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May 30 0400 UTC Brief
In Philadelphia
A woman and four children, ages 3 to 6, were hospitalized after being struck by a driver in Philadelphia. Police have not released more details, but the injuries put the story firmly in the serious category, where it belongs.
Separately, three men convicted in a 1997 Philadelphia murder case have been freed after prosecutors and defense lawyers agreed the case had fallen apart. Jermal Shuler and Rasheed Turner were released Tuesday, and Marc Brittingham followed Wednesday morning after the case, built largely on a single witness, collapsed.
In New Jersey
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill has created a protected protest zone outside the Delaney Hall immigration detention center as demonstrations there continue to escalate. Former Border Patrol commander-at-large Greg Bovino also posted support for ICE agents involved in the clashes, telling them to “give them hell and live the moment!!”
In Washington
President Trump attacked a judge’s ruling ordering his name removed from the Kennedy Center, and said he had “no interest in continuing” what he called a “hopeless journey” unless he could decide the center’s future. In the same orbit, top aides are weighing whether to drop the administration’s nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund in exchange for help passing immigration enforcement funding, after several Republican senators privately urged the White House to abandon it.
In international security
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said no country, including China, should dominate Asia, and pressed U.S. allies in the region to raise defense spending. Ukraine separately warned of major Russian attacks on Friday or Saturday and told people to take cover, while the U.S. military said it killed three men in a strike on a suspected drug boat in the eastern Pacific, on what it described as a route used by designated terrorist organizations.
In education
More than 400,000 students in India have asked for copies of their exam papers and answer sheets after reporting marking errors in major school-leaving exams. The complaints point to a new digital grading system that was supposed to reduce human error, which is a nice theory, until the grades arrived.
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