In Case You Missed It – Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Trump orders 2,000 more guardsmen to LA, FBI adds new name to its Most Wanted List, Mexican Catholics call on archbishop to exorcise LA, Federal government announces $1,000 Newborn Baby Investments, RFK Jr. purges CDC vaccine panel, and more ...

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Trump Orders Additional 2,000 National Guardsmen To LA As Riots Continue

President Donald Trump’s administration has authorized 2,000 additional National Guardsmen to deploy to Los Angeles as riots continue across the city, adding to the more than 2,000 already in the city …

[The] U.S. North American Command announced that of those ordered to the city, around 1,700 are currently active as part of a coalition, dubbed Task Force 51, which also includes U.S. Marines that have been deployed to the city.

Read more at Zerohedge

Trump: 'Great Decision' to Send National Guard to Calif.

President Donald Trump says his administration "made a great decision in sending the National Guard to deal with the violent, instigated riots in California" following three days of protests in Los Angeles in response to immigration raids.

Trump deployed 300 National Guard troops to the city to disperse the chaotic protests, saying in a Truth Social post that "if we had not done so, Los Angeles would have been completely obliterated."

Read more at Newsmax

FBI adds one Los Angeles protester to its ‘Most Wanted’ list for damaging government vehicles

As tense anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles continue, federal officers have ramped up law enforcement’s response – and have added one protester to the FBI’s ‘Most Wanted list.’

Elpidio Reyna, 40, of Compton, has been accused of assaulting a federal officer and damaging government property during Saturday’s protest in Paramount, a city 30 miles south of Los Angeles.

Reyna allegedly threw rocks at law enforcement on Alondra Boulevard around 3:30 p.m. Saturday, “injuring a federal officer and damaging government vehicles,” according to the FBI’s Los Angeles field office. It was not immediately clear whether the officer was injured or the extent of the damage.

Read more at the Independent

See post from CA US Attorney Bill Assayli

Archbishop Gomez urges calm and restraint as ICE protests erupt in Los Angeles

Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, the nation’s largest Catholic community, issued a statement calling for “restraint and calm” as tensions in Los Angeles escalated over the weekend after protests sparked by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests of unauthorized immigrants turned violent.

“I am troubled by today’s immigration enforcement raids in Los Angeles, and I am praying for our community,” Gomez said in a statement issued June 6.

Read more at the National Catholic Register

Mexican Catholic couple call on Archbishop to use powers of exorcism in response to LA riots

Mexican Catholic couple Jesse and Anita Romero @vmpradio recently called on Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles to use his powers of exorcism over the city amid ongoing riots.

“With all due respect to Archbishop Gomez, with heartfelt faith, please come out with the Blessed Sacrament and do Chapter 3 of the Rite of Exorcism."

Watch at Instagram

Bring Down “The System,” Soros-funded Calif. School Board Chief Tells Graduates

Government-school graduates must resist the Trump administration’s policies and the supposed institutional racism of the United States by overthrowing “the system,” argued Santa Ana Unified School District President Hector Bustos in his 2025 graduation address. Critics, including fellow members of the SAUSD board, expressed shock.

The 24-year-old radical, who works for an extremist group funded by billionaire leftist George Soros and the globalist Rockefeller dynasty, issued a thinly veiled call to revolution. In clear terms, he urged the young graduates to bring down the American constitutional form of government in favor of hyper-racialized socialism.   

Read more at the Liberty Sentinel

Victor Davis Hanson: Gavin Newsom’s ‘Reckless’ Surrender of LA to Foreign National Riots (Video)

VDH: This weekend we saw rioting in Los Angeles against ICE for its efforts to apprehend illegal aliens, but Gavin Newsom gave a series of editorializations that I think have ruined his chances ever to be a serious national candidate. …

Nobody in their right mind would ever vote for you for anything after you went into a volatile dangerous situation and tried to pour gasoline on it by essentially saying you, the Governor, will not do anything to restore order or quiet, and you sided with people who are committing violence against their fellow residents of Los Angeles.

Watch at the Daily Signal

US – China Trade Talks Resume in London, Expected To Go ‘All Day’

High-level trade negotiations between the United States and China resumed on Tuesday, as both sides seek to ease tensions over technology exports and critical mineral shipments.

The two delegations met for more than six hours Monday at Lancaster House, a historic 19th-century government building near Buckingham Palace often used for major diplomatic events. ...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the talks are going well. He pointed out that the talks went “all day” on Monday and said he expects they will go all day Tuesday.

Read more at Breitbart

FBI busts second Chinese scholar at UM in widening smuggling probe

Federal agents have arrested a second University of Michigan scholar from China for smuggling biological material into the United States, according to a criminal case filed Monday.

The case against Chengxuan Han represents the third time in less than two weeks that a Chinese national with ties to the Ann Arbor university has been charged with federal crimes. Han is charged with smuggling and lying to federal agents about packages she mailed to the UM Professor Laboratory from September to March.

Read more at The Detroit News

Trump Announces $1,000 Newborn Baby Investments In ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

President Donald Trump held a White House roundtable on Monday to formally announce the “Trump Accounts” Pilot Program included in his “Big, Beautiful Bill.”

Under the “Trump Accounts” program, the federal government will mark the birth of every United States citizen with a one-time $1,000 contribution into a deferred, low-cost index fund, the White House said. The account, which will track the stock market, will be controlled by the guardians of the child.

Read more at The Daily Wire

In move called a ‘dark day’ for residents, NY Senate passes assisted suicide law

The New York Senate has voted to legalize medically assisted suicide, a move that one Catholic bioethicist told OSV News marked “a dark day” for the state’s residents, and the act will now head to Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul.

State senators passed the Medical Aid in Dying Act 35-27 in a June 9 evening session that, after two hours of debate, wrapped with a 35-27 vote in favor of the bill. In April, the measure had cleared the state Assembly by 81-67, just six votes over the required threshold of 75.

Hochul’s office told the New York media outlet Advance/Staten Island Live that the governor “will review the legislation.”

Read more at Our Sunday Visitor

RFK Jr. purges CDC vaccine panel, citing decades of ‘skewed science’

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has dismissed every member of the CDC’s top vaccine advisory panel, citing what he described as a “decades” of “conflicts of interest” and “skewed science” in the vaccine regulatory system. ...

Kennedy accused the ACIP of being “little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine,” claiming “it has never recommended against a vaccine.”

“The public must know that unbiased science guides the recommendations from our health agencies,” Kennedy wrote. “This will ensure the American people receive the safest vaccines possible.”

Read more at Lifesite

Simone Biles attacks women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines over boy on girls’ softball team

Olympic gymnast Simone Biles sparked controversy this week after attacking conservative activist and former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines, who criticized the presence of a male athlete on an all-girls softball team in Minnesota. 

The online feud began June 6 after the Minnesota State High School League posted a photo celebrating the 2025 girls’ softball championship team, which included one male player. The league disabled comments on the post, prompting Gaines to respond on X.

“Comments off lol,” Gaines wrote. “To be expected when your star player is a boy.” 

Read more at Catholic Vote

Southern Baptists consider move to overturn same-sex marriage 

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) – the largest Protestant denomination in the United States – is convening its annual meeting in Dallas this week and will vote on a series of resolutions addressing contentious moral and social issues. 

Chief among these is a measure urging efforts to overturn the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalised same-sex marriage nationwide. While the SBC has long opposed same-sex unions, this marks the first time the denomination is formally calling on representatives of its tens of thousands of member churches to work towards ending legally recognised same-sex marriage. 

Read more at the Catholic Herald

ABC 'Journalist' Suspended for Late Night X Rant Attacking Trump and Stephen Miller (Video)

Megyn Kelly is joined by Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, to discuss ABC News’ Terry Moran being suspended but not fired for his late-night rant on X attacking President Donald Trump and Stephen Miller, how the media’s private biases are becoming increasingly public, the intense hostility many journalists have toward Miller, why Moran won't be fired, and more. ...

Watch at Megyn Kelly YouTube

Christians Are Being Slaughtered in Nigeria as The World Looks Away

Christians are being slaughtered right now in Nigeria and the world, and the media, just looks away.

CBN’s Raj Nair is joined by Masara Kim, a reporter for Truth Nigeria, for the new breaking details.

Watch at Truth Nigeria

Islamic Appropriation at Mount Sinai: Egypt’s Assault on the World’s Oldest Christian Monastery

The Muslim world often gets away with things that would send shockwaves through the international community if anyone else did them.

On May 29, reports surfaced that Egypt was preparing to seize and potentially shut down the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine — the oldest continuously functioning Christian monastery in the world, nestled right at the foot of Mt. Sinai. Built by Emperor Justinian I around 550 AD on Mount Sinai, it has stood for nearly 1,500 years—making it centuries older than Islam. ...

Read more at The Stream

‘Eternity is before us,’ nun says to Pope Leo XIV in Jubilee Speech

The 66-year-old nun, part of a cloistered, contemplative monastery in the small state of San Marino in Italy, was the invited speaker for the Jubilee of the Holy See, part of the Catholic Church’s wider 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope.

“Eternity is before us. If we work for short-term and mediocre horizons, we work in vain,” Riva said in her June 9 meditation to Pope Leo XIV, cardinals, bishops, and other employees of the Vatican and Roman Curia. 

Read more at EWTNVatican.com 

Will Gaudí the genius become Gaudí the saint?

On 14 April, the late Pope Francis declared the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí a Venerable Servant of God, recognising his heroic virtues. In doing so, he honoured a mightily talented creative spirit and much revered eccentric.

Gaudí, who died a century ago, blended natural imagery and piety with extreme gusto, most unforgettably in the looming, asparagus-like towers of Sagrada Família in Barcelona. He absorbed stylistic precedents through descriptions of East Asian art by Walter Pater, John Ruskin and William Morris, as well as Islamic art – especially the Alhambra, the palace-fortress in Granada – as studied by the architect Owen Jones.

Read more at the Catholic Herald

Young American lads singing in front of the Chartres cathedral on Sunday. They travelled all the way from the US to France for the historic Chartres pilgrimage!

Enjoy @Boulevard Voltaire on X

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