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Salt Lake City and its county have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Department of Homeland Security’s plan to open a giant warehouse in the city that would be used to detain up to 10,000 immigrants. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court, is the latest brought by local officials around the country who were not consulted before DHS purchased industrial warehouses that it planned to convert into regional immigrant processing and detention centers. The lawsuit targets the most expensive property purchased by DHS for the initiative: $145.4 milli

Salt Lake City lawsuit is latest against DHS' plan to use giant warehouses to detain immigrants

Carney says the new Canadian-built bridge across Detroit River that Trump threatened will open

EU orders Meta to restore WhatsApp access for rival AI chatbots

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Is this already the ‘World Cup of Chaos’?

Note: This is story first appeared in The Beautiful Game by CNN Sports, our daily newsletter on all things World Cup. To subscribe, click here.It’s now just two days to go until the start of the World Cup and it’s safe to say that things are heating up both on and off the pitch. While teams put the finishing touches to their preparations and hunker down into their camps across North America, we’ve seen somewhat predictable visa issues make headlines before a ball is even kicked.Visa issues precede the ‘World Cup of Chaos’And visas issues are where we’ll start today’s edition of T

New York state's electricity reserves are shrinking, grid operator says

Vance demands Justice Department probe of Minnesota officials as White House presses 'war on fraud'

US wholesale inventories increase for third straight month in April

U.S. wholesale inventories increased more than initially thought in April, likely reflecting stock building to hedge against shortages and high prices stemming from the war with Iran.Stocks at wholesalers rose 0.6%, revised up from the 0.5% gain estimated last month, the Commerce Department's Census Bureau said on Tuesday. Wholesale inventories have now increased strongly for three straight months. The report followed an Institute for Supply Management survey last week showing a measure of inventories at services businesses hitting a 10-year high in May. The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, now i

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Trump greeted with boos at NBA Finals in Madison Square Garden

Basketball fans greeted U.S. President Donald Trump with a chorus of loud boos on Monday, as the Republican became the first sitting U.S. president to attend the NBA Finals at Game 3 of the championship series between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs.Attending as a guest of Knicks president James Dolan, Trump stood in a luxury box at Madison Square Garden, the self-styled "World's Most Famous Arena," smiling as the sell-out crowd jeered and booed when he appeared on the Jumbotron during the national anthem. "I thought it was amazing, actually," Trump told reporters as he prepared to

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Knicks coach on free throw disparity in Game 3: 'Never thought I’d see that in an NBA Finals game'

Knicks coach Mike Brown criticized the officiating in Game 3 of the NBA Finals after the San Antonio Spurs shot 24 free throws in the second half to New York's eight. “I never thought I’d see that in an NBA Finals game, and I saw it tonight,” Brown said. The Spurs won 115-111 on Monday night to cut the Knicks' lead in the series to 2-1. It was New York's first loss in 46 days, ending a 13-game postseason winning streak. Brown credited the Spurs for their performance and listed some things the Knicks did poorly. But he said the officiating made a

Drone boat rescued two US aviators after their Army helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz

Ken Paxton's attorney in his impeachment trial endorses James Talarico in US Senate race

The rise and fall of 'The Hills' star Spencer Pratt's improbable campaign for Los Angeles mayor

He wrote a memoir called “The Guy You Loved to Hate.” He's dabbled in rap, releasing a song called “I’m a Celebrity." He started a company selling crystals claimed to have healing properties. But Spencer Pratt was not able to pull off his latest venture — an improbable bid to become mayor of Los Angeles. The Associated Press determined Monday that the onetime reality television personality did not qualify for the November runoff to unseat embattled incumbent Karen Bass. Instead of Pratt, a Republican who received a nod of approval from President Donald T

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A jury voted for Jeffery Lee to receive a life sentence. Alabama plans to execute him anyway

The Alabama jury in Jeffery Lee’s trial spent several days listening to evidence and contemplating whether he should live or die.One juror who spoke to CNN was among the 7-5 majority that voted for the then 21-year-old to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the 1998 murders of Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson and the attempted murder of Helen King.When the juror later learned a judge had overturned the recommendation and sentenced Lee to death, it felt devastating, the juror said.“That was my first time realizing that I had wasted my time serving on a jury,” said the juro

Vance recommends DOJ criminal investigation into Tim Walz and Minnesota AG over state’s fraud scandal

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Iran soccer body claims fans' tickets for World Cup games in the US have been revoked

FIFA has revoked the ticket allocation for Iran fans at the team’s three World Cup games in the United States, the national soccer federation claimed Tuesday. Each federation for the 48 teams taking part is entitled to receive and distribute 8% of stadium capacity for each of its games at the World Cup, adding up to several thousands of tickets. Just days before Iran opens its World Cup — on June 15 at the 70,000-seat Los Angeles Rams’ stadium in Inglewood against New Zealand — the federation claimed in a statement reported by semi-official st

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World Cup ref denied entry to the US was about to make history for Somalia

The World Cup referee from Somalia who was denied entry to the United States after arriving in Miami and subsequently cut from the tournament by FIFA was set to make history for his country. Omar Artan was going to be the first referee from Somalia to officiate at a World Cup after making FIFA’s final list for the tournament, which was announced two months ago. He is one of Africa’s top referees and was named the continent’s best male referee in 2025. He was denied entry at Miami International Airport on Saturday over “vetting concerns,” U.S. Customs and

Murder or self-defense? Jury will soon decide in Texas track meet stabbing trial

Apple and Brussels blame each other for delaying European Union rollout of Siri AI

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He scored, Africa danced: When one stunning World Cup goal rocked a nation

Though their eyes and ears will undoubtedly be fixed on the cacophony of sensations showering down from all storied corners of the Estadio Azteca, for many of the South African team walking out to face World Cup co-host Mexico on Thursday to kick off the tournament, there will be a fleeting moment when they are transported back through time.The calendar will flip back exactly 16 years to June 11, 2010. It’s the same date, the same Mexican opposition, and even the same occasion – a World Cup curtain raiser – but the time travelers are not the same. They are kids again, standing wide-eyed

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Israel kills eight in strike on Lebanon; US rescues helicopter crew from Hormuz

Israel struck the historic port city of Tyre in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least eight people, in an escalation that adds strain to efforts to broker a peace deal to end the wider Middle East war.On Monday, Israel and Iran halted direct attacks on each other after an appeal by U.S. President Donald Trump, but Tehran warned it would resume hostilities if Israel continued to attack its ally Hezbollah in Lebanon.The raids were the deadliest on Tyre since fighting erupted in Lebanon in early March, when Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel in support of Tehran after Israel and the Un

Drone vessel rescues two US crew members after Apache helicopter went down

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Trump’s name removed from Kennedy Center website branding

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Americans ‘don’t like the look of things’ and are growing more worried about their job and their finances

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Bitcoin loses its luster as traders chase AI wave

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OpenAI files for IPO, the latest in a stream of possible AI mega-sales

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A first test for Platner and other key races to watch in Tuesday’s primaries in Maine and beyond

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Federal judge voids Trump’s $100,000 fee requirement for H-1B visas

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Progressive Nithya Raman advances to November runoff against Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass

Progressive city council member Nithya Raman has advanced to a November runoff against Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, setting up an unexpected matchup between two Democrats and former political allies to run the struggling city of nearly 4 million

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Apple finally lays out its AI plans with a brand new version of Siri

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls