A Quiet Surge in ICE Arrests, and Trump’s First Flight on Plane Given by Qatar
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From The New York Times, it's The Headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Thursday, July 2nd. Here's what we're covering.
So the air alarms went off a little before 8 o'clock last night. We started hearing air defenses firing around 9 or 10. It's a bit of a rat-tat-tat sound. And then we heard one very, very big boom. That was the start of a lot of booms over the course of the night.
My colleague Cassandra Vinograd is in Kiev, where Russia hammered the city overnight with deadly waves of drones and ballistic missiles.
The Ukrainian authorities were telling everyone to stay in shelters, stay in shelters, because the attack was underway. We heard a lot of explosions in the center of Kyiv, and this continued for hours and hours. While we're hearing all this going on, we're always monitoring telegram channels. And so images started coming out of an apartment building on fire. And then we heard that the roof of a hotel was on fire and the reports just kept coming in. Through dawn, we were hearing explosions and emergency workers and rescuers were already responding and rushing to respond to strike sites, even as more booms were being heard. Finally, at around 7 a.m., They lifted the air raid alarm. So we were under air raid alarm for over 11 hours.
And now there's a lot of smoke over the city this morning and you can smell the strikes in the air at the moment. It's this very specific smell after a strike.
What recent events have led to a surge in ICE arrests?
As of early this morning, Ukrainian authorities say at least 17 people were killed and dozens were injured. Cassie says many in Kyiv had been bracing for this kind of large-scale assault in retaliation for Ukraine increasingly hitting Russia. Recently, advances in drone production and technology have allowed Kyiv to launch bigger and bigger strikes against Moscow and against Russian oil infrastructure and supply lines. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the goal is, quote, bringing the reality of the war back to Russia, with the idea that exposing more Russians to the pain of the conflict will ramp up the pressure on Vladimir Putin to negotiate a deal. Putin, however, has dug in, saying that Russia's assault on Ukraine will continue.
In Iran, government officials are making their final preparations for a massive funeral for the country's former supreme leader, months after his death. Millions of people are expected to turn out to mourn Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in February at the start of the war. It's highly unusual for a burial to be delayed this long in Muslim culture, underscoring just how much Iran has been disrupted by the conflict. Now the government is hoping to present the funeral as a moment of national unity and a kind of show of resistance. One Iranian official said the funeral represents, quote, the beginning of a new era in the Islamic Republic. It's expected to be a week-long spectacle spanning at least five cities.
Tehran has declared a three-day holiday starting Saturday, with Khamenei's body lying in state, then proceeding through the city. The ceremonies and the body will then move to other cities across Iran and Iraq. Khamenei had many devoted Shiite Muslim followers in nearby countries, and one expert on Iran told The Times that bringing the ceremonies across borders is, quote, a way of symbolizing Iran's regional influence and power. Massive crowds are expected along the route, but many people in Iran still deeply oppose the regime.
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