Los Angeles sheriff says ICE enforcement not expected at World Cup matches

2026-06-01T20:19:36.965Z / reuters.com

LOS ANGELES, June 1 (Reuters) – Federal officials have told Los Angeles ​County Sheriff Robert Luna that civil immigration enforcement will not take place at FIFA World Cup ‌games or events in Los Angeles, Luna said on Monday, as authorities outlined security plans for eight matches beginning on June 12.

“A couple of weeks ago there was some reporting, or rumors, about ICE potentially being at the FIFA games or events,” Luna told a press ​conference of local, state and federal law enforcement officials.

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“I personally called the head of Homeland Security here for ​the L.A. region and what he stated is that there will be federal agents … because ⁠it’s going to take all of us to make sure that all the venues, the scoped and unscoped events, ​are secure.

“But in regard to civil immigration enforcement, they told us that specifically would not be occurring at any of ​the games.

“Any of that is subject to change, but I have trust that they’re giving me the appropriate information because if that starts occurring, we’re going to have a whole new host of problems,” he added.

Immigration raids by masked ICE agents in Los Angeles last year sparked ​a wave of demonstrations in the region.

HEIGHTENED SECURITY FOR IRAN’S MATCHES

Luna said law enforcement would increase staffing around Iran’s ​two matches in Los Angeles, with authorities monitoring possible protests or other activity near the stadium and fan zones.

Iran and the United ‌States are ⁠in negotiations to end their three-month-old war.

Iran is scheduled to play its first match of the tournament on June 15 at SoFi Stadium near Los Angeles, a region home to the largest concentration of Iranians outside Iran.

“Iran does bring a different dynamic because of the current world events,” Luna said.

“So there will be additional staffing for some of those games.”

ZERO TOLERANCE ​FOR UNAUTHORIZED DRONE USAGE

Officials also ​warned that drones would be ⁠subject to strict enforcement around World Cup venues, with temporary flight restrictions expected around facilities.

“If a drone’s violating a temporary flight restriction, the capability exists to bring that drone ​down into a safe location away from the crowds,” said Patrick Grandy, FBI assistant director ​in charge.

“We are ⁠going to be constantly monitoring the areas around the facilities, looking for violators of those temporary flight restrictions,” Grandy said, warning of “a zero tolerance policy” for those who willingly violate the restrictions.

Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman said the security effort ⁠would bring ​an unusually large law enforcement presence to the region.

“Between the dates of ​June 11th, all the way through July 19th, if you are a criminal, this is a terrible time to commit a crime,” Hochman said.

“The district ​attorney’s office will prosecute you, and you will be punished.”

Reporting by Rory Carroll in Los Angeles; Editing by Matthew Lewis

意大利南部海域发生6.2级地震

2026年6月2日 07:17 / 联合早报

意大利南部附近海域发生6.2级地震。

新华社引述美国地质调查局地震信息网消息报道，格林尼治时间星期一（6月1日）晚上22时12分（新加坡时间周二早上6时12分），意大利南部斯卡尔切利附近海域发生6.2级地震，震中位于北纬39.35度、东经15.82度，震源深度247.1公里。

By Kasie Hunt, CNN

Published 4:10 PM EDT, Mon June 1, 2026

The Trump administration will abide by a court ruling to pause its creation of a nearly $1.8 billion fund meant to compensate people who say they were wrongly targeted by the government in the past, the Justice Department said in a statement Monday.

美国司法部宣布设立一项近18亿美元（近23亿新元）的“反武器化基金”，遭到民主党议员与监督团体强烈批评。6月1日，数名民主党参议员在记者会上，讨论他们提出的“清算小金库法案”，旨在终止特朗普提议设立的“反武器化基金”。 （法新社）

知情人士透露，美国特朗普政府计划撤销一项近18亿美元（约23亿新元）的“反武器化基金”。这项基金原拟用于补偿那些声称遭政府“武器化执法”对待的受害者，但遭共和、民主两党批评是为特朗普政治盟友设立的“小金库”。

这项基金源于特朗普与美国国税局（IRS）就2019年税务资料泄露事件达成的和解协议。特朗普早前起诉国税局，指其税务资料遭泄露给《纽约时报》。

美国司法部上个月说，作为设立“反武器化基金”的一部分，特朗普将撤回针对国税局的诉讼。司法部原称，基金将赔偿遭政治动机调查或法律行动影响的人士，即特朗普及其盟友所谓遭政府“武器化”打压的受害者。

彭博社引述知情人士的报道中，并未透露其他更多细节，包括有关决定是否将影响特朗普与税务局的和解协议。

不过，这项安排引发强烈争议。批评者指出，基金可能让特朗普盟友受惠，甚至包括部分参与2021年1月6日冲击国会山事件的人。多名共和党参议员也反对为此拨款，并威胁阻挠移民执法相关法案。

美国参议院多数党领袖图恩（John Thune）说，若政府主动取消基金，“将是最理想结果”。

这项基金目前面临多宗诉讼，包括参与应对国会骚乱的警员提起的诉讼。

弗吉尼亚州一名联邦法官上周已暂时禁止政府推进基金运作；司法部则回应说，虽“强烈反对”这一决定，但会遵守法院的裁决。

提告该基金的组织之一“民主前进”（Democracy Forward）主席佩里曼则发布声明说，即使政府终止计划，也不会立即撤诉，直到确认有关安排不会重启为止。

US court blocks Pentagon from removing transgender troops, for now

2026-06-01T19:04:42.91Z / reuters.com

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• Summary

• Transgender military ban is discriminatory, appeals court says
• But block on enlisting can remain pending outcome of lawsuit
• Part of broader Trump effort to eradicate transgender rights

June 1 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Monday said President Donald Trump’s administration could for ​now bar transgender people from enlisting in the military, but blocked the expulsion of current service members while ‌a lawsuit plays out.

A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in

a 2-1 ruling

said the 2025 policy was unlawfully motivated “by the bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group.”

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But the Pentagon has broad powers to set enlistment standards, the court ​said, and can continue to ban transgender people from newly entering the military pending the outcome of a lawsuit ​by transgender current and would-be service members.

“It appears to us to be a much greater hardship ⁠to end a military career than to delay the start of one,” wrote Circuit Judge Robert Wilkins, an appointee of ​Democratic President Barack Obama.

Circuit Judge Justin Walker, a Trump appointee, in a dissenting opinion said courts “have neither the expertise nor the ​authority to decide whether the military can exclude the plaintiffs from its ranks.”

Jennifer Levi of LGBTQ rights group GLAD Law, who represents the plaintiffs, applauded the decision.

“This decisive ruling confirms that the Trump Administration has no legitimate basis to discharge transgender service members who have met every demanding ​standard and proven, time and again, their fitness and dedication to serve,” Levi said in a statement.

The Pentagon did not ​immediately respond to a request for comment.

The ruling partially upholds a 2025 decision by a Washington, D.C.-based federal judge who had blocked the entire ‌policy ⁠from being implemented pending further litigation. The judge said the policy amounted to sex discrimination and likely violated the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law.

Trump in a January 2025 executive order said that adopting a transgender identity “conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth implemented Trump’s order soon after, prompting legal challenges.

The ban ​on military service is part ​of a broader effort by ⁠the Trump administration to eradicate the recognition and accommodation of transgender people throughout American life.

Federal agencies have dropped lawsuits filed on behalf of transgender workers, ended settlements that benefited transgender students and ​launched investigations into hospitals and doctors for providing gender-affirming treatment to minors.

The military has about 1.3 ​million active-duty personnel, ⁠according to Department of Defense data. While transgender rights advocates say there are as many as 15,000 transgender service members, officials say the number is in the low thousands.

The U.S. Supreme Court in May 2025 allowed the policy to be implemented, lifting a judge’s ruling ⁠in a ​separate case out of the state of Washington that had temporarily blocked ​the ban.

But the Supreme Court did not explain its reasoning and may have been ruling on a technicality rather than the merits of the case, Wilkins ​wrote for the D.C. Circuit on Monday.

Reporting by Daniel Wiessner in Albany, New York, Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi and Bill Berkrot

Lawyers, others plead not guilty to massive US insider trading scheme

2026-06-01T17:50:05.592Z / Reuters

BOSTON, June 1 (Reuters) – Fifteen people, including a lawyer who worked at several major law firms, pleaded not guilty on Monday to U.S. charges that they participated in a decade-long scheme in which attorneys fed an insider trading ring tips about nearly 30 underway mergers.

Nicolo Nourafchan, who had worked at the law firms Sidley Austin, Latham & Watkins and Goodwin Procter, was among the defendants who appeared in federal court in Boston to enter pleas to securities fraud and other charges.

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Thirty people in total have been charged with participating in the decade-long scheme, which prosecutors say netted tens of millions of dollars and was orchestrated by Nourafchan and personal injury attorney Robert Yadgarov.

Yadgarov also entered a not guilty plea, along with Nourafchan’s brother, Lorenzo, the founder of a fractional CFO and accounting firm. He is paying Nicolo Nourafchan’s attorney fees under an arrangement a judge warned risked creating a potential conflict of interest.

“You may have different interests as this goes on,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith Dein said.

Martin Weinberg, a lawyer for Nicolo Nourafchan, in a statement said his client “asserted his innocence to each allegation at his arraignment today and we intend a vigorous and compelling defense.”

According to authorities, the scheme began in 2014 not long after Nicolo Nourafchan graduated from Yale Law School and landed a job at Sidley Austin.

Prosecutors said Nourafchan, while working at Sidley and other law firms, tipped Yadgarov and others off to impending corporate transactions in exchange for kickbacks generated from any trading profits.

Nourafchan and Yadgarov also recruited other attorneys into the scheme to feed tips to them, including one who worked at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and another who was employed by Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Willkie Farr & Gallagher.

The latter, Gabriel Gershowitz, secretly pleaded guilty last year and is now a cooperating witness in the case. Guilty pleas for eight other people dating back to 2024 were unsealed the day prosecutors announced the case on May 6.

Many of the defendants are Jewish, and an indictment alleged that they spoke in coded messages related to their backgrounds while discussing merger tips, referring to one deal as a “flight to Israel” and another as a “rabbi.”

Among the defendants is Joseph Suskind, a Florida resident in the insurance adjusting business charged with trading in 2022 on tips about SailPoint’s agreement to be bought by Thoma Bravo and iRobot’s later-abandoned deal to be acquired by Amazon.com Inc. Defense lawyer Michael Kendall called him innocent.

“Evidence is more important than press releases,” Kendall told reporters after Suskind’s arraignment. “We look forward to the trial.”

Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by Alistair Bell

Trump plans to drop ‘weaponization’ fund, says Axios

June 1, 2026 7:12 PM UTC Updated 12 mins ago / Reuters

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WASHINGTON, June 1 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump plans to drop ​his $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that would have ‌benefited political allies, Axios reported on Monday, after a firestorm of criticism including from ​some of his fellow Republicans.

“It’s dead for ​now,” said one of two senior ⁠administration officials cited by Axios.

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The ​fund, which would compensate victims of political “weaponization” ​with taxpayer money, emerged from a legal settlement between Trump’s Justice Department and the Internal ​Revenue Service to resolve an ​unprecedented lawsuit in which the president had sought $10 ‌billion ⁠over the alleged mishandling of his tax records.

The announcement set off criticism, with lawmakers raising concerns about potential ​self-dealing by ​Trump, ⁠and the prospect of payouts to violent Trump supporters who ​stormed the U.S. Capitol and ​assaulted ⁠police on January 6, 2021.

On Friday, a federal judge temporarily blocked ⁠the ​administration from moving forward ​with the fund.

Reporting by Ismail Shakil and Doina ​Chiacu; Editing by David Ljunggren and Daphne Psaledakis

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Florida becomes first state to sue OpenAI over child safety risks

2026-06-01 5:21 PM UTC / Reuters

By Diana Novak Jones

June 1, 2026 5:21 PM UTC Updated 12 mins ago

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June 1 (Reuters) – Florida sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on Monday, accusing the company of misrepresenting the safety of its ChatGPT platform, which the lawsuit said has harmed children by ​providing information to school shooters, offering guidance on self-harm and addicting young ‌users.

Marking the first state to take legal action against the company, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, a Republican, filed the lawsuit in Florida state court. It cited a shooting at a Tallahassee university last year ​and a number of events in other states where ChatGPT allegedly provided information ​to people who went on to commit violence.

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At a press conference, Uthmeier ⁠said the state named Altman personally because he had been “very central” to pushing some of ​the features on ChatGPT that Uthmeier said had been the most harmful.

“People are getting hurt, ​parents are getting deceived, and they need to pay for it,” Uthmeier told reporters.

The lawsuit seeks damages up to billions of dollars, Uthmeier said, plus a court order directing the company to change how ​it interacts with young users.

A spokesperson for OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request ​for comment.

OpenAI has said it trains its models to refuse requests that could “meaningfully enable violence,” and notifies ‌law ⁠enforcement when conversations suggest “an imminent and credible risk of harm to others,” with mental health experts helping assess borderline cases.

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Uthmeier announced in April that he was launching a criminal investigation into ChatGPT’s role in a 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University after prosecutors reviewed ​the chat logs between ​the alleged shooter and ⁠the program.

AI companies are facing a growing wave of lawsuits accusing them of failing to prevent chatbot interactions that plaintiffs say contribute ​to self-harm, mental illness and violence.

OpenAI is also facing a lawsuit ​filed by ⁠the family of a man killed in the shooting at Florida State University, claiming the shooter was aided by ChatGPT in planning the attack.

In April, family members of victims of one ⁠of Canada’s deadliest ​mass shootings filed a group of lawsuits against OpenAI ​and Altman, alleging the company knew eight months before the attack that the shooter was planning it on ChatGPT but ​did not warn police.

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Multiple people killed, officer wounded in Oregon shooting

2026-06-01 12:04 PM EDT / CBS News

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Multiple people are dead and one officer is wounded after a shooting outside of Portland, Oregon, on Sunday, police said. One suspect has been arrested, and police don’t believe any ongoing threat exists for the surrounding community.

The incident happened in the city of Sandy at around 4 p.m. PT, said Sandy Police Chief Patrick Huskey in a statement. Huskey said officers were called to the scene of “a domestic disturbance and shooting,” in which they “came under gunfire and returned fire.” Clackamas County Sheriff’s deputies were also part of the response.

One officer was struck during the exchange of fire and suffered multiple gunshot wounds, Huskey said. That officer was evacuated from the scene by a Life Flight helicopter. The police chief said the officer’s condition was considered stable and “they are expected to survive.”

Multiple people were dead at the scene of the shooting, according to Huskey.

“I understand everyone wants answers and information right now, but this remains a very dynamic and active investigation,” he said. “I can tell you that investigators from the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office and the Clackamas County Major Crimes Team are working to process the scene, conduct interviews, and to get the answers our community deserves.”

Officers took the suspect into custody several hours after the shooting took place, at around 8 p.m. Huskey said the suspect surrendered to law enforcement and was unharmed.

Huskey called the shooting “a traumatic event for our community, and the Sandy Police Department.”

“I know many people are grieving,” Huskey said. “I ask everyone in our community to keep the victims, our injured officer, their families, friends and all of the first responders in their thoughts tonight.”

Police located and surrounded the suspect at a residential property prior to the arrest, CBS affiliate KOIN reported. A shelter-in-place order had been issued for a southeastern section of the city earlier in the day Sunday, but it was lifted after a few hours, according to the news station.

Huskey said an investigation into the shooting was still active, “and there is much we cannot share at this time.”

Trump’s ‘weaponization’ fund is on hold, sources say

June 1, 2026 7:38 PM UTC / Reuters

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WASHINGTON, June 1 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” ​fund that would ‌have benefited political allies is ​on hold, two ​sources familiar with ⁠the plan said ​on Monday.

The fund, ​which would compensate such allies with taxpayer ​money, emerged ​from a legal settlement between ‌Trump’s ⁠Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service to ​resolve ​an ⁠unprecedented lawsuit in which ​the president ​had ⁠sought $10 billion over the alleged mishandling ⁠of ​his ​tax records.

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