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A California court has dismissed a lawsuit filed ⁠by Donald Trump’s administration against Los Angeles over a city ordinance limiting ⁠its cooperation with federal ⁠immigration ​authorities.Fernando Olguin, a judge in the central California US district court rejected the administration’s argument that the city’s policy was unconstitutional. ⁠He gave the administration permission to file an amended complaint.The White House did not ⁠immediately respond to the Guardian’s request for comment on the ​decision on Monday.Los Angeles ‌city attorney Hydee ‌Feldstein Soto said in a statement on Monday that ‌the ruling was a legal victory for the city, which saw a profusion of…

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Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the country’s largest abortion rights organization, officially backed the Democrat Graham Platner for Senate in Maine on Monday, selecting him over Senator Susan Collins, one of only two Republican senators who support abortion rights.A Maine affiliate of the organization had praised Ms. Collins’s “long history of supporting Planned Parenthood and access to essential health care” as recently as May 2025, cheering her opposition to efforts by congressional Republicans to slash federal funding for the organization.But at an event in Portland on Monday, Alexis McGill Johnson, the president and chief executive of the national organization, suggested that…

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Monday, June 22, 2026UN NewsThe Security Council is holding an open meeting on Ukraine on Monday afternoon, with warnings of a “dangerous cycle of escalation” amid drone and missile attacks in briefings by Mohamed Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General at the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, and Edem Wosornu, crisis response director at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA.© UN News (2026) — All Rights Reserved. Original source: UN NewsWhere next?Related newsBrowse related news topics:Latest newsRead the latest news stories:Our Ocean Conference: After Mombasa – Will Africa and the World Make Ocean Promises…

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A group of tropical butterflies may have evolved an extraordinary way to stay healthy for longer by slowing the aging process itself, according to a University of Bristol-led study published June 16 in Nature Communications. The butterflies belong to the Heliconius tribe, a group found across the rainforests of Central and South America. Researchers say these insects rank among the longest-lived butterflies ever documented and could become an important model for studying the biology of longevity. Most butterflies live only a few weeks as adults. In contrast, the study found that some Heliconius species survive about three times longer than…

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Gov. Gavin Newsom sounded the alarm last week on President Trump ordering a federal investigation into the governor, his wife and their associates, but those in Newsom’s inner orbit may have heard a different sound: cha-ching! Within hours of releasing a video accusing the president of weaponizing the Department of Justice, Newsom’s political action committee, Campaign for Democracy, sent out an email pleading for money to help with his potential legal defense and political strategy — the latest cash grab for the PAC dedicated to raising his fame with mass text blasts, a book tour, pro-Newsom merch and podcast promotion,…

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OBBUERGEN, Switzerland (AP) — Vice President JD Vance on Monday said his lengthy talks with senior Iranian officials in Switzerland created a “good foundation for a successful final deal” as they seek a permanent end to the war that the U.S. and Israel began in late February.“The final deal is the house,” Vance told reporters after initial talks with Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf. “We set the foundation. We haven’t built the house, but we’ve laid a successful foundation to get to a good place for the American people.”Vance and U.S. officials claimed progress on multiple fronts, including the…

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President Trump knows one thing for sure about the sorry state of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool: It’s not his fault.Speaking to reporters on Monday, Mr. Trump said the enormous blooms of green algae and the peeling polyurethane had nothing to do with the rushed $16.4 million makeover he had ordered. Instead, he laid out in vague terms a series of events that he claimed were responsible for the highly embarrassing breakdown of a Washington landmark.To hear Mr. Trump tell it, the renovation was going perfectly until vandals armed with knives and fertilizer set their sights on the century-old pool,…

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Sephora*, an 18-year-old mother of two, holds her baby girl at the Karibuni wa Mama Clinic supported by SOFEPADI in Bunia, Ituri province, DR Congo, on 25 November 2025. Originally from a remote village, she fled when armed clashes erupted in 2023. Credit: UNICEF / Mirindi Johnsonby Naureen Hossain (united nations)Monday, June 22, 2026Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, June 22 (IPS) – A record number of children were subject to grave violations by parties to armed conflicts, the highest since the UN mandate for children and armed conflict (CAAC) was established in 1996. In the Secretary-General’s annual report, UN-verified sources confirmed…

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