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MIDDLE EAST | Update from regional conflicts:

• Palestinian health officials say Israeli violence against Gaza residents trying to access aid distribution sites continued yesterday, with 36 people killed, and more than 200 others injured, near aid sites run by the Israel- and U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. [more]

U.S. PROTESTS | Police in Los Angeles, California, say 167 arrests were made during protests against immigration enforcement actions and alleged federal government overreach yesterday, including multiple following the 8 p.m. curfew imposed by the city on the area surrounding downtown federal buildings. A federal court hearing is scheduled for tomorrow on California Gov. Gavin Newsom's request to block President Donald Trump's mobilization of federalized National Guard and active-duty Marine troops to Los Angeles. Protests spread to additional cities yesterday, including Dallas and Austin, Texas, Chicago, Illinois, San Francisco, California, Seattle, Washington, Boston, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New York City, and Washington, DC. [more on protests]

U.S. FOREIGN AID | Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered U.S. embassies yesterday to move forward with a directive to fire all remaining overseas staff members of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Department officials maintain that the firings do not violate a court ruling that has temporarily blocked an executive order by President Donald Trump for mass firings at multiple federal agencies, and say the State Department is expected to take over USAID’s foreign assistance programs by next week. [more]

TRUMP CRIMINAL CONVICTION | A panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments today on a request by President Donald Trump to move his 2024 New York State felony business records falsification and hush-money conviction to federal court, where he could attempt to have the conviction overturned on presidential immunity grounds. [more]

U.S. TARIFFS | The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit yesterday allowed the government to continue collecting wide-ranging import taxes imposed by President Donald Trump while related court challenges play out. [more]

U.S. ECONOMY | According to Labor Department data released today, consumer prices in the U.S. rose 0.1% in May, compared to April, and 2.4% from the year-ago period. [more]

NEW JERSEY | Congresswoman LaMonica McIver was indicted yesterday on federal charges of assaulting and interfering with immigration officers in connection with an altercation with federal officials outside New Jersey's Delaney Hall immigration detention center last month while Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was being arrested during an oversight visit to the facility. [more]

U.S. MILITARY BASES | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced yesterday that the names of seven Army bases changed in 2023 because they honored Confederate leaders are reverting back to their original names, though with the names ostensibly honoring former service members with the same last names as the Confederate leaders. The renamed bases are: Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Pickett, and Fort Robert E. Lee in Virginia, Fort Gordon in Georgia, Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Polk in Louisiana and Fort Rucker in Alabama. [more]

U.S. RELIGION | Delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, yesterday endorsed a ban on same-sex marriage and called for the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse its Obergefell v. Hodges decision legalizing the practice nationwide. Reports note that the Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Protestant, and the second-largest Christian organizational body in the United States. [more]

U.S. AND CHINA | Senior U.S. and Chinese negotiators meeting in London say they have agreed on a framework aimed at resolving trade disputes over mineral and technology exports. [more]

AUSTRIA | Three days of national mourning have been declared in Austria following yesterday's shooting at a high school in the city of Graz in which 10 people were killed. Authorities say the 21-year-old suspect in the incident is among the dead and that his motivations for carrying out the attack remain under investigation. [more]

SUDAN | Reports say the Sudanese army retreated from the Libya-Egypt-Sudan border triangle area today – a day after it accused forces loyal to eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar of participating in an attack alongside the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. [more]

GREECE | Three far-right lawmakers were expelled from the Greek parliament yesterday over links to jailed neo-Nazi-linked politician Ilias Kasidiaris, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2020 for orchestrating violent attacks against migrants and political opponents. [more]

ARGENTINA | The Argentine Supreme Court yesterday permanently barred former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner from public office and upheld a six-year prison sentence imposed on her following a corruption conviction. [more]

COLOMBIA | The Colombian Attorney General's office says a 15-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder in connection with last weekend's assassination attempt on conservative presidential candidate Miguel Uribe. Reports note that Uribe remains hospitalized in critical condition. [more]

POLAND | Prime Minister Donald Tusk faces a vote of confidence today in Poland's parliament as he seeks to reaffirm the mandate of his coalition government. Reports say Tusk is expected to survive the vote, which comes after this month's presidential election defeat of Tusk-supported Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski to right-wing nationalist Karol Nawrocki. [more]

NORTHERN IRELAND | Police used water cannons and plastic firearm rounds to disperse a crowd of several hundred people yesterday during a second night of anti-immigrant violence in the Northern Ireland town of Ballymena. [more]

SPAIN | Economy minister Carlos Cuerpo suggested in an interview yesterday that Spain is facing an "overtourism" crisis, saying that the country's projected 100 million tourist visits this year present a "challenge that we have in terms of dealing and providing for a good experience for tourists, but at the same time avoiding overcharging (for) our own services and our own housing." [more]

TODAY IN HISTORY | On this date in 1509, England's King Henry VIII wed his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. The refusal of Pope Clement VII to later annul the marriage triggered the break between Henry and the Catholic Church and led to the English Reformation. [more history]