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June 11 2025

LA curfew; Newsom; Musk regrets feud; Oil output to drop; US-China trade thaw

Greg Loving

11 Jun 2025 • 6 min read

Gov. Gavin Newsom has frequently tangled with the president. MAGGIE SHANNON FOR WSJ

Downtown LA Under Curfew After Days of Unrest, Mass Arrests

California Governor Clashes with Trump Over Military Deployment Amid Protests

Musk Expresses Regret Over Public Feud with Trump

Government Forecast Predicts First Drop in US Oil Output Since Pandemic

Trade War Thaw: US and China Agree to New Framework, Easing Tensions

1. Downtown LA Under Curfew After Days of Unrest, Mass Arrests

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass imposed a curfew for parts of Los Angeles, after protests over immigration enforcement in California roiled the city’s downtown area. Bass said the curfew will run from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. local time, and cover roughly a square mile of downtown. She said she expects it to last several days. “The curfew is a necessary measure to protect lives and safeguard property following several consecutive days of growing unrest throughout the city,” Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said at a news briefing announcing the curfew. “Since Saturday, we’ve seen a concerning escalation and unlawful and dangerous behavior.” McDonnell said arrests have risen each day since Saturday, peaking at nearly 200 people arrested on Tuesday. Of the 197 people arrested Tuesday, 130 were detained near the Metropolitan Detention Center downtown and 67 were arrested after occupying the 101 freeway, McDonnell said. After the curfew went into effect, the Los Angeles Police Department said on X that multiple groups continued to congregate in the curfew zone and “mass arrests are being initiated.”

WSJ

2. California Governor Clashes with Trump Over Military Deployment Amid Protests

A. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California condemned President Trump’s deployment of the military in Los Angeles as a “brazen abuse of power” in a televised speech on Tuesday, as protesters across the United States expressed anger over the Trump administration’s workplace immigration raids. Mr. Newsom spoke shortly before an all-night curfew imposed by Mayor Karen Bass took effect at 8 p.m. in downtown Los Angeles, forcing crowds to mostly disperse from areas where police and protesters have clashed for days.

B. LOS ANGELES—Gavin Newsom is, once again, in the eye of a tempest. “It is a profoundly important moment,” the California governor said in an interview Monday evening as protesters massed in the streets and U.S. Marines made their way to the state on the president’s orders. It is also an important moment for Newsom, widely seen as a top potential Democratic presidential candidate, who has leaned into the conflict to position himself as the leader of the opposition. “Seven hundred brave men and women are being used as pawns in Trump’s war on the Constitution,” he told The Wall Street Journal of the Marine deployment, speaking from the Los Angeles County emergency operations center where he has been holed up helping coordinate the protest response. “Our Founding Fathers didn’t live and die for this.”

Editors note: as a neutral observer, I can confidently say this pitch will not be effective in the Heartland

NYT, WSJ

3. Musk Expresses Regret Over Public Feud with Trump

Elon Musk appeared to row back his war of words with President Trump nearly a week after the pair traded insults in a dramatic and public falling out. “I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week,” Musk wrote in a post on X overnight. “They went too far.” Simmering tensions between Musk and Trump burst into the open last week, signaling the rupturing of a relationship that had been one of the most consequential in modern American politics.

WSJ

4. Government Forecast Predicts First Drop in US Oil Output Since Pandemic

US oil production will fall next year for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a government forecast that will cast new doubt on Donald Trump’s “energy dominance” agenda. The Energy Information Administration, a division of the energy department, on Tuesday said US oil production would drop from a record high of 13.5mn barrels a day now to about 13.3mn barrels by the end of next year, as slumping oil prices rattle the sector. “With fewer active drilling rigs, we forecast US operators will drill and complete fewer wells through 2026,” the EIA said in a monthly report published on Tuesday. Active rigs had “decreased by much more” than expected in a previous report, it said. The gloomy official forecast comes just months after Trump was re-elected following a presidential campaign in which he vowed to “unleash” American drilling, promote more oil production, and drive down energy prices. Soaring shale production in the past two decades made the US the world’s biggest oil and gas producer, upending global commodity markets while feeding domestic industry with a steady stream of cheap energy.

5. Trade War Thaw: US and China Agree to New Framework, Easing Tensions

The US and China have agreed to a framework that restores a truce in their trade war after two days of marathon negotiations in London. The breakthrough late on Tuesday followed an agreement in Geneva last month aimed at easing trade tensions between the world’s two economic superpowers, which had faltered over differences regarding Chinese rare earth exports and US export controls. The US team, which included commerce secretary Howard Lutnick and US trade representative Jamieson Greer, will return to Washington to present the deal to President Donald Trump, Lutnick said. While not providing further details, he added that he expected that “the topic of rare earth minerals and magnets . . . will be resolved in this framework”. Lutnick said that export restrictions applied by the US “when those rare earths were not coming” would also be lifted “as President Trump said, in a balanced way”. A senior White House official indicated earlier in the week that Trump could ease restrictions on selling chips to China if Beijing agreed to speed up the export of rare earths.

June 11, 1963: University of Alabama desegregated

Two African American students, Vivian Malone and James A. Hood, register for classes at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on June 11, 1963, after federalized Alabama National Guard troops force Alabama Governor George Wallace to halt his blockade and submit to a judge’s order ending segregation at the university.

On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy federalized National Guard troops and deployed them to the University of Alabama to force its desegregation. The next day, Governor Wallace yielded to the federal pressure, and Malone and Hood were able to complete their enrollments. In September of the same year, Wallace again attempted to block the desegregation of an Alabama public school—this time Tuskegee High School—but President Kennedy once again employed his executive authority and federalized National Guard troops. Wallace had little choice but to yield.