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Daily Briefing: ICE shows up at a local Italian restaurant


Good morning!🙋🏼‍♀️ I'm Nicole Fallert.  Say Iced "Horchata Oatmilk Shaken Espresso" three times fast.

Quick look at Monday's news:

Chaotic scenes emerge amid immigration crackdown

As President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown widens, immigration arrests across the U.S. over the weekend claimed mothers, restaurant workers and wanted criminals. Meanwhile, government says self-deportation is the "best way" to avoid arrest:

Chaos at a California restaurant: In one recent case of arrests, heavily armed agents entered a popular San Diego Italian restaurant Friday as local residents screamed at them and filmed the scene.

  • The agents arrested several kitchen workers, while community members confronted agents, according to video shared by a local CBS station. The agents wore tactical gear, including bulletproof vests emblazoned with the Homeland Security Investigations logo.
  • This followed a panicked scene at a Florida construction site: More than 100 people were detained in one of Florida's largest single-day immigration raids at a Tallahassee construction site May 29.
  • "Free Marcello": Worcester Telegram & Gazette, part of the Paste BN Network, reported this chant rang out in Milford, Massachusetts, on Sunday as residents decried a teenager detained by ICE without a warrant.

✋ Know your rights if you're stopped by U.S. border agents.

6 injured in attack on Israeli hostages event in Colorado

A male suspect was taken into custody Sunday after multiple people were set on fire during an event calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza at a pedestrian mall in Boulder, Colorado, authorities said, in what the FBI earlier described as a "targeted terror attack."  The suspect, identified by authorities as Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, yelled "Free Palestine" during the attack, Mark Michalek, special agent in charge at the FBI’s Denver field office, said during a Sunday night news conference. There were six victims in the attack, ages 67 to 88, who were all transported to local hospitals.

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Trump's big tax bill moves ahead to potential changes in the Senate

When members of Congress return to Washington on Monday after a weeklong break, the upper chamber will dig into the more than 1,000-page bill that would extend income tax cuts, implement new tax breaks for tipped wages and overtime, overhaul Medicaid and food stamps, and put more money toward Trump's deportation plan. At least a dozen senators have indicated they would like to tweak the package before they sign off on it.

Russia-Ukraine blasts on the eve of peace talks

After days of uncertainty over whether Ukraine would attend, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Defense Minister Rustem Umerov would sit down with Russian officials at the second round of direct peace talks in Istanbul on Monday. The first round of talks, more than a week ago, yielded the biggest prisoner exchange of the war - but no sense of consensus on how to halt the fighting. Amid talk of peace, though, there was much war. Russia and Ukraine engaged over the weekend in one of the biggest drone battles of their conflict.

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