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 Trump administration scrambles to rehire key federal workers after DOGE firings  - Federal agencies are rehiring and ordering back from leave some of the employees who were laid off in the weeks after President Donald Trump took office as they scramble to fill critical gaps in services left by the Department of Government Efficiency-led effort to shrink the federal workforce. -The Trump administration’s quiet backtracking from the firings and voluntary retirements — which are also paired with new hires to fill vacancies those departures created — come as federal agencies are still implementing their “reduction-in-force” plans as part of a push for spending cuts. Experts warned that even though the Trump administration has backtracked on some of its efforts to shrink the federal workforce, the rapid rehirings are a warning sign that it has lost more capacities and expertise that could prove critical — and difficult to replace — in the months and years ahead. “There are time bo...

 11:00 AM – Andrea Becomes the First Tropical Cyclone of the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season The National Hurricane Center has announced the formation of the f irst tropical cyclone of the 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season, located near 36.6°N, 48.9°W in the North Atlantic. This system, which had been under observation for several days, has now developed the characteristics of a tropical storm and has been officially named Andrea—the first name on this year’s storm list. Andrea is currently tracking east-northeast at 17 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and a minimum central pressure of 1014 millibars. However, as it moves into cooler waters, Andrea is expected to weaken within the next 24 hours, making its time as a tropical storm relatively brief. At this time, Andrea poses no threat to any land areas.

 U.S. warplanes strike three Iranian nuclear sites in sweeping attack effort, saying the talks in Geneva “didn’t help.” Iran has consistently refused U.S. and Israeli demands that it completely halt its enrichment of uranium, which can be used for both civilian nuclear power and, at higher enrichment levels, a nuclear weapon. On June 10, Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla, who as the head of U.S. Central Command oversees military operations across the Middle East, told House lawmakers that he had presented Trump with a “wide range of options” when asked whether the U.S. was prepared to respond with overwhelming force to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon. The most formidable of Iran’s nuclear sites is Fordow, which is buried about 250 feet underground in the side of a mountain near the holy city of Qom. U.S. and Israeli officials have said it can be disabled only by immense earth-penetrating bombs. The only aircraft in the world capable of carrying such weapons, known as massive or...

 China Sends Two Aircraft Carriers Into the Pacific for the First Time  By sending warships beyond Japan, the Chinese Navy is demonstrating its ability to project sea and air power far past its home waters. In a display of Beijing’s growing military reach, the Chinese Navy sent two aircraft carriers into the Pacific Ocean, far from the country’s coast, for the first time to conduct exercises together, Japan’s defense minister, Gen Nakatani, said. Mr. Nakatani told reporters on Monday that the Chinese aircraft carriers were spotted launching and retrieving jet fighters out in the Pacific to the east of the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, about 750 miles south of Tokyo. He said the Japanese Navy was monitoring the joint exercise by both vessels, which began on Saturday. It was the first time that China’s two active-duty aircraft carriers, the Liaoning and the Shandong, and their escort ships had operated together in the Pacific beyond the islands of Japan, which form a natural barr...

 It’s now been 10 years since Donald Trump rode down that golden escalator and launched his 2016 presidential campaign. And plenty of people – raising my hand here – initially dismissed him as a passing novelty," writes Aaron Blake. "Little did we know at the time that this man would not only become president (twice), but would completely flip the political script in our country. Read more

 Vance Boelter, the suspect charged with killing a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and wounding a second lawmaker and his wife, had an arsenal of weapons and a hit list in his vehicle, according to court documents.  Boelter, 57, allegedly posed as a police officer and drove a Ford SUV, registered in his name, equipped with police lights to carry out the shootings of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, early Saturday morning after allegedly shooting State Sen. John Hoffman, also a Democrat, and his wife, Yvette, in their nearby Champlin home.  Reportedly, Boelter left the fake police vehicle at the crime scene in Brooklyn Park after exchanging gunfire with police and escaping. Inside the vehicle, police recovered a disturbing cache of weapons, including at least three AK-47 assault rifles and a 9mm handgun, along with a manifesto that listed the names and addresses of other public officials.  About 70 names were found in the ...

 On Sunday afternoon, the Iranian capital Tehran was hit hard by a barrage of airstrikes by the Israeli Air Force, continuing a campaign that has been going on for several days to target Iran's nuclear program and military industrial installations.  An extraordinary evacuation notice was given by the Israeli military, encouraging Iranian residents to flee areas surrounding weapons manufacturing centres, just hours before the strikes, according to The Times of Israel.  Anyone in the vicinity of military installations is strongly encouraged to leave "immediately" in response to a warning from the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) posted in Persian and Arabic on X (formerly Twitter).  Colonel Avichay Adraee, an IDF spokesman who spoke Arabic, issued a command to "evacuate these areas and not return until further notice" to anyone found or anticipated to be in or near military weapons manufacturing facilities or the institutions that support them.  The spokesperson for t...

 IRANIAN MISSILES BREACH ISRAELI DEFENSES – CIVILIAN DEATH TOLL RISES Despite Israel's powerful missile defense systems, the IDF has confirmed that 5–10% of Iranian missiles are slipping through. These few that get past are causing deadly damage. So far, 24 Israeli civilians have been killed, with 8 deaths reported just last night after a wave of Iranian ballistic missiles struck Tel Aviv and surrounding cities. At the impact sites, IDF Homefront Command rescue teams are working around the clock, pulling survivors from rubble and securing damaged areas. While Israel’s Iron Dome and Arrow systems intercept most incoming threats, even a small breach rate is proving dangerous — turning civilian neighborhoods into war zones.

 How Gaza’s hospitals became battlegrounds      Relentless bombardment, power outages and shortages have pushed nearly every hospital in the beleaguered northern Gaza Strip out of service, with evidence of repeated attacks on and in the vicinity of medical facilities despite the presence of doctors, patients and civilians inside, a CNN analysis has found.      At least 20 out of 22 hospitals identified by CNN in northern Gaza were damaged or destroyed in the first two months of Israel's war against Hamas, from October 7 to December 7, according to a review of 45 satellite images and around 400 videos from the ground, as well as interviews with doctors, eyewitnesses and humanitarian organizations. Fourteen were directly hit, based on the evidence collected and verified by CNN and analyzed by experts.   Israel launched its bombardment and ground invasion of the Gaza Strip after Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attack, in which at least 1,200 people were k...

 Israeli drone shot down near Iranian nuclear facility, according to Iran state media       R anian air defenses shot down an Israeli drone in the vicinity of Iran’s Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FFEP), an underground nuclear facility located some 20 miles northeast of the city of Qom, Iranian state media Press TV reported Friday evening local time.       This was reported around the same time that Press TV said the Hamedan Airbase in western Iran was hit by Israeli airstrikes. Fardiz, a city in north-central Iran, was also targeted by Israeli strikes, Press TV reported.

 An Air India flight crashed in India’s western city of Ahmedabad on its way to London Gatwick airport. There were 242 passengers and crew members on board, the airline said.  

 Newsom and California confront Trump with a potential blueprint for Democrats  Allies and opponents agree how Newsom handles the protests – including Trump’s calling in the National Guard and sending in active-duty Marines over the governor’s objections – will reverberate far beyond California, and long after this week. videos That’s how Newsom is approaching what has become a fight on the streets and in the courts, only a few days after he was responding to a Trump administration effort to identify federal grants going to the state that can be canceled. Other Democratic governors have been calling Newsom, checking in, ticking through scenarios in their minds of how what’s happened in California could play out at home for them, according to multiple people briefed on the conversations.

Italian authorities said a massive eruption on Mount Etna forced tourists to flee the volcano on Monday after superheated gas, ash and rock "several kilometers high" shot into the air above them. referent : https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/02/travel/italy-mount-etna-erupts-intl Videos posted on social media showed long lines of people rushing down the mountain away from the eruption, while tour company owners told CNN they had 40 people on the Sicilian volcano when it erupted. Giuseppe Panfallo, a guide with Go Etna, filmed his tour group gathering with a large ash cloud in the distance. "We were almost suffocating, looking at the cloud here. We were two steps away and thank goodness we had a responsible guide with us," he said in a video shared with CNN. "It came suddenly, big smoke, a roar," the Sicilian civil protection agency told CNN, adding that they were contacting everyone to make sure everyone was accounted for. All tourists and hikers on the volcano w...