Tensions flared at protests in Los Angeles
After clashes over immigration raids, President Trump ordered at least 2,000 National Guard troops to be deployed on the streets of Los Angeles. About 300 troops arrived in the city yesterday, and hundreds more were on the way. Here’s the latest.
Law enforcement officials fired tear gas and crowd-control ammunition at protesters outside a detention center in downtown Los Angeles. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California accused the Trump administration of a “serious breach of state sovereignty” for deploying the National Guard.
Trump made rare use of federal powers to deploy the Guard without Newsom’s consent, saying that any demonstration that got in the way of immigration officials would be considered “a form of rebellion.” Newsom, a Democrat, called Trump’s decision “purposefully inflammatory.”
“It is the fight President Trump had been waiting for,” my colleague Tyler Pager writes in this analysis, “a showdown with a top political rival in a deep blue state over an issue core to his political agenda.”
Background: The protests first erupted in the downtown area and then in Paramount, a small city south of Los Angeles with a large Latino population. Here’s a visual timeline of the immigration protests.
Related: Trump’s immigration crackdown has put a damper on next year’s World Cup. Some soccer fans fear being targets of U.S. immigration raids.
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A secret document reveals Russian worries about China
In public, Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has described his country’s friendship with China as unshakable. But a unit in Russia’s domestic security agency, the F.S.B., calls China “the enemy.”
An internal F.S.B. document obtained by The Times shows that Russian intelligence officers are deeply suspicious of China and views the country as a security threat. The officers say that Beijing is trying to recruit Russian spies and get its hands on sensitive military technology.
According to the document, the officers believe that China is spying on Russia’s operations in Ukraine to learn about Western weapons and warfare. They have warned that Chinese agents are using mining firms and research centers as cover for spying in the Arctic. Here’s how The Times got the document.
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Israel diverted an aid ship headed to Gaza
A Gaza-bound ship carrying a dozen pro-Palestinian activists, including the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, and some aid was diverted toward Israeli shores, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said early this morning, adding that its passengers were expected to return to their home countries.
Israel had vowed to prevent the ship from reaching Gaza, saying its military would use “any means necessary” to stop it from breaching an Israeli naval blockade of the enclave.
The civilian ship, called the Madleen, has been operating under the auspices of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, an international grass-roots campaign that opposes the nearly two-decade-old blockade of Gaza. The ship set sail from Sicily on June 1.
Background: Israel has used force to block previous attempts to bring aid to Gaza by sea. In 2010, an Israeli commando raid killed nine passengers aboard a boat carrying aid from Turkey.
On the ground: Patrick Kingsley, our Jerusalem bureau chief, joined a group of journalists brought by the Israeli military to a tunnel underneath a Gazan hospital.
The latest: Israeli forces recovered the body of a Thai farmworker who was taken hostage in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack and later killed in Gaza.
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Read about the French Open finals below.
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Stunning finals at the French Open
It was a tennis psychodrama between two of the sport’s new stars: Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz battled for five and a half hours yesterday at the French Open, in the longest men’s final in the tournament’s history.
In the end, Alcaraz came back from two sets down, saving three match points and winning the fifth set in a tiebreaker. He collapsed into the clay, a champion again. The classic culminated in Alcaraz’s fifth Grand Slam title and his second at the French Open.
On Saturday, Coco Gauff captured her second Grand Slam title by coming back to beat Aryna Sabalenka, the world No. 1, in three sets. Gauff kept her cool even as Sabalenka came unglued and screamed at her coaches.
“There were some worries not long ago about what might happen to tennis after Federer, Nadal, Murray, Serena and Djokovic headed for the exits,” Matthew Futterman, The Athletic’s senior tennis writer, said. “This wild weekend at Roland Garros showed that tennis is going to be just fine.”
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