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News coverage of the immigration raids and protests in Southern California has transfixed Mexico, where reports have heavily sided with the immigrants against U.S. efforts to detain and deport them. LA Times
Israel has unleashed airstrikes across Iran for a third day and threatens to use even greater force. LA Times
VOA VIEW: Iran is asking for it.
"The G7 used to be the G8. Barack Obama and a person named [ex-Canadian Prime Minister Justin] Trudeau didn't want to have Russia in," Trump said alongside current Canadian PM Mark Carney at the start of the international security meeting. "I would say that that was a mistake." New York Post
VOA VIEW: Russia was ousted for a good reason.
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"These jets were intended to intercept Israeli aircraft," the IDF said. New York Post
The AG's office is targeting any cooperation between local law enforcement officials and federal agencies, including Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security. New York Post
VOA VIEW: James is an idiot.
The government is trying to show the Trump administration that it can deliver on the agreement. New York Times
VOA VIEW: Seeing is believing.
As temperatures rise, ticks of several kinds are flourishing in ways that threaten people’s health. New York Times
A temporary injunction remains in force. Harvard hoped the judge would issue a more lasting block of the president’s proclamation against international students’ attending the university. New York Times
VOA VIEW: Judges no make or enforce law.
Former Minnesota Vikings player Jack Brewer slammed Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for allowing the state to become “the capital of chaos” following the assassination of a state lawmaker. OANN
VOA VIEW: Walz is a total idiot and jerk.
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The Trump administration is currently considering expanding its travel restrictions against citizens of 36 countries, effectively banning them from entering the United States, according to an internal State Department cable. OANN
VOA VIEW: Sounds like a good idea.
Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene recently slammed “fake” supporters of the “America First” movement, whom she says have been “slobbering” over the United States engaging in another regime change war in the Middle East. OANN
New Jersey can have a grand jury examine allegations of clergy sexually abusing children, the state's Supreme Court ruled Monday, after a Catholic diocese that had tried for years to block such proceedings recently reversed course. Washington Times
VOA VIEW: No one should be protected from se abuse.
National Guard troops have been riding along on "most" of the immigration arrest operations ICE has attempted in Los Angeles over the last week, a top Homeland Security official said Monday, defending President Trump's call-up of the National Guard. Washington Times
VOA VIEW: It was a needed call-up.
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The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a dispute between a Christian, pro-life pregnancy center and New Jersey's attorney general, who is seeking information on the center's donors. Washington Times
Leavenworth, Kansas, occupies a mythic space in American crime, its name alone evoking a shorthand for serving hard time. The federal penitentiary housed gangsters Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly -- in a building so storied that it inspired the term "the big house." Now Kansas' oldest city could soon be detaining far less famous people, migrants swept up in President Trump's promise of mass deportations of those living in the U.S. illegally. Washington Times
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed -- after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Washington Times
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The world may be rethinking the American dream. Washington Times
VOA VIEW: A deceptive thought.
President Trump is meeting with other world leaders outside Calgary in Canada for the G7 summit. CBS
VOA VIEW: All should listen carefully.
The Trump Organization said its $47.45 monthly service will includes unlimited calls, text and data. It's also rolling out a $499 mobile phone. CBS
Members of Congress will receive security briefings this week after a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband were killed, and another state lawmaker and his wife were wounded. CBS
Intense rain flooded the northern part of West Virginia over the weekend, killing at least five people in flash floods and partially collapsing an apartment building. The same storm system had also devastated parts of San Antonio, Texas, killing at least 13 people last week. CBS
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Average age also increased for first-time moms, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CBS
The long-running rivalry between the country's top premium credit cards is about to heat up again. CNBC
VOA VIEW: A card is a card; fools like to pay extra for premium cards.
Boelter allegedly killed Minnesota Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in what appears to be a politically motivated shooting. CNBC
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Struggling to get out of bed even after a productive day or week? You may be stuck in a functional freeze. CNBC
Two escaped illegal immigrants recaptured after breaking out of Newark ICE facility, while Franklin Bautista-Reyes and Andres Pineda-Mogollon remain at large with $10,000 reward. FOX News
Peaceful demonstrations in downtown LA escalate to violent confrontation with police using tear gas as protesters throw objects, prompting warnings from LAPD and Homeland Security. FOX News
VOA VIEW: The mad people should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
President Donald Trump announced that the nation's large Democratic-run cities are to be the new focus for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. UPI
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized a shipment of amphetamines valued at $6.7 billion, intercepted a Canadian citizen attempting to drive a stolen, high dollar sports car into the country. UPI
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said Sunday that he is "not an absolute no" on the Trump administration's House-passed budget reconciliation bill, which threatens cuts to social services and would increase the deficit. UPI
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