Video shows military-style vehicle in what witnesses say was a California immigration raid

LOS ANGELES — A typical Monday afternoon in Compton was shattered for several neighbors who saw, to their surprise, a drab green military-style vehicle roll up. A person stood in the open hatch wearing fatigues, a helmet and what they said appeared to be body armor.

Residents who spoke to The Times said it was an immigration enforcement team using an armored vehicle for a raid in which a family including children was detained.

Video of the June 9 incident reviewed by The Times shows the person in the vehicle is holding a gun with what looks like a paintball hopper protruding from the top, a configuration that has been used to shoot non-lethal munitions including pepper spray balls during protests. At one point, the person points the barrel of the gun down from its vertical position; it's unclear whether any shots are fired.

The video provides a partial view of the vehicle from across the street. Only the top, its hatch and the armed person are visible, along with another piece of equipment that resembles a wall-breaching tool.

—Los Angeles Times

Massachusetts officials face heat for push to ban religious groups from renting school space

BOSTON — City officials in Salem, Massachusetts, are under fire as they push to ban churches and religious groups from renting public school space.

While the Salem School Committee moves forward with the proposal, a free speech and religious liberty group is threatening that it will sue The Witch City for “anti-Christian witch hunts.”

The Massachusetts Liberty Legal Center has sent a legal demand letter to the Salem board, warning them that a lawsuit is coming if they pass the religious group ban.

“I write on behalf of my client, House of Promise Church, to demand that you immediately cease any effort to discriminate against it or any other religious organization based on their religious beliefs and viewpoints,” wrote Sam Whiting, counsel of the Massachusetts Liberty Legal Center.

—Boston Herald

Nevada attorney general files lawsuit against YouTube

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced Monday his office filed a lawsuit against YouTube, alleging it harms the state’s youth.

The lawsuit makes similar allegations to previous lawsuits the office filed against Meta, TikTok and Snap, accusing YouTube of creating a “highly addictive and harmful platform” that targets Nevada’s youth, causing depression, anxiety and negative body image.

“One of the core responsibilities of my office is consumer protection, and there may be no more important consumers than Nevada’s youth,” Ford said in a statement.

He said Monday’s litigation is a necessary to step to ensure young people in Nevada are not exploited by social media platforms.

—Las Vegas Review-Journal

Status of Iran’s near-bomb grade uranium looms over IAEA

The United Nations atomic watchdog convened an emergency meeting to assess Israel’s attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, along with their disruption on oversight of the Islamic Republic’s stockpile of near-bomb grade uranium.

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s board meets Monday in Vienna, just days after a divisive vote that found Iran in non-compliance with its legal obligations. Less than 24 hours after the resolution passed, Israel began bombing the Persian Gulf nation’s nuclear sites, assassinating scientists linked to the program and striking residential areas of its capital, Tehran.

IAEA monitors remain in Tehran and will resume inspections “as soon as safety conditions allow,” Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said in a statement, which urged both sides to exercise “maximum restraint.”

The conflict has dramatically complicated the IAEA’s ability to account for Iran’s stockpile of highly-enriched uranium, which could quickly be turned into the fuel for 10 warheads, should Tehran’s government opt to pursue nuclear weapons.

—Bloomberg News