Record heat hits parts of Northeast
Compiled from news services
NEWYORK — A recordbreaking blast of summerlike weather has hit New York and other parts of the Northeast.
The National Weather Service says New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport recorded a sweltering 97 degrees on Monday, breaking its 1973 record of 95 degrees.
New York’s LaGuardia Airport reached 95 degrees, topping its 1988 record of 92 degrees. Central Park tied its previous record of 93 degrees, set in 1973.
In Philadelphia, excessive heat is forcing public schools to close early on Tuesday.
Meteorologist Joe Pollina says the heat is being caused by a large high pressure system over Bermuda that’s pumping heat and humidity into the area.
Officer’s case goes to jury
MINNEAPOLIS— Jurors deliberating whether officer Jeronimo Yanez was justified in fatally shooting Philando Castile last year will have to decide if Yanez panicked and ignored his training when he fired seven times, or if Castile caused the deadly encounter by ignoring the officer’s orders.
The Ramsey County jury of five women and seven men received the case about 1:10 p.m. CDT Monday after hearing closing arguments from the prosecution and defense, and began deliberations after taking a lunch break. Two people of color remain on the jury.
Raids of Iraqi nationals
Usama Hamama, an Iraqi-American supermarket manager and father of four, was dressing for church on Sunday morning when immigration authorities knocked on his door, handcuffed him and took him away.
Mr. Hamama, who received a deportation order for a gun charge more than 30 years ago, was one of scores of Iraqi nationals picked up by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in sweeping raids in Michigan and Tennessee during the past week as ICE processes a “backlog” of about 1,400 Iraqis the United States wants to deport because they at some point committed a crime.
The arrests come as the result of a deal between Iraq and the Trump administration this year, when Iraq agreed to start accepting deportees who do not have passports or other travel documents. The arrangement has provoked fear and anger among Michigan’s large Iraqi Christian community, which appeared to account for a large proportion of the arrests.
Gianforte avoids jail time
BOZEMAN, Mont. — Montana’s next congressman, Greg Gianforte, avoided jail time Monday after pleading guilty to assaulting Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs the day before he was elected.
The Republican technology entrepreneur was sentenced to 40 hours of community service, 20 hours of anger management counseling and ordered to pay a $385 fine for the misdemeanor.
Mr. Gianforte, 56, is expected to be sworn in to the state’s sole U.S. House seat later this month.
Cyber extortion strike
WASHINGTON— The cyber extortion spree of The Dark Overlord gang has accelerated, leaving a major television studio and a trail of U.S. medical and dental clinics damaged for their refusal to meet ransom demands.
On June 5, the group released eight unaired episodes of ABC’s “Steve Harvey’s FUNDERDOME” show and subsequently spilled 12,000 patient records from two Southern California medical and dental clinics. A Virginia clinic is now in its sights.