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Fire kills 12 people who were reportedly locked up inside drug rehab center in Mexico
Why Trump is pushing military help for Mexico to help fight cartels Why Trump is pushing military help for Mexico Why Trump is pushing military help for Mexico A fire in a drug rehabilitation center in the violence-plagued Mexican state of Guanajuato killed 12 people and injured at least three others, authorities said Sunday. The fire broke out early Sunday in the town of San Jose Iturbe, where the municipal government said it was still investigating what caused the deadly blaze. "We express our solidarity with the families of those who have been killed while they tried to overcome addictions," the municipal government said in a statement, adding that it will help to pay for the funeral expenses of those killed. Experts were gathering evidence and interviewing witnesses to establish "the reasons for the tragic incident," the Guanajuato state prosecutor's office said. Mexican media outlets reported that the victims of the fire had been locked up inside the rehab center. A woman lits candles at the rehabilitation center where 12 people died due to a fire in San Jose Iturbide community, Guanajuato state, Mexico on June 1, 2025. MARIO ARMAS/AFP via Getty Images Mexico's privately run drug rehabilitation centers are often abusive, clandestine, unregulated and underfunded. They have been the targets of similar attacks in the past. The industrial and agricultural state of Guanajuato has for years been the scene of a bloody turf battle between the Jalisco New Generation cartel and a local gang, the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel. Guanajuato has the highest number of homicides of any state in Mexico. Just last month, investigators found 17 bodies during a search for missing persons in an abandoned house in Guanajuato. Days before that, seven people, including children, were gunned down in the same region. Mexican drug gangs have killed suspected street-level dealers from rival gangs sheltering at rehab facilities in the past. Officials also believe cartels sometimes execute patients who refuse to join their ranks. In April, gunmen shot up a drug rehab clinic in the troubled Sinaloa state, killing at least nine people. In July 2022, six people were shot dead at a drug rehab center near the western Mexican city of Guadalajara. Two years before that, heavily armed men stormed a drug rehab center in the central city of Irapuato and killed 27 people. In 2010, 19 people were killed in an attack on a rehab center in Chihuahua, a city in northern Mexico. More than a dozen other attacks on such facilities occurred in the decade between those massacres. Agence France-Presse contributed to this report.
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'We see you': In Trump-era Washington, World Pride 2025 organizers aim to bring 'hope' to LGBTQ+ community
Pride Month in the nation's capital this year is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of participants across three weeks of programming consisting of over 300 events for World Pride 2025, an annual international festival that celebrates the LGBTQ+ community. Organizers for the global celebration this year told ABC News they are emphasizing messages of resistance, resilience and, above all, hope at a time when LGBTQ+ individuals, particularly the transgender community, are being targeted on various fronts by the Trump administration. World Pride 2025 makes its way back to the U.S. for the first time since 2019, when organizers chose New York City to host the festival the same year as the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. World Pride 2025 events began May 17 and will culminate the weekend of June 7 and 8 with the annual parade and street festival. Included in the programming are events and partnerships with minority groups, including DC Latinx Pride, API Pride, Trans Pride, DC Black Pride, Youth Pride and DC Silver Pride for senior members of the LGBTQ+ community. Ryan Bos is the executive director of the Capital Pride Alliance, which organizes Pride Month programming in D.C. each year. He has been spearheading the planning of World Pride since last year and says that the celebration this year is "more important than ever." "It's surreal on days to think that the country that I was born into, the country that I have grown to have a lot of pride in -- a country that I have devoted my professional and personal time in regards to creating spaces for people to feel welcome, to feel included, to make sure people feel seen and are valued -- that in that country, we are now in a space where overtly, our federal government is saying certain people aren't as valued," Bos said. "And that hurts, and it's scary." During his first weeks in office, Trump signed an executive order declaring that the U.S. government will only recognize a person's gender assigned at birth. More executive orders targeted the transgender community in the military and in athletic spaces. Marissa Miller, founder of the National Trans Visibility March, said that with attention focused on her community, this year, "humanity is on the line." "This is a revolutionary time," she said. "We've been somewhere near here before, but I think that it's been a while since we have been here." As a Black transgender woman, Miller emphasized that some members of the community have always felt like they had target on their backs. "These are dangerous times -- not unprecedented, dangerous times -- for trans people, even more dangerous than they have been because there has been a permission set that says we do not exist," Miller said. In leading Pride Month planning this year, Bos said that security and safety have been at the forefront of many conversations. While D.C. is ready and welcoming, he said that it's important for attendees and participants to understand any potential risks their international friends may have in travel. Organizers and groups from several countries have already opted out of coming to World Pride this year, including those from Canada and some countries in Africa, Miller told ABC News. Ry Schissler, a swimmer and cyclist from Toronto who decided not to travel to the United States for World Pride this year, citing decisions by the Trump administration. Schissler, who identifies as transgender and nonbinary, holds Canadian-American dual citizenship. Schissler's team, the Toronto Purple Fins, a self-described "gender free" swimming group, had planned to come to D.C. in June for the IGLA+ Aquatic Championships and World Pride, but Schissler didn't want to lead the team to a country where the group didn't feel welcomed. "There's so many benefits to participating in sports, particularly team sports, and ... trans people have been discouraged from that and actively banned from it," Schissler said. "In a lot of cases, it's so important to recognize how difficult it is for us to do that, much less travel internationally, to show up to an event where we're clearly not wanted by a lot of people." Even though Schissler and the rest of the team planned to make the trip, they decided against it in the winter following Trump's executive orders. "Wherever I go, I have to be on my toes. And when I'm outside my comfort zone -- the places that I go and know that there are people to support me -- it's hard," Schissler added. With the Trump administration's executive orders targeting LGBTQ+ spaces and diversity equity and inclusion practices, Bos, the World Pride organizer, said that corporate partnerships this year have been more difficult to secure out of fear of losing federal funding. Another one of Trump's January executive orders not only banned DEI practices in the federal government, but also called on those in the private sector to end what the order calls "illegal DEI discrimination and preferences." According to Bos, some companies that had regularly sponsored Capital Pride in the past were "dragging their feet" to commit to World Pride 2025 as they waited for the outcome of the 2024 presidential election and some eventually backed out or lessened their support. Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte, Comcast and Darcars are some of the companies that previously supported the Capital Pride Alliance that will not be sponsors for World Pride 2025, according to Bos. ABC News has not received a response after reaching out to the companies for comment. But Bos says that he hopes the community persists, believing that "human decency and respect will ultimately win out." "My hope is that we can show that through World Pride and letting, again, folks know that there are people standing in our corner, that there are people willing to stand up, to be visible, to be heard, and that they're not alone. And that they see hope in the future," he said.
Fox News
23 minutes ago
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Trump's 20th week in office to include White House meeting with European leader, expected call with Xi
President Donald Trump's 20th week in the Oval Office is expected to include a White House meeting with Germany's chancellor, a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping and lawmakers' ongoing efforts to pass the "big, beautiful bill" to fund the president's agenda. Monday marks Trump's 134th day in the White House, a period in which he has issued 150 executive orders affecting domestic policies, unveiled sweeping plans to rectify the nation's trade deficit with foreign nations and held ongoing negotiations to end international wars. The week is slated to include a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House as war continues to rage between Ukraine and Russia and trade negotiations with the U.S. hang over Germany. Merz's office confirmed on Saturday that the chancellor will travel to Washington on Wednesday evening ahead of meeting Trump on Thursday, Politico reported. The two are slated to discuss the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine and trade policies. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Merz in Germany last week as the two European leaders ironed out an agreement for Germany to bolster its backing of Ukraine. The meeting on Thursday will be followed by a lunch and press conference, according to Bloomberg. Merz and Trump have previously spoken by phone but have not met face-to-face since Merz was elected Germany's leader in May. Merz clashed with Trump officials last month when Germany designated its right-wing Alternative for Germany political party a "proven right-wing extremist organization." "Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That's not democracy–it's tyranny in disguise," Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted to X of the designation. "What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD–which took second in the recent election – but rather the establishment's deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes." "Banning the centrist AfD, Germany's most popular party, would be an extreme attack on democracy," former Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk posted to X, the social media platform that he owns. Merz responded that American leaders should not weigh in on German elections and politics. "We have largely stayed out of the American election campaign in recent years, and that includes me personally," Merz said, according to Politico. "We have not taken sides with either candidate. And I ask you to accept that in return," he added. Trump is expected to hold a phone call with China's Xi Jinping this week to discuss tariffs, White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett revealed on Sunday. "President Trump, we expect, is going to have a wonderful conversation about the trade negotiations this week with President Xi. That's our expectation," Hassett said Sunday during an interview on ABC News' "This Week." A day for the phone call has not yet been locked down, according to Hassett. "You never know in international relations, but my expectation is that both sides have expressed a willingness to talk," Hassett said. "And I'd like to also add that people are talking every day, so [U.S. Trade Representative] Jamieson Greer, his team and President Xi's team in China, they're talking every day trying to move the ball forward on this matter." The Trump administration leveled tariffs as high as 145% on Chinese goods following the president's reciprocal tariff plans in April, when China retaliated against the U.S. with tariffs of their own. China and the U.S. reached a preliminary trade agreement last month, which Trump said China violated in a Truth Social post on Friday. "I made a FAST DEAL with China in order to save them from what I thought was going to be a very bad situation, and I didn't want to see that happen. Because of this deal, everything quickly stabilized and China got back to business as usual. Everybody was happy! That is the good news!!! The bad news is that China, perhaps not surprisingly to some, HAS TOTALLY VIOLATED ITS AGREEMENT WITH US. So much for being Mr. NICE GUY!" he wrote. Senate lawmakers are working to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is a multitrillion-dollar piece of legislation that advances Trump's agenda on taxes, immigration, energy, defense and the national debt. House lawmakers passed the legislation last month by one vote after a handful of Republican lawmakers held out on supporting the legislation, saying it would exacerbate the nation's debt. A handful of Republican senators have made similar remarks to their House counterparts, explaining they cannot support the legislation unless it addresses its impact on the nation's debt. The bill is expected to add roughly $3 trillion to the national debt, Fox News Digital previously reported. "I'm a 'no' unless we separate out the debt ceiling," Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said last week. "If you take the debt ceiling off the bill, I'm pretty much a 'yes' on most of the rest." "If we follow the path of the House bill, we'll have close to, I think, $60 trillion worth of debt in 10 years. What we've got to do is do what every family does: We've got to go through every line of the budget," Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said during an interview on Fox News on Thursday. Republican South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California on Friday that the Senate must pass the legislation or American families will pay higher taxes. "We don't have a choice. We have to pass the bill to get the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act back in place on a permanent basis," he said. "If we don't do that, the average American family is going to see about a $2,400-a-year increase in their taxes. So we have to do something. And it's critical that we pass this bill. We're going to work with the House. We're going to get this deal done. The Senate will put their mark of approval on it, but nonetheless, we want to do everything we can as quickly as we can to take care of this so that we can get on to other things. The president has made it very clear he wants to get this done. We want to help in that regard. This is our job." Trump has repeatedly called on lawmakers to unify and pass the legislation, saying that it is "arguably the most significant piece of legislation that will ever be signed in the history of our country."
