Tuesday morning news: June 10, 2025

LA protests/riots » Protests continue in Los Angeles against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They’re demanding that ICE leave the city and release those detained during immigration raids.

Officials say the pattern has generally been mostly peaceful demonstrations during the day become aggressive at night, with some agitators and rioters destroying property with Molotov cocktails and clashing with police.

LA Police Chief Jim McDonnell says some have attacked officers with rocks, identified liquids, and commercial grade fireworks.

MCDONNELL:  This violence that I've seen is disgusting. It's escalated now, uh, since the beginning of, uh, this incident. What we saw the first night was, uh, was bad. What we've seen subsequent to that is getting increasingly worse and more violent.

President Trump has authorized deployment of an additional 2,000 National Guard troops, in addition to 2,000 guard troops. Approximately 700 active duty Marines have also been ordered to Los Angeles to support the 2,000 National Guard troops already there.

Their mission is to protect federal property and personnel, including ICE agents. By law, they cannot perform arrests or other law enforcement actions.

Newsom v Trump » California Governor Gavin Newsom is suing President Trump for deploying the National Guard to the area.

NEWSOM:   Donald Trump is reckless. He's immoral. Uh, he's taken the illegal and unconstitutional act and federalizing, uh, the National Guard, and he's putting lives at risk.

Newsom claimed—quote—“We didn’t have a problem until Trump got involved.”

Local law enforcement says there was a problem from the very beginning. But Newsome says Trump needlessly escalated the situation. But the president fired back:

TRUMP:  He's an incompetent governor. Look at the job he's doing in California. He's destroying one of our great states. And, uh, if I didn't get involved, if we didn't bring the guard in … uh, you had, uh, a disaster happening.

California Attorney General Rob Bonita claims President Trump “trampled” on state’s rights by deploying the guard without consulting the governor.

China-U.S. trade talks » Top trade officials from the U.S. and China met in London on Monday to try and shore up a fragile truce in the trade war and restart stalled negotiations.

President Trump said Monday that he’s optimistic about the talks, adding that he’s looking for greater access to the Chinese marketplace.

TRUMP:  I think we're doing very well. They're over there now. I'm only getting good reports. It's a little early, but they'll, we wanna open up China and if we don't open up China, maybe we won't do anything, but we want to open up China. It'll be a great thing for China. Great thing for the rest of the world.

A Chinese delegation led by Vice Premier He Lifeng sat down with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.

The meeting follows President Trump’s phone call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping last week.

Gaza latest / Selfie yacht » A boat carrying Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and about a dozen others docked in an Israeli port Monday, but that wasn't their original plan.

The boat left Sicily earlier this month bound for Gaza - in an apparent attempt to bypass an Israeli blockade and deliver unauthorized aid to that region. But the Israeli military diverted it to Israel.

SOUND: [IDF boarding Freedom Flotilla ship]

Audio there of the activists aboard the boat just before the vessel was boarded.

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition organized the effort.. and released this apparently pre-recorded message from Thunberg:

THUNBERG: If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces...

But the Israeli Foreign Ministry said no one was kidnapped and all are safe. The ministry said everyone on the boat was offered water, sandwiches, and would soon be released.

Protests against drag queen story time in IL » Protesters spoke out Monday as the Chicago Public Library is hosting a drag queen “Story Time” for young children.

AUDIO:  And reading, having them read in drag is just inappropriate. It's inappropriate and it's gonna be inappropriate. Just because it's pride month does not give you the permission to do it.

The event, targeting children ages 2 through 5 was described as a special story time with music, books, dancing, and a guest reader in drag.

Others demonstrated in support of the event, saying it was about parental freedom.

Church arson sentencing » A federal court in Rhode Island has sentenced a confessed church arsonist to more than six years in federal prison.

Kevin Colantonio confessed in February to setting multiple fires around Shiloh Gospel Temple Ministries in early 2024. The fires were quickly put out, but the Pentecostal church still sustained damages totalling nearly $100,000.

Pastor Eric Perry attended the sentencing last week, and told NBC’s WJAR:

PERRY: He should have got more time. And what happen after three, three years probation? What's going to happen after that? When will he gets out?

Perry said the 36-year-old appeared to have no remorse for his actions, and that the church is planning to ramp up its security.

Colantonio pleaded guilty to malicious damage by fire, obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs, and two counts of assault on a federal officer.

I'm Kent Covington.

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