Today’s Big Story

Protests Grow Beyond California

Demonstrations in New York, Chicago, Atlanta and elsewhere in protest at ICE raids and deployment of troops

President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that additional protests against federal immigration policies could be “met with equal or greater force” than the 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines he deployed to try to quell demonstrations in Los Angeles. That’s because the protests are now spreading across the country, with demonstrations in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Omaha and Seattle.

Similar protests popped up in several cities throughout Texas and Colorado as well as smaller crowds in San Francisco, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., expressing the same anger over the Trump administration’s workplace immigration raids. Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said he would be sending National Guard troops across the state as protests entered a fifth night.

A curfew is currently in place in part of downtown Los Angeles, with police saying that dozens of protesters were arrested Tuesday evening. The curfew applies from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Pacific Time, and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass said it could be in effect for a few days. It only covers an area of about 1 square mile, and will impact fewer than 100,000 of the city’s 4 million residents, according to authorities.

California Governor Gavin Newsom had earlier Tuesday asked a federal judge to immediately intervene to limit Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in L.A., asking for an emergency ruling—however the judge rejected the request. Trump and Newsom have gone after each other amid the recent immigration protests in Los Angeles, with Trump even saying he would support arresting the Golden State governor.

But some GOP lawmakers are now starting to warn the White House to reconsider its all-in deportation push. Republicans are convinced they have a clear mandate to kick out hardened criminals and gang members. But differences are emerging on how aggressively ICE should deport workers, longtime residents and some people who've sought refuge from brutal regimes. But the Trump administration wants ICE to arrest 3,000 people a day, and dramatically boost their deportation numbers—that will likely require more workplace raids.

U.S., China Reach “Framework“ for Trade Deal

Officials agreed on rare-earth and tech trade. Now it’s up to Trump and Xi.

After two days of talks in London, the U.S. and China agreed late Tuesday on a “framework” to implement a trade deal struck last month, pending approval from both countries' leaders, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said. The framework is aimed at getting their trade truce back on track and ratchet down tensions between the world’s two biggest economies.

Lutnick told Axios while flying back from London early Wednesday that the deal is “great for America.” Lutnick said a big key was President Trump's decision to take a positive approach during his lengthy call last week with Chinese President Xi Jinping. He said the agreement reached in London would remove restrictions on Chinese exports of rare earth minerals and magnets and some of the recent U.S. export restrictions “in a balanced way," but did not provide details.

The fact that the two sides will now brief their leaders “is a clear sign that some disagreements or unresolved details still require internal discussion,” Jianwei Xu, senior economist at Natixis, told CNBC. The framework agreement signals a commitment to de-escalate and continue the dialogue process, but whether it will lead to “concrete agreements or substantive breakthroughs” continues to be uncertain, he said.

ChatGPT Went Down (Briefly)

The outage prevented thousands from using the popular chatbot

Have you noticed that ChatGPT has been lagging? The chatbot is currently experiencing degraded performance after a partial outage on Tuesday, according to parent company OpenAI and the website Downdetector, which tracks outages of major web services. Users on social media highlighted “too many concurrent requests” as the error message appearing when they attempted to use ChatGPT.

In addition to ChatGPT, the company’s video generator, Sora, and application programming interface for developers have all been affected. At its peak, Downdetector received more than 2,000 error reports on Tuesday morning. The outage seemed to last around 12 hours and with error reports now in the 20s not hundreds or thousands, Tech Radar thinks it’s safe to say the big ChatGPT outage of June 2025 is over.

But while ChatGPT was dealing with issues, OpenAI touted the rollout of o3-pro. OpenAI announced Monday that it reached $10 billion in annual recurring revenue, or ARR. Last year, the company had around $5.5 billion in ARR but reported a loss of about $5 billion. ChatGPT rolled out an update to Advanced Voice for paid users on Saturday. The feature improves “intonation and naturalness, making interactions feel more fluid and human-like,” according to the release notes.

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