Fact-check: Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg contained lies and conspiracy theories about LA
The US president reiterated falsehoods and misleading statements to troops at the North Carolina military base
Robert Mackey
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/10/fact-check-trump-speech-fort-bragg

Everything we know about the protests in LA and other US cities
Brandon Drenon and James FitzGerald
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj93d3r0zz0o

In Los Angeles immigration protests, teachers, union members and children take to the streets together
No state in the U.S. has more immigrants than California, and most of them live in coastal cities like Los Angeles. Recent raids by immigration authorities have shaken and angered Angelenos, who place the blame for the latest escalations squarely on the federal government.
Marie-Astrid Langer (text), Ivan Kashinsky (photos), Los Angeles
https://www.nzz.ch/english/in-los-angeles-teachers-union-members-and-children-march-together-ld.1888310?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-06-11&utm_campaign=2025-06-11%20Full%20Version&utm_content=%20L%20A%20protests%20escalate%20Israeli%20life%20increasingly%20politicized%20and%20tourist%20trends%20in%20the%20US

Trump’s war on Harvard was decades in the making. This letter proves it
Bernard Harcourt
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/11/trump-war-on-harvard

Note to self: Insurance actuarial tables are not based on government climate websites
Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired

Exclusive: Climate.gov, which supports public education on climate science, will soon no longer publish new content
Eric Holthaus
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/climate-website-shut-down-noaa

Weather makers: How microbes living in the clouds affect our lives
Carl Zimmer
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250610-the-microbes-that-thrive-in-the-clouds

Republican chair of House homeland security committee to retire early
Mark Green had announced he would not run in 2024 and then changed his mind when Republicans urged him to stay
Associated Press
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/10/mark-green-retires-republican-homeland-security-chair

This month’s best paperbacks
June
Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some brilliant new paperbacks, from moving memoirs to sequels of beloved novels
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2025/jun/11/this-months-best-paperbacks-hanif-kureishi-alexei-navalny-and-more