Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump are defending the mobilization of National Guardsmen and Marines to Los Angeles amid objections from Democrats about their domestic deployment.

By Brad Brooks, Omar Younis, Idrees Ali and Tim ReidLOS ANGELES (Reuters) -U.S. troops in Los Angeles are authorized to detain people until police can arrest them, their commanding officer said on Wednesday,

U.S. troops have begun directly detaining immigrants accused of trespassing on a recently designated national defense zone along the southern U.S. border.

President Trump has expanded domestic use of the armed forces, testing the limits on involving troops at protests and the border.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has said it is going to deploy 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to Los Angeles to help protect federal property and personnel during the ongoing protests in the city.

The filing by the Justice Department came ahead of a hearing scheduled for Thursday afternoon in Federal District Court.

President Donald Trump is posing as a wartime leader building a political case to use American troops not in a foreign conflict, but at home, to bolster his mass deportation sweeps.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -U.S. military troops deployed to Los Angeles are allowed to temporarily detain individuals until law enforcement agents arrive to arrest them, a senior U.S. military official said on Wednesday.

The United States is preparing a partial evacuation of its Iraqi embassy and will allow military dependents to leave locations around the Middle East due to heightened security risks in the region, U.S. and Iraqi sources said on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump made a series of false claims to members of the military on Tuesday in a partisan and combative speech at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

Army veteran and former Secretary of State Chuck Hagel talks about the potential risks about having military troops deployed in L.A.