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Overnight News Digest June 17, 2025 [1]

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Date: 2025-06-17

Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to) Interceptor 7, Man Oh Man, wader, Neon Vincent, palantir, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse (RIP), ek hornbeck (RIP), rfall, ScottyUrb, Doctor RJ, BentLiberal, Oke (RIP) and jlms qkw. OND is a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their own presentation styles and content choices, typically publishing each day near 12:00 AM Eastern Time.

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Chicago Sun-Times: National Guard siblings escort mother to ICE facility, where Reps. Krishnamoorthi, Jackson are ejected by Tina Sfondeles Wearing their Illinois National Guard uniforms, Axel and Andres Reyes arrived with their mother at a South Loop immigration office on Tuesday morning. The men, 19 and 24, watched their mother, who was born in Mexico and has been in the U.S. for more than 24 years, enter the office where at least 10 people were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement just two weeks ago in what federal agents called “executable final orders of removal.” And the brothers waited. “We fear her being detained and us not being there,” Andres Reyes said of his mother, who is seeking citizenship and is in the country on a work permit. “We can’t really do anything about it or get involved in that, but we just always want to be with her.” Ultimately, their mother was not detained. The brothers left with her around 1 p.m. The Reyes brothers came to the facility as U.S. Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi and Jonathan Jackson, both Illinois Democrats, tried to tour the building at 2245 S. Michigan Ave., where those detained on June 4 were sent text messages summoning them for a routine immigration appointment.

Roll Call: Senate passes stable coin bill by Mark Schoeff Jr.

The Senate passed legislation Tuesday, 68-30, that would establish regulations for stablecoins, concluding weeks of work on the bill and marking a significant step in cryptocurrency policy. Democrats were divided on the bill, with 18 voting in favor of it but a large faction remaining steadfast in opposition due to concerns over what they called weak protections for consumers, national security and financial stability. Supporters said the bill would bring regulatory clarity to the stablecoin market, catalyze a key advance in the payment system and strengthen the dollar’s position as the global reserve currency. Stablecoins are digital currencies pegged to a reserve asset— in this case, the U.S. dollar. The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., would require issuers to maintain liquid reserves of safe investments such as U.S. Treasury debt, insured deposits and overnight Treasury repurchase agreements. Depending on the nature of the issuer, the regulator could be a federal or state supervisory agency.

The New York Times: Bass Lifts Curfew in Downtown L.A. by Shawn Hubler and Jesus Jiménez

Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles on Tuesday lifted a nighttime curfew she had imposed last week in the downtown district of the nation’s second-largest city to quell protests over federal immigration raids. The lifting of the curfew was the latest sign that clashes between protesters and officers that had filled parts of downtown Los Angeles at times with tear gas and burning cars appeared to have reached an end and that tensions had eased. The early confrontations saw federal agents shooting into crowds of protesters with crowd-control munitions and protesters hurling rocks and bottles at officers and police vehicles. In recent days, the mood downtown shifted. A military presence remains around federal buildings, but intense battles between police and protesters have been rare. In a statement, Ms. Bass said the seven-day curfew had been a success, and had helped protect stores, restaurants and residents from “bad actors who do not care about the immigrant community.”

Minnesota Reformer: Vance Boelter voted in 2024 Minnesota Republican presidential primary, records show by Michelle Griffith

Vance Boelter, the man accused of killing DFL House leader Melissa Hortman and her husband and shooting and injuring DFL Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, voted in the March 2024 Minnesota Republican presidential party, belying online disinformation that has sought to paint Boelter as a leftist with ties to Gov. Tim Walz. The Reformer obtained a screenshot of Boelter’s voter profile in the GOP Data Center — a national database with voter registration information used to target voters — from a source with access to it, which confirms other reporting about Boelter’s support for President Donald Trump. Boelter, 57, was captured Sunday evening by state and federal agents in Green Isle, about an hour west of the Twin Cities, following a 43-hour manhunt. He’s facing several state and federal charges for the murders of the Hortmans, the shootings of John and Yvette Hoffman and other related crimes. Disinformation has circulated online since authorities released Boelter’s name, attempting to cast him as a disgruntled leftist and agent of Walz even as Boelter’s roommate and longtime friend told reporters that he was a Trump supporter in 2024.

BBC News: Trump's Iran dilemma exposes bitter split among Maga faithful by Bernd Debusmann & Max Matza

The dilemma of whether the US should join Israel in attacking Iran, or stay out of the offensive altogether, has exposed divisions among US President Donald Trump's supporters. The Republican president reportedly is considering helping target the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities, following a meeting with his national security advisers in the White House Situation Room on Tuesday. On the campaign trail, Trump often railed against "stupid endless wars" in the Middle East, but also maintained that Iran "can't have a nuclear weapon". The possibility that he might draw the US into another foreign entanglement has pitted the isolationist and hawkish wings of his party bitterly against one another.

Guardian: Starmer says he picked up Trump’s dropped papers to avoid security scare by Peter Walker

Keir Starmer said he rushed to pick up papers dropped by Donald Trump at the G7 summit in Canada mainly to avoid anyone else stepping forward to do so and being tackled by the US president’s security team. Speaking to reporters in Kananaskis a day after Trump fumbled some of the documents about a UK-US trade deal, letting a sheaf of papers tumble to the ground, Starmer said he had little choice but to bend down and help out. The UK prime minister said: “I mean, look, there weren’t many choices with the documents and picking it up, because … as you probably know there were quite strict rules about who can get close to the president. “I mean, seriously, I think if any of you [the media] had stepped forward other than me – I was just deeply conscious that in a situation like it would not have been good for anybody else to have stepped forward, not that any of you rushed to. There’s a very tightly guarded security zone around the president, as you would expect.”

AlJazeera: China’s Xi Jinping meets Central Asian leaders: Why their summit matters

Chinese President Xi Jinping reached Kazakhstan on Monday to attend the second China–Central Asia Summit, a high-stakes diplomatic gathering aimed at deepening Beijing’s economic and strategic ties with the region. The summit, which will be held on Tuesday in the Kazakh capital Astana, comes at a time when China is intensifying its outreach to Central Asian countries amid shifting global power alignments — and mounting tensions in neighbouring Iran, which is roiled in an escalating conflict with Israel. The summit will bring together the heads of state from all five Central Asian nations — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan — along with Xi. The Astana summit also carries symbolic weight: it is the first time that the five Central Asian nations are holding a summit in the region with the leader of another country. So, what is the importance of the China-Central Asia Summit? And is China battling both the United States and Russia for influence in the region?

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