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In an email that DHS later walked back, Kristi Noem asked the Pentagon to “direct the military on the ground in Los Angeles to arrest rioters.”

Sen. Alex Padilla was removed from a Los Angeles news conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, while a federal judge weighed the merits of military deployments on Thursday.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem held a forceful press conference today in Los Angeles, addressing the escalating anti-ICE protests in California and outlining a robust federal response to what she described as unacceptable violence and lawlessness.

The Department of Homeland Security's deployment of U.S. military personnel in Los Angeles has led to significant legal and political controversy. A senator's arrest during a press conference exemplifies rising tensions,

Video shows a Secret Service special agent on Noem’s detail grabbing Padilla by his jacket and shoving him from the room as the senator struggles to catch his breath while identifying himself.

Sen. Alex Padilla was removed for interrupting a Los Angeles immigration news conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Gavin Newsom is calling President Donald Trump’s military intervention an assault on democracy, the AP reports, and is suing to try and stop it. Noem was holding a news conference to address ...

A U.S. Army soldier walks past a Bradley fighting vehicle staged in West Potomac Park ahead of an upcoming military parade commemorating the Army's 250th anniversary and coinciding with Donald Trump's 79th birthday, Wednesday, June 11, 2025, in Washington Credit: AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson