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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. In Los Angeles, there have been skirmishes with police after ICE raids detained several dozen people. Steve Futterman reports. According to ICE, 44 people were detained in several surprise Friday morning raids. A number of the raids took place in L.A.'s Garment District. It comes as ICE agents throughout the nation have increased enforcement. By the late afternoon, several hundred demonstrators gathered in downtown to protest the detainments.

At one point, as some protesters moved close to the federal detention center, police used tear gas and flashbangs to disperse the crowd. There was a social media exchange between L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. Bass said, we will not stand for this. Miller responded, you have no say in this. Federal law will be enforced. For NPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles. After first insisting that it did not have the power to bring Kilmar Obrego Garcia back from an El Salvador prison after he was wrongfully deported. The Trump administration has now returned him to the U.S.

He's in prison after being hit with federal charges as Xumenobustio tells us. A grand jury in Tennessee returned a sealed indictment charging him with alien smuggling and conspiracy to commit alien smuggling. Attorney General Bondi said that the U.S. presented Salvadoran authorities with an arrest warrant for Abrego Garcia and they agreed to return him to the United States. She said that the grand jury found that over the past nine years, Abrego Garcia played a significant role in an alien smuggling ring. The indictment alleges that he made over 100 trips transporting people without legal status.

That's NPR's Samantha Bustillo. Hiring in the U.S. slowed last month. The Labor Department says employers added more jobs in May, but fewer than in April. But those numbers still beat Wall Street forecasts, and PR's Scott Horsley has more. U.S. employers added 139,000 jobs in May, down slightly from the previous month. Job gains for March and April were revised down by a total of 95,000 jobs. There was a sizable drop in the workforce last month as 625,000 people stopped working or looking for work. The unemployment

rate was unchanged at 4.2%. Many of the jobs added in May were in health care and hospitality. The manufacturing sector cut 8,000 jobs last month and retail employment fell by 6,500. Average hourly wages in May were up 3.9 percent from a year ago. Wages have been climbing faster than prices for the last two years. Scott Horsley, MPR News, Washington. Wildfires in the Canadian province of Manitoba have forced another 1,000 people to leave their homes this weekend. The town of Snow Lake issued a mandatory evacuation order on Friday. Manitoba has 27 fires burning across the province and eight fires still remain

out of control. Some 19,000 people have now been forced from their homes in Manitoba since the fires began burning. You're listening to NPR News. A former police chief who later became a convicted killer known as the Devil of the Ozarks has been captured. Grant Harden had escaped from an Arkansas prison almost two weeks ago. He was serving lengthy sentences for murder and rape. He had once served as police chief in the small town of Gateway near the Arkansas-Missouri border.

For the first time since the West Texas measles outbreak began, the State Health Department has no new cases to report this week. From Texas Public Radio, Bonnie Petrie has our update. Dr. Jennifer Shuford, Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, says it appears the outbreak may finally be losing steam. We know that there is lots of measles transmitting all over the United States and around the world. And so it just takes one person to get into an under-vaccinated community to cause another outbreak. But thankfully, this large outbreak that we've been tracking in West Texas does seem to be on the decline.

The confirmed measles case count tied to this outbreak is 742. 94 people have been hospitalized. Two unvaccinated, otherwise healthy children have died. For NPR News, I'm Monty Petri. Mia Scott hit a grand slam on Friday night as Texas beat Texas Tech 10 to four in game three of the Women's College World Series. The win gave them their first ever national title. Teagan Cavan claimed the win, while Texas Tech's starting pitcher was pulled after one

inning after giving up five runs on five hits. She only threw 25 pitches. You're listening to NPR News.