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FOX News [6/14/2025 10:58 PM, Alexandra Koch, 46878K] reports multiple police officers were injured in Portland, Oregon Saturday night during a violent riot at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility. A mob launched fireworks, smoke grenades and threw rocks at federal law enforcement, as they broke glass and forcibly entered the ICE facility, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital. Four officers were injured during the attack, though federal law enforcement was able to secure the facility. The riot came after the city hosted a "No Kings" protest at 1 p.m., which officials labeled a "large-scale free speech gathering." Tens of thousands of people marched through downtown and returned to Waterfront Park at about 4 p.m., which is about five miles from the ICE field location. The Portland Police Bureau (PPB) declared an unlawful assembly near the facility at about 6:30 p.m. local time, warning it would use crowd control measures, including impact munitions or other physical force, if necessary. About 30 minutes later, PPB said a medical event was reported within the ICE facility and medical personnel needed to enter. They warned rioters not to interfere with police, or "force may be used against you," the bureau wrote on social media. At about 8 p.m., PPB said officers observed criminal activity including assault and criminal mischief and would be making targeted arrests. "Do not interfere with police action," the agency wrote in a subsequent post. "Failure to adhere to this order may subject you to citation or arrest." It is unclear how many arrests, if any, were made. "Portland rioters are violently targeting federal law enforcement and we won’t sit idly by and watch these cowards," McLaughlin said. "Secretary [Kristi] Noem’s message to the rioters is clear: you will not stop us or slow us down. ICE and our federal law enforcement partners will continue to enforce the law. And if you lay a hand on a law enforcement officer, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law." The New York Post [6/15/2025 5:21 AM, Alexandra Koch, 49956K] reports that the riot came after the city hosted a "No Kings" protest at 1 p.m., which officials labeled a "large-scale free speech gathering.” Tens of thousands of people marched through downtown and returned to Waterfront Park at about 4 p.m., which is about five miles from the ICE field location. The Portland Police Bureau (PPB) declared an unlawful assembly near the facility at about 6:30 p.m. local time, warning it would use crowd control measures, including impact munitions or other physical force, if necessary. About 30 minutes later, PPB said a medical event was reported within the ICE facility and medical personnel needed to enter. They warned rioters not to interfere with police, or "force may be used against you," the bureau wrote on social media. At about 8 p.m., PPB said officers observed criminal activity including assault and criminal mischief and would be making targeted arrests. "Do not interfere with police action," the agency wrote in a subsequent post. "Failure to adhere to this order may subject you to citation or arrest.” It is unclear how many arrests, if any, were made. The riot came as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) addressed the doxxing of its ICE agents on X. Posters pasted around the city include agents’ identities, photos and addresses. DHS said it will not be deterred from enforcing the law. "We will NOT be deterred by rioters’ intimidation and threats," DHS wrote in the post. "ICE immigration enforcement will only ramp up. The violent targeting of law enforcement in Portland, OR by lawless rioters is despicable, and its leaders must call for it to end.” PPB did not immediately respond to inquiries from Fox News Digital. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

AP [6/14/2025 4:29 PM, Aamer Madhani and Elliot Spagat, 56000K] reports the Trump administration directed immigration officers to pause arrests at farms, restaurants and hotels, after President Donald Trump expressed alarm about the impact of aggressive enforcement, an official said Saturday. The move follows weeks of increased enforcement since Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff and main architect of Trump’s immigration policies, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers would target at least 3,000 arrests a day, up from about 650 a day during the first five months of Trump’s second term. Tatum King, an official with ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations unit, wrote regional leaders on Thursday to halt investigations of the agricultural industry, including meatpackers, restaurants and hotels, according to New York Times. A U.S. official who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed to The Associated Press the contents of the directive. The Homeland Security Department did not dispute it. "We will follow the President’s direction and continue to work to get the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens off of America’s streets," Tricia McLaughlin, a Homeland Security spokesperson, said when asked to confirm the directive. Tom Homan, the White House border czar, has repeatedly said ICE will send officers into communities and workplaces, particularly in "sanctuary" jurisdictions that limit the agency’s access to local jails. Sanctuary cities "will get exactly what they don’t want, more officers in the communities and more officers at the work sites," Homan said Monday on Fox News Channel. "We can’t arrest them in the jail, we’ll arrest them in the community. If we can’t arrest them in community, we’re going to increase work site enforcement operation. We’re going to flood the zone."

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New York Times [6/14/2025 8:06 PM, Tyler Pager, Miriam Jordan, Hamed Aleaziz, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs, 153395K] reports on Wednesday morning, President Trump took a call from Brooke Rollins, his secretary of agriculture, who relayed a growing sense of alarm from the heartland. Farmers and agriculture groups, she said, were increasingly uneasy about his immigration crackdown. Federal agents had begun to aggressively target work sites in recent weeks, with the goal of sharply bolstering the number of arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants. Farmers rely on immigrants to work long hours, Ms. Rollins said. She told the president that farm groups had been warning her that their employees would stop showing up to work out of fear, potentially crippling the agricultural industry. She wasn’t the first person to try to get this message through to the president, nor was it the first time she had spoken to him about it. But the president was persuaded. The next morning, he posted a message on his social media platform, Truth Social, that took an uncharacteristically softer tone toward the very immigrants he has spent much of his political career demonizing. Immigrants in the farming and hospitality industries are “very good, long time workers,” he said. “Changes are coming.” Some influential Trump donors who learned about the post began reaching out to people in the White House, urging Mr. Trump to include the restaurant sector in any directive to spare undocumented workers from enforcement. Inside the West Wing, top White House officials were caught off guard — and furious at Ms. Rollins. Many of Mr. Trump’s top aides, particularly Stephen Miller, his deputy chief of staff, have urged a hard-line approach, targeting all immigrants without legal status to fulfill the president’s promise of the biggest deportation campaign in American history. But the decision had been made. Later on Thursday, a senior official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Tatum King, sent an email to regional leaders at the agency informing them of new guidance. Agents were to “hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels.”

Washington Examiner [6/14/2025 7:00 AM, Anna Giaritelli, 1934K] reports the United Farm Workers, a labor union for farmworkers in the United States, posted pictures and reports from eyewitnesses in Central California’s farming region that Customs and Border Protection agents were going after workers on Friday. Neither CBP nor ICE responded to requests for comment regarding whether they were told not to continue targeting farmworkers. Very quickly, the White House received pushback about targeting immigrant workers. The brunt of the blowback came from elected officials in the Golden State. Sens. Alex Padilla (D-CA) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) jointly decried ICE targeting workers in the field. Foreign workers make up 86% of agricultural workers in the U.S., and nearly half of all agricultural workers, or 283,000, are undocumented, according to the Center for Migration Studies in New York. Amid the criticism, the White House said it would walk back the expansion and put in place protections for those specific workers. But the UFW said the continuation of raids targeting immigrants on Friday suggested that Trump was not really running the show, or he was insincere. Asked if federal law enforcement would continue to go after illegal immigrants working on farms, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said it is following the White House’s orders. "We will follow the President’s direction and continue to work to get the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens off of America’s streets," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement.

Wall Street Journal [6/14/2025 1:54 PM, Paul Kiernan and Katherin Sayre, 646K] reports Pablo Delpilar immigrated from Mexico 25 years ago, has five children who are U.S. citizens, aged 14 to 22, and runs a small street stand selling toys from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. He is one of the millions of immigrants who make up greater Los Angeles’s Hispanic community, one of the nation’s largest and oldest. Some crossed the border illegally, overstayed visas or were brought here illegally as children and are stuck in legal limbo. They assumed President Trump wouldn’t target them for deportation and that he would instead focus on criminals and more recent arrivals. The raids that unfolded here this past week, triggering protests and Trump’s deployment of National Guard and active duty troops, shattered that belief and altered life for a community that underpins the economy of the nation’s second-largest metropolis. Normally bustling streets hit by immigration raids were quiet, as some families retreated into their homes. While other immigrants living here illegally ventured to work out of necessity, they say their thoughts were haunted by the possibility that they wouldn’t see their families again. The immediate effect has been a falloff in business, and a strain in some parts of the labor force. After several carwashes around Los Angeles were hit by Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids on Sunday and Monday, at least one remained closed for lack of workers. On Thursday, Trump posted on social media that farmers and “people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them.” The administration soon after instructed immigration officials to hold off on workplace raids of farms, restaurants and hotels. A farmworkers union said raids affecting farmworkers continued even after the guidance was issued. L.A. officials said the raids have also targeted hospitals, schools and homeless shelters.

Telemundo [6/14/2025 10:06 PM, Jonathan Dienst, Chris Jose, Chris Glorioso and Jennifer Millman, 145K] reports federal officials apprehended one of four fugitive detainees who disappeared from an immigration detention center in New Jersey earlier this week. Several senior law enforcement officials reported that Joel Enrique Sandoval-Lopez was located as far away as Passaic on Saturday and captured by the FBI and ICE. Sandoval-Lopez was among four detainees at the Delaney Hall facility in Newark, where ICE has held people facing possible deportation. On Friday, a day after they disappeared, the Department of Homeland Security offered a $10,000 reward for information. The four apparently tore down a wall at the facility, the construction of which Newark Mayor Ras Baraka said did not have a permit. New Jersey Senator Andy Kim called the construction "basically just drywall with mesh on the inside, which resulted in an exterior wall. This shows the poor quality of the construction." The men ended up in a parking lot and jumped a fence. Kim says officials in charge of Delaney Hall are examining other walls that could be vulnerable. "They were implying that they are going to remove all the detainees from this facility," Kim said. Local and state authorities have been notified of the escaped detainees. The Department of Homeland Security identified the four detainees who escaped from Delaney Hall as "threats to public safety." Franklin Norberto Bautista-Reyes: allegedly entered the United States illegally in 2021. On May 3, 2025, the Wayne Township, N.J., Police Department arrested Bautista for aggravated assault, intent to cause bodily injury, terroristic threats and possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes. Joel Enrique Sandoval-Lopez: allegedly illegally entered the United States as a minor in 2019. On Oct. 3, 2024, the Passaic, N.J., Police Department arrested Sandoval for unlawful possession of a handgun. He was arrested again on February 15, 2025, by the Passaic Police Department for aggravated assault. Joan Sebastian Castaneda-Lozada: from Colombia, allegedly entered the U.S. illegally in 2022. On May 15, 2025, the Hammonton Police Department of New Jersey arrested Castaneda for robbery, burglary and conspiracy to commit robbery. Andres Pineda-Mogollon, a resident of Colombia, overstayed his tourist visa and entered the United States in 2023, according to DHS. On April 25, 2025, the New York City Police Department arrested Pineda for petty theft. On May 21, 2025, the Union, N.J., Police Department arrested Pineda for residential burglary, conspiracy to commit residential burglary and possession of burglary tools. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Washington Post [6/14/2025 9:48 PM, Patrick Marley, Danielle Paquette, Tobi Raji and Scott Dance, 32099K] reports a gunman killed a top Democratic lawmaker and her husband in Minnesota after wounding another legislator and his wife in the predawn hours, sparking a wide manhunt for the perpetrator of what officials called a targeted attack. Authorities identified the suspect as Vance Luther Boelter, 57, who is listed as the “director of security patrols” on a private protection firm’s website. He disguised himself as a police officer before killing veteran state Speaker Rep. Melissa Hortman and her spouse, officials said, and then fled on foot, leaving behind an SUV that included what police are investigating as a hit list. The roughly 70-name roster featured Democrats supporting abortion rights and other liberal causes. Authorities said they did not yet know if others were involved in the attack, which rattled the nation and thrust a normally calm Midwestern community into an agonizing day of lockdown. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) condemned the bloodshed as an “act of political violence.” The attacker first struck the home of state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, at about 2 a.m., in the Minneapolis suburb of Champlin, authorities said. The couple were treated for multiple bullet wounds and remained hospitalized in stable condition. Then the suspect, wearing a badge and black body armor, allegedly drove roughly five miles to the residence of Hortman and her husband, Mark, in Brooklyn Park, and fatally shot them, the city’s police chief told reporters. His SUV resembled a “police vehicle” with flashing lights, officers who responded to the scene noted. But it became apparent that the man standing in Hortman’s doorway was no colleague when he “immediately fired upon officers,” Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley said. A shootout ensued. The suspect escaped toward a neighborhood golf course, setting off a manhunt that dragged into Saturday evening. The FBI was offering a $50,000 reward for information that led to his capture. Police urged residents to stay home and lock up. Ignore any solo law enforcement at the door, they advised; legitimate officers work in pairs. They cautioned the public to avoid protests, too, including the “No Kings” demonstration scheduled for Saturday outside the statehouse in St. Paul. Organizers announced the event was canceled after police found “No Kings” fliers in the suspect’s abandoned vehicle, raising concerns that he could target those crowds. Hundreds showed up anyway, toting signs that said “Resist” and “We the people.” Yet, the mood seemed somber, one local television reporter on the scene relayed. When the reporter asked attendees how they were doing, she said, she saw “tears, immediately.”

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Washington Post [6/14/2025 8:55 PM, Amy B Wang, Scott Dance and Teddy Amenabar, 32099K] reports the gunman suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses worked for an armed home security company and had done security work overseas, while also proselytizing to bring Christianity to “Islamic militants,” according to a digital trail that includes federal tax documents and his own websites and profiles. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Vance Luther Boelter, who is accused of impersonating a police officer and targeting two Democratic state lawmakers at their homes Saturday in an act of politically motivated violence. Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were killed, while state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were critically injured. Boelter, 57, was last seen in Minneapolis on Saturday morning and should be considered armed and dangerous, police said. He is about 6-foot-1 and 220 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, and is thought to be working to leave the Twin Cities area. Images of Boelter captured Saturday morning show him wearing a light-colored cowboy hat, dark long-sleeved shirt or jacket, light-colored pants and dark sneakers. "The public is asked to call 911 immediately if they see Boelter. Do not approach him," the FBI said. Authorities said that they discovered writings in Boelter’s car that gave "indications" of what could have driven him to carry out the attacks, but that it would be premature to give an exact motive. They also found several fliers for the "No Kings" movement protesting President Donald Trump, which prompted the cancellation of local "No Kings" demonstrations Saturday. A list discovered in the vehicle named prominent abortion rights advocates in Minnesota, including many Democratic lawmakers who have been outspoken about the issue, according to a person who had seen the list and spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the ongoing investigation. The office of Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minnesota) confirmed her name was on the list. Boelter works for a Twin Cities-area armed home security company called Praetorian Guard Security Services, serving as its director of security patrols, according to the company’s website. His bio on the site said he had received training from private security firms and from "people in the U.S. Military" and had "been involved with security situations in Eastern Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East, including the West Bank, Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.” Authorities said they were aware of Boelter’s potential background in security services.

New York Post [6/15/2025 2:33 AM, Nicholas McEntyre, 49956K] reports the wife of the wounded Minnesota state senator targeted during an overnight assassination attempt shielded the couple’s daughter as the masked gunman opened fire on the family, missing the couple’s vital organs by inches, family and reports said. Yvette Hoffman jumped on top of her adult daughter, Hope, while alleged assassin Vance Luther Boelter fired multiple shots at her and State Sen. John Hoffman inside their Minneapolis suburb home early Saturday morning, according to Hoffman’s nephew. "Early this morning, an absolute vile piece of s–t dressed as a cop broke into my aunt and uncle’s house and shot him 6 times and my aunt 5 times in a political act of terrorism. My aunt threw herself on her daughter, using her body as a shield to save her life," Mat Ollig wrote on Facebook. One of the bullets narrowly missed the Democratic senator’s heart, KARE11 reported. Police responded to a 911 call at the residence in Champlin, Minn. just after 2 a.m. and discovered the Hoffmans wounded, rushing them to a hospital where they underwent surgery. Ollig revealed his aunt and uncle were out of surgery and in stable condition. Yvette Hoffman was awake and alert in the hospital as of Saturday night, KMSP reported. Hope Hoffman, who is in her 20s, was not hit in the shooting. Bullet holes riddled the front of the Champlin home, the first house he allegedly targeted in his rampage before driving to Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Rep. Melissa Hortman’s home in Brooklyn Park. Boelter is accused of fatally shooting Hortman and her husband, Mark, inside their home at around 3:30 a.m. The gunman allegedly posed as a police officer and appeared at the front doorsteps of the Hortman residence and opened fire on the couple, officials announced. Rep. Hortman, 55, was pronounced dead at the scene and her husband died at a nearby hospital.

Wall Street Journal [6/14/2025 9:20 PM, John McCormick, Sadie Gurman, and James Fanelli, 646K] reports law enforcement continued to search Saturday night for the suspect in the politically motivated killings of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and the shooting of a second lawmaker and his wife. The suspect, 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter, is believed to have posed as a police officer to gain access to the Brooklyn Park home of State Rep. Melissa Hortman, according to law-enforcement officials. The 55-year-old lawmaker and her husband were fatally shot there early Saturday morning. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called the shootings an act of “targeted political violence.” Boelter was photographed in Minneapolis that morning wearing a cowboy hat, a dark jacket and light pants and carrying a dark bag, authorities said. He is likely trying to flee the Twin Cities region and is considered armed and dangerous, according to officials. He is also suspected in the shooting of state Sen. John Hoffman, 60, and his wife, Yvette, in their Champlin, Minn., home, Walz said. They have undergone surgery, he said. Officials said they were cautiously optimistic both would survive what Walz said was an assassination attempt. The victims’ homes are about 8 miles apart and located roughly 15 to 20 miles north of Minneapolis. Authorities said they found a list in the suspect’s vehicle that named other public officials. Those officials were alerted and have received additional security, police said. The suspect’s list targets prominent individuals who support abortion-rights in Minnesota, including many Democratic lawmakers, according to an official who has seen the list. It wasn’t immediately clear if Boelter knew Hoffman or Hortman, authorities said. “We are still exploring that,” said Drew Evans, superintendent of the bureau of criminal apprehension with the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. “There is certainly some overlap with some public meetings, I will say, with Sen. Hoffman and the individual, but we don’t know the nature of the relationship or if they actually knew each other.” Law-enforcement also found several rifles in Boelter’s vehicle and believe he may still be armed with a pistol, an official said.

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Wall Street Journal [6/14/2025 10:21 PM, Katy Stech Ferek and Tim Hanrahan, 646K] reports on Thursday, Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill were at each other’s throats. By Saturday, they were joining to decry political violence and seek more security. The middle-of-the-night killing in Minnesota of a top Democratic state lawmaker and the shooting of a colleague, allegedly by a suspect posing as a police officer who had a list of other elected officials, jolted Capitol Hill, eight years to the day after Republican lawmakers were targeted by a lone gunman at a congressional baseball practice. Republican House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar and the rest of Minnesota’s congressional delegation released a joint statement saying they “speak with one voice to express our outrage, grief, and condemnation of this horrible attack on public servants.” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R., S.D.), House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) and other lawmakers of both parties issued statements saying there is no place for violence in politics. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) said Saturday that U.S. Capitol Police had agreed to increase security for Minnesota Sens. Tina Smith and Klobuchar, both Democrats, at his request in light of the shooting. Schumer also asked the Senate sergeant at arms, the chamber’s top cop, and Thune to hold a full briefing on member security once lawmakers return. House Republicans held an emergency call to talk about safety concerns, a person familiar with the call said.

Politico [6/14/2025 3:07 PM, Ben Johansen, 16523K] reports Democratic congressional leaders are calling for heightened security on Capitol Hill after a pair of Minnesota state lawmakers were shot in their homes early Saturday. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in a statement Saturday afternoon said that he’s requested and received increased security presence for Minnesota Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith, who were both reportedly additional targets of the suspected assassin. Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley said in a press conference the suspect had a manifesto that “identified many lawmakers and other officials.” Schumer added that he asked the Senate sergeant at arms and Senate Majority Leader John Thune to convene a full briefing “immediately” on member security when senators return to Washington. Schumer sought additional security earlier this week for Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), who was forcefully taken down to the ground and handcuffed after interrupting a press conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries issued a similar statement, asking the House sergeant at arms and U.S. Capitol Police to “ensure the safety of our Minnesota delegation and Members of Congress across the country.” Both Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson released statements strongly condemning the assassination, but did not weigh in on additional security for the Minnesota congressional delegation. Melissa Hortman, a former Minnesota House speaker, and her husband, were shot and killed in their home early Saturday, which Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz described as “targeted political violence.” A second state lawmaker, Sen. John Hoffman, and his wife were shot multiple times in their home. Walz said authorities are “cautiously optimistic they will survive this assassination attempt.” In an interview with a local Minnesota TV station, Hoffman’s nephew said that the senator’s wife, Yvette, “threw herself on top of her daughter” to protect her from the shooter.

NewsMax [6/14/2025 7:41 PM, Jim Thomas, 4622K] reports political leaders from both major parties nationwide are urging calm and condemning political violence after the killing of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and the serious wounding of state Sen. John Hoffman in a pair of shootings state officials say were politically motivated, Politico reported. Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz on Saturday confirmed the deaths of Hortman and her husband, along with serious injuries sustained by Hoffman and his wife in separate attacks. Walz labeled the incidents "politically motivated assassinations.” "This violence is a stain on our state and on our democracy," Walz said. "We are not a country that settles our differences at gunpoint. We have demonstrated again and again in our state that it is possible to peacefully disagree, that our state is strengthened by civil public debate.” Saturday’s shootings mark the latest in a troubling rise in political violence across the United States. Earlier this month, two staffers at the Israeli embassy were shot in Washington in a separate apparent act of political extremism. In response, officials from both political parties issued statements urging Americans to reject violence and focus on civil discourse. California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, D–Salinas, and Republican Minority Leader James Gallagher released a rare bipartisan statement Saturday. "We stand together in condemning it in the strongest possible terms," they wrote. "As leaders on both sides of the aisle, we call on everyone to take down the temperature, respect differences of opinion, and work toward peace in our society.” That message was echoed by the leaders of California’s state Senate. "There is no cause, no grievance, no election justifies the use of fear or force against our fellow human beings," said Democrat Senate President pro-Tempore Mike McGuire and Republican Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones. Minnesota’s full congressional delegation, which includes Democrat Sens. Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar as well as Republican Rep. Tom Emmer, issued a joint statement condemning the shootings. "Today, we speak with one voice to express our outrage, grief, and condemnation of this horrible attack on public servants. There is no place in our democracy for politically motivated violence," the statement read.

Wall Street Journal [6/15/2025 1:43 AM, Joe Barrett, Brenna T. Smith, and John McCormick, 646K] reports the suspect in the shooting of Minnesota lawmakers on Saturday was feeling down and unhappy with his work situation, but showed no signs that he could turn violent, his self-described best friend and part-time roommate said. Police identified the man, who remained at large Saturday, as 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter. Authorities said he impersonated a police officer to gain access to the suburban Minneapolis home of state Rep. Melissa Hortman, a 55-year-old Democratic leader and former speaker of the Minnesota House. She and her husband, Mark, were fatally shot. Boelter is also a suspect in the shooting of state Sen. John Hoffman, 60, and his wife, Yvette, in their home in a suburb farther north. Boelter had built a scattered career that included food companies, retailing and pastoring, public records and his online posts show. He has been living with his wife in a rural area outside the Twin Cities, and staying a few nights a week at a rental home in a working-class Minneapolis neighborhood with a couple of roommates. Boelter was working overnight shifts for an organization that handles eye donations, said one roommate, David Carlson, and was trying to get a security company off the ground. On Friday night, Boelter parked his prowler-style vehicle from his security business at the house and went to his room, Carlson recalled. Carlson knocked on the door, but Boelter said he was tired, so Carlson left him alone, reasoning that he was sometimes on call for the eye-donation firm and might have to be up in the middle of the night. Carlson woke Saturday to a troubling text. Boelter said he was “going to be gone for a while” and “may be dead shortly,” according to local media reports, which Carlson confirmed. The text prompted him to call the police. “I thought he was going to do self-harm,” Carlson said. “I didn’t think he was going to do anything like this.” Authorities said they found a list in the suspect’s vehicle that included other public officials. The suspect’s possible target list named prominent abortion-rights supporters in Minnesota, including Democratic lawmakers who have been outspoken on the issue, according to an official familiar with the document.

CBS News [6/14/2025 5:33 PM, Aki Nace, 51860K] reports law enforcement officials are searching for 57-year-old Vance Luther Boelter in the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses early Saturday morning. Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman was shot and killed at her Brooklyn Park home, according to a report from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner. Her husband Mark was shot at the home and died at the hospital. State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette were shot and wounded roughly 5 miles away at their home in Champlin. Both lawmakers were members of the Democratic Party, representing the northwest corner of the Twin Cities. According to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Boelter stands at 6-foot-1, weighs roughly 220 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen Saturday morning in Minneapolis, wearing a light-colored cowboy hat, dark long-sleeve shirt, light pants and carrying a dark bag. If anyone sees Boelter, officials urge people not to approach him, and to call 911. He should be considered "armed and dangerous," Superintendent Drew Evans with the Minnesota BCA said. Evans added that investigators believe Boelter is working to leave the Twin Cities area.

NewsMax [6/14/2025 8:07 PM, Sandy Fitzgerald, 4622K] reports the FBI on Saturday offered a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Vance Boelter, the suspect being sought in connection with the assassination of a Minnesota Democrat state legislator and the attempted assassination of a state senator. A manhunt continues in search of Boelter, the suspect in the killings of Democrat State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, each of whom died of multiple gunshot wounds, and in the shootings of Democrat state Sen. John Hoffman, who was shot several along with his wife, Yvette, who both survived the attack, reports New York Times. The lawmakers were both shot early Saturday in their homes. Boelter, 57, is listed on a website of a Minnesota-based private security group as the director of security patrols. Police said that the suspect in the shootings was impersonating a police officer and was driving what appeared to be a police vehicle. According to the security group’s website, "we drive the same make and model of vehicles that many police departments use in the U.S.” Boelter had also served on the state Workforce Development Board along with Hoffman. He had been appointed to the board several times by Minnesota governors. Meanwhile, a list found in Boelter’s car included about 70 potential targets, according to a federal law enforcement official.

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The Hill [6/14/2025 6:26 PM, Filip Timotija, 18649K]

New York Post [6/14/2025 6:24 PM, Georgia Worrell and Shane Galvin, 49956K] reports the Minnesota man being sought in connection with the Saturday morning assassination of a state lawmaker and the shooting of another runs a security company and has ties to the Middle East and Africa, online biographies showed. Vance Luther Boelter lists himself on LinkedIn as the CEO of the Red Lion Group, which is based in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He also worked with Minnesota Africans United, a statewide organization working with African immigrants in the state, according to a now deleted biography on the group’s web site. Boelter, 57, who is believed to have posed as a police officer during the shootings, and his wife, Jenny, appear to head Praetorian Guard Security Services, a Minnesota-based company "here to set up security options and provide security services right to your doorstep and property to keep what you own safe and secure," according to its website. Boelter has "been involved in security situations" in Eastern Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East, "including the West Bank, Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip," according to the Praetorian web site. Last month, Boelter said he was open to work. Boelter listed food service more than security in his work history.

New York Times [6/14/2025 7:01 PM, Chris Hippensteel, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Ernesto Londoño and Mike Baker, 138952K] reports the man suspected of shooting two Democratic state lawmakers in Minnesota early on Saturday had served on a state board with one of the victims, records show. The suspect identified by the authorities, Vance Boelter, 57, was appointed several times by Minnesota governors to the Workforce Development Board, where he served with State Senator John A. Hoffman, who was shot and survived. Mr. Boelter and Senator Hoffman attended a virtual meeting together in 2022 for a discussion about the job market in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, minutes from the meeting show. Drew Evans, the superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said investigators did not yet know how well the two knew each other, if at all. Mr. Boelter was appointed to the board in 2016 by Mark Dayton, a Democrat who was then the governor. More recently, he was appointed by Gov. Tim Walz, also a Democrat. The board has 41 members who are appointed by the governor, and its goal is to improve business development in the state. A state report in 2016 listed Mr. Boelter’s political affiliation as “none or other,” and another report in 2020 listed him as having “no party preference.” Voters do not declare political affiliation when they register in Minnesota. The police have said that the suspect in the attacks disguised himself as a police officer and went to the homes of two state lawmakers in the Minneapolis suburbs. He shot and wounded Senator Hoffman, and his wife, Yvette, and fatally shot State Representative Melissa Hortman, and her husband, Mark. He remains on the run. U.S. Senator Tina Smith, Democrat of Minnesota, said in an interview that the gunman had a list that included her name and the names of other lawmakers, all of whom were Democrats. The list included about 70 potential targets, a federal law enforcement official said, including doctors, community and business leaders, and locations for Planned Parenthood and other health care centers. Some of the targets were in neighboring states.

Axios [6/14/2025 1:42 PM, Andrew Solender, 13599K] reports members of Congress went into this weekend with their nerves already severely frayed. The shooting of two lawmakers in Minnesota on Saturday has sent those tensions over the edge. In discussions with Axios on Saturday, lawmakers in both parties described growing unease on Capitol Hill about the country’s increasingly volatile political atmosphere — and what it means for their security. Minnesota state House Leader Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were shot and killed in their home in what President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi described as a "targeted" attack, Axios’ Torey Van Oot, Nick Halter and Kyle Stokes reported. State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette were also shot in their home overnight. The suspect in the shootings was dressed as a police officer and left behind a manifesto naming many lawmakers, law enforcement said. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said the shootings appeared to be a "politically motivated assassination."

The Hill [6/14/2025 2:41 PM, Ashleigh Fields, 18649K] reports top leaders in both parties condemned a Saturday attack in which two Minnesota state lawmakers were shot, one of them fatally, saying political violence cannot be tolerated. Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband were killed and State Sen. John Hoffman (D) and his wife were also shot multiple times in what officials said was a "politically motivated" attack. "Such horrific violence will not be tolerated in the United States of America," President Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. "God Bless the great people of Minnesota, a truly great place!" he added. Attorney General Pam Bondi pledged to investigate the incident and prosecute those involved to the fullest extent under the law while GOP leaders wrote Saturday posts on social media echoing the president’s outrage.

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Axios [6/14/2025 2:39 PM, Torey Van Oot, 13599K]

Blaze [6/14/2025 2:07 PM, Cortney Weil and Julio Rosas, 1805K] reports the main suspect in the horrific fatal shooting of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband may have played a role in state government after receiving an appointment from two Democrat governors, including Gov. Tim Walz, as first reported by Blaze News’ Julio Rosas. According to a law enforcement source, police suspect that Vance Luther Boelter gunned down Rep. Hortman (DFL) and her husband, Mark, in Brooklyn Park as well as state Sen. John Hoffman (DFL) and his wife, Yvette, in nearby Champlin. Boelter appears to be the same individual who was first appointed to the Governor’s Workforce Board in 2016 by then-Gov. Mark Dayton (DFL). He was then reappointed three years later by current Gov. Walz (DFL). The attacks on the Hortmans and Hoffmans were discovered early Saturday morning. While the Hoffmans have undergone surgery and may yet survive multiple gunshot wounds, the Hortmans were found deceased. Gov. Walz described the horrific violence as a "politically motivated assassination" and an "assassination attempt." He likewise described the incident as "an unspeakable tragedy." Walz’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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New York Post [6/14/2025 1:20 PM, Joe Marino and Katherine Donlevy, 49956K]

Reuters [6/14/2025 5:21 PM, Ted Hesson, 51390K] reports the Trump administration gutted a program that aimed to prevent targeted violence as part of its sweeping bid to downsize the federal government, a move that could come under fresh scrutiny after the deadly shooting of state lawmakers in Minnesota on Saturday. The Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, works to reduce violent extremism through intervention programs in schools, workplaces and government offices. William Braniff, a former director of the office who resigned in protest in March, said the office went from having 45 full-time staff and several dozen contract workers to just a handful of employees currently. The Trump administration has prioritized combating illegal immigration while shrinking other DHS offices, a factor Braniff cited. "DHS is drastically reducing everything that is not related to border and immigration security," he said.

FOX News [6/14/2025 10:00 AM, Cameron Arcand, 46878K] reports House lawmakers from both sides of the aisle gave strong reactions shortly after Sen. Alex Padilla’s, D-Calif., viral outburst that got him thrown out of a Department of Homeland Security press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday. Many Democrats condemned how the Secret Service handcuffed and removed Padilla from the room during the event, with some even calling on Noem to resign. Padilla and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem ended up holding a meeting afterward, which Padilla’s office described as "civil," and Noem described as "cordial" despite the strong disagreements between the two. Meanwhile, DHS slammed it as "disrespectful political theater." The press conference was focused on anti-ICE civil unrest in Los Angeles as federal immigration authorities continue arrests of illegal immigrants in the region.

Daily Signal [6/14/2025 3:00 PM, Tyler O’Neil, 558K] reports what do you call it when a Hispanic Democrat like Sen. Alex Padilla plays the victim after harassing federal law enforcement? We’ve seen two examples of this apparently orchestrated charade in the last week, and I suspect we haven’t seen the last of it. The Left has capitalized on both cases, accusing the feds of perpetrating an outrage when the Democrat was the real aggressor. Last week, Service Employees International Union California President David Huerta appears to have blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Video shows him standing in front of an ICE vehicle as it arrived at a Los Angeles worksite to carry out a raid and detain illegal aliens. Law enforcement arrested him and charged him with "conspiracy to impede an officer." Huerta maintains that he was "exercising his First Amendment right to observe and document law enforcement activity," but SEIU President April Verrett stated that Huerta "was arrested while standing up for immigrants’ rights." Something similar happened on Thursday, though this situation may be even more blatant. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., barged into a press conference featuring Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. He rushed in, approaching Noem’s podium. Security officials, likely not knowing who he was, stated, "Sir, sir," and "Hands up! Hands up!" Only after his initial approach and after security attempted to stop him while he kept pushing against them to get to Noem did Padilla say, "I’m Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary." "Sen. Padilla chose disrespectful political theater and interrupted a live press conference without identifying himself or having his Senate security pin on as he lunged toward Secretary Noem," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin posted on X. "Mr. Padilla was told repeatedly to back away and did not comply with officers’ repeated commands." Secret Service "thought he was an attacker, and officers acted appropriately," McLaughlin added. "Secretary Noem met with Sen. Padilla after and held a 15-minute meeting."

Politico [6/14/2025 6:38 PM, Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing, 16523K] reports that, as President Donald Trump’s military parade rolled through the nation’s capital on Saturday, millions of Americans across the country took part in the largest coordinated protests against the president since the start of his second administration. While Trump’s parade aimed to show America’s military prowess in its new era — remade under the administration’s anti-diversity, equity and inclusion policies — over 2,000 protests planned for major cities and small towns nationwide were expected to outdo the president’s parade in scale. “These are not normal times in America. This is not a normal presidency,” Rep. Chuy Garcia (D-Ill.) told thousands of demonstrators who had gathered in Chicago. The demonstrations, organized by an extensive list of progressive organizations including the ACLU, Indivisible and the Service Employees International Union, were dubbed “No Kings” protests and aimed to highlight Americans’ resistance to the Trump administration. “No Kings is really about standing up for democracy, standing up for people’s rights and liberties in this country and against the gross abuse of power that we’ve seen consistently from the Trump administration,” ACLU’s chief political and advocacy officer Deirdre Schifeling said in an interview earlier this week. Trump’s military parade and the counterprotests come at a time of heightened political tensions across the country. In the last week alone, Trump deployed the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles, over the objection of state and local officials, amid protests and some unrest over the president’s extensive deportation agenda; Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) was manhandled and briefly handcuffed at a press conference for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem; and two Minnesota state lawmakers were shot, and one killed, early Saturday in what Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltz described as a politically motivated assassination. Over 100 of the protests were planned by volunteers in the past week alone, organizers said, popping up in response to the Trump administration’s crackdown on the California protesters opposing immigration detention. “The Trump administration’s goal was to scare people, to make them afraid to stand up for their rights and afraid to protest and stand up for their immigrant neighbors. And it’s backfired spectacularly,” Schifeling said.

Breitbart [6/14/2025 5:52 PM, Staff, 3077K] reports a giant orange balloon depicting President Donald Trump in a diaper towered over one "No Kings" protest Saturday, as tens of thousands thronged streets across the United States to decry the president’s policies. Protest organizers expected rallies in all 50 US states, calling them the largest since Trump returned to office in January, with the aim of "rejecting authoritarianism, billionaire-first politics, and the militarization of our democracy." Wielding signs with messages like "No KKKings!", "No crown for the clown" and "The Trump fascist regime must go now!" the protests stood in stark contrast to the massive military parade planned in Washington later Saturday. That parade is meant to commemorate the founding of the US Army, but also falls on the president’s 79th birthday. In New York alone, tens of thousands of people, wearing raincoats and carrying colorful umbrellas, marched down Fifth Avenue in the downpour to the sound of drums, bells and crowd chants of "Hey, hey, oh, oh, Donald Trump has got to go!"

AP [6/14/2025 9:21 PM, Marc Levy, Claudia Lauer and Jim Vertuno, 56000K] reports masses of demonstrators packed into streets, parks and plazas across the U.S. on Saturday to protest President Donald Trump, marching through downtowns and small towns, blaring anti-authoritarian chants mixed with support for protecting democracy and immigrant rights. Organizers of the “No Kings” demonstrations said millions had marched in hundreds of events. Governors across the U.S. had urged calm and vowed no tolerance for violence, while some mobilized the National Guard ahead of marchers gathering. Confrontations were isolated. But police in Los Angeles, where protests over federal immigration enforcement raids erupted a week earlier and sparked demonstrations across the country, used tear gas and crowd-control munitions to clear out protesters after the formal event ended. Huge, boisterous crowds marched, danced, drummed, and chanted shoulder-to-shoulder in New York, Denver, Chicago, Austin and Los Angeles, some behind “no kings” banners. Atlanta’s 5,000-capacity event quickly reached its limit, with thousands more gathered outside barriers to hear speakers in front of the state Capitol.

New York Times [6/14/2025 8:04 PM, David E. Sanger, 138952K] reports President Trump presided over a show of American military might in the nation’s capital on Saturday evening, a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States Army that became a test of wills and competing imagery, with demonstrators around the country decrying his expansion of executive power. Mr. Trump sat in a reviewing stand on Constitution Avenue as armored vehicles dating from two World Wars and overflights of 80-year old bombers and modern fighters shook downtown Washington. The city was locked down, divided by a wall of tall, black crowd-control fences designed to assure that the parade, the first of its kind since American troops returned from the Gulf War in 1991, was an uninterrupted demonstration of history and American power. Mr. Trump, sitting between his wife, Melania Trump, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, was scheduled to speak at sundown. Yet even before he arrived, the day already encapsulated the sharpness of America’s divide over immigration, free speech and Mr. Trump’s determination to reshape the government, universities and cultural institutions to adopt his worldview. By design, military parades are part national celebration and part international intimidation, and Mr. Trump has wanted one in Washington since he attended a Bastille Day parade in Paris in 2017. Formally, the parade celebrates the decision by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1775, to raise a unified, lightly armed force of colonialists after the shock of the battles with British forces at Lexington and Concord. That army, which George Washington took command of a month later, ultimately expelled the far larger, better armed colonial force.

Univision [6/14/2025 3:52 PM, Staff, 4992K] reports thousands of people gathered Saturday at the iconic Love Park as part of the national “No Kings” protest, a coordinated movement in more than 2,000 locations across the country to express rejection of the government of former President Donald Trump and defend democracy. In the city of Philadelphia, considered the main headquarters of the movement, the demonstration turned into a colorful and forceful show of civil resistance. From early in the morning, demonstrators arrived with signs, American flags and costumes alluding to the history of the United States. Organizers handed out small flags as crowds of citizens chanted slogans such as “Whose streets are the streets? They are our streets!” and displayed messages such as “Unmask the ice” and “Deport the mini-Mussolinis,” in reference to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the authoritarian style that, according to attendees, has marked Trump’s legacy. The protest moved from Love Park to the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art along the iconic Ben Franklin Parkway in a march that featured no shortage of performances, adapted chants and historical references. One protester dressed in a foam crown of the Statue of Liberty led an anti-Trump chant to the tune of “Y.M.C.A.,” changing the word ‘young’ to “hustler.” Another attendee drew attention for wearing a tri-cornered hat and carrying a banner with a phrase attributed to Thomas Jefferson: “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” The Philadelphia event ran parallel to similar protests in cities such as Atlanta, Los Angeles, Charlotte and Little Rock. In all cases, organizers avoided holding demonstrations in Washington, D.C., where a military parade was held for the Army’s 250th anniversary. “We want to be clear that this is not a protest against the military, but against an authoritarian style of leadership,” explained Ezra Levin, co-director of the progressive organization Indivisible.

AP [6/14/2025 6:49 PM, Staff, 56000K] Video HERE reports protesters attempting to march in downtown Charlotte briefly clashed with police, who formed a barricade using their bicycles. “Let us walk,” the activists chanted as they demonstrated against Trump’s immigration policies.

Telemundo [6/14/2025 3:45 PM, Staff, 177K] reports thousands of people gathered Saturday in Palm Beach to demonstrate against their most famous neighbor, President Donald Trump, as part of hundreds of No Kings protests held across the country against the Republican’s aggressive immigration policy. The rejection of authoritarianism and calls to protect democracy were present during the peaceful protest, which had observers from humanitarian groups to verify that their rights were not violated. Initially congregating at Phipps Skateboard Park, located 2 kilometers from Mar-a-Lago, the protesters arrived without problems a few meters from Trump’s private residence, where he has spent a large part of the weekends during his second term. Although Trump is in Washington, attendees found it of particular importance to get close to his mansion, and although most declined to give their names because of widespread fear, all agreed on the need to be present. The demonstrations coincide with the Army’s 250th anniversary military parade scheduled for today in Washington, the day of Trump’s 79th birthday.

Chicago Tribune [6/14/2025 3:59 PM, Michelle Mullins, 3987K] reports from immigrant and reproductive rights to DOGE accessing personal data, Sharon Pfister keeps a list of her grievances with President Donald Trump’s administration on her phone so she can regularly refer back to them. One of her latest concerns was the Saturday military parade in Washington, D.C., to recognize the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday, which was being held at the same time that veterans benefits are being cut, said Pfister, a Woodridge resident. The military parade also coincides with Trump’s 79th birthday. Despite growing up during the Vietnam War era, Pfister said she had never been to a protest or rally before Trump was elected. But they’re more important now than ever, she said Saturday while attending the "No Kings" rally in downtown Naperville. "I am afraid of our democracy being disembodied little by little," she said. A Naperville police officer monitoring the scene estimated a few thousand demonstrators participated in the gathering, which started at the Naperville Municipal Center and proceeded through the downtown streets as people carried homemade signs and chanted and drivers passing by honked their car horns. "I feel to stay silent is to be complicit," Mary Sunderland, a Woodridge resident, said. "Every day is a new horror." Among the most recent was the attack Thursday on U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, who tried to ask a question at a news conference being held by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and was removed from the room by security officers, taken to the ground and handcuffed. "If they do that to a senator, what are they doing to a poor migrant?" Sunderland said. Immigrant rights was one of many concerns protesters voiced via signs with messages readying, "Due process for immigrants," "Immigrants aren’t enemies" and "No human is illegal."

NewsNation [6/14/2025 11:27 PM, Julianna Russ, Kelly Wiley, Josh Hinkle, 5801K] reports the Texas Department of Public Safety said the State Capitol building and grounds were evacuated and closed Saturday after investigators identified a credible threat to state lawmakers planning to attend a “No Kings” protest that evening. Shortly before 5 p.m. when the protest was set to begin, the agency confirmed to KXAN it had one person in custody in connection to the threat, arrested during a traffic stop by a DPS trooper in La Grange. The name of that person and a potential charge have not yet been released. Capitol grounds were also reopened, per DPS. The agency said, at this time, there is “no additional active threat,” though the investigation is “active and ongoing.” “DPS has a duty to protect the people and property of Texas and is continuously monitoring events occurring today and their impact on public safety across the state,” the agency said in a statement to KXAN. “DPS will collaborate with all local, state and federal law enforcement partners to ensure the safety of our citizens and state property, as well as to protect individuals exercising their constitutional rights to assemble and free speech.” Lawmakers and their staff also received a message Saturday from House Administration Chairman Charlie Geren, R-Fort Worth, about the threat, which referred to two Minnesota lawmakers being attacked overnight by a suspect dressed as a police officer. Former Minnesota Speaker and State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed, and Sen. John Hoffman and his spouse are in critical condition. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said it was a “politically motivated assassination.” “It seems to be an isolated incident. However, we’re always concerned about copycats and those who this attack might inspire,” Geren’s message said. According to protest organizers, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, and State Sen. Sarah Eckhardt, D-Austin, were among the lawmakers set to speak during the protest on Capitol grounds. Officials with Doggett’s office said he still plans to attend the protest in Austin this evening and said the lawmaker “believes DPS is taking every reasonable step to assure the safety of all participants.” Other lawmakers, including Rep. Rhetta Bowers, D-Garland, issued statements, condemning the violent acts in Minnesota and the potential for more, saying “public service should never come at the cost of our safety or our lives.” “As someone who has worked extensively on issues of homeland security and public safety, I have seen the growing threats targeting elected officials across our country,” Bowers added. “Today’s events are a tragic reminder that these threats are not abstract — they are real, they are escalating, and they strike at the very heart of our democracy.” [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Blaze [6/14/2025 3:01 PM, Rob Eno and Peter Gietl, 1805K] reports located just northeast of Austin, Texas, Williamson County is about as split down the middle a county can get in Texas. It is also the home of a nearly 500-bed women’s ICE detention facility in the city of Taylor. For that reason, it was the site of one of the earliest "No Kings" protests in the state on Saturday. Blaze News traveled to Taylor to document the action. A variety of homemade signs expressed a potpourri of various left-wing sentiments from "no human is illegal" and "abolish ICE" to "deport Elon and Melania." The ubiquitous "F**k Trump" was held high as the same sentiment blasted from car stereos. However, by far the most common signs were "No Kings," a testament to how widespread this movement has become. It seemed almost like an early Fourth of July parade in small-town America. The vibe was happy and peaceful, a far cry from the wanton violence seen in Los Angeles and other major cities. Most of the flags were American, with a smattering of Pride flags strewn about. The majority of people didn’t want to go on the record with the media, but the sentiments they expressed were a general concern for immigrants and real anger at the administration. There was actually a nice moment involving the lone Trump supporter who showed up, decked out in an American flag, Tommy Bahama shirt, and MAGA visor complete with fake orange hair and a Trump-Vance sign. He had been engaged in a long discussion with a middle-aged woman with a "No Kings" sign. It ended with them agreeing to disagree, shaking hands, and wishing each other a good rest of their day. Perhaps civility isn’t completely dead.

CBS News [6/15/2025 6:00 AM, Jack Fink, 51860K] Video HERE reports protests against President Trump’s deportation policies have divided Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill and across the country. Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, praised the President’s decision to deploy the National Guard in California. During an interview for Eye On Politics, Cruz told CBS News Texas, "The reason he did that that is because Gavin Newsome and Karen Bass, the Governor and Mayor, refused to enforce the law, and in fact, they sided with the criminals, they sided with the rioters, they sided with the lawlessness. And what President Trump said is he’s going to step in and protect our communities, that if the local officials won’t protect the communities, the federal government is going to." U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, told CBS News Texas that he believes the President over-reacted. "What was happening within this very small radius of one square mile did not require the intervention of the National Guard, according to the Governor and the Mayor, and this is the showdown that Trump has been wanting for a long time." Veasey also said he agreed that anyone caught breaking the law should be arrested and prosecuted. "I think that the lunatics that are out there doing that and throwing things at law enforcement vehicles, obviously they need to be arrested. They need to be prosecuted. They don’t need to be pardoned like J-Sixers. They need to be put in jail and held accountable for their recklessness and their lawlessness. I also think they didn’t need to call in the guard." [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

CBS News [6/14/2025 11:48 PM, Faris Tanyos, 51860K] reports one person was wounded in a shooting Saturday evening that occurred during a "No Kings" protest in Salt Lake City, Utah, officials said. Salt Lake City police said in a post to social media that the shooting was "possibly associated with the demonstration.” The victim was rushed to a hospital with life-threatening injuries and a person of interest was in custody, police said. No further details were provided, and the circumstances that led up to the shooting were unclear. Police said about 10,000 people had been taking part in the protest. "This remains a very fluid situation," police said. Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox in a social media post called the shooting "a deeply troubling act of violence" that "has no place in our public square.” "My heart is broken for everyone impacted tonight," Cox wrote in a follow up post. "Thank you to the thousands of protestors who exercised their constitutional rights in the right way tonight.” Tens of thousands of people took part in "No Kings" demonstrations in cities nationwide Saturday to protest against the Trump administration and its policies. The protests were designed to coincide with President Trump’s military parade, which was held Saturday in Washington, D.C., to honor the 250th anniversary of the Army. The rallies were largely peaceful. However, in downtown Los Angeles, police issued a dispersal order late Saturday afternoon after demonstrators allegedly started throwing objects at law enforcement, prompting the LAPD and L.A. County Sheriff’s deputies to deploy smoke and flash-bangs, and utilize tear gas. L.A. has been at the center of a dispute between local and state California officials and the White House over federal immigration enforcement tactics after Mr. Trump last weekend deployed the National Guard and the Marines to respond to protests that were taking place over numerous raids that have been conducted in the L.A. area by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

FOX News [6/14/2025 2:28 AM, Landon Mion, 46878K] reports three people were taken into custody Saturday night in connection with a shooting during a "No Kings" protest in Salt Lake City, Utah, including a man believed to be the gunman, according to police. Salt Lake City Police said one victim was injured after officers heard gunshots near 151 South State Street just before 8 p.m. The victim was transported to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. The man believed to be the shooter also suffered a gunshot wound and was taken to the hospital with serious injuries under police watch, Police Chief Brian Redd said at a press conference. After receiving information from witnesses, officers pursued the man and took him into custody near 200 East and 100 South. Redd said it was too early to tell if the shooting was politically motivated and whether those involved knew each other. The shooter appeared to be walking alongside the group of marching protesters. Police urged demonstrators to leave the area in an orderly fashion after the shooting. Police earlier said the shooting was "possibly associated" with the protest. The motive for the shooting and the events leading up to it remain under investigation, police said. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, said the shooting is "deeply troubling." "The shooting at tonight’s protest in Salt Lake City is a deeply troubling act of violence and has no place in our public square," Cox wrote on X. "This is an active situation, and we’re working closely with law enforcement to ensure accountability." "My heart is broken for everyone impacted tonight," he added in another post. "Thank you to the thousands of protesters who exercised their constitutional rights in the right way tonight." A group of about 10,000 people marched between Pioneer Park and the Federal Building before the shooting on South State Street. Police were at the scene monitoring the demonstration and providing an escort for the march "to support public safety and the lawful expression of First Amendment rights." Police said the demonstration had been peaceful before the shooting.

Los Angles Times [6/14/2025 10:41 PM, Andrew Turner, 14672K] reports large crowds and parking along neighborhood streets are relatively common sights at this time of year in Laguna Beach, but it was not the usual draw that brought the masses in the early afternoon hours on Saturday. The whole of Main Beach Park was teeming with people peacefully participating in the nationwide “No Kings” protests, one of several events planned up and down coastal Orange County. ‘No Kings’ events were organized to demonstrate against the Trump administration and the military parade in Washington, D.C., which was planned to celebrate the 250th birthday of the U.S. Army and coincided with President Trump turning 79. “People are clearly upset, and I think [the protest] was stimulated particularly by two things,” said Mary Clifford, chair of the executive board of the Laguna Beach Democratic Club. “One is a military parade, which people see as not a celebration but a threat, and the second thing is what we’ve seen with the immigration and ICE literally going into businesses and doing what they did. They’re in Orange County and they’re going up to people, asking for their IDs.” Clifford added a third reason for the energized crowd on Saturday, pointing to Sen. Alex Padilla having been forcefully removed Thursday from a press conference Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was giving in Los Angeles.

New York Post [6/14/2025 9:52 PM, Anna Young, 49956K] reports a massive "No Kings" rally opposing President Trump erupted into an alarming scene of chaos in downtown Los Angeles Saturday, as rocks, concrete and "commercial-grade" fireworks were lobbed at officers — as another rally in Portland near an ICE facility was reportedly decared a riot. What started as a peaceful protest of more than 20,000 people quickly descended into mayhem as demonstrators clashed with the Los Angeles Police Department and other agencies in a cloud of tear gas outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building. It prompted officials to declare the group and unlawful assembly. Footage showed cops on horseback charging into the sea of people wielding their batons, as others in gas masks and tactical gear unleashed several rounds of mace and crowd-controls — sending protesters and bystanders scrambling through the streets. Cops, who arrived at the scene in armored vehicles, said on X that protestors were hurling concrete, rocks, bottles and fireworks at officers trying to disperse the crowd and clear the streets. The department’s Central Division later said that "commercial grade" fireworks were being launched at responding officers. "We just wanted to come and support our people and we’re getting tear gassed for it," Melissa Bran, 28, said while dabbing her red eyes with a wet cloth. A citywide curfew will take effect at 8 p.m. to control the escalating unrest, which has continued for hours. Volunteer medics are currently at the scene offering saline solution to those in need. Some protesters thought the response by police was excessive. "It was a total 100% over-reaction," Samantha Edgerton, 37, said. "We weren’t doing anything but standing around chanting peaceful protest.” Meanwhile, in Portland a "No Kings" linked protest got out of hand and was declared a riot as it got close to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, KPTV reported. "Failure to adhere to this order may subject you to citation or arrest. If necessary, crowd control measures, including impact munitions or other physical force may also be used if justified by law," police said.

New York Times [6/14/2025 11:15 PM, Orlando Mayorquín, Richard Fausset, and Jesus Jiménez, 153395K] reports tensions flared between protesters and police in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday as a major demonstration against the Trump administration gave way to yet another night of smaller but raucous protests against recent immigration raids. With the city’s downtown area facing an 8 p.m. curfew, the Los Angeles police began using tear gas and crowd-control munitions to break up protests after issuing a 4 p.m. dispersal order. Officers on horseback forced hundreds of people away from a federal building downtown, where a crowd had gathered, chanting at a line of National Guard troops guarding the structure as helicopters circled overhead. “Shame on you! Shame on you!” the demonstrators shouted, as the troops stood at attention. In several posts on X, the Los Angeles Police Department accused protesters of throwing rocks, bottles and fireworks at officers. Law enforcement also said that “outside agitators” had blocked a portion of a street with fencing and other materials. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Washington Post [6/14/2025 9:42 PM, María Luisa Paúl and Yvonne Condes, 32099K] reports police began shooting stun grenades and rubber bullets, then turned to tear gas, after ordering a crowd to disperse following a demonstration outside the downtown Federal Building late Saturday afternoon. The gathering there was separate from the local “No Kings” event held earlier as part of nationwide rallies to push back against President Donald Trump and the policies of his administration on a host of issues. Some participants from the local rally had circled back to join other protesters by the downtown Federal Building, where people have been protesting for more than a week as a response to immigration raids at area businesses and in neighborhoods. What was at that point a crowd of several hundred protesters started toward a freeway overpass but was stopped by officers on foot and horseback. The police began pushing people toward an adjacent street, then suddenly turned to the stun grenades, less-lethal rounds and tear gas. After a demonstration outside the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles, police fired flash-bangs, less-lethal rounds and tear gas to disperse the crowd. (Video: Erin Patrick O’Connor/Washington Post). A woman on the back of a truck shouted through a loudspeaker that the protest was peaceful. "The real violence is coming from the police," she said. Not until 5:08 p.m., about an hour later, did cellphones show an emergency alert saying an unlawful assembly had been declared. The Los Angeles Police Department posted earlier on X that a dispersal order had been announced for those on the city block of the Federal Building, but little could be heard over the honking horns of passing motorists and helicopters overhead. At least six people were injured, with blood gushing down one man’s face and another man carried off on a makeshift stretcher. The scene continued to deteriorate into the evening, with Police Chief Jim McDonnell telling the local NBC affiliate that officers had "taken rocks, bottles, missiles" — which he said is what prompted the dispersal order — and that the protesters remaining on the streets were playing a "cat and mouse" as police tried to clear them out. Part of downtown continues under an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew designation issued by Mayor Karen Bass. "Curfew Order is being broadcasted to all demonstrators who remain and those who remain may be subject to arrest for violating the order," the department posted on X as it went into effect Saturday. "You must leave the area!". [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

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Breitbart [6/14/2025 10:11 PM, Staff, 3077K] reports that, for hours, thousands of people in Los Angeles peacefully celebrated their defiance of US President Donald Trump Saturday with music, marching, bubbles and balloons — then police unexpectedly moved in, and chaos and confusion broke out. The demonstration — part of the nationwide "No Kings" day of protests across the country — was by far the largest in more than a week of protests ignited by anger against immigration raids the Trump administration has been carrying out across the country’s second-largest city. Like those before it, Saturday’s had been largely peaceful. A march that began in the morning had finished, with demonstrators milling about on a sunny afternoon as the scene took on the air of a street festival. Then police unexpectedly began moving people away from the area, igniting confusion and anger among demonstrators caught off guard and unsure of where to go. Police on horseback pushed crowds back as law enforcement fired tear gas and flash-bang grenades hours ahead of an 8:00 pm (0300 GMT) curfew. A police spokeswoman later told local TV channel KTLA that a "small group of agitators" had begun throwing rocks, bottles and fireworks at officers, prompting the decision to order the crowd to disperse. If people refused to leave, "we will make arrests," she said, adding: "We have been patient all day.” The clashes came after more than a week of demonstrations in Los Angeles against the immigration raids, which have rocked the city. The protests have mostly been calm and contained to a small segment of downtown. But at times they have spiraled into violence, which Trump pounced on to send in 4,000 National Guard and 700 Marines — an exceedingly rare deployment of soldiers on US soil against the will of local officials, who have repeatedly said the situation was under control. The troops did not immediately appear to be involved in the clashes Saturday afternoon, with Los Angeles police and the sheriff’s department taking the lead. The day had begun with Indigenous dancing at City Hall, as musicians played a light-hearted drumbeat on metal security barriers and street vendors filled the air with the smell of frying onions. Then, beneath a giant balloon depicting Trump as a baby wearing a diaper, the demonstrators marched through downtown Los Angeles. Parents brought their children, pet owners their dogs, and the lunchtime crowd at one popular market along the route enjoyed tacos and donuts as demonstrators passed by chanting while passing cars honked their support. "No faux-king Trump," read one sign as marchers chanted "Impeach Trump!". Passing several armed National Guard in front of one federal building along the route, the protesters cried "Shame!". Many of the signs had a light touch — "America, you in danger girl" read one, while another riffed on the acronym for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and a favorite drink in Los Angeles: "ICE belongs in my matcha, not the streets.”

AP [6/14/2025 8:47 PM, Mark Vancleave, 56000K] reports a previously calm demonstration in downtown Los Angeles turned chaotic as police on horseback charged at the crowd, striking some with wood rods and batons as they cleared the street in front of the federal building. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

FOX News [6/15/2025 12:11 AM, Stepheny Price, Christina Coleman, 46878K] reports that, hours after thousands of people flocked to downtown Los Angeles for a day of demonstrations, the scene took a turn from peaceful to violent as rising unrest spurred police to deploy tear gas. "The demonstration has taken the street. A DISPERSAL ORDER has been issued for all persons located on Alameda south of Aliso and North of Temple to immediately leave the area," LAPD wrote in a warning on X. "People in the crowd are throwing rocks, bricks, bottles and other objects. Less lethal has been approved. Less lethal may cause discomfort and pain. It is advised that all persons leave the area," another alert read. Fox News correspondent Christina Coleman was on the scene and reported seeing glass bottles thrown at officers and what appeared to be gas deployed across the street from the area. Fox News reported that LAPD, the LA County sheriff’s deputies, and SWAT are now on scene. Deputies could be seen wearing riot gear on the front lines as officers announced an unlawful assembly had been declared and that gas would be deployed. Video from the scene shows a large police presence, some on foot and others seen on horseback, boxing the crowd in. A large group was also reported to be squaring off with police and chanting "peaceful protest!". Police reported that "commercial grade fireworks" were also being thrown at police officers at the Temple and Main Street protest. LAPD told Fox News that they believe there is a person throwing bottles and rocks off the roof of a building downtown and that they are working to clear the roof. Police could also be heard on loudspeakers urging the crowd to disperse. A curfew is now in effect in Downtown LA till 6 a.m., police announced. Police added that any demonstrators who remain in the area may be "subject to arrest for violating the order.” Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell gave an update on the situation later Saturday and believes the violence was brought on by a few agitators. "There are agitators who come in for the sole purpose of creating havoc, vandalism, assaults on police officers, assaults on other people here who are here to do peaceful protests. So our goal is to be able to identify them and hold them accountable for what they’re doing," McDonnell shared in an update. McDonnell added that police would still be "heavily deployed through the night" and into Sunday. "We’re ready for whatever comes our way. My ask to people is, ‘hey, this is our city, the eyes of the world are on us…we’e better than this," McDonnell said. As the riot intensified, police were reported to have fired rounds of rubber bullets at demonstrators after some threw water bottles, glass bottles, and rocks at officers near city hall. Homeland Security warned that severe consequences would come to anyone harming any law enforcement. "Violence and intimidation against federal law enforcement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," the agency posted in a warning on X. "These violent rioters are fighting against LAW and ORDER," the statement continued. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Los Angeles Times [6/14/2025 6:09 PM, Jaweed Kaleem, Ruben Vives, Rebecca Ellis, and Corinne Purtill, 14672K] reports tens of thousands of demonstrators fanned out across Southern California Saturday for "No Kings Day" protests against President Trump, depicting the president as an aspiring monarch who violates Democratic norms as he has clashed with California leaders over his deployment of the military to clamp down on at times violent protests sparked by immigration raids. The images — signs referencing the nation’s 1776 founding, crossed-out crowns; American, Mexican, Guatemalan and El Salvadoran flags; and the words "protest is patriotic" — stood in stark contrast to displays in Washington, D.C., where Trump’s birthday coincided with a day of carefully orchestrated concerts and exhibitions celebrating the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday before an up to $45-million parade replete with tanks and soldiers in fatigues. "All of our rights are being violated," said Michelle Verne, 56, who marched in downtown Los Angeles with roughly 30,000 others. She held a laminated copy of the Constitution that was shredded at the bottom. "We’ve had other administrations deport people, but not like this," she said, referencing this month’s immigration enforcement that has swept up families at homes, in workplaces and while in vehicles. "We love our country, that’s obvious," Verne said. "We’re fighting for our rights.’

San Francisco Chronicle [6/14/2025 9:51 PM, Molly Burke, J.D. Morris, Maliya Ellis, 4120K] reports tens of thousands of people packed streets and parks in dozens of Bay Area cities Saturday to protest President Donald Trump’s administration as part of more than 2,000 No Kings rallies nationwide. The protests, potentially the largest in U.S. history, included calls for action at Civic Center and a human banner at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, impassioned speeches by political leaders in Oakland, and a 7-mile human chain between Tesla showrooms in Palo Alto and Sunnyvale, as well as scores of rallies, summits and teach-ins in other Bay Area cities. No Kings Day marked Trump’s 79th birthday and stood in contrast to Saturday’s military parade through Washington, D.C., for the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, protest organizers said. "We just chose the same date to show the world a counter image," said Liliana Soroceanu, an organizer with the advocacy group Indivisible SF. The demonstrations followed uproar over Trump’s ordering of the National Guard and Marines into Los Angeles in recent days to "liberate" the city from what he has labeled as "animals.” Demonstrators have gathered in Los Angeles for more than a week of protests over raids and detentions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. In San Francisco, a protest against the National Guard’s deployment led to the arrest of 150 demonstrators last Sunday. Saturday’s protesters assembled in San Francisco’s Dolores Park long before the start of the march, then headed north on Dolores Street and down Market Street. Eric Kingsbury, a leader of the San Francisco Democratic Party, held a sign containing Uncle Sam’s likeness as he marched to Civic Center, encouraging people to stop "the Nazis in Washington.” "It is not just our right, but our responsibility as citizens of a democracy to stand up when we see our democracy crumbling before our eyes," Kingsbury said. "The only way that we can stand up against Donald Trump right now, when Democrats are in the minority at the national level, is to show that we have the people behind us.”

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San Francisco Chronicle [6/14/2025 7:00 PM, St. John Barned-Smith, Molly Burke, Ko Lyn Cheang, and J.D. Morris, 4120K] reports the No Kings demonstrations being held in more than 2,000 cities across the nation today could be among the largest in the nation’s history. The demonstrations coincided with President Trump’s 79th birthday and his military parade in Washington, D.C. and came after days of increasingly tense protests over immigration raids and Trump’s deployment of military troops to Los Angeles. The massive crowd that marched to San Francisco’s Civic Center numbered in the tens of thousands. In Oakland, the column of protesters that marched toward City Hall along Eighth Street was more than six blocks long, packed shoulder-to-shoulder, completely stopping traffic. Large demonstrations also took place in Palo Alto, Santa Cruz and other cities across the Bay Area — blocking streets and causing traffic delays in some areas. To help snuff out violence or disorder, organizers of the Bay Area’s No Kings rallies enlisted some of their participants as peacekeeping marshals.

NBC News [6/14/2025 10:18 AM, Carmen Sesin, 44540K] reports a surge of false or misleading posts, photographs and videos about the Los Angeles protests have been circulating on social media, with many of those shared among Latinos — mostly in Spanish — tying the protesters to socialist or communist governments. One post on X with over 600,000 views claims that in the U.S., immigration protest groups have links to “the Venezuelan mafia,” the Communist Party of Cuba, and the Morena Party, the left-wing ruling party of Mexico. But the post doesn’t specify any groups and doesn’t give evidence of this. The narrative echoes similar falsehoods that circulated during the 2020 George Floyd protests and the 2024 pro-Palestinian student protests on university campuses. Parts of Los Angeles and other cities across the country have seen protests against immigration raids as President Donald Trump’s administration enforces a hard-line immigration policy. Dramatic scenes where cars, including Waymo taxis, were set on fire and protesters confronted law enforcement by throwing objects at them have filled social media feeds. While some far-left groups have encouraged and even glorified violence in the protests, the onslaught of posts, mostly in Spanish, appears to be an attempt to link protests against immigrant raids to leftist Latin American governments, and the posts show support for President Donald Trump and his policies.

Reuters [6/14/2025 9:56 PM, Brad Brooks, 51390K] reports about 50 U.S. Marines squared off against hundreds of protesters in front of a federal building in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, with the crowd yelling in unison for them to go home. The Marines had been sent to the city by U.S. President Donald Trump along with federalized members of the California National Guard earlier this week over the objections of the state governor and the city’s mayor, as anger over immigration raids drew thousands of demonstrators into the streets. Jesus Arias, a Los Angeles-based attorney, was at the front of the crowd with a bullhorn, working to convince the Marines to abandon their post. "We are not your enemy, we are the people!" Arias said into the bullhorn as the Marines looked on. "You are breaking the oaths you took to be Marines. Wake up! Wake up!". California Governor Gavin Newsom and local leaders have called Trump’s move an inflammatory provocation for the protests over the past week - demonstrations that the local sheriff on Friday said were 99% peaceful, with a only a handful of people engaged in violence and vandalism. Trump summoned 700 Marines from California who were trained to help in the L.A. mission, including de-escalation and crowd control. The deployment sparked a debate about the use of the military on U.S. soil given Marines are trained for conflicts around the world rather than at home, but the Trump administration has defended its move by citing the need to maintain law and order. Trump, who is carrying out a campaign promise to deport illegal immigrants, has argued that Los Angeles would have burned down if he had not acted quickly. The Marines were armed with M4 rifles and wore face shields and the same shin guards used by baseball catchers. They stood guard at the top of steps leading to the entrance of the Roybal federal building, which houses immigration offices and where ICE has held some undocumented detainees. The building has been a flashpoint for protesters all week. Just down the steps about 15 feet away, hundreds of protesters confronted the Marines, yelling in unison "Marines go home!" and "Shame! Shame!". Several protesters hurled insults and invectives at the Marines, who did not react. Some in the crowd were telling them to take a knee or to join their demonstration. As of 4 p.m., there had been no physical altercation between the protesters and Marines. Kai Ly, a 45-year-old a Los Angeles resident, was in the crowd. "This is such a sad moment in time for the U.S.," Ly said. "It’s sad to see that we’re so divided that we have Marines heading off against protesters.” Antoinette Gutierrez, 36, was another Los Angeles resident protesting before the Marines. "It’s disgusting to have the military, to have the Marines, turned against citizens," she said. "It makes me embarrassed to be American.”

Axios [6/14/2025 8:18 AM, Stephen Neukam, 13599K] reports Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) led the entire Senate Democratic in writing to President Trump Saturday, demanding he remove all military forces from Los Angeles and cease threats to further deploy troops, Axios has learned. Padilla was physically removed from a press conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and handcuffed Thursday, triggering a five-alarm fire for Democrats. The letter from Padilla and 46 other Senate Democrats asked Trump to "immediately withdraw all military personnel that have been deployed to Los Angeles in recent day." Trump federalized California’s National Guard without the state’s consent and mobilized more than 700 Marines to the state to try to quash protests over his mass deportation program. A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that the Trump administration’s deployment of the California National Guard can continue, for now. The Pentagon said on Friday that U.S. troops will not be responsible for law enforcement at the Los Angeles riots. Instead, they will protect federal property and personnel. Protests over the deportations have spread to numerous cities across the country, and Trump has warned that he may deploy troops to different areas.

Univision [6/14/2025 11:37 PM, Staff, 4992K] reports the Russian collective Pussy Riot surprised with its presence at the "No Kings" protests held in downtown Los Angeles this Saturday, June 14, with a message against authoritarianism. Members of the feminist and activist group held up a sign with the phrase: "It’s starting to look a lot like Russia," in direct allusion to what they consider an authoritarian management of Donald Trump’s government. Pussy Riot became known in 2012 after staging a protest at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, an act that earned them imprisonment and worldwide attention for their denunciation of Vladimir Putin’s regime.

Washington Post [6/14/2025 9:29 AM, Hannah Knowles and Sabrina Rodriguez] reports Democrats are trying to strike a careful balance as tensions escalate with President Donald Trump over immigration and street protests, issues on which Republicans have held a political advantage in recent years. Party leaders are anxious to tamp down scenes of unrest — dismayed at photos of Mexican flags being waved around burning cars that seem ready-made for attack ads — but also eager to tap into growing outrage over the Trump administration’s deportation raids, deployment of the military on U.S. soil, and threats to arrest demonstrators and elected officials. Now the party faces another test: the nationwide protests planned for Saturday. The gatherings in major cities, planned long before the showdown in California, could be the largest mass demonstration yet against Trump’s second term at a moment that Democrats see as full of pitfalls but also opportunity. Sen. Alex Padilla (D-California) confronted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem at a news conference Thursday and was pinned down and handcuffed by FBI and Secret Service police, creating a viral moment that his Democratic colleagues quickly amplified. And California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) railed against Trump’s decision to send the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles earlier in the week and compared the president’s threats to arrest him to those of "authoritarian regimes."

NewsNation [6/14/2025 12:11 PM, Sam Chimenti, 5801K] reports following a detention hearing that lasted over six hours, a federal judge decided not to make a decision in the detention hearing of 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes told the court late Friday afternoon that she would "take [the case] under advisement" and make a decision "sooner rather than later." As both Holmes and the prosecution detailed on Friday, regardless of the ruling, Abrego would remain in some form of federal custody; given his immigration status, the prosecution said he would be given to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement if Holmes orders his release. Abrego was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March due to an "administrative error." He was brought back into the U.S. last week to face charges of human smuggling. He’s accused of conspiring to bring undocumented migrants to the U.S. from around 2016 to 2025. Abrego has pleaded not guilty to all charges. If found guilty, Abrego could face 10 years in prison for each migrant he smuggled. He will remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshals until Judge Holmes reaches a decision on his detainment.

NewsMax [6/14/2025 5:29 PM, Sandy Fitzgerald, 4622K] reports federal law enforcement officials are using a long-dormant law to detain immigrants and charge them with willfully failing to register with the government. Under the Alien Registration Act, passed in 1940 because of fears about immigrants’ loyalty to the United States, almost all noncitizens must register with the government and submit fingerprints, reports Politico on Saturday. The law has remained on the books since that time, but has remained dormant until President Donald Trump issued orders to enforce the law. As a result, since April, people have been arrested in Louisiana; Arizona; Montana; Alabama; Texas; and Washington, D.C., and charged with willful "failure to register" under the federal registration law. Most of those charged were already in jail and in proceedings for deportation when the new charges were presented against them. Failure to register is considered a misdemeanor and brings maximum penalties of six months in jail or a $1,000 fine. The Trump administration’s push to enforce the law means that immigrants who register must submit detailed and potentially incriminating information about themselves to the government. However, refusing to register is a crime that is punishable by arrest or prosecution, adding to the threat of being deported. Politico [6/14/2025 7:00 AM, Kassan Ali Kanu, 2100K] reports that in reviving the law, the Trump administration may put undocumented immigrants in a catch-22. If they register, they must hand over detailed, incriminating information to the federal government — including how and when they entered the country. But knowingly refusing to register is also a crime, punishable by arrest or prosecution, on top of the ever-present threat of deportation. “The sort of obvious reason to bring back registration in the first place is the hope that people will register, and therefore give themselves up effectively to the government because they already confessed illegal entry,” said Jonathan Weinberg, a Wayne State University law professor who has studied the registration law. But the Trump administration also has another goal. It says one purpose of the registration regime is to provoke undocumented immigrants to choose a third option: leave the country voluntarily, or, in the words of the Department of Homeland Security, compulsory “mass self-deportation.” Those efforts, alongside the administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act and a more aggressive approach to immigration raids, are meant to achieve a broader, overarching campaign promise: the largest deportation program in the history of America.

Reuters [6/14/2025 7:00 AM, Ned Parker and Peter Eisler, 51390K] reports the Nov. 5 killing of Anthony King was among 213 cases of political violence identified by Reuters since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by supporters of former President Donald Trump on the U.S. Capitol. Three academics who reviewed the cases say they add to growing evidence that America is grappling with the biggest and most sustained increase in political violence since the 1970s. The violence has killed at least 39 people, including King, roiling many aspects of American life, from small gatherings to large-scale public events. Some deaths followed one-on-one disputes, such as a fatal brawl last year between two Florida men arguing over Trump’s business acumen. Others happened in public settings, such as the shooting of five social justice protesters in Portland last year by a man immersed in far-right political rhetoric. Politically motivated mass killings claimed 24 of the lives, including the May 2022 shooting of 10 Black shoppers in Buffalo by a white supremacist who called for a race war. About two-thirds of the politically violent incidents documented by Reuters were assaults by lone assailants or clashes between rival groups at public events, such as demonstrations over police killings, abortion and transgender rights. The rest involved substantial property damage, often associated with social justice protests and frequently attributed by police to left-wing militants.

USA Today [6/14/2025 7:01 AM, Stephen J. Beard, 75552K] reports since the start of the protests against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s crackdowns in Los Angeles, one common sight in images circulated widely on social media is that of the red, white and green Mexican flag. Protesters have embraced the flag as a symbol of cultural pride and a repudiation of anti-immigrant policies against the backdrop of National Guard and Marines deployed to the city by President Donald Trump. Protesters have embraced the flag to reassert Mexican American identity, while some conservatives have used protest images featuring the Mexican flag to frame the demonstration with anti-American messaging. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum condemned any violence stemming from the protests during at a news conference June 9 in Mexico City.

New York Post [6/14/2025 3:24 PM, Staff, 49956K] reports God knows today’s right indulges in plenty of absurdly overheated rhetoric, but can Democrats please quit proclaiming the end of democracy over every trivial affront? The latest onset of fascism came when Sen. Alex Padilla burst into Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem’s LA presser Thursday and got tackled by Secret Service agents who didn’t recognize the crazy shouting man, then pulled out of the room in handcuffs. Dems nationwide were shocked, shocked. Here in New York Gov. Kathy Hochul claimed the takedown of the California senator "shocked the conscience"; mayoral frontrunner Andrew Cuomo called it part of Team Trump’s push to "silence opposition and undermine our democracy"; AOC demanded a "full investigation."

Bloomberg [6/14/2025 8:00 AM, Erika D. Smith, 19320K] reports until a few days ago, most Americans probably had never heard the name Alex Padilla. The 52-year-old Democrat, who serves as California’s senior US senator, is about as mild-mannered and low-key as politicians come. But then federal agents decided to drag him from a press conference in Los Angeles, shoving him to the ground and handcuffing him, all for having the temerity to ask a question of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. “If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question,” an emotional Padilla told reporters on Thursday in a clip that has since gone viral, “you can only imagine what they’re doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country.” Now Padilla, whose parents came to the US as undocumented immigrants from Mexico, is being lauded as a hero. And the policy views he has long held about creating more protections and pathways to citizenship for undocumented immigrants are now being heard by more Americans. It’s just one more way that President Donald Trump’s contentious decision to deploy the National Guard to Los Angeles, over the objections of California Governor Gavin Newsom, has pushed the state’s brand of unapologetically progressive, resistance-style politics back to the forefront of the Democratic Party. So much for focusing on the price of eggs. Several Democrats now sound like Padilla, who has spent a career advocating for protections for long-term undocumented residents. At a congressional hearing on Thursday, for instance, Illinois’ JB Pritzker admonished Republicans that “it’s wrong to tear children away from their homes and their mothers and fathers who have spent decades living and working in our communities.”

Los Angeles Times [6/15/2025 6:04 AM, Robin Abcarian, 14672K] reports this will strike the literal-minded as illogical, but I think Huntington Park Mayor Arturo Flores, a Marine veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, had a righteous point when he declared at a news conference with Southern California mayors that immigrants being rounded up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in communities like his "are Americans, whether they have a document or they don’t.’ "The president keeps talking about a foreign invasion," Flores told me Thursday. "He keeps trying to paint us as the other. I say, ‘No, you are dealing with Americans.’". California’s estimated 1.8 million undocumented immigrants who have lived among us for years, for decades, who work and pay taxes here, who have sent their American-born children to schools here, have all the responsibilities of citizens minus many of the rights. Yes, technically, they have broken the law. (For that matter, so has President Trump, a felon, and he continues to violate the Constitution day after day, as his mounting court losses attest.). But our region’s undocumented Mexican and Central American immigrants are inextricably embedded in our lives. They care for our children, build our homes, dig our ditches, trim our trees, clean our homes, hotels and businesses, wash our dishes, pick our crops, sew our clothes. Lots own small businesses, are paying mortgages, attend universities, rise in their professions. In 2013, I wrote about Sergio Garcia, the first undocumented immigrant admitted to the California Bar. Since then, he has become a U.S. citizen and owns a personal injury law firm. These Californians are far less likely to break the law than native-born Americans, and they do not deserve the reign of terror being inflicted on them by the Trump administration, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has pointlessly but theatrically called in the Marines. "So we started off by hearing the administration wanted to go after violent felons gang members, drug dealers," said Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who organized the mayors’ news conference last week, "but when you raid Home Depot and workplaces, when you tear parents and children apart, and when you run armored caravans through our streets, you’re not trying to keep anyone safe. You’re trying to cause fear and panic." And please, let’s not forget that when Congress came together and hammered out a bipartisan immigration reform bill under President Biden, Trump demanded Republicans kill it because he did not want a rational policy, he wanted to be able to keep hammering Democrats on the issue. But it seems there is more going on here than rounding up undocumented immigrants and terrorizing their families. We seem to have entered the "punish California" phase of Trump 2.0.

AP [6/14/2025 1:52 PM, Kimberly Kindy and Amanda Seitz, 5801K] reports President Donald Trump’s administration this week provided deportation officials with personal data — including the immigration status — on millions of Medicaid enrollees, a move that could make it easier to locate people as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown. An internal memo and emails obtained by The Associated Press show that Medicaid officials unsuccessfully sought to block the data transfer, citing legal and ethical concerns. Nevertheless, two top advisers to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the dataset handed over to the Department of Homeland Security, the emails show. Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services were given just 54 minutes on Tuesday to comply with the directive. The dataset includes the information of people living in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington, D.C., all of which allow non-U. S. citizens to enroll in Medicaid programs that pay for their expenses using only state taxpayer dollars. CMS transferred the information just as the Trump administration was ramping up its enforcement efforts in Southern California. Besides helping authorities locate migrants, experts said, the government could also use the information to scuttle the hopes of migrants seeking green cards, permanent residency or citizenship if they had ever obtained Medicaid benefits funded by the federal government. California Gov. Gavin Newsom ‘s office said in a statement that it was concerned about how deportation officials might utilize the data, especially as federal authorities conduct immigration raids with the assistance of National Guard troops and Marines in Los Angeles. "We deeply value the privacy of all Californians," the statement said. "This potential data transfer brought to our attention by the AP is extremely concerning, and if true, potentially unlawful, particularly given numerous headlines highlighting potential improper federal use of personal information and federal actions to target the personal information of Americans.” Some California lawmakers on Friday also expressed alarm. U.S. Rep. Laura Friedman, a Democrat, wrote on X that "we should never use a person’s need to go to the doctor against them. This will only lead to more chaos and pain in our communities.” U.S. Health and Human Services spokesperson Andrew Nixon said the data sharing was legal. He declined to answer questions about why the data was shared with DHS and how it would be used. "With respect to the recent data sharing between CMS and DHS, HHS acted entirely within its legal authority — and in full compliance with all applicable laws — to ensure that Medicaid benefits are reserved for individuals who are lawfully entitled to receive them," Nixon said. An official with DHS, Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, said in a statement that Trump "promised to protect Medicaid for eligible beneficiaries. To keep that promise after Joe Biden flooded our country with tens of millions of illegal aliens CMS and DHS are exploring an initiative to ensure that illegal aliens are not receiving Medicaid benefits that are meant for law-abiding Americans.” The initiative appears to be part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to provide DHS with more data on migrants. In May, for example, a federal judge refused to block the Internal Revenue Service from sharing immigrants’ tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help agents locate and detain people living without legal status in the U.S.

OutKick [6/14/2025 8:19 AM, John Simmons] reports if you’ve watched any bit of the news cycle since Donald Trump took office, you’ll know that the President has made it a priority to deport all illegal immigrants. That has concerned some world officials. For what reason, I can’t tell you, since Trump is simply doing what any good leader would do: protect his country from people who don’t belong within its borders. In light of these actions, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has called for ICE not to conduct immigration enforcement at the CONCACAF Gold Cup (a North American international soccer tournament). Specifically, she called for authorities to refrain from their duties during the Mexico-Dominican Republic game in Inglewood, CA, which will take place at 10:15 p.m. EST on Saturday night. "We don’t believe that at any soccer match there will be any [immigration] action. ... We call for none to be taken by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement," Sheinbaum said in her Friday morning news conference. Sheinbaum also said that the Mexican government would ensure that detained illegals would have the full support of the Mexican government.

Breitbart.com [6/14/2025 1:18 PM, Ildefonso Ortiz and Brandon Darby, 3077K] reports Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her government is not ok with the ongoing immigration raids, claiming that they are targeting "honest" and "hardworking" individuals. The politician made those comments on Thursday during her daily news conference, where Sheinbaum claimed to have met with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau. During the brief meeting, Sheinbaum stated that they discussed various items related to the ongoing relationship between the two countries. Sheinbaum claimed to have taken a strong stance in condemning the ongoing immigration raids taking place throughout the United States. Sheinbuam claimed that the meeting was conducted out of courtesy, as Landau was introducing himself in his new role under the Trump administration, and that during the conversation, they discussed strengthening the bonds between the two countries. The comments by Sheinbaum come just one day after U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called her out over her alleged promotion of the protests taking place in California and other states. As Breitbart Texas reported, on Wednesday afternoon, Noem criticized Sheinbaum, claiming that through her rhetoric, she had promoted the ongoing violent protests and condemned her behavior. On Wednesday evening, Sheinbaum fired back, sending a social media post where she claimed to have been erroneously singled out and that in her speeches, she had condemned all acts of violence.

Univision [6/14/2025 10:13 PM, Staff, 4992K] reports Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara was arrested in Atlanta while covering live a demonstration of the No Kings movement, which gathered hundreds of people in Chamblee Tucker to protest against immigration policies and the collaboration of local governments with federal agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Guevara, widely known for his work documenting real-time immigration arrests in Latino communities in metro Atlanta, was handcuffed by members of the Doraville Police Department at around 3:30 p.m., when he was broadcasting the mobilization on his Facebook Live account. The arrest has generated alarm among his more than one million followers on social networks, many of whom began to share fragments of the arrest and demand his release with hashtags such as #FreeMarioGuevara and #PeriodismoNoEsCrimen. The demonstration was part of a national day of protests organized under the slogan "No Kings", which seeks to highlight the increase in immigration operations and the growing pressure on undocumented communities. Guevara, a Salvadoran immigrant who has made immigration coverage his trademark since the Trump era, is known for scouring Latino neighborhoods for ICE operatives, alerted by his network of followers. On more than one occasion he has documented, in real time, the moment workers are arrested by federal agents in vehicles without visible identification. In a recent publication, Guevara denounced that some people have falsely accused him of collaborating with ICE and have even asked him to inform on ex-partners. "It’s shocking... Many people think I work with ICE and that I go around with them deporting people," he wrote just a few days ago. So far, neither the Atlanta police nor the state government’s communications department has issued an official statement about the reasons for his arrest. Local lawyers and civil rights organizations have already called for his immediate release and have asked for guarantees for the practice of independent journalism.

NBC News [6/15/2025 6:20 AM, Nicole Acevedo, 44540K] reports every seat in the waiting area of Glenn Valley Foods was occupied with people filling out job applications early Thursday afternoon, two days after the meatpacking plant became the center of the largest worksite immigration raid in the state of Nebraska so far this year. Dozens of prospective employees, many of them Spanish speakers, had been coming in and out of the plant all day. Some were hoping to land a new job; others were coming in for training. The scene gave the company’s president, Chad Hartmann, a glimmer of hope amid the chaos that ensued after Tuesday’s raid purged roughly half of his staff — many of whom had been longtime employees of the company, which has been processing boxed beef for more than 15 years. Hartmann had never seen or experienced a raid before. He is finding out in real time that “there’s no playbook” on how to move forward after one, Hartmann told NBC News. The process of re-hiring new workers, Hartmann said, feels like asking someone to replace a family member. “You cannot, in my mind,” he said. “They were part of our family, and they were taken away.” Seventy-six people working at Glenn Valley Foods were arrested by federal immigration authorities Tuesday morning, the Department of Homeland Security told NBC News in an email. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the arrests were part of an enforcement operation to execute a federal search warrant in connection to an investigation into “the large-scale employment of aliens without legal work authorization.” As of Friday night, criminal charges had not been filed against those arrested in the raid. About a dozen of them have already been deported or transferred out of state. At least 63 others were taken to the Lincoln County Detention Center. The county’s sheriff, Jerome Kramer, said none of the detainees are “violent offenders” and he hopes to help them “complete the process to correct their work status and reunite them with families or employers.”

Daily Wire [6/14/2025 5:15 AM, Spencer Lindquist, 3816K] reports a branch of the Democratic Party revealed the location of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Los Angeles and organized protests at hotels housing the federal law enforcement agents, a Daily Wire investigation reveals. Foothill Community Democrats doxxed the locations of federal law enforcement in multiple posts on Instagram. One post identified six Los Angeles hotels that are reportedly housing ICE agents and encouraged fellow Democrats to call the hotels to demand they kick ICE out. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told The Daily Wire the department will prosecute those who dox ICE agents. “These are thugs. We will prosecute those who dox ICE agents to the fullest extent of the law,” McLaughlin said. “These criminals are taking the side of vicious cartels and human traffickers. We won’t allow it in America.”

San Francisco Chronicle [6/14/2025 4:32 PM, Molly Burke and Greg Griffin, 4120K] reports a small office building in San Francisco’s South of Market became the scene early Saturday of a hastily organized protest against the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation policies as activists scrambled to block the federal government from detaining more immigrants. About 200 protesters began marching outside 478 Tehama St. at 7 a.m. after immigrants received texts Friday ordering them to check in with officials this weekend. Activists had anticipated that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has an office at the address, would try to detain immigrants who showed up. As many as 25 immigrants including families arrived by about 11 a.m., but the office appeared closed and no one had entered or left. Instead, activists met with the immigrants outside and connected them with lawyers. The action came ahead of the No Kings Day march and rally in San Francisco and nationwide amid a push by President Donald Trump to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally and a growing and sometimes unruly opposition movement. Many of the protesters had departed by 11 a.m., but organizers said they would stay because the ICE text messages had told immigrants to come during business hours Saturday or Sunday.

San Francisco Chronicle [6/14/2025 5:45 PM, Maggie Angst, 4120K] reports as the Trump administration reportedly pauses immigration raids and arrests across most of the agricultural industry and hotels and restaurants, some Californians working in those sectors predicted the move will do little more than offer a false sense of security for undocumented workers. "This is not a victory," said Reyna Maldonado, owner of Las Guerreras, a Mexican restaurant in downtown Oakland. "It’s a political calculation, and we have every reason to remain skeptical." The Trump administration on Thursday directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to largely put a hold on enforcement operations across agricultural restaurant and hotel workplaces, according to an email obtained by New York Times and reported by other outlets. The direction came as President Donald Trump acknowledged on social media that his aggressive immigration crackdown was hurting industries that he counted on for support. "Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace," he wrote in a social media post.

Telemundo [6/14/2025 2:17 PM, Staff, 103K] reports the federal government’s lack of coordination with Los Angeles authorities has caused the city to “run on hearsay,” Mayor Karen Bass told a news conference Saturday. Asked about the working relationship between the federal government and local law enforcement, Bass responded to a reporter, “The fact that you even raised that question is a problem, because it shouldn’t even be raised if there was cooperation between the federal government and local law enforcement.” The Trump administration has been at odds with Los Angeles and California leaders since ordering immigration raids in Southern California. The raids sparked massive protests in Los Angeles, with occasional clashes between protesters and police. The situation escalated when President Donald Trump ordered the mobilization of the National Guard in Los Angeles, a move opposed by Governor Gavin Newsom and Bass. Both California leaders claimed they did not receive advance notice of the mobilization and, as a result, the state sued the Trump administration. A federal judge ruled that the president exceeded his authority in activating the National Guard and blocked the move, but a federal appeals court ruled in Trump’s favor and allowed the military presence to remain in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Police Department Jim McDonnell said his department and federal personnel have “two distinct missions” when it comes to the unrest. He emphasized that the LAPD is not involved in immigration operations.

FOX News [6/14/2025 8:00 AM, Andrew Mark Miller, 46878K] reports California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass have lambasted President Trump for the financial cost of sending troops to quell anti-ICE riots in their jurisdiction, which came with a price tag dramatically less than the bill taxpayers foot to pay for illegal immigrants in the state. Many on social media responded to the posts from Newsom and Bass and commented on how illegal immigrants cost taxpayers billions of dollars in California, including White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller. In a statement to Fox News Digital, Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin fired back at California Democrats and pointed to the cost the rioters could inflict, already estimated in the millions as of Thursday, on the taxpayers in terms of property damage if not quickly quelled by federal troops.

FOX News [6/14/2025 6:45 AM, Ashley Oliver, 46878K] reports President Donald Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom are headed for another legal clash next week after the president activated the National Guard to respond to anti-immigration enforcement protests and riots in Los Angeles. The anticipated showdown will take place on Tuesday and comes after Judge Charles Breyer, a Clinton appointee, ruled Thursday night that Trump’s use of the National Guard was illegal and ordered the president to temporarily relinquish control of the soldiers. Newsom, a Democrat, celebrated the ruling, saying Trump had deployed the National Guard to his state out of "vanity" and to "instill fear" and to "incite a response." But Newsom’s win was short-lived as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit quickly put Breyer’s decision on hold in a matter of hours. The appellate court’s stay will remain in place at least through Tuesday, when attorneys for the California Attorney General’s Office and the Trump administration argue before a three-judge panel about whether the court should grant a longer-term stay. Judges Mark Bennett and Eric Miller, both Trump appointees, and Judge Jennifer Sung, a Biden appointee, will hear the arguments. For now, Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth can continue to deploy thousands of National Guard soldiers in California, as well as hundreds of Marines. Trump and Hegseth indicated in court papers that military forces would be used strictly to protect federal personnel and federal buildings as they faced attacks by anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rioters in recent days.

FOX News [6/14/2025 8:00 AM, Peter D’Abrosca, 46878K] reports the director of the Los Angeles Police Department’s union slammed city and state leadership while issuing a stark warning to would-be anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement rioters. Jamie McBride is an LAPD detective with 35 years of experience on the force. He now leads the Los Angeles Police Protective League, representing the city’s officers. McBride said that LAPD officers are holding up well during the riots, which were sparked by recent arrests of criminal illegal immigrants in the city, but that police intend to crack down hard on bad actors who cause trouble in the city. McBride also slammed California’s leadership, especially Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has fought President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and U.S. Marines to the city to quell and deter violence. Federal help, McBride said, would be greatly appreciated by the LAPD. He was also critical of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.

Los Angeles Times [6/15/2025 6:00 AM, Ruben Vives, James Rainey, and Libor Jany, 14672K] reports a week of immigration sweeps across Southern California has left some communities eerily quiet, with some residents saying they are avoiding going out and attending to routine business out of fear of being stopped. Among the places where residents and merchants say foot traffic is way down include the normally bustling MacArthur Park area, downtown Downey and the Fashion District, which saw a large immigration raid June 6. Some car washes, which were a frequent target of agents last week, have also temporarily closed. Here is a sampling of how life is changing: These were the sounds you didn’t hear coming from a school in South Los Angeles on Saturday — children laughing with their friends, parents whooping for their kids’ first guitar solos and teachers burbling about the piano pupil who exceeded all expectations. The music went silent this Father’s Day weekend at the Young Musicians Foundation. The venerable school for working-class students canceled its traditional semester-ending concert and celebration because many of its students and parents were afraid that gathering would make them vulnerable to the Trump administration’s immigration raids. After a week of Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests around Southern California, many parents in the working class neighborhood east of USC pulled their kids from classes last week. On Friday morning, the area around MacArthur Park, a longtime immigrant hub west of downtown, was noticeably quieter than usual. Gone were many of the vendors who once lined South Alvarado Street at all times of day, selling everything from baby formula to Lionel Messi jerseys. On Thursday, federal agents stormed a Huntington Park home and were accompanied by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Sabrina Medina, 28, was cleaning her patio Wednesday night when she saw a silver minivan slow down in front of her home in Huntington Park. She said she saw the driver recording her and her brother-in-law at the home. Early Thursday morning, Medina was rattled by several loud knocks on the front door. When she looked through the window she saw men in fatigues carrying assault rifles. One of them was pointing his weapon at her and ordered her to come out of the house, she said. As she, her brother-in-law and her kids waited in the driveway, Medina said she spotted Noem watching the operation. She said she also spotted a video crew and someone she believed to be Dr. Phil McGraw — the TV personality — sitting in an SUV. The site of Noem in a baseball hat and ballistic vest was startling, and Medina said she began to record her with her phone. The pregnant mother said Noem was laughing and appeared as if she was "waiting for something to happen."

The Hill [6/14/2025 7:25 PM, Vivian Chow, 18649K] reports family members are demanding answers after they say a man who is a U.S. citizen was wrongfully arrested by federal agents during an immigration raid in Montebello. On June 12, surveillance video captured the moment several masked and armed agents surrounded a tow truck business in Montebello. The agents quickly entered the property and began detaining mechanics and other workers at the site. One of the detained men who was later released spoke to KTLA but asked not to be identified out of safety concerns. He said he was violently grabbed and taken by the agents despite being a U.S. citizen. "He slammed me to the gate," the man told KTLA’s Ellina Abovian. "He put my hands behind my back. I’m an American citizen. You do not do that to Americans.” Nataly Degante, whose cousin, Javier Ramirez, 32, was arrested in the raid, said that while agents began handcuffing everyone, they reportedly never provided identification or information about why they were there. "We see in the video that they don’t come with a warrant," she said. "They don’t have any documentation in their hands.” Degante said her cousin is a U.S. citizen and a single father of two young children. She described him as a hard worker with no criminal record. Video of the raid shows some workers being moved to the ground as agents quickly handcuffed them. Ramirez is also seen on the video yelling to the agents that he’s a citizen. "He’s telling them he is a U.S. citizen and he’s letting them know, ‘My passport is in my pocket,’" Degante said. However, Ramirez was handcuffed and taken into custody. His brother tried following Ramirez’s location through his cell phone’s tracking app, but the signal was eventually lost. His family has not heard from him since. "We haven’t heard anything about him," said Abimael Dominguez, his brother. "He’s diabetic. I don’t even know if he has insulin yet or has he eaten? We don’t know anything. ". It remains unclear whether the agents were with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Some of the agents appeared to be wearing uniforms with a Border Patrol insignia. "I voted, but not for this," said the man who was detained and later released. "I’m an American citizen. I want the best for all of us. I feel like there is due process that we must follow.” "They’re not only taking criminals, they are taking our community," Degante said. As of Friday afternoon, Homeland Security has not responded to KTLA’s request for comment about why Ramirez was detained or whether he was wanted for any crimes.

Los Angeles Times [6/15/2025 6:00 AM, Kate Sequeira and Daniel Miller, 14672K] reports by the time Josefina and her husband sat down to talk, the immigration raids had been going on for days, and protests over the federal actions had turned violent in parts of downtown Los Angeles. At night, they could hear the helicopters from their Boyle Heights home. The couple couldn’t afford to put off the conversation any longer — fear was mounting over the potential separation of their family. Josefina’s husband, a garment worker, is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers raided the Ambiance Apparel garment factory June 6, the couple’s 15- and 19-year-old children had texted their father in a panic. He, too, works at a garment factory. Should he go to work? That’s what they had to hash out Tuesday night. The couple was seated in the dining room. Their children were engrossed in a movie in the living room. The parents had not wanted their kids to hear the conversation — and figured they were out of earshot. "Dad should just stay home," the teenagers insisted. And with that, the whole family was part of a difficult conversation. It was not how the couple had scripted it, but Josefina came to terms with keeping the kids in the know. "I’ve done my best to shield them, but they have a lot of questions," said Josefina, who like others in this report asked that she and her family not be fully identified over safety concerns. "They’re trying to understand what happens after this. So what I’ve been offering them is that this isn’t how things are going to be forever, that there’s power in community." Conversations like the one in Josefina’s dining room are unfolding across the Los Angeles region, as families with undocumented members grapple with fraught questions pushed to the fore by the Trump administration’s chaotic crackdown on what he has called a "Migrant Invasion." Aggressive sweeps by ICE were met with fierce resistance by protesters and others beginning June 6. A Home Depot in Paramount became a flash point after border patrol agents began massing there early on June 7. Eventually, the scene erupted, with demonstrators clashing with authorities, leading to multiple arrests. The episode was one of the triggers that led the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops to L.A. over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom.

FOX News [6/15/2025 4:00 AM, Audrey Conklin, 46878K] reports a restaurant owner outside Los Angeles is opening up about her decision to help police officers who were tear-gassed during riots outside her business June 7. Elizabeth Mendoza is the owner of La Ceiba Restaurant, a Salvadoran eatery in Long Beach, who told Fox News Digital she welcomed both police and protesters who entered her business seeking help after being pepper-sprayed that Saturday afternoon. "I feel sad because my city … it’s a good city," she said. "My people is honest. My people have to work a lot. I’m here for 14 years. I know my people, and I feel bad … when I saw the police. The police need my help, too, because they are human like me. They feel everything like me. "They have to … work," she said, adding she has received thanks from police for helping officers that day. Mendoza initially said her restaurant had suffered because the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and police presence in the area made people "scared" to walk around. But now her business is thriving due to the positive attention she has received nationally for helping officers. She has been living in the United States for more than 30 years and is a legal U.S. citizen. The business owner said the recent riots and ICE raids have made her "sad" because immigrants like her want "peace" and "work" in the United States. While outsiders have treated what she described as her "hole-in-the-wall" restaurant with respect, Mendoza called on protesters to condemn violence against other local businesses. "Everything is OK. I want to say that protest is good," she said. "But no[t] something bad — the street, the windows. Please, don’t do that.” Protests escalated in the Los Angeles area beginning June 6 and June 7, when ICE raids began across the county, resulting in hundreds of illegal immigrant arrests. The Department of Homeland Security shared information with Fox News about some of the most violent offenders arrested by ICE those two days. Rioting broke out on the evening of June 7, a Friday, as agitators burned cars, threw objects and fireworks at police, blocked traffic, vandalized public buildings with graffiti and smashed windows of the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters downtown. The rioting continued into the weekend and ensuing weeknights.

Univision [6/14/2025 10:25 PM, Staff, 4992K] reports that, under the slogan "Puerto Rico is land of migrants," hundreds of people gathered Saturday in front of La Fortaleza, in Old San Juan, to protest against the immigration policies of U.S. President Donald Trump and denounce the participation of the Puerto Rican government in detention and deportation operations. The mobilization, called by the Front Against President Trump’s Immigration Policies, was part of the national protests of the No Kings Day movement. With Puerto Rican, Dominican and Palestinian flags, the demonstrators marched down Fortaleza Street and its surroundings, in what they described as an expression of rejection of institutional violence against migrants, especially those of Dominican and Haitian origin. During the demonstration, slogans such as "Fight yes, surrender no", "No to deportation, yes to integration", and "Dominicans are our sisters and Dominicans are our brothers" were chanted, in reference to the largest migrant community on the island. One of the most applauded speeches was that of Nilmaris Díaz, daughter of Dominican migrants and member of the Colectiva Feminista en Construcción. Diaz denounced that the raids have a clear racial component. "They stalk Haitian migrants, Dominicans, people born here who are visibly black, which shows that this is a policy that aims to shape a present in which black people are subject to any type of violence," she said. Díaz also recalled the contribution of migrants to the economic and social life of the country: "My parents and my family work, build, feed and sweat this country. We are part of the community. The protest also directly targeted the administration of Governor Jenniffer González, who is accused of actively collaborating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). According to local organizations, the Executive has shared personal information of more than 6,000 immigrants through driver’s license databases. Romelinda Grullón, director of the Dominican Women’s Center, warned that these actions have generated a humanitarian crisis on the island. "The terror generated by ICE operations has led many immigrants to avoid going to their workplaces and even to avoid going to hospitals," she said. According to official figures, so far in 2025 ICE has made at least 568 arrests in Puerto Rico, an average of close to 100 arrests per month, which reflects an alarming increase compared to previous years. González justified her actions on June 6, stating that her administration "is doing what is absolutely required and obligated by federal law, no more, no less". However, the convening organizations demanded the immediate cessation of any local government collaboration with federal immigration agencies and demanded the active protection of the human rights of all migrants in Puerto Rico.

Washington Post [6/14/2025 2:19 PM, Adam Taylor, 32099K] reports the United States is considering restricting entry to citizens of an additional 36 countries in what would be a significant expansion of the travel ban announced by the Trump administration early this month, according to a State Department memo reviewed by The Washington Post. Among the new list of countries that could face visa bans or other restrictions are 25 African nations, including significant U.S. partners such as Egypt and Djibouti, plus countries in the Caribbean, Central Asia and several Pacific Island nations. A State Department spokesperson said the agency would not comment on internal deliberations or communications. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Such a move would mark another escalation in the Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown on immigration. The memo, which was signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and sent Saturday to U.S. diplomats who work with the countries, said the governments of listed nations were being given 60 days to meet new benchmarks and requirements established by the State Department. It set a deadline of 8 a.m. Wednesday for them to provide an initial action plan for meeting the requirements. The memo identified varied benchmarks that, in the administration’s estimation, these countries were failing to meet. Some countries had “no competent or cooperative central government authority to produce reliable identity documents or other civil documents,” or they suffered from “widespread government fraud.” Others had large numbers of citizens who overstayed their visas in the United States, the memo said. Other reasons included the availability of citizenship by monetary investment without a requirement of residency and claims of “antisemitic and anti-American activity in the United States” by people from those countries. The memo also stated that if a country was willing to accept third-country nationals who were removed from the United States or enter a “safe third country” agreement, it could mitigate other concerns. It was not immediately clear when the proposed travel restrictions would be enforced if the demands were not met.

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Blaze [6/14/2025 1:00 PM, James Varney, 1805K] reports in drab, windowless rooms strung along a tight corridor, migrants who have flooded into the United States in recent years trickle before immigration judges each weekday morning. In many cases, they are making their first appearance after being in the U.S. for years, and with careful pleadings and use of appeals, many know they can stay here for years to come. While Trump administration immigration tactics — such as arrests and deportations — dominate the headlines, the situation in court, where most of the final decisions will be made, is another thing the administration is trying to change. Recently, RealClearInvestigations observed days of immigration court proceedings to gain insight into the current state of a system with a backlog of more than 3.6 million people, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which tracks immigration court figures through monthly Freedom of Information Act requests.

NewsMax [6/14/2025 5:29 PM, Sandy Fitzgerald, 4622K] reports Federal law enforcement officials are using a long-dormant law to detain immigrants and charge them with willfully failing to register with the government. Under the Alien Registration Act, passed in 1940 because of fears about immigrants’ loyalty to the United States, almost all noncitizens must register with the government and submit fingerprints, reports Politico on Saturday. The law has remained on the books since that time, but has remained dormant until President Donald Trump issued orders to enforce the law. As a result, since April, people have been arrested in Louisiana; Arizona; Montana; Alabama; Texas; and Washington, D.C., and charged with willful "failure to register" under the federal registration law. Most of those charged were already in jail and in proceedings for deportation when the new charges were presented against them. Failure to register is considered a misdemeanor and brings maximum penalties of six months in jail or a $1,000 fine. The Trump administration’s push to enforce the law means that immigrants who register must submit detailed and potentially incriminating information about themselves to the government. However, refusing to register is a crime that is punishable by arrest or prosecution, adding to the threat of being deported.

Breitbart [6/14/2025 3:46 PM, Staff, 3077K] reports a Mexican politician sparked harsh criticism in her country after she taunted U.S. State Department officials to revoke her visa and to "shove it." The comments took place this week when Melissa Cornejo, a regional leader for Mexico’s ruling party MORENA posted a message supporting the riots in Los Angeles and wrote "‘They are going to take the visas of those who share’ … Viva La Raza and Shove my visa up their ass". The message contained a picture of a burned 0ut car with the letters FUCK ICE spray painted on it while a man stood next to is waving a Mexican flag. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau directly responded to the message, stating that he could not revoke her visa but had instructed his staff to cancel it. Landau said that he was surprised to find out that Cornejo did not even have a visa to begin with. Landau further added that those who glorify violence are not welcome in the United States. As Breitbart Texas reported, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem publicly called out Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum for supporting protesters at a time when tensions continue to rise over the L.A. riots. Sheinbaum countered Noem’s claim, stating that she had only promoted peaceful protests and had condemned the violence.

Univision [6/13/2025 10:19 PM, Staff, 4992K] reports a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment on June 5, 2025 against Shokir Kurbonovich Khalilov, a citizen of Uzbekistan, and Keily Maisonet-Ortiz, a resident of San Juan, for allegedly committing marriage fraud to evade U.S. immigration laws. According to court documents, between February 29, 2024 and April 29, 2025, the defendants allegedly simulated a marriage with the intent to obtain immigration benefits for Khalilov. The couple obtained a marriage license and married on March 13, 2024 in San Juan. Subsequently, in October of that same year, Maisonet-Ortiz filed an I-130 petition on behalf of her husband with the Department of Homeland Security, while Khalilov simultaneously filed an I-485 application to adjust his immigration status and obtain permanent residency. Both face charges of conspiracy to commit marriage fraud and marriage fraud. If convicted, they could face up to five years in prison. Sentencing will be determined by a federal judge after considering sentencing guidelines and other statutory factors.

Breitbart.com [6/14/2025 1:02 PM, Randy Clark, 3077K] reports Texas law enforcement authorities arrested a Houston-area man after a high-speed chase that began in the border town of Pharr. The suspect, 35-year-old Margarito Alcantar, is wanted by authorities as a suspect in a 2021 murder. On Wednesday, Harris County (Houston) Sheriff’s Office investigators, Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division, and Highway Patrol troopers located Alcantar’s vehicle in the Texas-Mexico border town of Pharr near Veterans Boulevard, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the incident. According to the source, not authorized to speak to the media, Alcantar immediately fled from authorities after they attempted to stop his vehicle. After crashing his pick-up truck into several Texas Highway Patrol vehicles and a stone wall, Alcantar was arrested with his 3-year-old child in the pickup truck. The pursuit involved several law enforcement agencies, including the Border Patrol, which aided the primary pursuit officer. The pursuit continued into the nearby city of Edinburg, Texas, where Alcantar crashed the silver GMC pick-up truck he was driving into a stone back yard fence on Eldora Road. According to the law enforcement source, Alcantar suffered head and face injuries that were not serious. Alcantar’s 3-year-old child was found in the vehicle and did not suffer injuries. The child was handed over to relatives by local law enforcement officers. Alcantar was taken to a local hospital for treatment. According to the source, Alcantar will be charged with aggravated assault on a peace officer, evading arrest, and one count of child endangerment in addition to the current charges he faces in connection with the 2021 murder. According to an Associated Press news report, Alcantar is one of four members of a family that was charged in the murder of 29-year-old Eddie Clark in May 2021. Clark was killed near his Houston home in what police say may have been a case of mistaken identity.

Los Angeles Times [6/15/2025 6:00 AM, Brittny Mejia and Rachel Uranga, 14672K] reports Brian Gavidia had stepped out from working on a car at a tow yard in a Los Angeles suburb Thursday, when armed, masked men — wearing vests with “Border Patrol” on them — pushed him up against a metal gate and demanded to know where he was bornHis friend, whom Gavidia did not name, narrated the video: “These guys, literally based off of skin color! My homie was born here!” The friend said Gavidia was being questioned “just because of the way he looks.” In a statement Saturday, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said U.S. citizens were arrested “because they ASSAULTED U.S. Border Patrol Agents.” (McLaughlin’s statement emphasized the word “assaulted” in all-capital and boldfaced letters.) When told by a reporter that Gavidia had not been arrested, McLaughlin clarified that Gavidia had been questioned by Border Patrol agents but there “is no arrest record.” She said a friend of Gavidia’s was arrested for assault of an officer. As immigration operations have unfolded across Southern California in the last week, lawyers and advocates say people are being targeted because of their skin color. The encounter with Gavidia and others they are tracking have raised legal questions about enforcement efforts that have swept up hundreds of immigrants and shot fear into the deeply intertwined communities they call home. When asked about the accusations of racial profiling, the White House deflected. Calling the questions “shameful regurgitations of Democrat propaganda by activists — not journalists,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson chided The Times reporters Saturday for not reporting the “real story — the American victims of illegal alien crime and radical Democrat rioters willing to do anything to keep dangerous illegal aliens in American communities.” She did not answer the question. McLaughlin said in a statement, “Any claims that individuals have been ‘targeted’ by law enforcement because of their skin color are disgusting and categorically FALSE.” She said the suggestion fans the flames and puts agents in peril. “DHS enforcement operations are highly targeted, and officers do their due diligence,” she said. “We know who we are targeting ahead of time. If and when we do encounter individuals subject to arrest, our law enforcement is trained to ask a series of well-determined questions to determine status and removability. “We will follow the President’s direction and continue to work to get the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens off of America’s streets,” she said. The unprecedented show of force by federal agents follows orders from White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump’s immigration plan and a Santa Monica native, to execute 3,000 arrests a day. In May, Miller reportedly directed top ICE officials to go beyond target lists and have agents make arrests at Home Depot or 7-Eleven convenience stores. U.S. Customs and Border Protection did not answer specific questions about the encounter with Gavidia and said that immigration enforcement has been “targeted.” The agency did not explain what is meant by targeted enforcement. U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief Greg Bovino, who oversaw raids that included picking people up at Home Depot and stopping them on the highway, has emerged as a key figure in L.A. He stood alongside Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday at a news conference where Sen. Alex Padilla — the state’s first Latino U.S. senator — was handcuffed, forced to the ground and briefly held after interrupting Noem with a question.

FOX News [6/14/2025 11:28 AM, Greg Norman, 46878K] reports a Transportation Security Administration agent was arrested for allegedly assaulting a 79-year-old passenger at Fort Lauderdale’s airport, with police saying she was "forcefully pushing her," a report said. Janiyah Wilson-Robinson, 21, of Margate, was taken into custody Wednesday following the incident at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, according to WPLG. The station, citing a Broward Sheriff’s Office arrest report, said Wilson-Robinson attacked the woman from Palm Beach Gardens by "forcefully pushing her," causing her to fall to the ground and hit her forehead. The passenger, who was at the airport that day traveling on a JetBlue flight, suffered "minor bruising," deputies reportedly added. It wasn’t clear what led to the alleged confrontation. Wilson-Robinson was charged with aggravated battery on a person 65 or older and was released on a $1,000 bond. "The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is aware of the recent arrest of one of our officers. TSA holds its employees to the highest standards of professionalism and integrity, and we do not tolerate behavior that violates these standards or the public’s trust," a TSA spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "The individual has been placed on administrative leave pending further investigation. We are fully cooperating with law enforcement authorities in their investigation," the spokesperson added.

FOX News [6/14/2025 6:34 PM, Alexandra Koch, 46878K] reports one suspect is in police custody and all departures were delayed after a passenger made a "direct threat" to the safety of an Alaska Airlines aircraft Saturday at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA). Alaska Airlines confirmed to Fox News Digital there was a security incident at about 1 p.m. involving Alaska Airlines Flight 2123, operated by Horizon Air from Seattle to Walla Walla, Washington. "During taxi to the runway, a guest made a direct threat to the safety of the aircraft to one of our flight attendants," a spokesperson said. "Our crew members followed their procedures and secured the aircraft on a runway away from the airport.” Local and federal law enforcement were immediately notified and approached the aircraft. FBI Seattle confirmed to Fox News Digital it responded along with the Port of Seattle Police Department. One suspect, who has not yet been identified, is in custody, according to the Port of Seattle and the airline. The Federal Aviation Administration later issued a ground stop "due to security.” Two runways were closed after the incident, leaving just one open. Due to the threat, Alaska Airlines said at least six flights were canceled and two others were diverted. "We are working to get all guests to their destinations safely and as quickly as possible," a spokesperson said. The nature of the incident is unclear. There were 68 passengers and four crew members onboard, according to Alaska Airlines. Passengers were safely deplaned and will be returned to the terminal after a security screening, according to the Port of Seattle. The aircraft will be subject to security measures before continuing, Alaska Airlines said.

USA Today [6/14/2025 4:47 PM, Jim Walsh and Anthony Robledo, 75552K] reports emergency officials in New Jersey confirmed that firefighters have contained 60% of the state’s wildfire in the Wharton State Forest on Saturday. The Mines Spung Wildfire, first reported by a private pilot on June 13, has burned more than 5,000 acres, according to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service. Firefighters were "making progress" in containing the blaze in Shamong Township, New Jersey, deploying fire engines, helicopters, bulldozers and ground, according to the state service. The cause of the fire, which has threatened five structures, is under investigation. "The fire has got some serious burning going on right now and with that, we’re having a hard time to control it," the state fire service’s Chief Bill Donnelly told reporters during a press conference. The smell of smoke was reported in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware Friday evening, going into the weekend, according to CBS station KYW-TV. The blaze prompted several evacuations, including Shamong’s Costello Preparatory Academy, a state-run community home for males with a history of substance abuse.

AP [6/14/2025 6:58 PM, Staff, 56000K] reports the death toll from heavy rains that inundated parts of San Antonio has risen to 13, and all those missing have been found, authorities said Saturday. More than 7 inches (18 centimeters) of rain fell over a span of hours on Thursday, causing fast-rising floodwaters to carry more than a dozen cars into a creek. Some people climbed trees to escape. Firefighters rescued more than 70 people across the nation’s seventh-largest city. More than a dozen cars got stuck or overturned in Beital Creek. The San Antonio Fire Department said 11 of those who died were found in the Perrin Beitel search area around the creek. One person was found several miles upstream.

FOX News [6/14/2025 4:41 PM, Alexandra Koch and Matt Finn, 46878K] reports newly filed court documents reveal that a Los Angeles protester at the center of a dramatic arrest caught on video has been criminally charged with assaulting a federal officer by throwing a rock at an agent’s face shield. Thomas Guzman was apprehended near the Roybal Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in downtown L.A. on Thursday night, and is charged with felony assault on a federal officer. A video obtained by Fox News shows the chaotic interaction, with officers screaming for protesters to get back. Guzman was allegedly seen in the video being handcuffed face down on the sidewalk. Other law enforcement officers ran to protect agents making the arrest from surrounding protesters. During the search after the arrest, additional rocks were found in Guzman’s pockets, according to authorities. When arriving at the Federal Protection Service (FPS) holding cell, Guzman allegedly told police, "Man you got me, I knew I should have ran," according to court documents. The arrest happened after demonstrators throughout the week got close to law enforcement, ridiculing and taunting them. Officers held their line for hours before the arrest took place. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

NBC News [6/14/2025 8:51 PM, Peter Nicholas, Henry J. Gomez, Jonathan Allen, Nnamdi Egwuonwu and Megan Lebowitz, 44540K] reports President Donald Trump presided over a parade Saturday celebrating the nation’s military power and history, though the event was shadowed by political violence at home and escalating tensions abroad. “Every other country celebrates their victories,” Trump said as he took the lectern after the parade ended. “It’s about time America did, too. That’s what we’re doing tonight.” Prone to delivering long, boastful speeches, Trump kept his remarks brief and made the military the focus. Beforehand, critics had warned he would politicize the event for his own purposes. Trump avoided any overt partisan messages, though he seemed to allude at one point to his "Fight! Fight! Fight!" exhortation after an assassination attempt against him last year. "Time and again, America’s enemies have learned that if you threaten the American people, our soldiers are coming for you," Trump said. "Your defeat will be certain. Your demise will be final, and your downfall will be total and complete — because our soldiers never give up, never surrender and never ever quit. They fight, fight, fight and they win, win, win." Trump’s appearance on the reviewing stand south of the White House capped a harrowing day in which a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband were murdered — and another Democratic legislator and his wife were wounded — in what authorities called a “politically motivated” attack. A shooting war has broken out between two longtime Middle East foes, Iran and Israel. And in a further distraction from the parade Trump had long coveted, protesters around the country rallied against the spectacle, turning out by tens of thousands in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and other cities. Animating the demonstrations was a two-word rallying cry: "No kings." The weather didn’t fully cooperate, either. The winds picked up and a light drizzle commenced just as the tanks were about to roll. The parade was supposed to begin at 6:30 p.m. ET, but it was moved up a half hour in deference to the weather, a Secret Service official said. Army tanks, their treads squeaking against the pavement, trundled along Constitution Avenue under an intermittent drizzle. Hundreds of people were still stuck in line, even as the parade was coming to a close two hours later. Some of the planned flyovers had to be canceled. Still, the crowd gathered on the National Mall looked up appreciatively as helicopters flew overhead in formation. The parade came on the 250th anniversary of the Army and, as it happens, Trump’s 79th birthday. The timing sparked criticism that the parade was intended as much a celebration of one man as it was the Army. The military estimated the cost at $25 million to $40 million. The crowd broke out into a chorus of “Happy Birthday” after Trump’s remarks Saturday night. "The whole idea — doing it on Trump’s birthday ... we don’t do this in America," said Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., a member of the Armed Services Committee. "We do not celebrate individual leaders. We celebrate the Constitution, and we celebrate the country."

The Hill [6/14/2025 8:48 PM, Brett Samuels, 18649K] reports President Trump on Saturday touted the might of the U.S. Army at the end of a two-hour parade to mark the 250th anniversary of the branch, framing it as a celebration of the country’s military successes. "Every other country celebrates their victories. It’s about time America did, too," Trump said in prepared remarks. "That’s what we’re doing tonight.” Saturday’s event came amid turmoil at home and on the world stage, but there was no mention from Trump of outside events. He spoke for about eight minutes, focusing on the Army’s origins and several specific instances of bravery from soldiers in wars throughout American history. "Watching this magnificent display, our souls are filled with gratitude for every generation of warriors who have worn the uniform back to the very beginning," Trump said. Trump watched the parade from a viewing stand on Constitution Avenue. Other officials sitting with the president included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and first lady Melania Trump. At the conclusion of his remarks, Trump and the first lady were presented with a folded American flag from a service member. Vance, who served in the Marines, also delivered brief introductory remarks before Trump, nodding to the MAGA movement’s anti-interventionist bent. "To our soldiers, we’re so proud of you. And let me tell you, the way that we honor and respect you, number one, we never ask you to go to war unless you absolutely have to," Vance said. "And number two, when we do ask you to go to war, we give you the weapons and the support needed to kick the hell out of the enemy and come back home safely," he added. The president looked on as various military vehicles rolled down the street, including Sherman tanks and Howitzers. The U.S. Army Golden Knights parachuted onto the Ellipse near the parade route, landing near Trump’s riser. Various groups of soldiers marched along the street, with Trump standing to salute at multiple points. The parade had been clouded by forecasts of stormy weather on Saturday evening. And while a few raindrops fell, severe storms held off and allowed the event to proceed mostly as planned with thousands of onlookers gathered along the parade route. The event was ostensibly to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary, but it in recent months became intertwined with Trump himself, especially given it fell on his 79th birthday. Critics questioned the sizable price tag and likened the display to similar events in authoritarian nations like Russia and North Korea.

FOX News [6/14/2025 8:58 PM, Emma Colton, Charles Creitz, 46878K] reports President Donald Trump’s delivered remarks Saturday evening at a historic military parade honoring the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary. "Every other country celebrates their victories," he said. "It’s about time America did too — that’s what we’re doing tonight." "As we celebrate tonight, we also think of the hundreds of thousands of Army soldiers who have made the supreme sacrifice for our nation and selflessly laid down their lives in every war, from the revolution to the war on terror, to the Gold Star families with us today," he said. He called the Army’s most famous leader, Gen. George Washington, an "indomitable commander" and laid out many of the major American victories from the Revolution onward: Gettysburg, Guadalcanal, Shiloh, San Juan Hill, the Argonne trenches and the Afghan mountainsides. Through them "the Army has forged a legacy of unmatched courage, untold sacrifice, and unequaled and undying glory," Trump said. He spoke of Gen. John Corse, a Union commander shot in the face at the Battle of Allatoona Pass near Cartersville, Georgia, who was shot in the face but did not relent from the front lines against the Confederates. "He fired off a message to his commander, ‘I am short a cheekbone and one ear, but I am able to whip the hell out of all of them’," Trump recounted. He also cited Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne, who, like Corse, was a Pennsylvania native known for his military fortitude. Trump spoke of Wayne leading a midnight raid up the Palisades cliffs near Bear Mountain, New York, with only bayonets and no ammo to take on the British during the Revolution. Wayne took that order in stride, declaring to Washington: "Issue the order, sir, and I will storm into hell for you." Trump spent the rest of the parade seated, or often standing and saluting the troops, flanked by first lady Melania Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Thousands of Americans, including veterans, youth and dads celebrating Father’s Day, flocked to downtown D.C. wearing "Make America Great Again" hats and patriotic gear displaying Old Glory despite the balmy weather and brewing thunderstorms.

New York Times [6/14/2025 9:01 PM, Lisa Lerer, 138952K] reports the statements of shock and condolences streamed in eerily one after another on Saturday after the assassination of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, and the attempted murder of another lawmaker and his wife. “Horrible news,” said Representative Steve Scalise, who was shot at a baseball game in 2017. “Paul and I are heartbroken,” said former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose husband was bludgeoned with a hammer in 2022. “My family and I know the horror of a targeted shooting all too well,” said former Representative Gabby Giffords, who was shot in the head in 2011. Still more came from Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania (arson, 2025), Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan (kidnapping plot, 2020) and President Trump (two assassination attempts, 2024). “Such horrific violence will not be tolerated in the United States of America,” the president said. And yet the expanding club of survivors of political violence seemed to stand as evidence to the contrary. In the past three months alone, a man set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s residence while Mr. Shapiro and his family were asleep inside; another man gunned down a pair of workers from the Israeli Embassy outside an event in Washington; protesters calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colo., were set on fire; and the Republican Party headquarters in New Mexico and a Tesla dealership near Albuquerque were firebombed. And those were just the incidents that resulted in death or destruction. Against that backdrop, it might have been shocking, but it was not really so surprising, when on Saturday morning, a Democratic state representative in Minnesota, Melissa Hortman, and her husband, Mark, were assassinated in their home, and a Democratic state senator, John A. Hoffman, and his wife, Yvette, were shot and wounded. Slowly but surely, political violence has moved from the fringes to an inescapable reality. Violent threats and even assassinations, attempted or successful, have become part of the political landscape — a steady undercurrent of American life.

New York Post [6/14/2025 9:00 AM, Chris Harris and Doree Lewak, 49956K] reports a convicted Al-Qaeda sympathizer who conspired to kill Americans in shopping malls and traveled to the Mideast to train with the terror group was teaching kids at a Muslim community center on Staten Island. Tarek Mehanna — who prosecutors say once vowed to wage armed jihad against Americans both here and abroad — began teaching Arabic and the Quran in January to children as young as 4 at the Muslim Community Center of Staten Island in West Brighton. The Sept. 11 attacks inspired the terror teacher and galvanized his radicalization, according to federal prosecutors. An unnamed official with MCC Brooklyn on Saturday morning claimed Mehanna’s work with the center "ended over a month ago."

CBS News [6/15/2025 12:04 PM, Staff, 51860K] reports that, despite initial reports, Fort Cavazos officials have confirmed that there was no active shooter and no lockdown on Saturday at the Central Texas military installation. An incident did occur at the Belton Lake Outdoor Recreation Area (BLORA), a popular recreational site on the base. According to a report from the local CBS affiliate, the situation involved two individuals and is currently under investigation by base authorities.

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Reuters [6/14/2025 2:28 PM, Jonathan Landay, 51390K] reports the U.S. military has stepped up security at all military installations in the United States "based on world events," U.S. Northern Command said on Saturday, as Israel launched a second day of airstrikes against Iran. U.S. Northern Command, which oversees the defense of the continental U.S. and Alaska, said in a statement that employees and visitors "should plan for increased security measures" at its installations "and/or longer wait times" to enter them. Additional security measures at all facilities "will be maintained as long as necessary. We are not aware of specific threats to installations," the statement said.

AP [6/14/2025 4:22 PM, Staff, 56000K] reports Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump held a lengthy call Saturday to discuss the escalating situation in the Middle East and Russia’s war in Ukraine. Trump in a posting on his Truth Social platform said they spent the bulk of their conversation focused on Israel’s ongoing blistering attacks aimed at decapitating Iran’s nuclear program and Iran’s retaliatory strikes. But Trump said that he also pressed Putin to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. “He feels, as do I, this war in Israel-Iran should end, to which I explained, his war should also end,” said Trump, who added the conversation went about an hour. Putin foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said Putin briefed Trump on his recent talks with the leaders of Iran and Israel and reiterated Russia’s proposal to seek mutually acceptable solutions on the Iranian nuclear issue.

AP [6/14/2025 8:49 PM, Jon Gambrell, Melanie Lidman and Julia Franke, 56000K] reports Israel launched an expanded assault on Iran on Sunday, with direct strikes targeting its energy industry and Defense Ministry headquarters, while Tehran unleashed a fresh barrage of missiles blamed for the deaths of four people. The simultaneous strikes represented the latest salvo since a surprise attack by Israel two days earlier aimed at decimating Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program. New explosions boomed across Tehran as Iranian missiles entered Israel’s skies in an attack that Israeli emergency officials said killed four people in an apartment building in the Galilee region. Casualty figures weren’t immediately available in Iran, where Israel targeted its Defense Ministry headquarters in Tehran as well as sites that it alleged were associated with the country’s nuclear program. Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard claimed that Iranian missiles targeted fuel production facilities for Israeli fighter jets, something not acknowledged by Israel. Amid the continued conflict, planned negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s nuclear program were cancelled, throwing into question when and how an end to the fighting could come. “Tehran is burning,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on social media. Both Israel’s military and Iran state television announced the latest round of Iranian missiles as explosions were heard near midnight, while the Israeli security cabinet met.

Breitbart [6/14/2025 4:33 PM, Staff, 3077K] reports Iran and Israel exchanged more airstrikes overnight Friday after Israel mainly attacked Iranian nuclear and military targets one day earlier. Though some missiles struck civilian populations, residents in both nations said they support their government’s airstrikes. The alternative is worse, they say: Iran developing an atomic bomb against the Jewish state and Israel toppling the Islamic state’s government. Late Saturday, Israel Defense Forces said its Air Force was attacking military targets in Tehran while intercepting missiles launched from Iran. Air raid sirens were activated in southern Israel, according to the IDF, and people were told to go into shelters.
The military chief spokesperson Effie Defrin said there has “a series of attacks that has not stopped for nearly 40 hours and includes more than 150 targets. The focus of the attacks in the past 24 hours, Tehran,” the BBC reported. On Saturday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that “Tehran will burn” if drone and missile attacks continue. In a video address Saturday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “we will strike every site and every target of the Ayatollah’s regime.”

NPR [6/14/2025 3:10 PM, Rebecca Rosman, Hadeel Al-Shalchi, Jane Arraf, and Juliana Kim, 37958K] reports Israel’s military says it killed nine of Iran’s top nuclear scientists Friday as part of its strikes aimed at crippling the country’s nuclear capabilities. The Israeli military said the scientists had played key roles in advancing Iran’s nuclear program, and called their deaths a "significant blow" to Iran’s ability to pursue weapons of mass destruction. The attack followed intelligence from Israel’s Mossad spy agency, which Israel says suggested Iran was close to developing a nuclear weapon — which Israel considered a direct threat to its national security. The strikes came a day after the U.N. nuclear watchdog declared that Iran wasn’t complying with nuclear nonproliferation agreements aimed at halting the spread of nuclear weapons. Iran reacted saying it would create a new uranium enrichment facility. Iran says its uranium enrichment program is for peaceful purposes. Iran responded to the Israeli strikes with a barrage of missiles, killing at least three people and injuring dozens more. Iranian state media said there would be "heavy and destructive attacks against Israel" Saturday night as well. The escalation has raised fears of a wider regional conflict, one that could rope in neighboring countries and threaten to destabilize global energy markets.

FOX News [6/14/2025 7:29 PM, Caitlin McFall, 46878K] reports that, just hours following Israel’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear and military facilities, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a direct appeal to the Iranian people and said: "This is your opportunity to stand up [to the regime].” The regime’s standing not only with the international community, amid its vast support of state-sponsored terrorism, which has impacted neighboring nations from Syria and Yemen to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, coupled with years of internal unrest, could mean regime change is on the horizon. "We are in the midst of one of the greatest military operations in history," Netanyahu said Friday. "The Islamic regime, which has oppressed you for almost 50 years, threatens to destroy our country.” The Israeli leader said Jerusalem’s goal in hitting Iran’s top military targets is to thwart the nuclear and missile threats that Iran poses towards the Jewish nation, which he argued weakens the regime and poses a unique opportunity for dissidents within. Minority groups make up some 50% of the Iranian population, and some Iranian specialists have argued that if the minority groups, which are frequent targets of oppression in Iran, were to unite against the regime, they could play a critical role in toppling the regime. Iran has faced increasing opposition since the death of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman, who in September 2022 was arrested by Iran’s morality police and later died in a hospital due to her injuries. Amini’s death sparked mass protests across the country, which Iran brutally clapped back at and continues to execute those arrested during the demonstrations. Fox News Digital was told by Yigal Carmon, President of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), that members of the Ahwazis, a minority group in south-western Iran, which make up 6-8% of the population, have already been arrested by the regime amid its fears another internal rebellion could brew alongside war with Israel. It is unclear if any demonstrations have yet begun or if their arrests were pre-emptively carried out. "A regime change will be supported by many," Carmon said. "The fact is that only the minorities can bring a regime change because they are militarily organized.” "A coalition of non-Persian ethnic groups could topple the regime in a few months," he said. "Unlike the Persian anti-regime population, the non-Persian anti-regime population is militarily organized.” Other minority groups, like the Kurds, who make up 10%-15% of Iran’s population and who live primarily in the northwestern border areas near Iraq and Turkey, as well as the Baloch people, who encompass another 5% of the population and live along Iran’s southeast border with Pakistan, also have a long history of opposing the regime, though they have also suffered brutal consequences. "It has never been weaker. This is your opportunity to stand up and let your voices be heard. Woman, Life, Freedom Zan, Zendegi, Azadi," Netanyahu said. "As I said yesterday and many times before, Israel’s fight is not against the Iranian people. "Our fight is against the murderous Islamic regime that oppresses and impoverishes you," he added. [Editorial note: consult video at source link]

Daily Wire [6/14/2025 9:55 AM, Zach Jewell, 3816K] reports Israeli officials said on Saturday that their operation against the Iranian regime could end within "days" as the Israeli Air Force continues to exert dominance over Iranian airspace and take out missile launchers and nuclear facilities. A senior Israeli intelligence official told Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst, "I think we can finish it in days," adding, "It’s a good thing that we have the U.S. by our side." Yingst reported that Iran will likely continue its missile attacks on Israel over the "next few days.’ Cities across Israel have been hit with Iranian missile barrages after Israel launched a preemptive attack on the radical Islamic regime on Thursday, The Daily Wire previously reported. At least three people in Israel have been killed and over 150 injured so far from Iran’s retaliatory attack. Israel, meanwhile, said it has taken out numerous top Iranian military leaders, including the commander of Iran’s entire surface-to-surface missile program, which makes up the "primary offensive tools against the State of Israel." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that Iran was "bombing our civilian neighborhoods while we are targeting the terrorists." "We’ve taken out their senior military leadership, we’ve taken out their senior technologists who are leading the race to build atomic weapons that would threaten us, but not only us," he said, adding, "We paved the way to Tehran, and our pilots, over the skies of Tehran, will deal blows to the Ayatollah regime that they cannot even imagine. And I can tell you this, we have indications that senior leaders in Iran are packing their bags, they sense what’s coming."

Breitbart [6/14/2025 4:53 PM, Joshua Klein, 3077K] reports Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extended warm birthday wishes to President Donald Trump, hailing him as an "extraordinary leader" and a steadfast ally to Israel, while delivering a forceful address that underscored the growing pressure on Iran’s leadership, stressing that Israel believes "senior leaders" in the regime are already "packing their bags" as Israel intensifies its military operations. On Saturday, in an official statement, Netanyahu highlighted the urgent need for Israel’s ongoing military actions, emphasizing the threat posed by Iran’s leadership. He praised the unwavering support of President Trump, stating, "What you’re doing now, helping protect Israeli lives against the criminal regime in Iran," is a crucial component in countering Tehran’s aggression. Netanyahu reaffirmed Israel’s commitment to securing stability in the Middle East and ensuring the protection of free societies against Iran’s escalating hostility. The prime minister praised the United States Army on its 250th anniversary, acknowledging its critical role securing and protecting freedom around the world. But his message quickly turned to the escalating conflict with Iran. "By defending ourselves, we’re also defending others," he asserted. "We’re defending our Arab neighbors, our Arab friends in peace, we’re defending Europe, we’re helping defend also the United States." Netanyahu stressed the broader stakes of Israel’s fight, underscoring the urgent threat posed by Iran’s ambitions. "Today, Israel is defending freedom in the Middle East and beyond," he said. "We’re doing so against a tyrannical and radical Iranian regime that wants to build atomic bombs to destroy us and wants to build ballistic missiles, including intercontinental ballistic missiles, to be able to threaten anyone and everywhere in the world."

FOX News [6/15/2025 4:46 AM, Ronn Blitzer, 46878K] reports the United States Embassy in Jerusalem has issued a security alert stating that American government workers and their families in Israel remain indoors, as Iran has hit the Jewish state with drone and missile strikes. The alert, first made on Saturday and then posted again Sunday morning, comes as Iranian strikes have so far killed at least 10 people in Israel and injured upwards of 180. "As a result of the current security situation and ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran, the U.S. Embassy has directed that all U.S. government employees and their family members continue to shelter in place until further notice," the embassy’s alert, posted on its website and X, said. "Given the proximity of missile and debris impacts, the U.S. Embassy has offered employees living near the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv the option to voluntarily relocate to new accommodations further away," the alert continued. Meanwhile, Israeli airspace remained closed, with arrivals and departures, according to a statement from an Israel Airports Authority spokesperson.

FOX News [6/15/2025 5:28 AM, Landon Mion, 46878K] reports U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said the U.S. had "nothing to do with" Israel’s attack against Iran but warned that any attack against the U.S. would be met with the "full strength and might" of the U.S. military. "The U.S. had nothing to do with the attack on Iran, tonight," Trump wrote on Truth Social in the early morning hours of Sunday. "If we are attacked in any way, shape or form by Iran, the full strength and might of the U.S. Armed Forces will come down on you at levels never seen before," he continued. "However, we can easily get a deal done between Iran and Israel, and end this bloody conflict!!!". Trump’s comments came hours after the Israel Defense Forces claimed responsibility for a series of strikes on the headquarters of the Iranian Defense Ministry and a nuclear project, while Tehran unleashed a fresh barrage of deadly strikes. "The IDF completed an extensive series of strikes on targets in Tehran related to the Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons project," the IDF wrote on X. "The targets included the Iranian Ministry of Defense headquarters, the headquarters of the SPND nuclear project, and additional targets, which advanced the Iranian regime’s efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon and where the Iranian regime hid its nuclear archive." Despite Trump’s statement, Iran says it has evidence that the U.S. was involved in the attack.

Reuters [6/15/2025 2:23 AM, Laurie Chen and Fanny Potkin, 51390K] reports the renewed U.S.-China trade truce struck in London left a key area of export restrictions tied to national security untouched, an unresolved conflict that threatens a more comprehensive deal, two people briefed on detailed outcomes of the talks told Reuters. Beijing has not committed to grant export clearance for some specialized rare-earth magnets that U.S. military suppliers need for fighter jets and missile systems, the people said. The United States maintains export curbs on China’s purchases of advanced artificial intelligence chips out of concern that they also have military applications. At talks in London last week, China’s negotiators appeared to link progress in lifting export controls on military-use rare earth magnets with the longstanding U.S. curbs on exports of the most advanced AI chips to China. That marked a new twist in trade talks that began with opioid trafficking, tariff rates and China’s trade surplus, but have since shifted to focus on export controls. In addition, U.S. officials also signalled they are looking to extend existing tariffs on China for a further 90 days beyond the August 10 deadline agreed in Geneva last month, both sources said, suggesting a more permanent trade deal between the world’s two largest economies is unlikely before then. The two people who spoke to Reuters about the London talks requested not to be named because both sides have tightly controlled disclosure. The White House, State Department and Department of Commerce did not immediately respond to requests for comment. China’s Foreign and Commerce ministries did not respond to faxed requests for comment. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the handshake deal reached in London between American and Chinese negotiators was a "great deal," adding, "we have everything we need, and we’re going to do very well with it. And hopefully they are too.” And U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said there would be no "quid pro quo" on easing curbs on exports of AI chips to China in exchange for access to rare earths. But China’s chokehold on the rare earth magnets needed for weapons systems remains a potential flashpoint. China dominates global production of rare earths and holds a virtual monopoly on refining and processing. A deal reached in Geneva last month to reduce bilateral tariffs from crushing triple-digit levels had faltered over Beijing’s restrictions on critical minerals exports that took shape in April. That prompted the Trump administration to respond with export controls preventing shipments of semiconductor design software, jet engines for Chinese-made planes and other goods to China. At the London talks, China promised to fast-track approval of rare-earth export applications from non-military U.S. manufacturers out of the tens of thousands currently pending, one of the sources said. Those licenses will have a six-month term. Beijing also offered to set up a "green channel" for expediting license approvals from trusted U.S. companies.

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