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Protesters confront a line of the California National Guard in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday.

Trump jumps at the chance for a stand-off in California over immigration

The situation has all the elements that the president seeks: a showdown with a top political rival in a deep blue state over an issue core to his agenda.

  • Tyler Pager

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A protester in Paramount, Los Angeles, throws a rock amid tear gas from law enforcement during a demonstration after federal immigration authorities conducted operations.

Marines on high alert after Trump sends National Guard to Los Angeles

The president’s decision follows protests in the city that were sparked by immigration raids aimed at fulfilling his promise of mass deportations.

  • Sandra Stojanovic and Omar Younis
Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

Musk break-up shows it’s getting harder for Trump to keep the gang together

Donald Trump won office last year with a much broader coalition than in 2016. But the Elon Musk bust-up shows Trump is not finding it easy to hold his motley crew together.

  • Nate Cohn
Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

The one Musk business that’s winning from the Trump bust-up

The war of words between the US president and the world’s richest man has been playing out in real time, and there’s one place where people are tuning in to catch the soap opera.

  • Barbara Ortutay
Bobbie chief executive Laura Modi is in a difficult position.

‘Betrayal’: She built a cult baby business, then RFK Jr came calling

Laura Modi’s baby formula company Bobbie grew quickly as a science-based brand that was ingredient-conscious. But her decision to align herself with the Trump administration set off a firestorm.

  • Alisha Haridasani Gupta

Musk used X to boost Trump. Now he’s wielding it against him

On Thursday, as the two men publicly fought in a flurry of furious online posts, Musk revealed X to be a double-edged sword.

  • Will Oremus
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Donald and Melania Trump with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in 2002.

Bromance over: Musk says Trump should be impeached in social media brawl

The US president suggested the Tesla chief is suffering “Trump derangement syndrome”. The tech billionaire said that “without me, Trump would have lost”.

  • Michael Koziol
Elon Musk and Donald Trump speak in the White House on March 14.

The Trump-Musk bandwagon was always going to crash, but it’s done so with impressive violence

In reality, few are surprised by the public divorce between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, a master showman who does not like to share the limelight.

  • Michael Lind
Elon Musk and Donald Trump, pictured here in October 2024, seem to be heading for another break-up. But this isn’t the first time it’s happened in their years-long rollercoaster relationship.

Musk, Trump, a roller coaster relationship and why they were never good friends

The two-time president of the United States and his “first buddy”, who also happens to be the world’s richest man, have had more breaks than Ross and Rachel.

  • Bronte Gossling
Is the new US Visa ban the beginning of a new level of interference from America?

Could Anthony Albanese be caught up in Trump’s new US visa ban?

A hidden announcement from the State Department about consequences for foreigners “complicit in censoring Americans” has sparked a new level of global interference not seen from America since the end of the Cold War. Peter Hartcher asks, is this the beginning of a new level of interference?

  • Peter Hartcher

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