(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Overnight News Digest: A POTUS can break the law if the courts say it was an official act [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-07-01 Reuters WASHINGTON, July 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court found on Monday that Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for any actions that were within his constitutional powers as president, but can for private acts, in a landmark ruling recognizing for the first time any form of presidential immunity from prosecution. Trump is the Republican candidate challenging Biden, a Democrat, in the Nov. 5 U.S. election in a 2020 rematch. The Supreme Court's slow handling of the case, coupled with its decision to return key questions about the scope of Trump's immunity to lower courts to resolve, make it improbable he will be tried on the election subversion charges brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith charges before the election. The justices, in a 6-3 ruling authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, threw out a lower court's decision that had rejected Trump's claim of immunity from federal criminal charges involving his efforts to undo his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden . The six conservative justices were in the majority, while its three liberal members dissented. This is an open thread where everyone is welcome, especially night owls and early birds, to share and discuss the happenings of the day. Please feel free to share your articles and stories in the comments. x Thanks to the Supreme Court, the next president will have the powers of a king. That’s not what the founders intended. Quite the opposite. Overturning Roe took power from women. Today’s decision takes power from all of us. — Stephen King (@StephenKing) July 1, 2024 BBC Hurricane Beryl has made landfall on Carriacou Island in Grenada, according to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC). The hurricane, which has regained strength in the past hours, has sparked warnings of life-threatening winds and dangerous storm surges. "In half an hour, Carriacou was flattened," according to Grenada Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell. A hurricane warning is also in effect in Barbados, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Tobago. Earlier, airports and businesses shut down and residents across the Caribbean were urged to seek shelter as the potentially devastating storm hit the region. Dozens of flights were cancelled across the region as Beryl approached on Sunday night, while leaders urged the public to heed warnings. CNN Hurricane Beryl roared across the Windward Islands on Monday as an extremely dangerous Category 4, delivering catastrophic winds, intense rainfall and life-threatening storm surge. And the storm has become “even stronger as it moves quickly across the southeastern Caribbean,” the National Hurricane Center warned Monday evening. “Fluctuations in strength are likely during the next day or so, but Beryl is expected to remain an extremely dangerous major hurricane as its moves over the eastern Caribbean,” the center said. Beryl made landfall shortly after 11:00 a.m. EDT on Grenada’s Carriacou Island in the Caribbean Sea with max winds of 150 mph. It is the strongest known hurricane to pass through the Grenadines, according to data from NOAA that goes back to 1851. BBC France's political rivals barely had time to digest the results of National Rally (RN)'s election success, before they had to kick-start a new campaign for the final vote. The anti-immigration party secured one in three votes in the first round of parliamentary elections. They have now set their sights on winning an absolute majority. RN leader Jordan Bardella, who hopes to be France's next PM, appealed to voters to make a choice between a left-wing alliance he called "an existential threat to the French nation" and a party of patriots ready to leap into action. PM Gabriel Attal, who may be days from losing his job, says the stakes are clear - to stop the far right winning an absolute majority. USA Today Three people are dead and two others suffered gunshot wounds during an early Monday morning shooting near the University of Cincinnati, police said. Cincinnati Police Department Capt. Mark Burns said five males were shot in the area of Highland and East University avenues, less than a mile from campus. The gunfire broke out about 2:50 a.m., Burns told the Cincinnati Enquirer, part of the USA TODAY Network. Burns told the Enquirer officers patrolling the area heard multiple gunshots, responded to the scene and found four victims shot, one fatally. A motive in the shooting was not immediately known. NPR BERLIN — It’s one of the most high-stakes two-round votes in the history of postwar France. At stake is whether Marine Le Pen's National Rally party will gain an absolute majority in the National Assembly — potentially putting the far right in French government for the first time since the Vichy regime collaborated with the Nazis in World War II. The results from the first round on Sunday were as follows: The National Rally earned 33.15%, about a third of the vote. The New Popular Front — an alliance of center-left Socialists, greens and far-left parties — placed second with 28.14%. President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance placed third with 20.76%. Voter turnout was high at 59.39%, as of the official count at 5 p.m. Sunday. Kyiv Independent Russian troops attacked the Volnovakha and Pokrovsk districts in Donetsk Oblast on July 1, killing one person and injuring seven others, Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor Office reported. A 19-year-old man was hospitalized with shrapnel injuries after Russia's attack on the village of Komar in the Volnovakha district, according to prosecutors. Presumably, Russian UMPB D-30SN bombs killed a 55-year-old woman in the town of Selydove, the prosecutors said. One man who was with her at the time was wounded. Russian forces also struck the town of Ukrainsk in the Pokrovsk district for the second time in a day with Uragan rocket laucnhers, injuring five people — three women and two men, the prosecutors said. Settlements in Donetsk Oblast suffer from daily Russian strikes due to their proximity to the front line. Heavy fighting continues in Donetsk Oblast as Russia seeks to occupy the entire region. Al Jazeera The two remaining candidates vying for the Iranian presidency, Saeed Jalili and Masoud Pezeshkian, offer voters distinct visions for the country’s future. However, experts say their differing views are unlikely to lead to a significant change in Iran’s foreign policy. Pezeskhian, a former health minister and surgeon, came first in Friday’s election but did not secure the 50 percent needed for an outright victory, forcing him into a run-off against second-placed Jalili to be held on July 5. Friday’s snap election was to pick a successor to President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash in late May. Pezeshkian stands out in the race as the only non-conservative candidate allowed to run. Deutsche Welle Israel issues evacuation order in Rafah and Khan Younis The Israeli military told Palestinians to leave parts of Khan Younis and Rafah following reports of dozens of rockets being fired into southern Israel from the same region. Hundreds of thousands of refugees had already left southern Gaza ahead of Israel's widely condemned operations in Rafah. More than 1 million people had sought shelter in the border city after Israel's offensive in the rest of the enclave. The evacuation order was issued over social media and in an official statement. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, said: "It just shows yet again, that no place is safe in Gaza, more efforts need to be made to protect civilians." "It's another stop in this deadly circle of movement that the population in Gaza has to undergo on a regular basis," he said. The Guardian, US A mistrial has been declared in the Karen Read case after a jury was unable to reach a verdict on charges that she murdered her boyfriend, a Boston police officer. The local district attorney’s office quickly issued a statement saying that prosecutors intend to retry the case, which jurors first began hearing in late April. Prosecutors’ statement thanked only the family of the late officer, John O’Keefe, “for their commitment and dedication to this long process”. “They maintained sight of the true core of this case – to find justice for John O’Keefe,” the statement said. A jury of six men and six women began deliberating on Tuesday as to whether to convict Read, 44, of the murder of O’Keefe, 46. Jurors indicated multiple times that they were deadlocked. But judge Beverly Cannone instructed them to keep deliberating. The Guardian, UK Labour will promise to take the lead on global efforts to tackle the climate crisis, filling a “vacuum of leadership” on the world stage and proving Rishi Sunak’s U-turn on net zero has been a “historic mistake”, Ed Miliband has said. The shadow energy security and net zero secretary said the UK needed to change course and was “off track”. Labour drew widespread criticism earlier this year from economists, industrial leaders and environmental campaigners when it cut its green investment plans by half, rolling back on a pledge to spend £28bn equipping the economy to reach its climate target. It has also been locked in combat with the Tories over the costs and benefits of a green transition and has given way in certain key areas. Miliband has pledged to stick with the Tories’ decision to scrap a ban on gas boiler sales from 2035. The Guardian, Australia The number of Palestinians applying onshore for protection in Australia has ballooned, prompting calls from refugee advocates for the creation of an “emergency uplift” visa rather than people fleeing conflict relying on tourist visas to escape. Home affairs department statistics for May revealed 119 people from the “Palestinian Authority” had applied for onshore protection visas, up from 66 in April, 110 in March, 88 in February and 33 in January. The Palestinian occupied territories were the sixth-largest source of onshore protection claims in May, behind China (314), Vietnam (182), Colombia (152), India (148) and the Philippines (129), according to statistics tabled regularly in parliament by the immigration minister, Andrew Giles. x March 1933 The Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. 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