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Overnight News Digest June 12th 2025 [1]

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Date: 2025-06-12

x i am not being pollyannish when i insist that the people who sign up do not sign up to advance a president’s domestic political agenda www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... — jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) 2025-06-12T12:45:58.331Z

x Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California. — Nikki McCann Ramírez (@nikkimcr.bsky.social) 2025-06-12T19:33:35.645Z

ICE protests live updates: Sen. Alex Padilla forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference

A U.S. senator was forcibly removed from a Homeland Security press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday as protests against President Trump's immigration enforcement raids continue to grow. Video shows Sen. Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, saying he has "questions for" Secretary Kristi Noem. He was grabbed by multiple men who pulled him from the room and into the hallway, where further video shows him being handcuffed while on the floor. Padilla's office said in a statement that the senator "tried to ask the Secretary a question, and was forcibly removed by agents, forced to the ground and handcuffed. He is not currently detained, and we are working to get additional information."

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x 🔥 @repstansbury.bsky.social : “The deployment of Marines against American citizens is a disgusting abuse of power. There is no legal basis for it.” — The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2025-06-11T20:13:24.733Z

x Sending in the military against the wishes of the people and their governor isn't law and order, it's an invasion. — God (@thegodpodcast.com) 2025-06-11T19:38:19.896Z

Severe storms to torment central US into Father's Day weekend

Slow-moving storms will cause severe weather to repeat over portions of the central United States from the Rockies to the Mississippi Valley through Sunday. While lightning is the most common threat to lives and property during summer thunderstorms, some of the storms that erupt this weekend will bring powerful wind gusts, hail and flash flooding, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. In a few of the strongest storms, a tornado can briefly touch down. "Even pea- to marble-sized hail can be quite damaging to crops and vegetation, especially when it's wind-driven or so much falls that it covers the ground," AccuWeather Meteorologist Brandon Buckingham said. "It can scar the fruits and vegetables and do enough damage to leaves to take weeks to recover."

Experts issue urgent warning as highly toxic plant spreads rapidly through almost every US state — here's what you need to know

Officials across the United States are warning people to be cautious when outdoors because poison hemlock is spreading rapidly through almost every state. From Tennessee to Montana, poison hemlock (Conium maculatum) is popping up, according to Southern California's KTLA 5 and Billings' Mix 97.1. NBC4 reported the plant's presence in Ohio, and King County in Washington has also posted warnings. This highly toxic plant can be fatal to humans if ingested, even in small quantities. Simply brushing up against it can cause skin irritations and dermatitis. During spring and summer, particularly from March to July, hemlock is in full growth and blooming.

x This headline about sums up how far America has fallen: Florida's Plan to Replace Migrant Workers With Children Falls Apart www.newsweek.com/florida-plan... — 💙🦋🌊 Political Americans 🌊🦋💙 (@politicalamericans.bsky.social) 2025-06-11T21:07:01.179Z

Scientists stunned as cameras capture footage of 200-million-year-old creature once thought extinct: 'The whole team was euphoric'

A surprising discovery has left the scientific community speechless. According to Inkl, a species previously believed to be extinct has been spotted. The unique 200-million-year-old species, famously named after Sir David Attenborough, was caught on camera in Indonesia. A group of researchers from Oxford University made the rediscovery, proving the existence of the Zaglossus Attenboroughi species, also known as Attenborough's long-beaked echidna.

Man Who Survived Air India Plane Crash Was Able to Describe the Tragedy from His Hospital Bed

Only one passenger survived the Air India plane crash, officials said. The airline confirmed in a statement that there was a "sole survivor" out of the 230 passengers and 12 crew on board Flight AI171, which crashed on the afternoon of Thursday, June 12, just after takeoff from Ahmedabad. The jet had been bound for London. The airline did not identify the living passenger beyond saying they are a British citizen "of Indian origin" who is being "treated in a hospital." That matches local news reports about a 40-year-old British man named Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, who said he survived the crash.

x An Air India passenger jet with 242 people on board crashed shortly after takeoff. The Boeing 787-8 crashed during the first moments of its flight from the northwestern Indian city of Ahmedabad to London. — WIRED (@wired.com) 2025-06-12T10:59:47.816Z

Air India disaster deals heavy blow to 'world class airline' ambition

The Air India plane crash in which more than 200 passengers were killed on Thursday has plunged the airline into its deepest crisis yet and will deal a heavy blow to its efforts to revamp its reputation and fleet. After taking the carrier over from the government in 2022, the Tata Group unveiled ambitious plans to reverse years of underinvestment in an ageing and outdated fleet and create a "world class airline", as CEO Campbell Wilson has repeatedly put it, on a par with rivals like Emirates. The turnaround has been aimed at tackling its myriad problems including persistent flight delays, disgruntled customers, a shortage of spare parts, delayed plane deliveries and years of financial losses.

Move over, Rolls-Royce – America’s first homegrown ultra-luxury vehicle in almost a century is here to steal its crown

Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Mercedes-Maybach… soon you’ll be able to add another, albeit far less recognizable, name to that list of the world’s most luxurious car makers. US start-up Dacora is here and wants a piece of the ultra-high-net-worth pie. Founded in New York’s Hudson Valley by MIT-trained engineers Kristie and Eric D’Ambrosio-Correll, the fledgling brand is the first of its kind to be founded and led by a female CEO, as well as the first to have the confidence to command $500,000 (around £370,000 / AU$770,000) for a highly-personalized electric vehicle without hundreds of years worth of history to back it up. The price point is set as such because Dacora claims each vehicle is “meticulously handmade” using American-sourced components and materials.

x Absolutely insane, not vetted, unqualified, and 100% biased against evidence based medicine — Alt Health and Human Services (@alt-hhs.altgov.info) 2025-06-12T19:38:18.534Z

NASA's Webb telescope glimpses coldest exoplanet yet found: What to know about gas giant

"Abnormal, chaotic and strange" are just a few adjectives astronomers are using to describe a perplexing planetary system 60 light-years from Earth. And for one of the two exoplanets orbiting the system's central star, you can add this descriptor: cold. Surprisingly frigid, in fact. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently turned its attention to the distant planetary system in our Milky Way galaxy to gather new and unexpected insights for a team of researchers. Using Webb's near-infrared camera (NIRCam), which shows reflected light, the team was able to image one of two known planets orbiting a star known as 14 Herculis.

Scientists make concerning discovery after studying changes in Earth's glaciers: 'One of the most serious and certain consequences'

Scientists in the United Kingdom examined a common climate trend that is becoming a significant cause for concern. As detailed by Yale Climate Connections, Jonathan Bamber of the University of Bristol explained that icy glaciers that cover large areas of land and extend into the sea across Antarctica, Greenland, and other polar areas grow and shrink with the seasons. This means that they get significantly smaller as temperatures rise during the summer months "and they gain mass in winter, from snowfall primarily. … That's always been the case," Bamber said. In contrast to the changes that naturally come over time, Bamber pointed to human-induced rising temperatures worldwide that come from the burning of fossil fuels, which emit planet-warming gases into the atmosphere, as the main reason why glaciers are shrinking more than they grow.

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