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Overnight News Digest June 6, 2023 [1]
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Date: 2023-06-06
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Chicago Sun-Times: Stalled stadium talks in Arlington Heights create opening for Chicago mayor — if he’s willing to rewrite his playbook by Fran Spielman
The Bears’ stalled stadium touchdown drive in Arlington Heights has cracked the door open for Mayor Brandon Johnson to keep the team in Chicago — but only if he’s willing to spend the enormous political capital it would take to move the team to the front of a long line. Johnson is under intense pressure to deliver on his campaign promise to make $1 billion worth of “investments in people.” The smorgasbord of jobs, education, mental health and social programs is the cornerstone of the new mayor’s anti-violence strategy. The migrant crisis has turned up the heat on Johnson even further, as evidenced by the protesters who shouted at Johnson during last week’s City Council meeting. Against that “what about us?” backdrop, it would be tough to imagine Johnson moving a new stadium for the Bears to the top of his “to do” list — before reparations for descendants of slaves, creating a dedicated funding source to reduce homelessness or reopening Chicago’s mental health clinics.
Washington Post: Where wildfire smoke is hitting the U.S. the hardest — and when it will end by Matthew Cappucci
The smoky scenes and threat of fast-moving fires — so common in California during recent summers — are now paying the eastern United States an unwelcome, improbable and toxic visit. A thick veil of Canadian wildfire smoke is spreading south over much of the Midwest, Ohio Valley, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, bringing milky-white skies and dangerous air pollution to the most populous corridor of the country. Fine particles contained within the smoke, hazardous to breathe, have prompted air quality alerts for tens of millions of people from Baltimore to Boston to Burlington, but measurements show bad air affecting even a larger area that includes Minneapolis and Washington, D.C. In some places, air quality measurements are the worst on record. Marshall Burke, a professor of environment at Stanford University, tweeted that this event is the “[n]ear worst or worst event” in the last two decades or so, based on smoke particle data. As of Tuesday afternoon, New York City and Toronto were ranked among the seven cities with the worst air quality in the world.
New York Times: Florida Confirms Arranging Migrant Flights to California by Nicholas Nehamas and Shawn Hubler
After days of silence, officials in Florida confirmed on Tuesday that the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis had orchestrated two recent charter flights that carried groups of migrants from New Mexico to Sacramento. The flights had generated an immediate outcry from leaders in California, who promised to initiate criminal and civil investigations, saying that the migrants had been deceived into boarding the planes. They also sharply criticized Mr. DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate. On Twitter, California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, suggested that “kidnapping charges” were warranted against those responsible for the flights, on Monday and last Friday. In a statement released on Tuesday evening, Alecia Collins, the communications director for the Florida Division of Emergency Management, said that the migrants’ relocation to California had been “voluntary,” and that they had been taken to a nonprofit.
Newsweek: MAGA Gets Revenge on Kevin McCarthy by Nick Reynolds
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy proved his critics wrong after brokering a deal with President Joe Biden's White House to avert defaulting on the national debt in exchange for long-sought-after concessions on federal spending, work requirements for certain entitlement programs, and other conservative policy goals. Now, some of his party's most conservative members are making him pay for it. Voting Tuesday on a rule necessary to advance GOP legislation barring the Biden administration from banning gas stoves in new residential construction, 11 Republican lawmakers joined their Democratic colleagues to block the bill from moving forward in an apparent rebuke of a debt limit agreement members believed conceded too much to Democrats. If there was any doubt, all of the defectors on the gas stove bill had previously crossed party lines to oppose McCarthy's deal, with many at the time saying the sheer fact it had bipartisan support, as well as that of the White House, was a sign of a bad deal.
Guardian: As flood waters rise around them, Kherson residents cast blame for destroyed dam on ‘inhumane’ Moscow by Dan Sabbagh
On what should have been a Kherson street corner, Larysa Musian, a hydrologist, sits and watches the flood waters rising. The Dnipro River used to be 300-400 metres away, but after the dam at Nova Kakhovka was breached at 2.50am on Tuesday, it has burst into the city, flooding the first two or three blocks of the lowest lying quarter. Every half hour, Musian rises from her stool, carrying a square charcoal grey ruler. The water, she says, is rising “6 to 8cm every half hour” and is 3 metres above where it was before the dam burst. She phones through her figures to colleagues in the regional monitoring centre in nearby Mykolaiv. “When it goes back to 5cm an hour, and then four, we can start saying it has stabilised,” Musian continues, as she returns to her perch. But it is not clear when that will happen, not least because “we cannot say for sure how much water passed the dam, because it was controlled by the Russians”. For now, the river waters continue to rise visibly, in line it seems with Musian’s calculations, lapping farther up the dry streets, the latest avoidable tragedy to hit a city already blighted heavily by the 15-month war.
BBC News: Prince Harry: I couldn't trust anybody due to phone hacking by Jemma Crew, Dominic Casciani, Tom Symonds, and Sean Coughlan at the High Court
Prince Harry has accused tabloid newspapers of hacking his voicemails when he was a teenager, saying it made him feel he "couldn't trust anybody". Appearing in court in his case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) he said he has "experienced hostility from the press" since he was born. He is the first senior royal to give evidence in court in over 130 years. MGN's lawyer said he had sympathy for the duke, but denied journalists' actions were "all unlawful". Prince Harry arrived on Tuesday morning at London's High Court dressed in a dark suit and looking relaxed - dozens of journalists only had a matter of seconds to get their photographs as he made his way swiftly into the building.
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