Fears of 'martial law' have hovered since unrest began in Los Angeles. But the term is hazy and confusing, both locally in ...

Around 200 Marines armed with rifles, riot control equipment, gas masks, roughly 20 hours of civil disturbance training and ...

The challenge for movements now is not just to oppose Trump’s naked power grab, but to refuse to play the role he’s cast us ...

Federal and state officials have declared martial law 68 times in the past, such as in Hawaii following the Japanese attack ...

Presidents face high public demands, often exceeding their powers, leading to bold actions that test legal and constitutional ...

Over the past week, President Trump has deployed more military troops to the streets of Los Angeles than there are stationed ...

The country has become a cauldron of anger and unease as it enters a weekend promised to be marked by protests and a military ...

Protests against immigration enforcement have rippled across the country.

Can an individual who is just standing there and something breaks out be arrested? Is an individual able to run over a protester?” ...

Chief Michel Moore pushed back on President Trump’s deployment of military troops to Los Angeles in an opinion piece published Friday in The New York ...

About 700 Marines and more than 4,000 National Guard have been deployed at the cost of $134 million. William Deverell is a professor of history at USC’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.