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Sly Stone, Funk-Rock Pioneer Who Led the Family Stone, Dies at 82

Jun 9, 2025 12:26pm PT Sly Stone, the multitalented musician whose path-finding, psychedelia-laced funk enraptured Woodstock Nation in the late '60s and early '70s, has died. He was 82. "After a prolonged battle with COPD [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease] and other underlying health issues, Sly passed away peacefully, surrounded by his three children, his closest friend and his extended family," a statement from his family reads. "While we mourn his absence, we take sol ...

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About 700 Marines mobilized to LA, Trump says he'd support Newsom arrest

Published Mon, Jun 9 2025 12:45 PM EDT Updated 2 Hours Ago About 700 U.S. Marines were mobilized Monday to support the California National Guard to protect federal personnel and property in Los Angeles during protests there, officials said. The mobilization of the Marines from their base in Twentynine Palms, California, is temporary, to give time for additional National Guard troops to arrive. Earlier Monday, President Donald Trump said he would support arresting California Gov. Gavin Newsom ...

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RFK Jr. Removes All Members of CDC Panel Advising on Vaccines

June 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM EDT Updated on June 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM EDT The Department of Health and Human Services dismissed all 17 members that make up one of the main committees advising the US government on vaccine safety and policy, an unprecedented move to reshape a key scientific panel. "A clean sweep is needed to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science," Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday in an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal. The group ...

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Trump asks the Supreme Court to neutralize the Convention Against Torture

Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured. Federal law states that the United States shall not “expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture.” This law implements a treaty, known as the Convention Against Torture, which the United States ratified more than three decades ag ...

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House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green to resign from Congress

June 9, 2025 / 6:21 PM EDT Washington — House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, a Tennessee Republican, announced Monday that he plans to resign after Congress passes President Trump's budget bill. "Recently, I was offered an opportunity in the private sector that was too exciting to pass up. As a result, today I notified the Speaker and the House of Representatives that I will resign from Congress as soon as the House votes once again on the reconciliation package," ...

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'Arrest me': California's governor unfazed by threats of arrest from Trump administration official

(NBC News) California Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed back against threats of arrest by Trump administration officials, remaining defiant as he oversees clashes between law enforcement agents and protesters in response to immigration raids across Los Angeles while also managing an ongoing power struggle with the federal government.

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Maxine Waters Calls Trump 'Cruel, Dishonorable Human' for Deploying National Guard to L.A. Protests

(Mediaite) California Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters on Sunday reacted to the National Guard troops in Los Angeles by calling President Donald Trump a “cruel, dishonorable human being” to CNN while outside the ICE detention center where protests have exploded over the weekend. Waters spoke to CNN’s Kyung Lah outside the Metropolitan Detention Center on Sunday after attempting to visit SEIU chief David Huerta, who was arrested at the violent protests over the weekend.

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Kamala Harris Says LA Protest 'Overwhelmingly Peaceful' Calls Trump 'Cruel'

(Newsweek) Former Vice President Kamala Harris defended the "overwhelmingly peaceful" protesters in her home state of California while criticizing President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops as a "dangerous escalation" and "cruel" on the third consecutive day of violent clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement.

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Trump says he's meeting with military leaders at Camp David

(The Hill) President Trump told reporters on Sunday that he’s heading to Camp David to meet with military and other leaders, shortly before he posted a message online calling Los Angeles protesters an “insurrectionist mob.” During a gaggle before boarding Air Force One, Trump would not rule out invoking the Insurrection Act, which could allow the military to be deployed domestically, but he suggested the protests against immigration raids were not yet an insurrection.

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Donald Trump warns 'we are going to have troops everywhere' after ICE protests

(Daily Express) President Donald Trump warned there will be "troops everywhere" when asked if he will take more action if protests, like those in LA, continue to rage. In a directive Saturday, Trump invoked a legal provision allowing him to deploy federal service members when there is ”a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.” "We are going to have troops everywhere," Trump said after touching down on Air Force One in New Jersey on Sunday.

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Trump announces $1,000 government-funded accounts for American babies

11 min ago - Donald Trump unveiled a federal program Monday providing $1,000 government-funded investment accounts for American babies, getting big time backing from top business leaders who plan to contribute billions more to an initiative tied to “the big ... (The Guardian)

Students shut out of US by Trump should come to UK, London mayor says

45 min ago - June 9, 2025, 9:08 AM LONDON -- Students shut out of U.S. universities by President Donald Trump's administration should instead come to the U.K., London Mayor Sadiq Khan told an event on Monday, as he criticized governments that engage in "narrow" a ... (ABC News)

In Public, Harvard Is Fighting Trump. Quietly, It's Dismantling a Program the White House Doesn't Like

1 hr ago - REALLY SERIOUS QUESTIONS' In Public, Harvard Is Fighting Trump. Quietly, It's Dismantling a Program the White House Doesn't Like. By Francie Diep June 9, 2025 Alan Garber, president of Harvard U., walks during commencement ceremonies on May 28.LIBBY ... (Chronicle of Higher Efucation)

Hegseth aide upended Pentagon leak inquiry with false wiretap claims

1 hr ago - Mon 9 Jun 2025 14.41 EDT First published on Mon 9 Jun 2025 13.01 EDT Days before Pete Hegseth fired three top aides last month over a Pentagon leak investigation into the disclosure of classified materials, according to four people familiar with the ... (The Guardian)

Republican lawmaker's raucous town hall reflects challenges promoting Trump's bill

1 hr ago - June 9, 2025 12:57 PM EDT Updated 6 hours ago MAHOPAC, New York, June 9 (Reuters) - Democratic voter Joe Mayhew, a union representative from Pawling, New York, was one of several people at a rowdy town hall with Republican Representative Mike Lawler ... (Reuters)

Trump asks the Supreme Court to neutralize the Convention Against Torture

2 hrs ago - Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured. Federal law states that the United States shall not “expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any p ... (VOX)

Fake Immigration Courts Take Advantage of Immigrants Desperate for Answers

2 hrs ago - CRIME Fake Immigration Courts Take Advantage of Immigrants Desperate for Answers Immigrants seeking legal help online to protect themselves from Trump's deportation plans are increasingly falling prey to costly scams. BY ROMMEL H. OJEDA, DOCUMENTED ... (The City magazine)

SpaceX rocket debris litters Mexico beach, threatens environment

2 hrs ago - Miles of beaches were littered with garbage and debris following a SpaceX Starship explosion, occurring just before an endangered species of sea turtles began to hatch. Starship is the largest rocket ever launched by SpaceX, but a test flight on May ... (accuweather.com)

Union leader faces federal charge of conspiracy to impede an officer during L.A. ICE raids

2 hrs ago - Federal authorities on Monday charged David Huerta, president of Service Employees International Union California, in a criminal complaint with conspiracy to impede an officer in connection with his alleged actions during an immigration enforcement r ... (LA Times)

Judge blocks administration from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender executive orders

2 hrs ago - SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender executive orders in grant funding requirements that LGBTQ+ organizations say are unconstitutional. U.S. Distric ... (NBC)

Gavin Newsom: Trump is 'unhinged,' speaking like an 'authoritarian'

2 hrs ago - 06/09/2025 04:06 PM EDT LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Donald Trump’s threats against him and other Democrats following the president’s unilateral deployment of National Guard troops to the Los Angeles area carried all ... (Politico)

House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green to resign from Congress

3 hrs ago - June 9, 2025 / 6:21 PM EDT Washington — House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, a Tennessee Republican, announced Monday that he plans to resign after Congress passes President Trump's budget bill. "Recently, I was offered an opp ... (CBS News)

Republicans quietly slip 'religious freedom' clause into funding bill

3 hrs ago - June 9, 2025 2:41PM ET House Republicans have inserted anti-LGBTQ language into a $66 billion must-pass funding bill for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, effectively granting civil immunity under federal law to individuals and organizations ... (Raw Story)

Henry Ford Rochester Hospital nurses are on strike

3 hrs ago - Myesha Johnson The Detroit News Rochester — Hoisting signs, wearing red shirts and raising their voices, more than 100 registered nurses spent hours picketing outside Henry Ford Rochester Hospital on Monday to start a strike aimed at securing be ... (Detroit News)

Australian reporter shot with rubber bullet during Los Angeles protests

3 hrs ago - The Greens are calling on Anthony Albanese to speak with Donald Trump about the "deliberate shooting" of Australian journalist Lauren Tomasi, who was hit with a rubber bullet fired by a police officer in Los Angeles. ... (SIX News Australia)

Jeffries says Trump 'intentionally' inflaming unrest in Los Angeles

4 hrs ago - 06/09/25 4:51 PM ET House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is hammering President Trump over the clashes in Los Angeles, saying the president is purposefully escalating tensions to distract the country from a volatile economy. Speaking to re ... (The Hill)

Billie Joe Armstrong Tells ICE to 'F-ck Off' in Support of L.A. Protesters

4 hrs ago - Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong told Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Trump administration to “fuck off” in support of the thousands of Los Angeles-area residents who have been protesting raids against the immigrant communi ... (Rolling Stone)

Army deletes video of DC parade tanks with 'Hang Fauci & Bill Gates' graffiti

4 hrs ago - Updated June 9, 2025, 12:25 p.m. ET A now-deleted Army video of tanks being loaded onto a train to Washington, D.C., to appear in the massive June 14 military parade for the Army's 250th anniversary showed a graffitied message spray-painted on the si ... (USA Today)

California sues Trump admin over National Guard deployment in Los Angeles amid ICE protests

5 hrs ago - The state of California sued the Trump administration on Monday for deploying the state’s National Guard in Los Angeles amid protests against federal immigration raids. The lawsuit, filed by California Attorney General Rob Bonta on behalf of the ... (MSNBC)

RFK Jr. Removes All Members of CDC Panel Advising on Vaccines

5 hrs ago - June 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM EDT Updated on June 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM EDT The Department of Health and Human Services dismissed all 17 members that make up one of the main committees advising the US government on vaccine safety and policy, an unprecedented ... (Bloomberg)