Los Angeles Gears Up for Another Day of Protests
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Here's your Midday Brief for Monday, June 9th. I'm Alex Ocele for The Wall Street Journal.

Los Angeles is gearing up for another day of protests after anti-ice demonstrations in downtown Los Angeles escalated over the weekend. The California chapter of the Service Employees International Union planned for a rally before the arraignment of its president, David Huerta, who was arrested on Friday when protesting a raid by ICE agents in Los Angeles. California Governor Gavin Newsom has called on the Trump administration to rescind the deployment of the National Guard, saying the move was a breach of state sovereignty.

Trump administration officials have defended the president's decision to deploy the National Guard and criticized the response to protests by California's leaders. Warner Brothers Discovery is splitting itself into two standalone publicly traded entertainment companies. One company will be home to CNN, TNT, TBS, and Warner's dozens of cable channels, as well as international holdings.

That entity, called Global Networks for now, will hold as much as a 20% stake in the second entity, which will contain the company's HBO Max streaming service, movie studio, and TV production business, and which Warner is referring to as streaming and studios. The move effectively undoes much of WarnerMedia and Discovery Communications' 2022 merger, separating Warner's marquee film and TV from Discovery's reality and nonfiction fare.

And Canada plans to boost military spending this year as the country aims to catch up to its lagging NATO commitments and tries to placate President Trump amid sensitive trade talks. Prime Minister Mark Carney said today that Canada would spend money on military vehicles, drones, ammunition and sensors to monitor the Arctic. Canada, a founding member of NATO, has long failed to meet the 2% pledge. It spent 1.37% on defense in 2024.

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