Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass imposed a curfew on areas of the city’s downtown as riots against Immigration and Customs Enforcement reached their fifth consecutive day.
|
|
|
| “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.” |
| |
|
-
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass imposed a curfew on areas of the city’s downtown as riots against Immigration and Customs Enforcement reached their fifth consecutive day.
-
A group called No Kings is planning nationwide protests against the Trump administration on June 14, coinciding with Flag Day, the 250th birthday of the U.S. Army, a military parade in Washington, and President Donald Trump’s birthday.
-
President Trump said he would consider invoking the Insurrection Act if the unrest in Los Angeles deteriorates.
-
Negotiators on both sides of the U.S.-China trade talks have walked out of two days of trade negotiations with an agreement to take back to their respective leaders that outlines a consensus framework for bilateral trade.
-
🍵 Health: Five mobility exercises using a stick.
|
☀️ Good morning! It’s Wednesday. Thank you for reading the Morning Brief, an exclusive newsletter for Epoch Times subscribers. 👋 New to Morning Brief? Subscribe. 🎧 Prefer to listen? Get the podcast. |
|
|
| Ivan Pentchoukov
National Editor |
|
|
California National Guard members stand guard outside the Federal Building as protests continue in response to federal immigration operations in Los Angeles on June 10, 2025. (Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images) |
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced that a curfew would go into effect on areas of the city’s downtown as riots reached their fifth consecutive day. “I have declared a local emergency and issued a curfew for Downtown Los Angeles to stop the vandalism, to stop the looting,” Bass said during a press conference.
Looting has been seen in areas like Compton. Bass said that 23 businesses had been looted the night before across the city. She also cited graffiti in areas affected by the riots that had caused “significant damages to businesses and a number of properties.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered remarks on the ongoing riots, condemning the presence of National Guardsmen and Marines as unnecessary.
Newsom said the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids on criminal illegal immigrants that prompted the protests had been “very different than anything we’ve seen before,” and said that state and local law enforcement would have been sufficient to keep the peace.
“Angelenos came out to exercise their constitutional right to free speech and assembly to protest their government's actions,” Newsom said. “In turn, the state of California and the City and County of Los Angeles sent our police officers to help keep the peace, and with some exceptions, they were successful.”
In interviews, President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan has reiterated that ICE will continue to meet its responsibility to enforce U.S. immigration laws as established by Congress, even if that means working through the “difficult” and “hazardous” conditions posed by those protesters who engage in violence.
The curfew on Downtown began at 8 p.m. local time and would last until 6 a.m. Bass said that the duration of the curfew will be decided by consultation with other city leaders, “but we certainly expect for it to last for several days.” “If you do not live in Downtown LA, avoid the area,” Bass said, warning that those who violate the curfew would be prosecuted. The curfew affects only a small portion of the Downtown area, circumscribing the areas of the city between Interstate 5, Interstate 10, and Interstate 110, including neighborhoods like Skid Row, Chinatown, and the Fashion District.
Bass noted that this comes out to around one square mile, contrasting that with the 502 square miles which Los Angeles encompasses.
“I think it is … extremely important to know that what is happening in this one square mile is not affecting the city,” she said. “Some of the imagery of the protests and the violence gives the appearance as though this is a city wide crisis, and it is not.” (💬 Comment)
More Politics: |
-
A federal judge has denied California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s request for an emergency restraining order aimed at stopping President Donald Trump and the Department of Defense from federalizing the California National Guard and deploying U.S. Marines to Los Angeles, following violent clashes between immigration officers and protesters.
- President Donald Trump said he’s restoring the names of several military bases that were changed by President Joe Biden.
-
President Trump expects a grand military parade in Washington this weekend and warned that any protesters seeking to disrupt it would be met with “very heavy force.”
-
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he will not endorse a candidate in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, declining to take sides in the wide-open race to unseat current Mayor Eric Adams.
-
Federal prosecutors are urging a federal court to not throw out the case against Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, who is accused of obstructing federal immigration officers from doing their job. In a brief filed on Monday, federal prosecutors asked Judge Lynn Adelman of the Eastern District of Wisconsin to reject Dugan’s motion to dismiss the case based on judicial immunity.
|
After a series of aviation incidents and accidents this year left travelers on edge, the federal government has unveiled an ambitious plan to upgrade and overhaul America’s air traffic control systems.
This year’s focus on aviation safety began with a deadly midair collision near Washington, D.C., in late January, when an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines regional jet, killing all 67 people onboard both aircraft. This was followed by several other aviation incidents that drove headlines for months.
Then, a series of critical equipment failures at Newark Liberty International Airport’s air traffic control caused controllers to lose contact with planes in three separate incidents between late April and mid-May.
One day before Newark’s second communication blackout, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a plan to overhaul America’s aging air traffic control infrastructure, surge hiring of air traffic controllers, and modernize technology across the nation’s busiest airports.
The Epoch Times asked pilots and aviation safety experts about Duffy’s plan and their thoughts on how to make aviation, already the safest form of travel, even safer. Scott Seeberger, a veteran pilot for a U.S. airline, told The Epoch Times that improving aviation safety should start with a two-prong approach.
“Technology needs to be improved, and staffing needs to be increased.” (More) More U.S. News |
-
The Georgia Supreme Court voted unanimously on June 10 to invalidate four State Election Board rules that were enacted in the run-up to the 2024 general election.
-
Wisconsin’s health department is keeping in place its recommendation that pregnant women and all children receive one of the currently available COVID-19 vaccines, diverging from guidance by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
-
The Southern Baptist Convention on June 10 voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution encouraging the overturning of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that labeled same-sex marriage a federally protected right in 2015.
-
John Deere plans to invest $20 billion in U.S. manufacturing over the next 10 years
-
A world-renowned Taiwanese soup dumpling restaurant chain with its U.S. headquarters in California was recognized by the industry on June 6 for earning the most revenue per restaurant of any chain in the United States.
|
| Sponsored Message |
|
|
Negotiators on both sides of the U.S.-China trade talks have walked out of two days of trade negotiations with an agreement to take back to their respective leaders that outlines a consensus framework for bilateral trade.
Leaving the talks in London on June 10, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told reporters, “We have reached a framework to implement the Geneva consensus and the call between the two presidents,” referring to the phone call between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
On that call on June 5, Trump and Xi discussed the tensions that had inflamed again over China’s bans on rare earth exports, and U.S. bans on exports of advanced semiconductor chips to China.
“The idea is we’re going to go back and speak to President Trump and make sure he approves it,” Lutnick said of the framework reached. “They’re going to go back and speak to President Xi and make sure he approves it, and if that is approved, we will then implement the framework.”
If approved, the agreement should ease the dueling export controls that had threatened to unravel the consensus reached in Geneva in May.
Separately, China’s Vice Commerce Minister Li Chenggang also told reporters that a trade framework had been reached, pending approval by U.S. and Chinese leadership. (💬 Comment) More World News |
- The European Union imposed anti-dumping levies on imports of hardwood plywood from China on Tuesday.
-
Japan has confirmed that two Chinese aircraft carriers are simultaneously carrying out operations in the Pacific for the first time, a move that Tokyo interprets as an indication of Beijing’s plans to further extend its military reach beyond its borders.
-
Victims of a years-long banking scandal in central China were violently attacked by security personnel last week while petitioning authorities over their frozen savings, according to a protester who shared what he witnessed at the scene with the Chinese-language edition of The Epoch Times.
-
The United Kingdom, Canada, and three other countries imposed new sanctions against Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on June 10, in a move the U.S. State Department said would not help to resolve ongoing tensions in the Middle East.
|
📷 Photo of the Day: Soldiers of Fort Bragg stand in salute during the playing of the national anthem at The America 250 Celebration at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, N.C., on June 10, 2025. (Karl DeBlaker/AP Photo) |
🇺🇲 American Thought Leaders: A pediatric cardiologist is alarmed about the rise in cardiovascular conditions in children. (Watch)
✍️ Opinion: The US-China Nuclear Fusion Space Race, by Lawrence Kadish (Read)
🎵 Music: Othmar Schoeck – Sommernacht (Listen) … and don’t forget:
♥️ Follow us on Facebook, X, Instagram, or Truth Social
📫 Forward this email to a friend and tell them to subscribe. (Here)
☕ Love coffee, mugs, stickers, and clothes? Check out our shop.
💬 Feedback? Reply to this email or write to ivanmb@epochtimes.nyc |
Hispanolistic/Getty Images |
Stiffness can limit activity, functional independence, and take the fun out of doing things. Worse, it can set us up for injuries. Many of us have persistent aches and pains in certain areas, which often correspond with related stiffness.
Thankfully, a consistent regimen of stretching exercises can help us limber up and move toward better comfort and independence.
There are many different approaches to stretching and, ultimately, many, many different stretches per se, but with this routine, we introduce you to exercises you can do using a long stick or bar. It can be a broomstick, a long dowel stick, a mop, or any other stick approximately 4 to 6 feet long.
These are routine exercises, but you may wish to confer with your medical provider to ensure that they are right for you. Demonstration videos of all these exercises can be found in our full article. Standing Circle (Spine)—Performed correctly, the standing circle is a great spinal mobility exercise. By encouraging you to rotate far into left and right rotations with an upright posture, this exercise provides mobility from your neck to your lumbar vertebrae.
Around the World (Shoulders)—The Around the World exercise is challenging for shoulders, but great for overall range of motion and delivers a great chest stretch.
Bar Slide (Lower Back, Flexion)—The Bar Slide is a simple exercise that works on spinal flexion and provides a good stretch for the upper-middle back. (More)
|
|
|
Thanks for reading. Have a wonderful day. |
—Ivan Pentchoukov, Madalina Hubert, and Kenzi Li. |
|
|
Copyright © 2025 The Epoch Times, All rights reserved.
Our mailing address is: The Epoch Times. 229 W. 28 St. Fl. 7 New York, NY 10001 | Contact Us
Our Morning Brief newsletter is one of the best ways to receive the most up-to-date information. Manage your email preferences here or unsubscribe from Morning Brief here.
|
|
|
|
