come at a crucial time for both economies, with investors looking for relief from Trump's cascade of tariff orders since his return to the White House in January. China's export growth slowed to a three-month low in May while its factory-gate deflation deepened to its worst level in two years. In the US, the trade war has put a huge dent in business and household confidence, and first-quarter gross domestic product contracted due to a record surge in imports as people front-loaded purchases to beat anticipated price increases. But for now, the effect on inflation has been muted, and the jobs market has remained fairly resilient, although economists expect cracks to become more apparent over the northern hemisphere summer. Attending the talks in London will be US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, and a Chinese contingent helmed by Vice Premier He Lifeng. The inclusion of Lutnick, whose agency oversees export controls for the US, is one indication of how central rare earths have become. China holds a near-monopoly on rare earth magnets, a crucial component in electric vehicle motors. Lutnick did not attend the Geneva talks at which the countries struck a 90-day deal to roll back some of the triple-digit tariffs they had placed on each other. The second round of meetings comes four days after Trump and Xi spoke by phone, their first direct interaction since Trump's January 20 inauguration. During the more than one-hour-long call, Xi told Trump to back down from trade measures that roiled the global economy and warned him against threatening steps on Taiwan, according to a Chinese government summary. But Trump said on social media the talks focused primarily on trade led to "a very positive conclusion," setting the stage for Monday's meeting in London. The next day, Trump said Xi had agreed to resume shipments to the US of rare earths minerals and magnets and Reuters reported on Friday that China has granted temporary export licences to rare-earth suppliers of the top three US car makers. China's decision in April to suspend exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets upended the supply chains central to car makers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told Fox News on Sunday that the US wanted the two sides to build on the progress made in Geneva in the hope they could move towards more comprehensive trade talks. While the UK government will provide a venue for Monday's discussions, it will not be party to them and will have separate talks later in the week with the Chinese delegation. The US dollar slipped against all major currencies on Monday as investors waited for news, while oil prices were little changed.
7NEWS
an hour ago
- 7NEWS
Los Angeles police order US immigration protesters to go home as entire downtown area locked down
Police have declared all of downtown Los Angeles to be an unlawful assembly area, ordering protesters to go home after a third day of violence hit demonstrations against President Donald Trump's immigration policy. National Guard troops — deployed by Trump at the weekend to help quell the protests in a move that California Governor Gavin Newsom called unlawful — guarded federal government buildings on Sunday. The unrest in Los Angeles has become a major flashpoint in Trump's signature effort to clamp down on illegal immigration. The Republican president has pledged to deport record numbers of people who are in the country illegally and to lock down the US-Mexico border, setting the border enforcement agency ICE a daily goal of arresting at least 3000 migrants. California state and local officials, mainly Democrats, accuse Trump of inflaming initially small-scale protests by mounting a federal response. He calls the protesters insurrectionists. Several self-driving cars from Alphabet's Waymo were set ablaze on a downtown street on Sunday evening. Los Angeles police said some protesters had thrown concrete projectiles, bottles and other items at police. Police declared several rallies to be unlawful assemblies and later extended that to include the whole downtown area. Demonstrators shouted 'Shame on you!' at police and some appeared to throw objects, video images showed. City Police Chief Jim McDonnell told a media briefing on Sunday evening that people had a right to protest peacefully but the violence he had seen by some was 'disgusting' and the protests were getting out of control. Police said they had arrested 10 people on Sunday and 29 the previous night, adding that arrests were continuing. California Governor Newsom, a Democrat, said he requested the Trump administration to withdraw its order to deploy 2000 National Guard troops in Los Angeles County, calling it unlawful. Newsom said in an interview with MSNBC he planned to sue the administration over the deployment, adding that Trump 'has created the conditions' around the protests. He accused the president of trying to manufacture a crisis and of violating California's state sovereignty. Asked if the National Guard was needed, the police chief, McDonnell, said police would not 'go to that right away' but added: 'Looking at the violence tonight, I think we've got to make a reassessment.' In a social media post, Trump called on McDonnell to do so. 'He should, right now!!!' Trump added. 'Don't let these thugs get away with this. Make America great again!!!' The White House disputed Newsom's characterisation, saying in a statement, 'everyone saw the chaos, violence and lawlessness'. Earlier on Sunday, about a dozen National Guard members, along with Department of Homeland Security personnel, pushed back a group of demonstrators outside a federal building in downtown Los Angeles, video showed. The US Northern Command said 300 members of the California National Guard had been deployed to three sites in Los Angeles. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told CBS the National Guard would provide safety around buildings to people engaged in peaceful protest and to law enforcement. In a social media post on Sunday, Trump called the demonstrators 'violent, insurrectionist mobs' and said he was directing his cabinet officers 'to take all such action necessary' to stop what he called riots. Despite Trump's language, he has not invoked the Insurrection Act, an 1807 law that empowers a president to deploy the US military to suppress events such as civil disorder. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Saturday the Pentagon was prepared to mobilise active-duty troops 'if violence continues' in Los Angeles, saying Marines at nearby Camp Pendleton were on high alert. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass blamed the Trump administration for inciting tension by sending in the National Guard and condemned protesters who became violent.
