Singer D4vd is not pausing his world tour following the discovery of a decomposing, dismembered body in the trunk of a car registered in his name.
The 20-year-old, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, is reportedly cooperating with the investigation. 
“D4vd has been informed about what’s happened. And, although he is still out on tour, he is fully cooperating with the authorities,” his spokesperson said in a statement.
Los Angeles police are looking into the discovery of the unidentified woman’s remains, which were found in bags inside an abandoned Tesla that had been taken to the city impound. The car was searched after employees reported a foul stench coming from the vehicle.
Not much is known about the victim, except that she is 5’2” and had wavy black hair. She is also reported to have the word “Shhh…” tattooed on one of her fingers. Details were also released about the clothing she was wearing, but no updates were given on her age or race.
The incident is being investigated as a homicide, per <a href="https://www.foxla.com/news/la-coroner-releases-details-body-found-tesla-d4vd">Fox 11</a>, but no person of interest has been named.
“We know that we have human remains and we know they were contained within a vehicle,” said Alan Hamilton, LAPD Chief of Detectives.
“We are going to continue the investigation and when a determination is made that potentially there was a homicide, then it will transition into a homicide investigation.”
Burke first gained recognition on TikTok before being signed to Darkroom and Interscope Records. The “Romantic Homicide” singer has 2 million followers on Instagram and 5.4 billion streams on Spotify, per <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/09/10/entertainment/d4vd-criminal-case-takes-interesting-turn-murder-victim-idd-as-female/">The New York Post</a>.
His next show is slated for Wednesday night in Kansas City, Missouri.

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The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Trump administration can arrest anyone it suspects of being in the United States illegally, lifting a U.S. District Court judge&#8217;s order barring immigration agents from conducting &#8220;roving patrols.&#8221;
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court said that immigration officers have the right to detain people for questioning if they are suspected of being an illegal immigrant, The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-09-08/supreme-court-immigration-stops-los-angeles">reported</a>. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee, wrote a 10-page opinion explaining the high court&#8217;s decision, saying that immigration officers have a reasonable and legal basis to detain suspected illegal immigrants in Los Angeles based on the “totality of the circumstances.&#8221;
&#8220;Here, those circumstances include: that there is an extremely high number and percentage of illegal immigrants in the Los Angeles area; that those individuals tend to gather in certain locations to seek daily work; that those individuals often work in certain kinds of jobs, such as day labor, landscaping, agriculture, and construction, that do not require paperwork and are therefore especially attractive to illegal immigrants; and that many of those illegally in the Los Angeles area come from Mexico or Central America and do not speak much English,&#8221; Kavanaugh added.
The Department of Homeland Security said last week that over 5,000 immigration arrests have been made in the &#8220;Los Angeles region&#8221; since June 6, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-immigration-stops-los-angeles-trump-57cc1f85ceafda0f11052b326c8b7173">reported</a>. Gregory Bovino, the chief Border Patrol agent in charge of the L.A. operation, said that the Trump administration has been successful &#8220;in getting the worst of the worst out&#8221; of the area. Much of the immigration crackdown in the L.A. area has focused on arresting suspected illegal immigrants in Home Depot parking lots, at car washes, and at farms. Immigration agents have also nabbed people while they were on the street and in their vehicles.
On July 11, U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong issued a temporary restraining order that stopped Trump&#8217;s immigration agents from detaining suspected illegal immigrants over their race, ethnicity, language, location, or employment, the Times reported. Two weeks later, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the district judge&#8217;s ruling.
In an appeal to the Supreme Court, Trump Solicitor Gen. D. John Sauer argued, &#8220;Reasonable suspicion is a low bar — well below probable cause.&#8221; Sauer said that immigration agents can look at &#8220;the totality of circumstances&#8221; to detain someone suspected of entering the country illegally, adding that “illegal presence is widespread in the Central District [of California], where 1 in every 10 people is an illegal alien.”
Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the majority ruling, arguing that Kavanaugh&#8217;s conclusions are incorrect.
“Immigration agents are not conducting ‘brief stops for questioning,’ as the concurrence would like to believe. They are seizing people using firearms, physical violence, and warehouse detentions,” she wrote. “Nor are undocumented immigrants the only ones harmed by the Government’s conduct. United States citizens are also being seized, taken from their jobs, and prevented from working to support themselves and their families.”

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SCOTUS Lifts Lower Court Order, Allows Trump To Restart ‘Roving’ Immigration Operations In L.A.

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A federal judge on Tuesday said that President Donald Trump broke the law by deploying the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles County amid violent protests targeting immigration enforcement operations. 
Judge Charles Breyer, the younger brother of former liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70496361/176/newsom-v-trump/">issued</a> a ruling that Trump was using the military to enforce domestic law in violation of federal law. The Trump administration had argued that the deployment of about 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines to Los Angeles was only to protect federal property and personnel. 
“Nevertheless, at Defendants’ orders and contrary to Congress’s explicit instruction, federal troops executed the laws,” wrote Breyer, a Clinton-appointed judge. “The evidence at trial established that Defendants systematically used armed soldiers (whose identity was often obscured by protective armor) and military vehicles to set up protective perimeters and traffic blockades, engage in crowd control, and otherwise demonstrate a military presence in and around Los Angeles.”
The specific law that Breyer said Trump violated was the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, which limits the use of the military to enforce domestic law. 
Breyer’s order, which takes effect in 10 days, blocks Trump from using the approximately 300 National Guard troops left in Los Angeles from “engaging in arrests, apprehensions, searches, seizures, security patrols, traffic control, crowd control, riot control, evidence collection, interrogation, or acting as informants, unless and until Defendants satisfy the requirements of a valid constitutional or statutory exception.”
The case came to Breyer after California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom sued Trump.
“DONALD TRUMP LOSES AGAIN,” Newsom posted on X. “The courts agree — his militarization of our streets and use of the military against US citizens is ILLEGAL.”
Responding to the ruling, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli said that Breyer’s decision was misleading and that the National Guard would not be leaving Los Angeles. 
“The military will remain in Los Angeles,” he <a href="https://x.com/USAttyEssayli/status/1962891988291957185">wrote</a> on X. “This is a false narrative and a misleading injunction. The military has never engaged in direct law enforcement operations here in LA. They protect our federal employees our properties so our federal agents can safely enforce federal laws in the face of the thugs being unleashed and encouraged by state and local politicians.”
A previous decision from Breyer blocking Trump from taking control of the National Guard from Newsom was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-scores-big-win-against-newsom-in-california-national-guard-clash">overturned</a> by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. That court agreed with the Trump administration that the National Guard was only being used to protect federal property and personnel.

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WASHINGTON — The United States Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have executed arrests of 5,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles since June, The Daily Wire can first report. And Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has a message for criminal illegals in the United States: &#8220;This is just the beginning.&#8221;
The 5,000th arrest in Los Angeles is an individual named Gustavo Garcia-Miranda, a criminal illegal alien and convicted drug trafficker from Mexico, a DHS official told The Daily Wire, sharing that Garcia-Miranda illegally entered the United States in 2008 and was arrested by Border Patrol for illegal re-entry.
&#8220;That’s 5,000 criminal illegal aliens, gang members, child predators, and murderers taken off our streets,&#8221; Noem told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Precious lives saved. Families protected. American taxpayers spared the cost of their crimes AND the burden of their benefits.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_965603" style="width: 442px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/milestone-dhs-arrests-5000th-illegal-alien-in-los-angeles-and-noem-promises-more/image001-5" rel="attachment wp-att-965603"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-965603" class="wp-image-965603 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/image001-432x576.jpg" alt="Gustavo Garcia-Miranda. Photo courtesy of DHS." width="432" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/image001-432x576.jpg 432w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/image001-225x300.jpg 225w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/image001.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px" /></a>Gustavo Garcia-Miranda. Photo courtesy of DHS.</div>
<div id="attachment_965605" style="width: 442px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/milestone-dhs-arrests-5000th-illegal-alien-in-los-angeles-and-noem-promises-more/image002-5" rel="attachment wp-att-965605"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-965605" class="wp-image-965605 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/image002-432x576.jpg" alt="Gustavo Garcia-Miranda. Photo courtesy of DHS." width="432" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/image002-432x576.jpg 432w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/image002-225x300.jpg 225w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/image002.jpg 480w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px" /></a>Gustavo Garcia-Miranda. Photo courtesy of DHS.</div>
&#8220;THANK YOU to our brave law enforcement officers,&#8221; the Homeland Security Secretary emphasized. &#8220;Make no mistake: if you are here illegally, we will find you, arrest you, and send you back. This is just the beginning.&#8221;
The arrests come in spite of pushback from lawmakers and California politicians who embrace sanctuary city policies, as well as the disruption of rioters in California, who began violently protesting federal agents following increased apprehension rates by ICE agents in Los Angeles in early June.
Video footage of the rioting showed individuals throwing bricks and Molotov cocktails at armored vehicles, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pentagon-announces-withdrawal-of-thousands-of-troops-from-los-angeles?author=Sam+Korkus&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Pentagon+Announces+Withdrawal+Of+Thousands+Of+Troops+From+Los+Angeles">prompting President Donald Trump</a> to federalize 4,000 members of the California National Guard within days, arguing that the government needed to restore order to the city, and an additional 700 Marines to support local law enforcement.
DHS emphasizes that despite these challenges, ICE and Border Patrol continued to push forward and deliver on the president&#8217;s promise to free American communities from illegal alien crime.
&#8220;Secretary Noem has been clear: LA rioters would not stop DHS or slow us down,&#8221; the agency said in a press release. &#8220;Our law enforcement will continue to enforce the law. And anyone who lays a hand on a law enforcement officer, will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.&#8221; 
<div id="attachment_965623" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/milestone-dhs-arrests-5000th-illegal-alien-in-los-angeles-and-noem-promises-more/us-politics-immigration-15" rel="attachment wp-att-965623"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-965623" class="wp-image-965623 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2218864192-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2218864192-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2218864192-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2218864192-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/GettyImages-2218864192.jpg 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>A protester waves a combination Mexican-US flag in front of police in riot gear during a protest in response to federal immigration operations in the Little Tokyo neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, on June 9, 2025. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)</div>
On Friday, a judge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-judge-blocks-trump-from-defunding-sanctuary-cities">appointed by former President Barack Obama</a> ruled that Trump cannot cut federal funding from sanctuary cities around the country — cities that consider themselves “sanctuaries” for illegal immigrants. That includes Los Angeles, which Trump&#8217;s DOJ sued in June, arguing that the city&#8217;s policies that bar Los Angeles resources from being used in immigration enforcement operations.
The president has argued vehemently against sanctuary cities, saying in April: “No more Sanctuary Cities! They protect the Criminals, not the Victims. They are disgracing our Country, and are being mocked all over the World. Working on papers to withhold all Federal Funding for any City or State that allows these Death Traps to exist!!!”
The DHS announcement also comes as the president&#8217;s federal enforcement operation in Washington, D.C., has announced dozens of arrests of illegal immigrants every night since August 7, when Trump&#8217;s crime enforcement began. On Monday night, for example, federal authorities <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-less-than-a-month-trumps-federal-d-c-force-makes-more-than-1k-arrests?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=In+Less+Than+A+Month%2C+Trump%E2%80%99s+Federal+D.C.+Force+Makes+More+Than+1K+Arrests">made a total of 87 arrests</a>, 39 of whom were illegal aliens with prior arrests for DUI, simple assault, second degree assault, sexual solicitation, felony robbery, contempt of court, and more.
One Mexican illegal alien arrested in D.C. on Monday night had a prior arrest for child rape and three prior immigration encounters. Another illegal alien arrested on Monday evening was a member of Tren de Aragua.

Sen. Alex Padilla is forcibly removed from Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference

MILESTONE: DHS Arrests 5,000th Illegal Alien In Los Angeles — And Noem Promises More

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Rapper Lil Nas X has been hospitalized after he was spotted wandering the streets of Los Angeles in his underwear just before 6 a.m. on Thursday.
The “Old Town Road” singer was arrested by responding officers on the 11000 block of Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley after witnesses called in reports of a naked man in the area. Police said the celeb charged at officers when they arrived, per <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/lil-nas-x-arrested-wandering-naked-los-angeles-street-charging-officer-rcna226398">NBC News</a>. 
A source said that the rapper, whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill, punched one of the responding officers twice in the face.
“He was transported to a local hospital for a possible overdose and placed under arrest for battery on a police officer,” the police report said. 
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Several videos <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2025/08/21/lil-nas-x-hospitalized-possible-overdose/">shared by TMZ</a> show Hill walking down the streets clad in nothing but underwear and white cowboy boots. The rapper can be heard saying, “Come to the party,” and “Didn’t I tell you to put the phone down?”
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“Uh oh, someone’s going to have to pay for that,” Hill said at another point. The clips show him strutting down the street as if he’s walking a runway and putting an orange traffic cone on his head.
The Atlanta-born recording artist burst onto the scene with viral hits like “Old Town Road” and “Industry Baby,” but quickly became controversial due to his provocative routines, which often included satanic imagery and messaging. 
In 2021, he promoted 666 pairs of limited-edition ‘Satan Shoes’—<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/28/style/nike-satan-shoes-lil-Nas-x.html">unauthorized Nike Air Max 97s</a> released alongside the Satan-themed hit ‘Montero.&#8217; That same year, Lil Nas X gave an over-the-top, sexually explicit performance of the song during the season finale of NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Saturday Night Live.&#8221;
Later, Hill <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blasphemous-lil-nas-x-blasted-for-promoting-new-song-j-christ-with-image-of-rapper-on-a-cross?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Blasphemous%E2%80%99%3A+Lil+Nas+X+Blasted+For+Promoting+New+Song+%E2%80%98J+Christ%E2%80%99+With+Image+Of+Rapper+On+A+Cross">claimed</a> to be entering his “Christian era” by releasing worship music and a song about Jesus Christ. But the video showed Hill himself being crucified.

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From ‘Old Town Road’ To ‘Tighty-Whitey Boulevard’: Lil Nas X Busted After L.A. Underwear Escapade

Rapper Little Nas X Arrested, Hospitalized After Wandering L.A. Streets In His Underwear

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The former Los Angeles fire chief, who was fired by Democratic Mayor Karen Bass in February after the deadly Palisades fire raged for weeks, filed a legal claim against the city on Wednesday, accusing Bass of orchestrating a &#8220;defamation and retaliation campaign&#8221; to save her political image.
Ex-fire chief Kristin Crowley said that Bass “orchestrated a campaign of misinformation, defamation, and retaliation” in an effort to move the spotlight off of herself, &#8220;while concealing the extent to which she undermined public safety,” the Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-20/former-los-angeles-fire-chief-accuses-mayor-bass-of-defamation">reported</a>. Crowley&#8217;s legal claim noted that Bass was taking the brunt of the criticism over her decision to leave the country and attend a ceremony in Ghana when the fire first broke out.
“As the Fire Chief, for nearly three years, I advocated for the proper funding, staffing and infrastructure upgrades to better support and protect our Firefighters, and by extension, our communities,” Crowley told the Times. “The lies, deceit, exaggerations and misrepresentations need to be addressed with the only thing that can refute them — the true facts.”
California requires a legal claim to be filed before a lawsuit against a government entity, according to the Times.
The rift between Crowley and Bass began after the former fire chief blamed the mayor&#8217;s $17.5 million cuts to the L.A. fire department&#8217;s budget, while Bass said that Crowley sent 1,000 firefighters home before the Pacific Palisades fire broke out, despite the drought conditions and high winds creating a high-risk fire environment. Twelve people died in the Pacific Palisades fire, and around 7,000 homes were destroyed.
A month before the fire broke out, Crowley <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/l-a-fire-chief-warned-democrat-mayor-bass-budget-cuts-severely-limited-fire-response">wrote</a> in a memo that the budget cuts “severely limited the department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires.”
In the legal claim, Crowley&#8217;s lawyers said that Bass “initially praised the department’s preparedness” after fire crews responded to the fire.
“But as criticism mounted over her absence, Bass reversed course,” the legal claim added. “She sought to shift blame to Crowley, falsely stating that Bass was not aware of the nationally anticipated weather event, that Crowley sent 1,000 firefighters home who could have fought the blaze, and misrepresenting the department’s budget.”
The claim also stated that the “LAFD did not have sufficient operating emergency vehicles to safely and effectively pre-deploy 1,000 (or anywhere near 1,000) additional firefighters on January 7.” Bass accused Crowley of allowing 40 available engines to sit &#8220;idle&#8221; before the fire erupted, but the ex-fire chief&#8217;s lawyers are pushing back against that claim too, saying that “the LAFD staffed all its front-line fire engines (including all the 40 engines that Bass later falsely stated sat ‘idle’).”
Bass reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/la-fire-chief-reportedly-called-to-mayors-office-to-be-fired-heres-what-we-know">summoned</a> Crowley to her office on January 10, and Crowley expected to be fired during that meeting. The fire chief, however, wasn&#8217;t ousted until February 21, six weeks after the Pacific Palisades fire was finally extinguished. During the January 10 meeting, Crowley&#8217;s lawyers claimed that Bass chewed her out for complaining about the fire department&#8217;s funding. Bass allegedly told her, “I don’t know why you had to do that; normally we are on the same page, and I don’t know why you had to say stuff to the media.&#8221;
Bass also said that Crowley refused to conduct an after-action report after she was ordered to, but Crowley&#8217;s lawyers insisted that she was only asked about an after-action report and never instructed to produce one. During the back-and-forth with Bass, Crowley was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/los-angeles-fire-chief-axed-by-mayor-bass">defended</a> by the 3,000-member L.A. firefighter union, which stated, &#8220;While we haven’t agreed on everything, you’ve been the only fire chief in decades to repeatedly demand adequate resources.&#8221;

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass bristled on Thursday after dozens of Border Patrol agents appeared outside of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s press conference.
Newsom held a highly touted press conference on Thursday to outline California’s plan to counter GOP redistricting efforts in Texas. During Newsom’s remarks, roughly 100 federal officers <a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/feds-conduct-apparent-raid-just-outside-newsom-press-conference-in-downtown-los-angeles/">gathered</a> just outside the venue, the Japanese American National Museum, in preparation for an apparent raid in the area.
“There is no way this was a coincidence. This was widely publicized that the governor and many of our other elected officials were having a press conference here to talk about redistricting, and they decided they were going to come and thumb their nose in front of the governor&#8217;s face. Why would you do that? That is unbelievably disrespectful. It’s a provocative act,” <a href="https://x.com/LATACO/status/1956076782035329086">said</a> Bass later.
“They&#8217;re talking about disorder in Los Angeles, and they are the source of the disorder in Los Angeles right now. This is just completely unacceptable,” she continued. “This is an administration, this is a Customs and Border Patrol that has gone amok. This absolutely has to stop. There was no danger here, there was no need to detain anyone here, and there was certainly no need to have a provocative act right here where the governor is having a press conference.”
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Newsom’s office posted a video on social media of some of the federal agents, suggesting that the agents were ordered there as an act of intimidation.
“BORDER PATROL HAS SHOWED UP AT OUR BIG BEAUTIFUL PRESS CONFERENCE! WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED!” an X account for Newsom’s office posted.
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BORDER PATROL HAS SHOWED UP AT OUR BIG BEAUTIFUL PRESS CONFERENCE! WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED! <a href="https://t.co/Bu4gmbeY40">pic.twitter.com/Bu4gmbeY40</a>
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovPressOffice/status/1956061011225780421?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin denied Bass’ accusation, saying in a statement that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol regularly “patrols all areas of Los Angeles every day with over 40 teams on the ground to make LA safe.”
“Our law enforcement operations are about enforcing the law — not about Gavin Newsom,” she added.
During the press conference, Newsom announced plans to hold a special election that would allow California’s legislature to redraw its congressional map. California’s map is currently set by an independent commission. Even so, out of California’s 52 congressional districts, just nine are held by Republicans despite President Donald Trump earning nearly 40% of vote in 2024.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection parked a Penske rental truck in a Los Angeles Home Depot parking lot on Wednesday morning, before the back door of the truck rolled open and numerous agents poured out, chasing down suspected illegal immigrants.
The undercover raid, referred to by U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief Greg Bovino as &#8220;Operation Trojan Horse,&#8221; resulted in 16 arrests, The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-06/more-raids-home-depot-in-macarthur-park-raided">reported</a>. The roundup focused on the Home Depot in Westlake, an area of L.A. that the Department of Homeland Security says is overrun by illegal immigrants linked to MS-13, Matt Finn of Fox News reported. DHS did not say if anyone arrested in the Home Depot parking lot on Wednesday was an MS-13 member.
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Breaking: DHS arrives in Penske trucks at a Home Depot in McArthur Park area of LA for early morning immigration enforcement. The area was filled with migrants who scattered. DHS says MS 13 has a chokehold on this area, which is one reason they’re carrying out the highly… <a href="https://t.co/hTskuM9Q4l">pic.twitter.com/hTskuM9Q4l</a>
— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattFinnFNC/status/1953106063429124220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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BREAKING: federal immigration operation underway right now at Home 
Depot near McArthur Park in LA, near site where Karen Bass showed up last month during immigration enforcement. <a href="https://t.co/UUkJeIAKe9">pic.twitter.com/UUkJeIAKe9</a>
— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) August 6, 2025</blockquote>
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The arrests come shortly after over 1,000 National Guard troops left the area following the riots that broke out in L.A. in response to President Donald Trump&#8217;s crackdown on illegal immigrants. Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli <a href="https://x.com/USAttyEssayli/status/1953117322333348006">commented</a> on Wednesday&#8217;s &#8220;Trojan Horse&#8221; immigration raid, writing on X, &#8220;For those who thought immigration enforcement had stopped in Southern California, think again. The enforcement of federal law is not negotiable, and there are no sanctuaries from the reach of the federal government.&#8221;
Penske released a statement on Customs and Border Protection using one of its trucks in the raid. The company said it was not aware that one of its trucks &#8220;would be used in today&#8217;s operation and did not authorize this.&#8221;
&#8220;Penske will reach out to DHS and reinforce its policy to avoid improper use of its vehicles in the future,&#8221; the company added.
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A statement from Penske Truck Rental <a href="https://t.co/R000nxtda0">pic.twitter.com/R000nxtda0</a>
— Penske Transportation Solutions (@PenskeNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/PenskeNews/status/1953130587411066951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Social media users, including the DHS, pointed out that Penske quickly released a statement condemning the Trump administration&#8217;s use of its vehicles for immigration enforcement, but when human smugglers were <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/border-agents-find-58-migrants-crammed-penske-truck-alleged-human-smuggling">caught</a> using a Penske truck to transport 58 migrants to the United States in 2023, the company was silent.
&#8220;Care to remind the American people what Penske said when this happened? Silence speaks volumes,&#8221; the DHS wrote on X. &#8220;The brave agents of @ICEgov and @CBP will continue carrying out their mission to protect Americans.&#8221;
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Care to remind the American people what Penske said when this happened? Silence speaks volumes.
The brave agents of <a href="https://twitter.com/ICEgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ICEgov</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/CBP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CBP</a> will continue carrying out their mission to protect Americans. <a href="https://t.co/tuF06VNR5C">https://t.co/tuF06VNR5C</a> <a href="https://t.co/IHfr373W9A">pic.twitter.com/IHfr373W9A</a>
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/1953160213386936462?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2025</a></blockquote>

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Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass immediately declared victory when reports began to circulate that more than 1,000 U.S. troops were being pulled back from her city, but it was Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth who got the last word.
Bass shared a New York Times article <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/troop-withdrawal-los-angeles.html">reporting</a> the imminent drawdown of 1,350 American service members — who were initially deployed to the California city to protect federal personnel and property as violent protests and riots threatened the work and safety of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents — and added her own comment.
&#8220;Another win for Los Angeles tonight: 1,000 more troops are retreating. We will continue this pressure until ALL troops are out of L.A.,&#8221; she crowed, claiming that the troops were &#8220;retreating&#8221; under pressure from politicians like herself.
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Another win for Los Angeles tonight: 1,000 more troops are retreating.
We will continue this pressure until ALL troops are out of L.A.<a href="https://t.co/spbTtO09TS">https://t.co/spbTtO09TS</a>
— Mayor Karen Bass (@MayorOfLA) <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorOfLA/status/1950784025511292967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hegseth responded to Bass, explaining that the troops were only leaving Los Angeles because the situation was finally under control — which it certainly was not when they had first arrived — and they were able to redeploy elsewhere having completed a successful mission in her city despite her unwillingness to help.
&#8220;You’re welcome Mayor,&#8221; Hegseth posted. &#8220;These brave troops are redeploying because their mission was so successful. You should be thanking them for saving your city from mobs &amp; chaos. We will continue to support law enforcement—even when you won’t.&#8221;
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You’re welcome Mayor.
These brave troops are redeploying because their mission was so successful.
You should be thanking them for saving your city from mobs &amp; chaos.
We will continue to support law enforcement—even when you won’t. <a href="https://t.co/BQPKfDQTJk">https://t.co/BQPKfDQTJk</a>
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteHegseth/status/1950971699299586222?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hegseth was not the only one to respond to the L.A. mayor&#8217;s claims.
&#8220;What an actual idiot &#8230; They are not &#8216;retreating.&#8217; They are redeploying, because they did their job, you Marxist,&#8221; actor Dean Cain replied.
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What an actual idiot&#8230; 
They are not &#8220;retreating.&#8221; They are redeploying, because they did their job, you Marxist. <a href="https://t.co/dS1vFXylcD">https://t.co/dS1vFXylcD</a>
— Dean Cain (@RealDeanCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealDeanCain/status/1951010235277254804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You’re not pressuring anyone or anything. The Trump Administration moved in, quelled the chaos and did the job you’re incapable of doing. Now that the job is done, the troops are being moved out. If we left the them there indefinitely, you’d b**** about that, too. You’re a joke!&#8221; another posted.
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You’re not pressuring anyone or anything. The Trump Administration moved in, quelled the chaos and did the job you’re incapable of doing. Now that the job is done, the troops are being moved out. If we left the them there indefinitely, you’d bitch about that, too. You’re a joke!
— Suburban Black Man 🇺🇸 (@niceblackdude) <a href="https://twitter.com/niceblackdude/status/1950788442528317898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You realize that you are completely irrelevant and inconsequential to ANY troop movements, right? You&#8217;re like a spectator in the stands, watching a team win, and then cheering, &#8216;I DID IT!!'&#8221; another said.
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You realize that you are completely irrelevant and inconsequential to ANY troop movements, right?
You&#8217;re like a spectator in the stands, watching a team win, and then cheering, &#8220;I DID IT!!&#8221;
— Grateful Calvin (@shoveitjack) <a href="https://twitter.com/shoveitjack/status/1950975200729899402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Approximately 250 troops remain in Los Angeles, according to Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell, and they will remain there as long as necessary to continue protecting federal personnel and property.

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L.A. Mayor Declares Victory As Troops Move Out, But Pete Hegseth Has Last Word

L.A. Mayor Declares Victory As Troops Move Out, But Pete Hegseth Has The Last Word

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One of the nation’s leading labor unions has been at the forefront in the fight against Immigration and Customs Enforcement since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. But one of the union’s affiliates is the largest shareholder in a bank that has invested nearly $10 million in companies that contract with ICE, equipping agents for raids and managing illegal alien detention facilities.
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its affiliate, Workers United, have both vocally opposed ICE&#8217;s immigration enforcement operations. The SEIU joined recent <a href="https://www.seiu721.org/2025/06/seiu-721-joins-allies-to-launch-the-summer-of-resistance.php">protests</a> against ICE in Los Angeles and <a href="https://act.seiu.org/a/end-ice-raids-now">railed</a> against the “ICE terror machine.” The union’s anti-ICE activism hit a fever pitch after SEIU leader David Huerta was arrested by federal agents and <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5340866-labor-chief-huerta-charged-ice-raid/">charged</a> with conspiracy to impede an officer after he allegedly attempted to prevent federal authorities from executing a search warrant in Los Angeles.
Workers United has <a href="https://workersunited.org/joint-boards/laundry-distribution-and-food-service-joint-board">said</a> that it is “committed to passing comprehensive immigration reform that allows all immigrant workers to live and work without fear,&#8221; and the Starbucks Workers United division has <a href="https://x.com/SBWorkersUnited/status/1932179453637206041">called for</a> “an end to the ICE raids.”
Workers United is also the single largest shareholder in Amalgamated Bank, an ideologically-driven financial institution that <a href="https://www.amalgamatedbank.com/csr">parrots</a> left-wing talking points on climate change and the diversity agenda and <a href="https://www.amalgamatedbank.com/our-story">brands itself</a> “America’s socially responsible bank.” The SEIU affiliate owns 40% of Amalgamated Bank, <a href="https://www.amalgamatedbank.com/news/labor-of-love">according to</a> the financial institution. The bank even boasted that the top five Democratic presidential campaigns banked with Amalgamated during the 2020 election season.
But first quarter 2025 <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/919192/000091919225000004/xslForm13F_X02/form_f13_data_20250331.xml">disclosures</a> filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveal that the bank is invested in at least four companies that contract with ICE or Border Patrol.
The bank held over $1.1 million worth of shares in the GEO Group, which &#8220;operates special-purpose, state-of-the-art residential centers on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” <a href="https://www.geogroup.com/ice/">according</a> to the group&#8217;s website.
The bank’s longstanding investment in the GEO Group appears to have been particularly profitable, with the stock increasing in value by nearly 85% since the last quarter of 2022.
The SEC disclosure indicates that Amalgamated Bank held roughly $633,000 in CoreCivic, which <a href="https://www.corecivic.com/private-detention">calls itself</a> “a longstanding federal government partner that operates immigration detention facilities.”
Of the top 20 ICE detention centers by detainee population as of January, Amalgamated Bank was invested in 13 of them because it owns shares of the GEO Group and CoreCivic, research from the Center for Union Facts indicates.
&#8220;Workers United has backed high-profile organizing campaigns by riding the wave of young workers&#8217; progressive ideals,” said the Center for Union Facts&#8217; Communications Director Charlyce Bozzello. “But behind the union’s carefully crafted image as a social justice warrior lies hypocrisy the union doesn&#8217;t publicize. It’s time workers and the public take a hard look at what this union really stands for.&#8221;
Amalgamated Bank also held more than $8.1 million worth of shares in Axon Enterprises, which was <a href="https://www.federalcompass.com/award-contract-detail/70CMSW23D00000003">awarded</a> a multimillion-dollar federal contract to provide ICE agents with tasers. The bank held another $27,000 worth of shares in Cadre Holdings, which does business with <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=063411641715ddcf41ef7df21aaf07d0">ICE</a> and <a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70B03C18F00000197_7014_HSBP1015D00020_7014">Customs and Border Protection</a>, supplying the federal government with riot control equipment under the brand names “Safariland” and “Aardvark.”
Workers United, SEIU, and Amalgamated Bank did not respond to requests for comment.

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Three Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s deputies were killed in an explosion at a training center Friday morning.
Local and federal authorities are on the scene investigating after &#8220;a loud noise&#8221; was heard at the sheriff department&#8217;s Biscailuz Center Training Academy, east of downtown, around 7:30 a.m. PT, KTLA <a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/explosion-reported-at-east-l-a-sheriffs-training-center/">reported</a>. Aerial footage from the scene showed damage to the rear windshield of what appears to be an L.A. County Sheriff&#8217;s Department bomb squad truck.
L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna revealed in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/IJJb24ADfgI?si=1-NyZoM0JB9-Uqha&amp;t=10967">press conference</a> that the three deputies killed were assigned to the arson explosives detail. It was previously reported that a fourth person was injured in the explosion and transported to a hospital, but Luna clarified that no one else was wounded in the blast.
&#8220;This is, unfortunately, is the largest loss of life for us as the L.A. County Sheriff&#8217;s Department since 1857. Between all three sworn members, they had served the community proudly for 74 years,&#8221; Luna said.
Authorities are not yet releasing the names of those killed in the blast as family members are still being notified.
Luna said that &#8220;there is a lot more that we don&#8217;t know than what we do know&#8221; about what caused the explosion. He added that homicide detectives are on the scene investigating the deaths with the assistance of the FBI. The LAPD&#8217;s bomb squad successfully &#8220;render[ed] the devices safe,&#8221; shortly before the sheriff took the podium. Luna said there &#8220;is no threat to this community.&#8221;
The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-18/explosion-la-sheriff-training-facility">reported</a> that a bomb squad was moving an explosive ordnance at the time of the explosion. The Los Angeles Police Department’s bomb squad arrived at the scene a little over an hour after the blast.
&#8220;I just spoke to [U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli] about what appears to be a horrific incident that killed at least three at a law enforcement training facility in Los Angeles,&#8221; U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1946234954620313884">said</a>. &#8220;Our federal agents are at the scene and we are working to learn more. Please pray for the families of the sheriff’s deputies killed.&#8221;
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🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: 3 KILLED AFTER EXPLOSION AT LA COUNTY SHERIFF FACILITY
A deadly explosion rocked the LA County Sheriff’s S.E.B. compound in East L.A.
It reportedly happened next to a Bomb Squad vehicle and shattered nearby windows.
At least 3 people are confirmed dead.… <a href="https://t.co/BeNFPaill2">pic.twitter.com/BeNFPaill2</a>
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1946230139307819031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The City of L.A. is supporting the @LASDHQ through this horrific incident in Monterey Park. LAFD/ATF arson investigators and members of the LAPD bomb squad are assisting at the training facility,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/MayorOfLA/status/1946243632152846400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1946243632152846400%7Ctwgr%5E131f531b4ebaf2443accd12c347fa8ef63b09541%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fabc7.com%2Fpost%2Fat-least-3-killed-apparent-explosion-lasd-facility%2F17180373%2F">said</a> L.A. Mayor Karen Bass. &#8220;The thoughts of all Angelenos are with all of those impacted by this blast.&#8221;
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The Pentagon announced Tuesday that 2,000 National Guardsmen sent to Los Angeles to quell the June riots would be withdrawn. Pentagon Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell cited mission success as the reason for the withdrawal.
In a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-military-remove-2000-national-guard-troops-los-angeles-2025-07-15/">statement</a> Tuesday, Parnell said, &#8220;Thanks to our troops who stepped up to answer the call, the lawlessness in Los Angeles is subsiding. … As such, the Secretary has ordered the release of 2,000 California National Guardsmen from the federal protection mission.&#8221;
Following increased apprehension rates by ICE agents in the Los Angeles area in early June, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kill-ice-foreign-flags-and-fires-sweep-la-as-riots-erupt-against-immigration-enforcement">protests</a> against the federal agents broke out. Videos quickly surfaced of rioters throwing bricks and Molotov cocktails at armored vehicles.
Responding decisively to what he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-vows-to-liberate-los-angeles-shut-down-migrant-riots-and-insurrectionist-mobs">called</a> &#8220;violent, insurrectionist mobs,&#8221; President Donald Trump federalized 4,000 members of the California National Guard within days. Trump argued that the government needed to step in to protect overwhelmed law enforcement personnel and federal buildings, as well as to restore order to the city.
Following closely on the heels of the deployment of the National Guard, the Trump administration then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/photos-u-s-marines-prepare-to-deploy-to-los-angeles?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=PHOTOS%3A+U.S.+Marines+Prepare+To+Deploy+To+Los+Angeles">sent</a> about 700 Marines to support local law enforcement.
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-scores-big-win-against-newsom-in-california-national-guard-clash?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Scores+%E2%80%98Big+Win%E2%80%99+Against+Newsom+In+California+National+Guard+Clash">criticized</a> the federalization of the state&#8217;s National Guard, which he argued was not only ineffective and unnecessary but unconstitutional as well. Based on his assessment of the unconstitutionality of Trump&#8217;s actions, he sued the Trump administration.
An appeals court promptly heard the case and dismissed it. &#8220;Both irreparable harm and the public interest weigh in favor of Defendants, who have an uncontested interest in the protection of federal agents and property and the faithful execution of law,&#8221; the court wrote in its decision.
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass originally fumed over Trump&#8217;s deployment of soldiers to her city, <a href="https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1931789763943547121">calling</a> it a &#8220;chaotic escalation.&#8221; Within a few days of the federal troops&#8217; arrival in L.A., Bass instituted a curfew.
Since their deployment, the military personnel in L.A. have continued to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/los-angeles-mayor-protestors-swarm-ice-officers-raiding-ms-13-controlled-park?author=Sam+Korkus&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=8&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Los+Angeles+Mayor%2C+Protestors+Swarm+ICE+Officers+Raiding+MS-13-Controlled+Park">assist</a> in the enforcement of immigration law while protecting federal property. In a recent clash, the military collaborated with ICE agents to raid a park known to be controlled by MS-13 gang members.
According to a new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sen-marsha-blackburn-bill-targets-lawless-states-no-free-passes-after-anti-ice-riots">estimate</a>, the deployment of the 4,000 National Guards and 700 Marines cost the federal government around $130 million. 
Reacting to the news that half of the active National Guardsmen in Los Angeles will be withdrawn, Bass said in a <a href="https://x.com/MayorOfLA/status/1945265117202977226">post</a> that, &#8220;This retreat happened because the people of Los Angeles stood united and stood strong. … We will not stop making our voices heard until this ends, not just here in LA, but throughout our country.&#8221;

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