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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. Arrests by federal immigration agents in Los Angeles led to clashes with police last night, as Steve Futterman reports. According to ICE, 44 people were detained in several surprise Friday morning raids. A number of the raids took place in LA's Garment District. It comes as ICE agents throughout the nation have increased enforcement.
By the late afternoon, several hundred demonstrators gathered in downtown to protest the detainments. At one point, as some protesters moved close to the federal detention center, police used tear gas and flashbangs to disperse the crowd. There was a social media exchange between L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. Bass said, we will not stand for this. Miller responded, you have no say in this. Federal law will be enforced.
For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles. There have been similar confrontations in San Diego, Chicago, and Minneapolis over the past week. Attorney General Pam Bondi says Kilmar Abrego-Garcia has been returned to the United States to face charges. On May 21st, a grand jury in the Middle District of Tennessee returned a sealed indictment charging Abrego-Garcia with alien smuggling and
and conspiracy to commit alien smuggling in violation of Title VIII USC 1324. Brico Garcia's case is a flashpoint in President Trump's immigration crackdown. He's the man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. He has now been returned to the U.S. after the court said his due process rights were violated.
He's due to be arraigned next week after appearing in federal court in Nashville last night. Abrego Garcia's lawyers are blasting the government's charges as preposterous. A veteran lawyer in the federal prosecutor's office in Nashville has declined to comment on his reported resignation in protest of the indictment.
The Supreme Court has handed the Trump administration another victory. The court for now has granted the Department of Government Deficiency, known as DOGE, unfettered access to information collected by the Social Security Administration, as MPR's Nina Totenberg reports. In an unsigned order, the court's conservative supermajority temporarily overturned actions by two lower courts that had limited the DOGE team's access to sensitive private information at the Social Security Administration.
The information includes not just Social Security numbers, but medical and mental health records, family court information, and more.
Writing for two of the three liberal dissenters, Justice Katonji Brown Jackson said the court was essentially preventing the status quo from remaining in place while the case is fully litigated in the lower courts. Once again, she said, this court dons its emergency responder gear, rushes to the scene, and fans the flames rather than extinguish them. Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington. And you're listening to NPR News.
Russia launched a large missile and drone attack overnight targeting Ukraine's eastern city of Kharkiv. The city's mayor says it was Russia's most powerful attack on the city since the 2022 invasion. Officials say at least three people are dead and more than 20 injured. Ukraine's foreign minister says several other areas were also hit. This latest attack comes a day after a Russian barrage killed at least six people and injured some 80 others.
Scientists say the wildfires burning in western Canada that have been sending smoky air into the U.S. Midwest are no longer anomalies. Instead, they're following an emerging pattern that's being driven by climate change, as NPR's Scott Newman reports.
The fires this year are following a familiar pattern, one that was seen two years ago. They're burning in places like Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia, but their choking fumes are being felt in Minnesota, Illinois, and Michigan.
John Smull is a biology professor at Queen's University in Ontario who studies the environment. He says climate change is driving this trend. The fires are hotter, the fires are longer, they start earlier, they last longer. Canadian authorities say that nearly half of the more than 200 fires burning now have yet to be contained.
Scott Newman, NPR News. The Hockey Stanley Cup Finals now tied at one game apiece. The defending champion Florida Panthers evened the best-of-seven series last night, winning Game 2 against the Edmonton Oilers, five goals to four. That game-winning goal came in double overtime. Game 3 is set for Monday. I'm Giles Snyder. This is NPR News.
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