President Donald Trump is thanking an appeals court for freezing an order that he return control of National Guard troops to California.

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., has continued to defend himself and refute the claims by the Trump administration that he crashed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference before federal officers shoved him outside the room, pushed him onto the floor and handcuffed him.

Protests in Los Angeles appeared to quiet overnight, but new ones are popping up in other cities. Trump has deployed more than 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to the protests.

The Trump administration faces a legal challenge to its deployment of the military to protests. Tensions flared after President Trump sent troops, and protests spread to other U.S. cities.

The deployment marks a sharp escalation in the military's role in domestic unrest in the city caused by immigration raids by the Trump administration.

The National Guard was conducting exercises in Los Angeles on Wednesday, after being deployed in response to anti-ICE protests in the city. Meantime, federal officials announced the first charges against protesters accused of threatening law enforcement.

Protests over immigration raids in the Los Angeles area are set to continue for a third day. Gov. Gavin Newsom said President Trump’s decision to call in National Guards was “purposefully inflammatory.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has deployed its National Response Team to Los Angeles to help investigate high-profile arson cases related to ongoing protests of

The Governor is condemning the mobilization of National Guard Troops in California and taking steps to ensure planned protests in Kentucky on Saturday remain peaceful.

Gavin Newsom and deploy the National Guard and Marines to quell Los Angeles’ immigration-related protests against federal raids in the city. A long-time strong voter base for Trump, some veterans have,