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      L.A. Mayor Bass Announces Curfew to Calm Protests

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      The curfew for downtown Los Angeles was set to go into effect from 8 p.m. until 6 a.m., starting Tuesday.The curfew affects one square mile in downtown Los Angeles, to stop vandalism and looting in the area.David Swanson/ReutersMayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles announced at a news conference on Tuesday evening that the city will begin imposing a curfew in downtown Los Angeles as part of its strategy to quell protests that were entering a fifth night.The curfew will begin at 8 p.m. Pacific time and lift at 6 a.m. The mayor said the police will arrest anyone who defies the order. The curfew is expected to last for several days.Protests have broken out in parts of downtown Los Angeles in the daytime and evening hours starting Friday night and continuing on Tuesday. Dozens of demonstrators have attempted to cross U.S. 101 and downtown buildings have received “significant damage” from graffiti and broken windows, Mayor Bass said.The number of daily arrests have increased throughout the week, L.A.P.D. Chief Jim McDonnell said. On Saturday, 27 were arrested; on Sunday, 40; on Monday, 114. On Tuesday, before evening protests began, nearly 200 people had been detained.California’s political leaders have urged the Trump administration to stop the immigration raids that have set off the demonstrations. Activists have become further inflamed by President Trump’s decision to send the National Guard and Marines to California over the objection of the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom.“I think it is important to point this out, not to minimize the vandalism and violence that has taken place there, it has been significant,” Mayor Bass said. “But it is extremely important to know that what is happening in this one square mile is not affecting the city. Some of the imagery of the protests and the violence gives the appearance as though this is a citywide crisis and it’s not.”Los Angeles instituted an overnight curfew when intense protests grew across the country in 2020 following the killing of George Floyd. Still, peaceful demonstrators defied those orders and continued marching. Activists and a city report criticized the Los Angeles Police Department’s violent responses to protesters at the time.There were also partial, intermittent restrictions on gatherings and business operations at night during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.Most recently, county officials instituted a curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. in areas where mandatory evacuation orders were in effect because of the catastrophic wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes in January.That was also the last time National Guard troops were deployed in Los Angeles. In that case, however, it was at the mayor’s request. More

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      Wildfire Near San Bernardino Mountains Prompts Evacuation Orders

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      The fire, which was burning near the town of Apple Valley, had exploded to 2,000 acres since starting on Tuesday afternoon.A wildfire that started on Tuesday afternoon north of the San Bernardino Mountains had exploded to 2,000 acres by nighttime, driven by high winds and low humidity, officials said. It had prompted evacuation orders and was threatening multiple properties, officials said.The vegetation fire was threatening multiple buildings in and around Apple Valley, a town of about 75,000 people about 60 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Firefighters were battling to contain the blaze, which was zero percent contained on Tuesday night.The San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department issued an evacuation order for an area about four miles wide on the edge of the town, warning of an extreme threat to life. A number of ranches appeared to be within the evacuation zone.The fire broke out at about 2:30 p.m., according to Cal Fire, and its cause was under investigation.“Fire behavior has intensified due to shifting weather conditions, including increasing winds and low humidity, contributing to rapid fire spread,” Cal Fire said in a statement.The area was experiencing wind gust of about 22 miles per hour on Tuesday night, according to the Weather Service. More

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      NYT Crossword Answers for June 11, 2025

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      Sam Koperwas and Jeff Chen go splitsies.Jump to: Today’s Theme | Tricky CluesWEDNESDAY PUZZLE — As I’ve mentioned several times throughout my Wordplay tenure, geography isn’t my strong suit. I can’t name states based on their shapes; I have trouble locating European countries. Give me a trivia question about an archipelago, and I will give you the wrong answer.Today’s crossword by Sam Koperwas and Jeff Chen played to that weakness (which may very well be your strength), and it was only by staring at the completed grid for a few minutes that I finally understood what I was looking at. One day, I will encounter a puzzle themed around my store of knowledge: pop and rap hits from the 2000s, the “Columbo” detective series and styles of pants.Today’s ThemeAt 18-Down, the constructors have inserted a [Natural dividing line on a U.S. map, as suggested by this puzzle’s circled letters]. Those letter clusters didn’t strike me as individually significant — but as a set, I realized, they represented state abbreviations: IA for Iowa, MO for Missouri, TN for Tennessee and so on.The dividing line between these states is the MISSISSIPPI River (18D). To the left are Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana. To the right are Wisconsin, Illinois, Tennessee and Mississippi itself (the river sits on its westernmost side). The states’ locations are also represented in relation to one another by their placements on the grid. It’s not just that they appear to the right or left of 18D — they also appear in locations representative of the U.S. map. (Visual accuracy may be table stakes in constructing geography-based crosswords, but it never fails to impress me.)Tricky Clues4A. Abbreviated clues solve to abbreviated entries. That’s one of many “must match” rules in crossword puzzles. [Co. badges, e.g.] shortens the word “company,” so the answer is a shortened description of company badges: IDS.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Detention and Deportation As Seen Through a Family Group Chat

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      <!–> –><!–> [–><!–> –><!–> [–><!–> –><!–> [–><!–> –><!–> [–> Livan (teammate) Feb. 15 8:55 AM 7:07 PM <!–> [–><!–>Carlos knew he fit the profile of a “criminal alien” the Trump administration had pledged to target. Not long after coming to the United States from Venezuela, he had been convicted of fraud. But he had served […] More

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      U.S. Court Agrees to Keep Trump Tariffs Intact as Appeal Gets Underway

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      The appeals court’s decision delivered an important but interim victory for the Trump administration.A federal appeals court agreed on Tuesday to allow President Trump to maintain many of his tariffs on China and other U.S. trading partners, extending a pause granted shortly after another panel of judges ruled in late May that the import taxes were illegal.The decision, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, delivered an important but interim victory for the Trump administration, which had warned that any interruption to its steep duties could undercut the president in talks around the world.But the government still must convince the judges that the president appropriately used a set of emergency powers when he put in place the centerpiece of his economic agenda earlier this year. The Trump administration has already signaled it is willing to fight that battle as far as the Supreme Court.The ruling came shortly after negotiators from the United States and China agreed to a framework intended to extend a trade truce between the two superpowers. The Trump administration had warned that those talks and others would have been jeopardized if the appeals court had not granted a fuller stay while arguments proceeded.At the heart of the legal wrangling is Mr. Trump’s novel interpretation of a 1970s law that he used to wage a global trade war on an expansive scale. No president before him had ever used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, to impose tariffs, and the word itself is not even mentioned in the statute.But the law has formed the foundation of Mr. Trump’s campaign to reorient the global economic order. He has invoked its powers to sidestep Congress and impose huge taxes on most global imports, with the goal of raising revenue, bolstering domestic manufacturing and brokering more favorable trade deals with other countries.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Thousands of Protesters March Through Downtown Chicago

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      The demonstrators carried signs denouncing federal immigration officials.Demonstrators in Chicago gathered at Federal Plaza and took to the streets to protest immigration raids.Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York TimesProtesters by the thousands marched through Chicago on Tuesday, stopping traffic in the downtown Loop and chanting anti-Trump slogans as they denounced immigration raids in Los Angeles, Chicago and other cities.Marchers, by turns upbeat and defiant, waved Mexican flags and held signs denouncing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Trump, reading “ICE Out of Chicago,” “One mustache away from fascism” and “Immigrants make America great.”They were also joined by protesters supporting Palestinians, wearing kaffiyehs and calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.“From Palestine to Mexico, these border walls have got to go,” the marchers chanted.In Chicago, a city with a sizable immigrant population, tensions have been high in predominantly Latino neighborhoods over arrests of undocumented people. In communities like Pilsen, a heavily Mexican neighborhood, some residents have been afraid to go to work or go shopping, worried that they will be detained by federal immigration agents.On Tuesday, Chicago police officers monitored the protests from the sidelines while clearing parts of downtown to allow marchers to pass. On some streets, motorists honked their horns in support and residents of high-rises took pictures from their balconies. Some protesters streamed onto DuSable Lake Shore Drive in the early evening.Cheryl Thomas, 26, said that she had joined the march “because of the injustices being perpetrated against brown and Black people.”“They are basically being kidnapped,” she said, adding that she doesn’t know if the march will make a difference. “Doing nothing sure won’t change anything.”The marchers tried to reach Trump International Hotel & Tower, a gleaming skyscraper along the Chicago River, but the police department blocked the way with officers and large trucks in the street.The demonstration in Chicago, a predominantly left-leaning city of 2.7 million, was far larger than the regular protests in the city in opposition to the Trump administration since January. For months, groups denouncing President Trump’s policies have held protests downtown, often joined by Democratic elected officials.“This is cruelty with intent,” Representative Chuy Garcia of Chicago, a Democrat, said at a separate protest this week. More

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      How ‘Ballerina’ Set People on Fire

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      Ana de Armas wields a flamethrower in “From the World of John Wick: Ballerina” and torches, well, a lot. Here’s how they made that sequence come to life. (And yes, the flames are mostly real.)When Chad Stahelski, best known as the driving force behind the “John Wick” franchise, was in high school he volunteered with his local fire department. Over the years the images from that experience stuck in his head, and the former stuntman started to dream up an action sequence involving lots and lots of fire.“I’m like, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if I combined fire and water, and we had a flamethrower fight?” Stahelski, a producer of “From the World of John Wick: Ballerina,” said in a video interview. “Two guys with flamethrowers and they are going to shoot each other.” Watching an early cut of “Ballerina” he realized he had the ideal vehicle for his fire dreams: It would be a showstopper for the star assassin, Eve, played by Ana de Armas.“How do I make her look smart? How do I make her look badass? It wasn’t about fighting more guys,” he said. “It’s like, OK, let’s give her something that really shows a skill set. And that’s when we went to fire.”The result is a bravura third-act set piece in which Eve torches her enemies in an Alpine village, going flamethrower to flamethrower with a massive villainous henchman named Dex (Robert Maaser). Instead of using digital flames, “Ballerina,” directed by Len Wiseman, mostly went for the real thing. According to Stahelski, 90 to 95 percent of the fires onscreen are “unenhanced real burns.”To accomplish this, Stahelski called in an expert in the world of movie fire, the stuntman Jayson Dumenigo, who developed a long-lasting protective burn gel for stunt performers that recently won him an honor from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Even Dumenigo was skeptical they could accomplish what Stahelski had in mind when he first heard the pitch.Ana de Armas uses a real flamethrower as a weapon in “From the World of John Wick: Ballerina.”Murray Close/LionsgateWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Palestinian Authority President Says Hamas Must Exit Gaza

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      Mahmoud Abbas gave assurances to President Emmanuel Macron of France, who has set conditions for possible recognition of a Palestinian state at a U.N. conference next week.Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, has called for Hamas to “hand over its weapons,” immediately free all hostages and cease ruling Gaza, the French presidency said on Tuesday after receiving a letter from him.The letter was addressed to President Emmanuel Macron of France and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, who will jointly chair a U.N. conference in New York next week to explore the creation of a Palestinian state. Mr. Macron has set a number of conditions for the possible French recognition of such a state at that meeting, including the disarmament of Hamas.“Hamas will no longer rule Gaza and must hand over its weapons and military capabilities to the Palestinian security forces,” Mr. Abbas said in the letter, according to a statement from the Élysée Palace. He added that the Palestinian forces would oversee the removal of Hamas with Arab and international support, an undertaking that is certain to provoke skepticism in Israel, and probably also in Washington.“Hamas must immediately release all hostages and captives,” the letter said, reiterating a demand that Mr. Abbas has made before.A bitter feud has divided Mr. Abbas’s Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the West Bank, and Hamas in Gaza for many years. The rival factions in the two Palestinian territories have defied several attempts at reconciliation, something that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has seized on to dismiss a two-state solution.Mr. Abbas condemned the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel that killed about 1,200 people in some of the strongest terms that he has used, calling it “unacceptable and reprehensible.”We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More