News in brief
By The Associated Press
Israeli airstrikes near kill several, including Iranian adviser
BEIRUT | Syria’s state media and Iranian media outlets are saying that Israeli airstrikes around the Syrian city of Aleppo killed several people, including an Iranian adviser.
The Iranian outlets, including the semiofficial Tasnim news agency that’s considered close to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, said an Iranian military adviser died in Monday’s attack. Israel did not immediately acknowledge the strikes.
Syria’s President Bashar Assad has been backed by Iran in his country’s yearslong war, and Israeli strikes previously have targeted Iranian positions and equipment. Israel has also separately been striking targets in Lebanon as the militant Hezbollah group presses cross-border attacks.
Trump raises $141 million in May, bolstered by guilty verdict
WASHINGTON | Donald Trump ‘s campaign and the Republican National Committee say they raised $141 million in May, a massive fundraising haul that includes tens of millions of dollars raised in the aftermath of his guilty verdict in his criminal hush money trial.
Trump’s campaign is not required to publicly disclose its fundraising to the Federal Election Commission until later this month. But its decision to release the numbers early underscores how it sees the wave of contributions as evidence that last Thursday’s verdict has energized the former president’s supporters and as a sign that it will not hobble his efforts to return to the White House.
President Joe Biden’s campaign has yet to release its own May fundraising totals.
PacifiCorp will pay $178M to Oregon wildfire victims
PORTLAND, Ore. | Pacific Power, part of PacifiCorp, said Monday it has agreed to a $178 settlement with over 400 Oregon plaintiffs in the latest multimillion-dollar payout related to the deadly 2020 wildfires that ravaged the state.
In other cases that have gone to trial over the past year, Oregon juries in multiple verdicts have ordered PacifiCorp to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to victims. Ongoing litigation could leave it on the hook for billions.
The majority of the 403 plaintiffs in the settlement Monday were affected by the Echo Mountain Complex Fire that devastated Oregon’s central coast, said George McCoy, one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys, while others were impacted by the Santiam Fire that raged east of the state capital Salem in northwestern Oregon.
—From AP reports
