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Good morning. Authorities are investigating deadly shootings in California and Montreal, a federal judge has struck down the Trump administration’s SAVE voter-verification system, and regulators have opened a new probe into Tesla after a fatal crash involving automated-driving technology.

We’re also covering Britain’s political shakeup, major moves in AI and markets, and the stories shaping science, sports, and culture.

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Firefighters are still battling a blaze at a massive frozen-food storage facility near downtown Los Angeles six days after the fire began Wednesday morning. Smoke plumes have reached neighborhoods miles away, prompting air-quality warnings across the southeastern Los Angeles basin and complicating outdoor-work conditions during a separate ongoing heat advisory.

City officials and federal investigators are now coordinating on cause analysis, with refrigerant containment and food-spoilage runoff drawing as much attention as the fire itself. Insurance industry sources expect the loss to be among the largest cold-storage claims in California history once final tallies are filed.

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration's SAVE voter-verification tool unlawful after tens of millions of voters had already had their data run through the revamped system. The court order does not yet require the deletion of the processed data, leaving state election offices to navigate gray-area compliance ahead of summer primaries.

Justice Department lawyers have signaled an immediate appeal, with the case likely to reach the Supreme Court before the November cycle. Civil-rights groups called the ruling the most consequential federal-elections decision of the year and one that scrambles the administration's voter-roll review push.

Federal safety investigators opened a probe into a fatal Tesla Model 3 crash in Katy, Texas, where Harris County authorities say driver Michael Butler told them he had been using Tesla's partially automated driving system. The vehicle sped off the road and into a home, killing one person and damaging the structure.

NHTSA's review will cover both the Autopilot and Full Self-Driving stacks and is being coordinated with Tesla's quarterly safety disclosures. Probe lands as the company's robotaxi pilot faces a separate federal investigation in Austin.

Keir Starmer formally resigned as UK prime minister and Labour leader Monday, triggering a leadership contest that Manchester mayor Andy Burnham now leads in early betting markets. Party rules require Burnham to win a by-election before formally taking the role, putting the timeline into autumn.

A long-gun gunman opened fire at a Montreal hotel, killing a police officer and a civilian before officers returned fire and killed the suspect. First-line-of-duty death of a Montreal officer in 24 years, the city's police chief said.

A new UN report says Myanmar's military killed 702 civilians over six months last year, including 153 children. Findings draw on satellite imagery, witness testimony, and forensic medical reviews compiled across the country's war-affected regions.

A gunman opened fire in a library in Chico, California on Monday, killing two people and injuring a child before being taken into custody behind the building. Police said the suspect acted alone; all Butte County library branches closed Tuesday as investigators work to establish a motive.

Federal authorities arrested two more suspects in the plot to attack Trump's June 14 UFC event at the White House, bringing the total facing federal charges to seven. Law enforcement disrupted the plan four days before the event, having learned of the threat on June 10.

A federal judge blocked Trump administration subpoenas targeting Gov. Tim Walz and other Minnesota officials in an ICE probe, calling them an effort to "harass and retaliate." Ruling follows months of confrontation after fatal ICE-involved shootings in Minneapolis earlier this year.

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Oracle revealed its workforce shrank by roughly 21,000 employees during the past fiscal year, part of a broader restructuring as the company pours billions into AI infrastructure and cloud computing. The cuts highlight a growing trend across the tech sector, where companies are reducing headcount while redirecting resources toward data centers, automation, and the escalating race to build AI systems.

Apollo froze withdrawals above 5% in its retail private credit fund after exit requests hit $2.4 billion — 16.8% of assets — reigniting longstanding fears about liquidity in funds marketed to ordinary investors. Offshore clients are exiting at nearly three times the rate of US investors in the sharpest private credit redemption pressure since 2023.

Goldman Sachs advised rate-shock hedges — bond puts and long-dated euro/dollar payer options — after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh held rates at 3.50–3.75% but struck a hawkish tone that pushed the dollar to a one-year high. Goldman simultaneously cut its 12-month US recession probability to 15% from 25%, citing lower oil prices following the Iran waiver.

SpaceX has turned its Colossus data center into a commercial computing platform, landing recent deals with Anthropic, Google, and Cursor. SpaceX joins hyperscalers as a direct compute vendor for the first time, in a market reshaping how AI labs source training capacity.

For four days, dozens of Romanian hospitals went offline as cyber experts worked to defeat the hackers and clinicians switched to pen and paper across 100 facilities. Romanian health authorities are now publishing a playbook that other European systems can use during similar attacks.

A new artificial intelligence program is detecting serious heart problems in EKGs that human doctors routinely miss, including cases first misdiagnosed as asthma. The tool is being made widely available to physicians at no cost — a rare commercial choice in the AI-medicine race.

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Shohei Ohtani hit a leadoff homer, and Freddie Freeman broke a sixth-inning tie with another shot as the Dodgers beat the Twins 2-1 Monday night. Kyle Tucker exited in the second with low back spasms, leaving Los Angeles with a late-June lineup question heading into the next series.

Oklahoma won the CWS title with a dominant 13-2 win over North Carolina in Game 3, claiming the program's first national championship since 1994 and its third overall. Kyle Branch went 3-for-4 with a home run and 6 RBI; shortstop Jaxon Willits was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.

Giannis Antetokounmpo is being traded to the Miami Heat, with Tyler Herro and several players and picks heading to Milwaukee. The trade ends years of Giannis' Milwaukee tenure and reshapes the Eastern Conference for at least the next three seasons.

Lionel Messi set a World Cup record with his 17th goal against Austria and then added an 18th, helping defending champion Argentina advance to the knockout stage with a 2-0 win. Messi's two strikes also moved him to the all-time scoring lead across both men's and women's tournaments.

Oscar-nominated director Agnieszka Holland will helm the Dietrich biopic 'Berlinweh — Yearning for a Home,' announced Tuesday at an international film market. Holland, known for Europa Europa and Green Border, brings her signature exploration of European exile and identity to one of cinema's most complex wartime figures.

A new trailer for Klara and the Sun, the sci-fi dystopian adaptation starring Jenna Ortega, Amy Adams, and Natasha Lyonne, dropped Monday and reset expectations for one of the fall's most anticipated releases. Taika Waititi directs the Kazuo Ishiguro novel adaptation, with a wide US theatrical release planned for October.

A Japanese-Indian co-production announced 'Taste of Water' at the Annecy Animation Festival — an animated documentary exploring the history, craft, and spiritual significance of traditional Japanese sake brewing. Supersub and Toonz Media Group are producing the project, which uses animation to illustrate sake's role across Japanese seasons and cultural memory.

What it is: Albania is now in its 22nd consecutive day of nationwide protests against a multi-billion-euro luxury development linked to Jared Kushner on the country's Adriatic coast. Thousands marched in Tirana over the weekend carrying "Albania is not for sale" banners, with parallel protests in the western city of Vlora pushing toward Prime Minister Edi Rama's office and calling for his resignation.

The detail: The project is being developed by Sazan Real Estate Development LLC, which Kushner's Affinity Partners initially backed but now says it has no operational involvement in, even as US partners remain on the project in what Affinity describes as a personal capacity. Demonstrators have dubbed the movement the "flamingo revolution" after the wildlife and coastal ecosystems threatened by southern-coast construction, and the protests have fused with broader anger over opaque real-estate deals and government corruption claims.

Why it matters: The crisis is the most serious political challenge of Rama's third Socialist Party term and the most visible foreign-policy test yet for Trump family business interests outside the US. PM Rama has publicly framed the protests as anti-Kushner rather than anti-development, and his refusal to step back is testing whether his governing coalition can hold through the summer parliamentary session.

What to watch: Watch whether opposition parties move to compel a no-confidence vote and whether the project's environmental impact studies are made public, both of which would shift the immediate political center of gravity. Also watch the next round of Affinity-versus-Sazan public statements, which will determine how the story plays inside the US press and whether the Kushner connection becomes a domestic campaign issue heading into the midterms.

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