CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCEABC7[1]/CNS, Saturday 7 June 2025: "Bass signed the spending plan on Friday, the last day she could do so under a City Charter deadline"; the budget covers fiscal year 2025-26, which ends 30 June 2026.
Facing a nearly $1 billion shortfall, Mayor Karen Bass signed Los Angeles's roughly $14 billion 2025-26 budget on the charter deadline, restoring more than 1,000 of the positions her April plan had slated for layoff.
CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCEABC7[1]/CNS: "Federal agents took an unknown number of people ... into custody Friday at multiple locations near downtown Los Angeles" - Friday 6 June 2025, the story being dated Monday 9 June.
Federal agents led by Homeland Security Investigations raided a Westlake Home Depot and a Fashion District clothing wholesaler on 6 June 2025, arresting workers and SEIU California president David Huerta and setting off the protests that brought troops to Los Angeles.
Baseline Road and Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85042Valley Metro
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEThe City of Phoenix[1] release is headed "South Central-Downtown Hub Light Rail Extension Opens June 7" and gives the opening as "Saturday, June 7, 2025."
Valley Metro opened the 5.5-mile South Central Extension and Downtown Hub, adding eight stations along Central and 1st avenues down to Baseline Road. The same day the system was restructured into an A Line running to Mesa and a B Line running from Metro Parkway in north-west Phoenix down to Baseline Road, the two meeting at four new downtown platforms.
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCEMetro's[1] June 6, 2025 release says it "celebrated the official opening of the LAX/Metro Transit Center station with a ribbon cutting today", and ABC7[3] reports "The station will officially open to the public at 5 p.m." (17:00 PDT = 00:00Z on 7 June).
Metro's $900 million station at Aviation Boulevard and 96th Street joins the C and K lines with 14 bus lines and the LAX shuttles, the first direct train connection to the airport.
CONFIRMED81% CONFIDENCEThe presidential memorandum is dated "June 7, 2025" and was published on whitehouse.gov[1] at 2025-06-08T02:01:52Z (7 June, 7:01 p.m. PDT).
President Trump invoked 10 U.S.C. 12406 to call at least 2,000 California National Guard members into federal service for 60 days, over Governor Newsom's objection, to protect ICE agents and federal buildings during the Los Angeles protests.
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCEStated as firm by the City of San Diego's[2] own release: "The San Diego City Council on Monday, June 9, approved a cost-recovery trash fee"; the meeting's clock time of the vote is not given.
In a 6-3 vote the council ended a century of free trash pickup, setting a $43.60 monthly fee for the standard 95-gallon bundle, well above the $23-$29 voters were shown for 2022's Measure B.
Grand Hyatt Manila, 8th Avenue, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig District 2, Taguig, Southern Manila District, Metro Manila, 1635, PhilippinesPLDT
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEPLDT's results disclosure covers the 'Annual Meeting of Stockholders of PLDT Inc. held on June 10, 2025', and the information statement set it for 'June 10, 2025 at 3:00 p.m.' (07:00 UTC) at the Grand Ballroom, Grand Hyatt Manila.[1]
PLDT shareholders approved the 2024 audited financial statements and elected 13 directors, including three independents, at the annual meeting at the Grand Hyatt Manila in Bonifacio Global City.
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCEThe Manhattan DA's[1][3] release says: "On June 11, 2025, a New York State Supreme Court jury found WEINSTEIN guilty of Criminal Sexual Act in the First Degree."
A Manhattan jury found Harvey Weinstein guilty of first-degree criminal sexual act for assaulting Miriam Haley in 2006, acquitted him of a charge involving Kaja Sokola, and deadlocked on the rape count involving Jessica Mann.
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEThe release is datelined "Austin, Texas—Jun 11, 2025" and PR Newswire[2] stamps it "Jun 11, 2025, 16:05 ET".
Oracle closed fiscal 2025 with $15.9 billion of fourth-quarter revenue, up 11%, and $138 billion of contracted backlog, and Safra Catz forecast cloud infrastructure growth of over 70% for fiscal 2026.
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCELA Magazine quotes Bass: "The curfew will be in place from 8 p.m. tonight until 6 a.m. tomorrow" (Tuesday 10 June); the mayor's release says "Effective today, Tuesday, June 17, the curfew is lifted".[1]
Declaring a local emergency after 23 businesses were looted, Mayor Karen Bass ordered an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew across roughly a square mile of downtown Los Angeles, bounded by the 5, 10 and 110 freeways, and lifted it a week later.
Cloud Art's donghua adaptation Zhu Xian continues into a third season, extending its wuxia-fantasy saga of rival sects, hidden loyalties, and the legendary Zhuxian Sword.
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCECalifornia DOJ release dated "Thursday, June 12, 2025": the Attorney General and Governor "today secured a temporary restraining order".[1]
US District Judge Charles Breyer granted California a temporary restraining order finding the federalization of the state's National Guard illegal and ordering control returned to Governor Newsom, a ruling the Ninth Circuit paused within hours.
How to Train Your Dragon is a 2025 American fantasy adventure film and a live-action remake of the 2010 animated film by DreamWorks Animation, itself loosely based on the 2003 novel by Cressida Cowell. The film was written and directed by Dean DeBlois, who co-wrote and directed the animated film.
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCEStated as firm, per GBH News (16 June 2025): Judge William Young ruled at "Monday"'s hearing that NIH acted illegally in terminating about 800 research grants; STAT's same-day report: "A federal judge deemed on Monday".[1]
Ruling from the bench in Boston, Judge William Young found NIH's termination of about 800 research grants on diversity and LGBTQ health "arbitrary and capricious" and ordered payments to resume, calling the record racial discrimination.
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEWilmar's announcement dated 17 June 2025 'refers to the press conference held by the Attorney General of Indonesia today'.[1]
Prosecutors displayed stacks of cash from Rp 11.88 trillion (about US$729 million) handed over by five Wilmar subsidiaries, the biggest seizure in the AGO's history, while their appeal against Wilmar's acquittal was pending.
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the MTA's[3] 2025-2029 Capital Plan has been approved so quickly by the CPRB".
New York's MTA won final approval for a record $68.4 billion five-year capital plan aimed at modernizing the aging subway, from new train cars to next-generation train control.
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCECohen Milstein's[1] case page: 'On June 18, 2025, Judge Gloria M. Navarro of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada granted final approval a $45 million global settlement against MGM Resorts.'
A federal judge in Las Vegas gave final approval to MGM Resorts' $45 million settlement with customers whose personal data was stolen in the 2019 breach and the September 2023 cyberattack that shut down Strip casinos, with up to $15,000 each for documented losses.
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCEStated as firm, per WBUR[1]/AP (18 June 2025): "A jury found Karen Read not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges Wednesday", Wednesday being June 18, 2025.
A Norfolk Superior Court jury in Dedham acquitted Karen Read of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the 2022 death of Boston police officer John O'Keefe, convicting her only of drunken driving.
1818, Cornwall Avenue, Kitsilano, Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, V6J 4M6, CanadaLululemon
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCEThe Canadian Press story of Wednesday 18 June 2025 says 'The retailer said Wednesday the affected employees are part of its store support centres'; the release gives no clock time.[1]
Lululemon said it was cutting about 150 corporate jobs at its store support centres after an operations review, weeks after it lowered its profit outlook over US tariffs.
Wilmar HQ, 28 Biopolis Road, Biopolis, Queenstown, Singapore 138568Wilmar International
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCEThe joint release is dated "18 June 2025" and says the parties "today jointly announce"; Wilmar's SGX filing was broadcast at 12:17:22 Singapore time.[1]
Wilmar agreed to take full ownership of PZ Wilmar, maker of Nigeria's market-leading Mamador and Devon King's cooking oils, buying out its UK partner for US$70 million in cash.
A unanimous Ninth Circuit panel stayed Judge Breyer's order, holding the President was likely to have lawfully federalized California's National Guard under a "highly deferential" review, so the troops stayed under federal command in Los Angeles.
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCEStated as firm, per the order itself (harvard[3].edu[1] copy): the header reads "Case 1:25-cv-11472-ADB Document 73 Filed 06/20/25" and "The Court hereby grants Plaintiff's Motion [ECF No. 62] and enters a preliminary injunction".
A federal judge in Boston barred the Trump administration from giving any effect to its 22 May 2025 revocation of Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, keeping Harvard able to enroll international students.
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEThe 8-K says "On June 20, 2025 ... entered into a 364-Day Credit Agreement" and a Three-Year Credit Agreement; the March 2026 8-K says a new five-year loan's proceeds "were used to fund the repayment in full" of both, on March 11, 2026.[1]
Salesforce lined up $6 billion of unsecured term loans, a $4 billion 364-day facility and a $2 billion three-year facility with JPMorgan as agent, to pay part of the cash for its $8 billion Informatica purchase.