Inside Trump’s Extraordinary Turnaround on Immigration Raids

President Trump’s decision to pause most raids targeting farms and hospitality workers took many inside the White House by surprise. It came after intensive lobbying by his agriculture secretary.

The New York Times (Gift)

Who’s that knocking at your door? It’s Anthony Weiner on a comeback tour

“It’s Anthony Weiner!” the candidate said after knocking on a door.

A man opens the door, his face lighting up with surprise.

“It is Anthony Weiner!” the man said, a big smile spreading across his face.

AP News

Army Eliminates Office for Minimizing Civilian Deaths on Battlefields

The Army has quietly shuttered a short-lived Defense Department office dedicated to safeguarding civilians in conflict zones, less than two years after its founding, according to a service document reviewed by Military.com.

Military.com

Minnesota police search for suspect after Democratic lawmaker shot dead and another wounded

A prominent Democratic state lawmaker in Minnesota and her husband were killed and another Democratic state lawmaker and his wife were shot in the early hours of Saturday.

State representative Melissa Hortman died, as has her husband, Mark, the state’s governor, Tim Walz, confirmed at a press conference on Saturday. Walz said the shooting “appears to be a politically motivated assassination”. Hortman was the top Democrat in the Minnesota house and the former speaker. The Democratic state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were both shot multiple times and are out of surgery, and Walz said he was “cautiously optimistic” both will survive.

The Guardian

“No Kings Day” protests turn out millions, rebuking Trump

Our unofficial estimate is that around 4-6 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

G. Elliot Morris

Photos: ‘No Kings’ Protests Across America

Yesterday, according to estimates by event organizers, millions marched in protest against the Trump administration, including its recent controversial immigration-enforcement raids. Hundreds of “No Kings” demonstrations took place in cities and towns throughout the U.S.

The Atlantic

Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine moves

This idea that, in essence, bad air caused illness was later championed by many others, including Florence Nightingale. It also led to some things that did help fight diseases, like cleaning up sewage.

NPR

Trump detains the world’s most popular TikToker under ICE

Barely five months after TikTok’s owners credited Donald Trump with saving it, the president is now making a public show of deporting the world’s most followed TikToker.

Last Friday, Khaby Lame—who has over 160 million TikTok followers, becoming the app’s most followed content creator since 2022—was detained by ICE in Las Vegas. Lame was born in Senegal and has lived in Italy since he was 1, where he became a citizen in 2022. According to a statement from ICE, he had entered the US legally on April 30 but had outstayed his visa.

Into

Standoff with troops in Los Angeles reignites old feud as Newsom resists Trump’s immigration raids

The escalating clash pits the leader of the Republican Party against a Democrat with ambitions of leading his own party, with a striking backdrop of a domestic troop deployment meant to control a city in unrest and now to assist in arresting migrants — the centerpiece of the president’s agenda.

AP News

How Amy Coney Barrett Is Confounding the Right and the Left

President Trump appointed her to clinch a conservative legal revolution. But soon after arriving at the Supreme Court, she began surprising her colleagues.

The New York Times (Gift)

This news report from 1992 about Baltimore Pride is still relevent today

ride has always been about showing up and being seen—even when no one wanted to look.

In a resurfaced 1992 news segment now circulating on Instagram, a local Baltimore station covered that year’s Pride festivities with the type of earnest early ‘90s reporting on anything LGBTQ+. Watching it now, more than 30 years later, what jumps out most isn’t how much has changed—it’s how much hasn’t.

GayCities

Trump considering adding another 36 countries to his no travel list including African and Caribbean nations: report

The memo, signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and sent to U.S. diplomats on Saturday, says the governments of the listed nations have 60 days to meet new requirements established by the State Department.

The State Department alleged that some of the countries mentioned have not met various benchmarks, such as “no competent or cooperative central government authority” to provide reliable identity documents or a large number of citizens who have violated the terms of their visas.

Independent

Trump’s Energy Department proposes dismantling parts of Title IX allowing girls on boys’ teams

The Trump administration has leaned heavily on Title IX in its effort to purge sports of transgender women and girls, but attorneys and experts on the 1972 civil rights law say its latest move will disproportionately affect girls who are not transgender.

The Department of Energy is preparing to roll back a portion of Title IX requiring that some sports be open to “the underrepresented sex,” a cornerstone of the federal law against sex discrimination in schools that President Trump’s administration has said conflicts with his executive order to restrict trans athletes’ participation. 

The Hill

Trump Hosts $45 Million Military Parade For Himself Before Underwhelming Crowd

Despite Trump’s attempts to hype the event, attendance appeared light — there were considerably fewer people on the National Mall on Saturday than there would be for a typical Fourth of July celebration. And attendance at Trump’s parade was dwarfed by the millions who showed up at roughly 2,000 anti-Trump “No Kings” protests in cities and towns all over the country.

Huffpost

Why the global supply chain could derail Trump’s move to onshore the auto sector

Even automotive manufacturers with strong national ties, such as South Carolina’s BMW plant, often rely on a global supply chain for critical components, making President Donald Trump’s mission to make cars completely in the United States at best an objective that would take years to play out.

At worst, Trump’s protectionist policies undermine the competitive dynamics that have raised the country’s standard of living by allowing consumers the ability to purchase quality goods at affordable prices, experts told the Washington Examiner. 

Washington Examiner

The transatlantic race to create the television

Number 1519 Connecticut Avenue lies just north of Dupont Circle, just over a 20-minute walk from the White House in Washington, DC. In 1921, the inventor Charles Francis Jenkins set up his laboratory and offices there, upstairs from a car dealership.

Today there are no obvious external indications of this famous resident, nor of his exceptional achievements, awards and numerous patents. A hundred years ago at his laboratory, on June 13 1925, Jenkins gave a demonstration of a televised film sent by radio waves from a building 10km away at what is now the US Naval Research Laboratory in Bellevue, DC.

The Conversation

Why US market is no longer top priority for Chinese companies building foreign factories

Countries like Brazil, Serbia, Hungary and Saudi Arabia have become top choices for Chinese companies looking to explore other markets

SCMP

A Cutting French Senator Becomes Trump’s European Nemesis

In biting verbal assaults viewed by millions, Claude Malhuret has issued a scathing critique of the American president, bringing a lifetime of experience to bear.

The New York Times (Gift)

Meet the antivax whisperer fighting the vaccine slump

Professor Elizabeth Whittaker convinces reluctant parents to get their children jabbed — and has seen the horrors that unchecked diseases like measles inflict

The Times

Israel’s attack on Iran underscores Trump’s failures as a peacemaker

The president is no warmonger, but his clumsy attempts at making peace keep coming up empty.

The Washington Post

Canada celebrates Pride Month with 4 beautiful LGBTQ+ postage stamps

One of the stamps celebrates a historic gay beach near Toronto where police once raided and arrested queer people.

LGBTQ Nation

Russia air attack damaged Boeing offices in Ukraine

Aerial strikes hit US aerospace giant’s premises in Kyiv, raising questions about Moscow’s intent

Financial Times (Archive)

Tens of thousands rally for Gaza in Netherlands, Belgium

Tens of thousands of people dressed in red marched through the streets of The Hague and in Brussels on Sunday to demand more action from their governments against what they termed a “genocide” in Gaza.

AFP

Israel’s Attack in Iran Echoes Its Strategy Against Hezbollah

Israel decimated the group’s leadership last fall and degraded its military capabilities. Can the same strategy work against a far more powerful foe?

The New York Times (Gift)

Taiwan war game triggers US questions over island’s ‘will to fight’ if PLA attacks

The exercise simulating a 2030 assault by the PLA highlighted ‘systemic weaknesses’ that may make America more reluctant to intervene

SCMP