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Headlines for June 01, 2026.Thanks to our dedicated team of journalists, Democracy Now!has gone to where the silence is for thirty years.Please donate today to help us keep holding the powerful accountable and standing up for our democracy.Every dollar makes a difference.Thank you so much!Democracy Now!Amy Goodman Thanks to our dedicated team of journalists, Democracy Now!has gone to where the silence is for thirty years.Please donate today to help us keep holding the powerful accountable and standing up for our democracy.Every dollar makes a difference.Thank you so much!Democracy Now!Amy Goodman We rely on contributions from you, our viewers and listeners to do our work.If you visit us daily or weekly or even just once a month, now is a great time to make your monthly contribution.Please do your part today.attacked Iranian radar and drone sites and the island of Qeshm over the weekend, while Iran said it launched a retaliatory attack on a U.S.base in Kuwait.This comes as Iran’s Foreign Ministry claims that it is not currently engaging in talks with the U.S.on the details of its nuclear program, and that Iran and Oman are the only two countries that have a right to “exercise sovereignty” in the Strait of Hormuz.Despite this, President Trump claimed on social media that “Iran really wants to make a deal.” On Saturday, President Trump said during an interview with his daughter-in-law Lara Trump on Fox News that the U.S.should not have waged war on Iran.President Donald Trump: “You look at what happened with Iraq.We did so bad.That was such a foolish thing, what we did.Shouldn’t have been there in the first place, by the way, and shouldn’t have been in Iran, but Iran has the capability.If we didn’t hit them with the B-2 bombers nine months ago, they would have a nuclear weapon right now.” In southern Lebanon, Israeli troops captured the medieval Beaufort Castle over the weekend, raising the Israeli flag over the fortress in what the army described as its deepest incursion into Lebanon in over 26 years.That’s despite an April ceasefire brokered by the U.S.between Israel and Lebanon.This comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered strikes on southern Beirut, targeting Hezbollah.Overnight, Israeli attacks killed six people in a village near the city of Nabatieh.This is a local resident.Ali Jaafar: “Over there in the area where we are, the shelling is towards the Ali al-Taher hills, around the Beaufort Castle.We’re in these valleys over there, sitting in an orchard.You never know how the drones might carry out some airstrikes on us.They’re not sparing anyone.” In Gaza, Israeli attacks have killed two Palestinians and injured several others.On Saturday, Dr.Jamal Abu Aboun, head of the anesthesia department at Al-Yafa Medical Hospital in central Gaza, was killed in an Israeli drone strike that injured three other civilians, including a 2-year-old girl.Since last October’s U.S.-brokered so-called ceasefire, Israeli attacks have killed at least 922 Palestinians.The House Armed Services Committee has unveiled its proposed 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, which would see a record-shattering $1.15 trillion spent on the U.S.military over the next fiscal year.Among the bill’s many provisions is Section 224, entitled the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” The provision would bring the U.S.and Israel into an unprecedented partnership covering technology sharing, the co-production of weapons systems, and bilateral research and development across multiple domains of warfare, including biotechnology, autonomous systems, AI, cyberwarfare and more.During a closed-door testimony with the House Oversight Committee on Friday, former Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed she lacked real authority in overseeing the release of the Epstein files.Instead, she blamed her successor, Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal lawyer.Bondi also reportedly told committee members that Blanche was managing “the entire investigation” and determined which documents would be released — that’s according to Congressmember Robert Garcia of California, the ranking Democrat on the committee.A federal judge has ordered a temporary halt to the Trump administration’s efforts to set up a nearly $1.8 billion slush fund for Trump supporters who say they were wrongly investigated or prosecuted by previous administrations.The so-called anti-weaponization fund was announced by the Department of Justice last month as part of a settlement between the IRS and Donald Trump and his family, after the President sued his own administration for $10 billion over the leaking of his tax returns by an employee of a federal contractor.The Wall Street Journal reports more than a dozen Republican senators have privately urged top Trump aides to abandon the fund over concerns it could award millions of dollars to Trump supporters who attacked the Capitol and its police on January 6, 2021.Former Vice President Mike Pence also condemned the fund.Mike Pence: “Let’s get rid of this fund.I mean, I mean, it’s deeply offensive to me that you could have a fund that could even possibly compensate people who assaulted police officers or vandalized the Capitol on January 6th.And I think that’s broadly held by most Republicans.” In Newark, New Jersey, today marks 11 days since hundreds of immigrants detained at the ICE jail known as Delaney Hall began a hunger and labor strike demanding their immediate release.Protesters and organizers continued to gather near the facility Sunday after New Jersey State Police erected a barricade about half a mile long around Delaney Hall’s perimeter.Activists have denounced New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill for deploying state police against protesters, with some officers wearing riot gear.Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has imposed a nightly curfew around Delaney Hall until further notice.There were reports of more arrests Sunday night as some protesters defied the curfew.Baraka’s move came after another weekend of clashes between protesters and law enforcement.New Jersey Governor Sherrill said family visitations at Delaney Hall were partially restored Sunday after the Department of Homeland Security suspended visits, citing the protests.Many organizers and relatives of detainees said they were denied entry to the facility after waiting for hours.This is Karen Merino, whose uncle Gabriel Merino has been jailed at Delaney Hall since August of last year.She said her uncle has lived in the U.S.for most of his life after migrating from Oaxaca, Mexico, as a teenager.Karen Merino: “My uncle is starving to death in there.His molars have fallen out.It is chaotic in there.It is hell.… This is just like Auschwitz.It is history repeating itself.… My uncle is in one of the hunger-striking detention units.He is in there supporting this, but my uncle is feeling very weak, and I feel that he is dying in there.… He is in the detention unit where guards have beaten and assaulted detainees.” Karen Merino’s uncle Gabriel has been at Delaney Hall since last August.She was speaking to Democracy Now!’s María Taracena.We will have more on Delaney Hall after headlines.In Texas, police have arrested an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who faces charges of felony assault and falsely reporting a crime during an immigration raid in Minneapolis in January.Hennepin County prosecutors allege 52-year-old Christian Castro shot Venezuelan immigrant Julio Sosa-Celis in the leg through the door of a home, then lied by claiming the assault was in self-defense.Castro was booked into the Cameron County jail in Texas on Friday.If he challenges his extradition, Democratic Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota will have to make a formal request from Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott, a Trump ally.military says it struck a vessel in the eastern Pacific on Saturday, killing three