đŸ”” Top CNN Reporter Out

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Citizen Frank
June 02, 2025

Good morning. It’s Monday, June 2.

A CNN correspondent at the center of a nefarious report that cost the network at least $5 million for defaming a US Navy veteran is leaving the struggling network.

Chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt landed in hot water earlier this year after a Florida jury ruled that he defamed Zachary Young in 2021 by claiming the former soldier illegally exploited Afghans during the Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal from the country.

Sources told former CNN media correspondent Oliver Darcy that Marquardt was fired — citing “editorial differences” with his higher-ups at the network.

 
 

After considering them at 15 consecutive conferences, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up two challenges to gun-control laws in Maryland and Rhode Island. In each case, three justices indicated that they would have granted the petition for review, leaving the challengers one vote short of the four needed for the court to hear oral arguments and weigh in on the merits of their case.

In Snope v. Brown, the court declined to decide whether Maryland’s ban on semiautomatic rifles, such as the AR-15 and the AK-47, violates the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms. Nine other states and the District of Columbia have similar bans.

The Maryland legislature enacted the law in 2013, in the wake of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Ct., in which a gunman killed 20 first graders and six adults. The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit rejected a challenge to the law in 2017.

President Donald Trump boasted of the United States’s stockpile of weapons while warning that Iran would not be allowed to enrich uranium, a major sticking point in negotiations.

Iranian nuclear negotiations appear to be losing momentum, with a senior Iranian official on the negotiating team telling Reuters that Tehran is poised to reject the latest U.S. offer. Trump vented his frustrations in a post on Truth Social, blaming former President Joe Biden’s administration for the conundrum and contradicting reports that the U.S. would allow limited uranium enrichment.

“The AUTOPEN should have stopped Iran a long time ago from ‘enriching.’ Under our potential Agreement — WE WILL NOT ALLOW ANY ENRICHMENT OF URANIUM!” he wrote.

A man accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at pro-Israel demonstrators on Sunday has been charged with a federal hate crime, as the number of injured victims rose to 12, Boulder District Attorney Michael Dougherty said Monday.

No victims died as of Monday afternoon following an attack in Boulder, Colorado, which is being investigated as terrorism, local police said, though multiple people were left with burns and at least two remain in the hospital, according to local authorities.

Federal hate crime charges carry a sentence of up to 10 years. But when the offense includes attempted murder — as in this case — the statutory maximum jumps to life in prison, Acting U.S. Attorney J. Bishop Grewell for the District of Colorado said at Monday afternoon briefing.

Imane Khelif’s sex-test results from the 2023 World Championships have been published for the first time, with the medical report appearing to indicate that the boxer is biologically male.

Just 36 hours after World Boxing ruled that Khelif, a hugely controversial Olympic champion in women’s boxing at last summer’s Paris Games, would need to undergo sex screening to be eligible for any future appearances in the female category, the document at the heart of this extraordinary saga was released into the public domain.

Alan Abrahamson, the American journalist who disclosed in Paris how the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had been warned more than a year earlier that Khelif had the DNA of a “male”, produced the result of a test carried out on the boxer in New Delhi in March 2023, triggering the boxer’s disqualification from the championships that year.

Mount Etna, the rambunctious volcano on the Italian island of Sicily, grumbled back to life on Monday, spewing hot ash and lava in a pyroclastic flow, the nation’s volcano monitoring body said. There were no reports of any risk to the local population, which is accustomed to Etna’s frequent eruptions, or to air travel.

The volcano department, which is run by Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology, noted on Monday “explosions of increasing intensity” that it said were “almost continuous.”

By noon local time, INGV Vulcani said in a social media post that the “explosive activity from the Southeast Crater has become a lava fountain,” and infrared images posted by the group showed the flow of lava down the mountain’s face.

A federally-funded education program warned teachers that babies could be racist and pushed other forms of DEI and transgender ideologies on educators, The Daily Wire has reported.

A new report from the Functional Government Initiative (FGI) reveals just how deeply woke ideology has permeated Head Start, a government program that provides education and other services to children three to five. Head Start held webinars for teachers on “anti-bias and anti-racism strategies Head Start programs can use in their practices, services, and systems.”

One webinar warned that even infants “discriminate between faces by race” and that “babies can categorize people by gender and race.”

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