What Happened Today - June 8

June 8, 2025

GovBrief Intensity Score 72 🟢

Low activity. Things are quieter than usual.

This is an indexed score based on news activity.
100 = our permanent historical baseline.
Today is 28% below normal.
Recent trend: 47% below the long-term baseline.

Previous 5 Days 112 | 168 | 223 | 192 | 144

7 Day Trending Story Categories: Federal Personnel, Courts, Criminal Justice
7 Day Trending Topics: ICE, California, DHS

Yesterday’s Most Popular Story

Newsom threatens to hold California’s $80 billion federal tax surplus after Trump threatens university funding cuts.

🚨 The collision is coming fast.

Protests erupted on Sunday from Los Angeles to San Francisco while Trump threatens military force and the Insurrection Act. In six days, US Army tanks roll through Washington for his birthday parade on the exact same day as the “No Kings” rallies, while his economic wrecking ball bill picks up speed to crush working families.

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Fighting Back Human Rights Protest

World Pride 2025 concludes in Washington with defiant protest march toward the White House as LGBTQ+ activists prepare for renewed fight against Trump’s second-term policies.

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Immigration Media

ABC suspends veteran correspondent Terry Moran indefinitely after he called Stephen Miller a “world-class hater” in a lengthy late-night post reacting to the violent LA protests over Miller’s immigration policies.

June 8, 2025

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Data Immigration

Trump eliminates Biden’s digital identity and software security requirements in new order, claiming digital identity tools would help illegal immigrants improperly access public benefits.

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Courts Federal Personnel Media

Federal judge on Sunday declines to block Trump’s firing of three public broadcasting board members but acknowledges Congress intended to limit presidential control over the corporation.

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Media Military

Army posts video showing “Hang Fauci & Bill Gates” graffiti on railroad flatcar carrying tanks to Trump’s birthday parade, leaving it up for over 24 hours and 700,000 views before removing it after media inquiry.

June 8, 2025

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Federal Personnel Immigration Military Protest

Trump heads to Camp David for military meetings while refusing to rule out invoking the Insurrection Act and threatening protesters who spit on officers will “get hit very hard.”

June 8, 2025

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Criminal Justice Immigration Protest

Hundreds of anti-ICE protesters in San Francisco smash police car windows near Union Square, vandalize Waymo and Financial District buildings during solidarity demonstrations with Los Angeles activists.

June 8, 2025

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Criminal Justice Immigration Protest

Anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles block the 101 freeway, set cars ablaze and attack police with rocks and fireworks on the third day of demonstrations, overwhelming officers who respond with tear gas and rubber bullets.

June 8, 2025

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Foreign Relations Human Rights

Trump’s travel ban targeting citizens from 19 countries including Haiti and Venezuela, whose citizens he demonized during his campaign, takes effect with full restrictions on 12 nations and partial bans on seven others.

June 8, 2025

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What Happened Today – June 8

Yesterday’s Most Popular Story

World Pride 2025 concludes in Washington with defiant protest march toward the White House as LGBTQ+ activists prepare for renewed fight against Trump’s second-term policies.

ABC suspends veteran correspondent Terry Moran indefinitely after he called Stephen Miller a “world-class hater” in a lengthy late-night post reacting to the violent LA protests over Miller’s immigration policies.

Trump eliminates Biden’s digital identity and software security requirements in new order, claiming digital identity tools would help illegal immigrants improperly access public benefits.

Federal judge on Sunday declines to block Trump’s firing of three public broadcasting board members but acknowledges Congress intended to limit presidential control over the corporation.

Army posts video showing “Hang Fauci & Bill Gates” graffiti on railroad flatcar carrying tanks to Trump’s birthday parade, leaving it up for over 24 hours and 700,000 views before removing it after media inquiry.

Trump heads to Camp David for military meetings while refusing to rule out invoking the Insurrection Act and threatening protesters who spit on officers will “get hit very hard.”

Hundreds of anti-ICE protesters in San Francisco smash police car windows near Union Square, vandalize Waymo and Financial District buildings during solidarity demonstrations with Los Angeles activists.

Anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles block the 101 freeway, set cars ablaze and attack police with rocks and fireworks on the third day of demonstrations, overwhelming officers who respond with tear gas and rubber bullets.

Trump’s travel ban targeting citizens from 19 countries including Haiti and Venezuela, whose citizens he demonized during his campaign, takes effect with full restrictions on 12 nations and partial bans on seven others.