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The Associated Press reports: Israel’s defense minister warned Saturday that “Tehran will burn” if Iran continues firing missiles, as the two countries traded blows a day after Israel launched a blistering surprise attack on Iranian nuclear and military sites, killing a number of top generals. Israel’s military said the strikes had also killed nine senior scientists and experts involved in …

Reuters reports: Iranian air defences shot down an Israeli drone in the vicinity of the country’s Fordow nuclear facility, Iranian media reported on Friday. Separately, Iran’s Press TV reported Iranian air defenses intercepted Israeli missiles south of Tehran. The Fordow site, which is dug into a mountain, is one of two nuclear sites where Iran was enriching uranium to near-bomb …

Boston’s ABC affiliate reports: A ground stop was in place at Boston’s Logan International Airport Thursday afternoon due to a plane off the runway. At around 11:55 a.m., JetBlue Airways Flight 312 skidded into the grass while turning off the runway after landing, according to a statement from the FAA. A ground stop was immediately issued for all flights departing …

NBC News reports: There appeared to be no survivors among the 242 passengers and crew aboard an Air India plane that crashed near a major international airport in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, the city’s police commissioner said Thursday. Footage posted to social media shortly after the crash and verified by NBC News, shows plumes of thick black smoke …

The New York Times reports: Israel appears to be preparing to launch an attack soon on Iran, according to officials in the United States and Europe, a step that could further inflame the Middle East and derail or delay efforts by the Trump administration to broker a deal to cut off Iran’s path to building a nuclear bomb. The concern …

The Guardian reports: Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys musician, songwriter and producer who created some of history’s most purely beautiful pop music, has died aged 82. As the leading creative force in the Beach Boys, Wilson crafted a variously carefree and melancholy sound that came to define the uncertain utopianism of mid-century California. Using ambitious studio techniques to give the …

Politico reports: Joe Walsh, the former Tea Party congressman, right-wing radio host and current Never Trumper, is eyeing a possible move to South Carolina. He says he’s considering a run as a Democratic Senate candidate against Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. Walsh, who became a registered Democrat last week, told POLITICO that Democrats have to take a new, asymmetrical approach to …

NBC News reports: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., introduced a bill with Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., on Tuesday to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, making him a rare congressional Republican to endorse the historically liberal cause. The Higher Wages for American Workers Act would set the nationwide minimum wage to $15 on Jan. 1 of the first …

Pitchfork reports: The legendary singer, songwriter, and musician Sly Stone has died due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other health issues. The leader of Sly and the Family Stone was 82 years old. Sly and the Family Stone were known for wearing flamboyant stage attire, as well as their adventurous blend of funk, R&B, soul, and Motown arrangements. …

Axios reports: Israel intercepted a Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and 11 other activists early Monday, per posts from the Israeli government and the pro-Palestinian group behind the drive. The “Madleen” yacht that also carried “Game of Thrones” actor Liam Cunningham was being diverted to Israel, and the crew was “expected to return to their home countries,” the Israeli …

Courthouse News reports: A Los Angeles judge rejected on Wednesday a motion by Starbucks to reduce or invalidate a $50 million jury award leveled at the coffee giant earlier this year over a spilled cup of tea that left a Postmates driver’s penis scalded and permanently disfigured. In 2020, then-25-year-old Garcia was picking up an order of three venti-sized “medicine …

USA Today reports: Just eight years after starting in a Los Angeles parking lot, Dave’s Hot Chicken has been acquired by private equity firm Roark Capital in a deal worth approximately $1 billion to enter its “next phase of growth and innovation.” A spokesperson for Dave’s Hot Chicken confirmed the acquisition to USA TODAY via email on Wednesday, June 4. …

Roll Call reports: The special election to complete the late Democratic Rep. Gerald E. Connolly’s term will be held on Sept. 9, Virginia’s Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin said Tuesday. Youngkin’s announcement sets off a just over three-month sprint to succeed Connolly, who died last month weeks after announcing that his esophageal cancer had returned. Connolly was in his ninth term representing …

CBS News reports: Amid the wave of pardons and commutations President Trump has doled out to some of his supporters and surrogates, one former MAGA loyalist in Idaho is fighting to return her pardon. Pamela Hemphill is one of the more than 1,500 people whom Mr. Trump pardoned earlier this year for their roles in the U.S. Capitol Insurrection. She has …

USA Today reports: Two hikers mistakenly thought a companion, the third member of their hiking party, was dead and reported the false death. However, they were later determined to be in “an altered mental state” after ingesting mushrooms, according to officials. On May 24, at 9 a.m. local time, a forest ranger responded to a call on Cascade Mountain in …

The New York Times reports: A Kansas man is facing federal charges after he grabbed a flight attendant on an American Airlines flight on Tuesday night, threw the person to the ground and tried to drag them up an aisle, federal prosecutors said. The man, Julius Jordan Priester, 24, of Wichita, Kan., was on a plane flying from Bradley International Airport …

Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reports: A flight from Detroit to Los Angeles made an emergency landing in Minneapolis Monday after one of its furry passengers became ill. Delta flight 694 departed Detroit around 5:30 p.m. and was scheduled to arrive at LAX about five hours later. But the Memorial Day flight ended up detouring to Minneapolis due to a medical …

The Associated Press reports: A 53-year-old British man plowed a minivan into a crowd of Liverpool soccer fans who were celebrating the city’s Premier League championship Monday, injuring more than 45 people as shouts of joy turned into shrieks of terror. The driver arrested was believed to be the only one involved and the crash was not being investigated as …

Politico reports: The executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme is urging that more aid be allowed into Gaza as Israel continues its renewed offensive on the territory. “Right now, we have 500,000 people inside of Gaza that are extremely food insecure, and could be on the verge of famine if we don’t help bring them back from that,” …

The Washington Post reports: The pilot of a small private plane that crashed in a residential neighborhood of San Diego earlier this week faced fog as he attempted to land, while runway lights and a weather alert system at the airport were not working, investigators said. The crash in the early hours of Thursday killed all six people on board, …