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Nearly 150 people were jabbed with syringes during a street music festival in France, the country’s interior ministry said, adding that authorities had arrested at least 12 suspects.

Across France, millions of people spilled out into the streets over the weekend to celebrate the annual music festival Fête de la Musique. In the French capital of Paris, authorities reported that there were three to four times as many people in public as normal.

The needle attacks involved 145 victims, including 13 cases in Paris, the French Interior Ministry told NBC News in a statement, adding that at least 12 people had been arrested.

In the northeastern French city of Metz, local police arrested two individuals, including a “syringe attacker,” during the festival that broke all attendance records, Mayor François Grosdidier said in a post on Instagram.

“Risks are always present in wild…However, we had to deal with syringe attacks,” Grosdidier wrote.

The first syringe attack in Metz was reported at about 9:15 p.m. local time, he said, adding that the victims included 15 young women between the ages of 14 and 20. The suspected syringe attacker had been arrested and handed over the National Police for further investigations, he added.

“I hope that the investigation, particularly through the examination of his cell phone, will lead to the identification of other attackers,” Grosdidier said.

French officials did not say if these were cases of “needle spiking,” which typically see attackers inject victims with date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol or GHB, typically in the arm, leg or buttocks, leaving them disoriented and vulnerable to assault.

Warnings about the attacks first appeared on TikTok from social media influencer Abrège Soeur, who said in a post on Saturday that “Men are planning to attack and sting women at the Fête de la Musique on June 21st.”

Soeur, who describes herself as a feminist, suggested that women in danger during the festival use “H&M” as a code.

“Approach the person and ask, ‘Where’s your top from?’ If they answer ‘H&M,’ it means they need help,” Soeur said. If “you are in danger, hail someone over and ask, ‘Where’s your top from? H&M, right?’” she added.

This year’s summer music festival season in Paris has brought with it renewed fears of syringe attacks after a wave of reports in 2022. At the time, the French government put out alerts advising people to stay vigilant, go to the police, and take a toxicology test if they suspected they had been drugged by a needle prick.

More than 370 people were arrested on various charges during the festival that year, including nearly 90 in Paris. Among the 14 seriously injured festival-goers was a 17-year-old who was hospitalized from wounds to the lower abdomen, according to news agency Agence France-Presse.

Israel and Iran agree to a precarious truce after nearly two weeks of fighting. Voters in New York City hit the polls for the mayoral primary. And the defense in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ trial is not expected to call any witnesses.

Here’s what to know today.

Israel and Iran ceasefire under strain

Israel has accused Iran of what it described as a “severe violation” of President Donald Trump’s ceasefire — a charge Iran denies. Speaking to reporters early Tuesday morning, Trump acknowledged that both Iran and Israel violated the agreement and warned Israel against launching another attack on Iran in a post on Truth Social.

The precarious truce was reached earlier when Israel and Iran said they had agreed to a ceasefire proposed by Trump nearly two weeks after Israel first launched airstrikes. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said his country had achieved “all of the objectives” of its military operations in Iran and therefore accepted the terms of the truce. Iranian state media acknowledged the start of the ceasefire early Tuesday local time.

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Trump announced a “complete and total ceasefire” on social media yesterday afternoon and said when it took effect “the war will be considered ended.” In an exclusive phone interview with NBC News’ Yamiche Alcindor, Trump said the ceasefire would last “forever.” Asked whether the war was completely over, Trump said, “Yes. I don’t believe they will ever be shooting at each other again.” 

A diplomat briefed on the talks said the agreement was the result of negotiations by Trump, Vice President JD Vance and top Qatari officials who took the proposal to Iran. Earlier, Iran launched a retaliatory strike on the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, where thousands of U.S. troops are stationed. No casualties were reported. Experts said the strike appeared to be designed to avoid triggering a massive escalation with the U.S, experts and former officials said. 

The 12 days of strikes between Israel and Iran have killed at least 400 people and injured 3,000 in Iran, according to the Iranian Health Ministry, while Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel have killed at least 24 people. 

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• Trump has said his foreign policy is about ending wars, not starting new ones. But here’s why he ultimately approved a strike on Iranian nuclear sites.

• Despite loudly criticizing the U.S. strikes, Middle Eastern leaders are likely accepting — and even privately cheering — the attack.

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New York City mayoral primary full of unknowns

It’s Election Day in New York City, where voters will cast ballots in the mayoral primaries. It’s possible there won’t be a clear conclusion at the end of the night about who will appear on the final ballot in November for a couple of reasons: first, the city’s use of ranked choice voting means it’ll take longer to count the ballots; and second, it’s possible a Democratic runner-up will run in the general election on a different party’s ballot line.

However, we do know that whoever prevails in this election will be up against Mayor Eric Adams, who is running for re-election in the fall as an independent, and Curtis Silwa, who is running unopposed as the Republican nominee.

There are 11 candidates on today’s ballot, including frontrunner Andrew Cuomo, the former governor on a comeback tour. His competitors have rallied around “Don’t rank Cuomo” slogan that encourages voters to leave him off the ballot regardless of which alternative candidates they prefer. Other candidates to watch for include progressive state legislator Zohran Mamdani, who has seen a late rise in the contest, and City Comptroller Brad Lander, whose arrest last week while advocating for defendants in immigration court could also give him a late surge. Here’s what else to watch in the contest.

Heading into election day, NBC News and MSNBC data guru Steve Kornacki breaks down what the final polls have to say about the race. Read the full analysis here.

More politics news:

• A Supreme Court ruling now makes it easier for the Trump administration to deport convicted criminals to “third countries” to which they have no previous connection.

• Senate Democrats forced the removal of a provision in the Trump agenda bill that sought to restrict the power of courts to block federal government policies.

• Democrats will select a new House Oversight Committee leader today in a competitive four-way race that has broken down along generational lines.

Sean Combs’ defense won’t call witnesses in federal trial

Federal prosecutors in music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs’ trial are expected to rest their case today, and his defense team intends to offer no witnesses of its own — a move that is unexpected but not unusual, legal experts say. “So what you may hear the defense counsel say during closing arguments is that the prosecution’s witnesses ‘made our case. We didn’t have a burden to prove our case, and the cross-examination of their witnesses makes it clear that we’re right and they’re wrong,’” said Mitchell Epner, a former federal prosecutor for the District of New Jersey who now practices criminal defense in New York. Not calling Combs to the stand in his own defense is another strategy his team is betting will pay off, said Mark Zauderer, a veteran trial and appellate lawyer in New York.

Over the past few weeks, prosecutors have argued and called witnesses in their efforts to convince jurors that Combs engaged in racketeering conspiracy and other crimes. Combs has pleaded not guilty. Three women have testified against Combs, including his ex-girlfriend Casandra Ventura. Meanwhile, key testimony from rapper Kid Cudi, a former personal assistant and another former employee of Combs may have advanced prosecutors’ case, experts say. Read the full story here.

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Staff Pick: Iranians watching war from afar express conflicting emotions

For many diaspora Iranians around the world, the war between Israel and Iran has raised complicated feelings of grief and anxiety alongside bits of hope. I spoke to Iranians across the U.S., U.K. and Israel whose families fled Iran to escape oppression from the regime that took power in 1979. They expressed that while many Iranians in the country and abroad dare to hope for the regime’s collapse, there’s also an overwhelming sense of fear around civilian casualties and the uncertainties of foreign intervention. — Angela Yang, culture & trends reporter

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The final public poll suggests the potential for an upset in Tuesday’s New York Democratic mayoral primary — an outcome that would be dramatic but that also might end up resolving nothing.

The Emerson College/WPIX/The Hill survey shows former Gov. Andrew Cuomo leading state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani 36% to 34% in the initial first-choice count, with Mamdani eventually overtaking Cuomo after multiple rounds of ranked choice tabulation and winning the final tally 52% to 48%.

But a few caveats are in order.

First, public polls in the campaign have been sparse. Only Emerson and Marist University have been regularly conducting them. And Marist’s final poll found a different result, with Cuomo up by double digits at both the start and the end of ranked choice tabulation. (More on the details of that survey below.)

One of those polls may be a lot more accurate than the other, although there is room for both to be right, since Marist’s was taken a week earlier, and the race could have shifted in that time.

The composition of the electorate is uncertain, too. Both Emerson and Marist find that Cuomo has an advantage with voters who say they will cast ballots in person Tuesday, as opposed to taking part in early voting or voting by mail. But will those voters show up in the numbers pollsters expect? It’s a cliché to talk about how crucial turnout is as a variable, but there it is.

Moreover, ranked choice voting is still new to New York City; this is only the second mayoral contest since it was implemented. It’s still uncommon elsewhere. So no polling outlet has a deep and well-established track record when it comes to measuring such races. That having been said, Emerson’s final poll in the 2021 New York mayoral primary showed now-Mayor Eric Adams narrowly edging out Kathryn Garcia in the final ranked choice round, which almost perfectly matched the actual outcome.

What are the biggest differences between the final public polls?

Overall, Marist has Cuomo ahead of Mamdani 38% to 27% in the initial round and 55% to 45% after multiple ranked choice rounds. Emerson has Cuomo up 36% to 34% initially but Mamdani winning 52% to 48% after ranked choice tabulations.

A significant difference between the two surveys: how the rivals perform among Black voters, who will comprise about a third of the electorate. Cuomo has enjoyed massive advantages over the rest of the field with those voters throughout the campaign, and that trend continues in Marist’s poll, with Cuomo 52 points ahead of Mamdani heading into the final round of tabulation. But Emerson’s poll shows Mamdani making late gains among Black voters and winning 38% of them in the final round against Cuomo.

The other major difference involves a third candidate, city Comptroller Brad Lander. In both the Marist and the Emerson polls, he is the final non-Cuomo/Mamdani candidate remaining as the ranked choice eliminations progress. In both polls, when Lander is then eliminated, his supporters break more to Mamdani than to Cuomo.

In Marist’s poll, that is more of an incidental development, as Cuomo’s lead over Mamdani is cut from 13 points to 10 points in the final round. But in Emerson’s, the effect is dramatic and decisive, propelling Mamdani to a 4-point victory after having trailed Cuomo by a point in the previous round.

That could be related to the timing of the two polls. Only Emerson’s was conducted after Lander’s high-profile arrest last week at an immigration court. That may well have boosted his baseline support, which is higher in the initial round in the Emerson poll (13%) than in the Marist poll (8%). Plus, Lander and Mamdani teamed up last week, with each asking their voters to include the other in their ballot rankings. That could explain why Mamdani gains so much in the Emerson poll once Lander is eliminated.

When will we know the results?

Don’t expect to know the winner Tuesday, or until at least next Tuesday (probably). Most votes will be reported out Tuesday evening and overnight — but those will be only first-choice votes. And as long as they are postmarked by Tuesday, mail-in ballots can still be added in over the next week. It’ll be next Tuesday when the city actually runs the ranked choice tabulations. And even then, if the race is exceptionally close, there could still be the possibility that provisional ballots would further shift the count.

Meanwhile, even though New York is deeply blue, that won’t necessarily decide the next mayor. New York’s election laws make it possible — and easy — for candidates who lose primaries to turn around and run in the general election. All they need is a ballot line, which they can get by starting their own parties, which is actually not that hard to do.

Cuomo has already done that, having launched the Fight and Deliver Party. Officially, his plan is to run as the Fight and Deliver nominee in addition to being the Democratic nominee, since in New York, candidates can also be nominated by multiple parties. But if Cuomo falls short to Mamdani, the temptation to take the fight to a wider general election audience would be enormous, given Mamdani’s left-wing politics (he’s a self-declared socialist) and history of inflammatory statements. Cuomo’s father, Mario, did just that in his own mayoral campaign in 1977, running as the Liberal Party nominee after he fell to Ed Koch in the Democratic primary.

Meanwhile, Mamdani will most likely have the option of running as the candidate of the Working Families Party, which has already encouraged voters to back him in the Democratic race. There’s no love lost between Cuomo and the WFP, which has indicated it wouldn’t give him its ballot line even if he were the Democratic nominee.

Then there’s the current mayor, Adams, who is already running in the general election on a ballot line of his own making, while Republicans are poised to nominate Curtis Sliwa. Jim Walden, a former federal prosecutor, is also mounting an independent bid.

In other words, the waters are already crowded. For both Cuomo and Mamdani, narrowly losing the primary might prove to be nothing more than an invitation to keep going.

For about two years, Cooper Flagg has been expected to be the top pick in the 2025 NBA draft. That will finally become a reality Wednesday, as the Dallas Mavericks are set to select the former Duke star first overall.

The biggest question during draft week, then, is not who will go No. 1, but what kind of player the Mavericks will be getting in one of the most intriguing prospects of the last 15 years.

“He trends like LeBron James,” said Brian Scalabrine, who played 11 years in the NBA and has been training with Flagg since he was in his early teens. “LeBron has a beautiful mind when it comes to this game. Cooper’s brain is right on par with those guys. They just process the game differently.”

“I really think he’s going to be one of those guys who makes people around him better,” said Orlando Magic head coach Jamahl Mosley, who coached Flagg on the USA Select Team last summer. “People might get caught up in his numbers. But I think he’s going to be one of those pluses that’s always on the floor, all the while finding his range and his space.”

Grant Hill, the managing director of USA Basketball, said Flagg’s best attribute is his versatility.

“He can read the game and figure out what’s needed from him for his team to have success,” Hill told NBC News. “He assesses what’s happening in the game and has the talent and ability to provide what’s needed, and that’s unique particularly for someone so young.”

Flagg, 18, grew up in Newport, Maine, before attending his final two years of high school at Montverde Academy in central Florida. (Montverde is less of a school and more of an incubator for future professional athletes.)

After his sophomore year, Flagg reclassified from the high school class of 2025 to 2024, immediately becoming a senior and putting himself on track to enter the NBA this summer.

His prowess as a player, however, dates back much further. As with many legends, Flagg’s earliest memories of competition are from his driveway, where he would often play his twin brother, Ace, in a game of one-on-one.

“That’s where it started, for sure, scrapping it out in the driveway” Flagg told NBC News as part of an AT&T activation. “You never want to lose to your brothers.”

Ace Flagg said the battles were incredibly physical.

“Without fail, any time we played, someone’s running inside to Mom crying because someone hit them,” he said.

By the time he was 13, Cooper’s parents were so invested in his basketball career that he had a trainer, Matt Mackenzie. It was Mackenzie who put him on Scalabrine’s radar.

“Matt calls me up and says, ‘I got this 13-year-old kid who plays against University of Maine kids. The first 15 minutes he’s feeling it out, and the last 15 minutes he’s the best player on the floor,’” Scalabrine said. “In this situation, in my mind, I love Matt, but you’re nuts.”

Scalabrine was skeptical, so he invited Flagg to participate in a pickup game he organizes in Boston, which Scalabrine said includes former pros and college players.

“And sure enough, the guy walks out of the SUV, throws on his knee braces and dominates the run,” Scalabrine said. “The level of my gym went to a 100x than it normally would. Right then and there, I told his parents he would go to the NBA.”

Flagg continued to shine no matter what court he was playing on.

In his first season at Nokomis Regional High School, he became the first freshman to win Maine’s Gatorade Player of the Year award.

He also put up dominant performances for his AAU team. At Nike’s Peach Jam tournament in the summer of 2023, going head-to-head against other top prospects, Flagg averaged 25.4 points, 13 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 6.9 blocks per game.

At Duke, he led the Blue Devils to their first Final Four in three years, putting up 21 points. 7.6 rebounds and 5 assists a night in the NCAA Tournament.

His most impressive performance may have come last summer, however, before he had even played a college game. That’s when Flagg was invited to help sharpen the skills of Team USA ahead of the Paris Olympics, scrimmaging against the likes of LeBron James and Stephen Curry as part of the Select Team.

Hill, a Duke alum, first picked up on the Flagg hype watching his high school games. Hill’s friend had a son on Montverde’s team, and Hill noticed Flagg’s motor and competitive drive from when he was a sophomore. Hill wasn’t necessarily evaluating Flagg at the time, but when USA Basketball scouts recommended Flagg for the Select Team, he figured it was worth a shot.

“Let’s bring him in and see how he does,” Hill said of the thinking behind bringing Flagg to the pre-Paris camp. “He may be one of those names in 2027 that might be under consideration for the World Cup team or down the road. We weren’t totally sure how he would do or how he would adjust. He made us look really good.”

Mosley, Flagg’s coach at the camp, marveled at the 17-year-old’s curious and inquisitive nature. He admits it’s “coach talk” to say so, but Mosley said what impressed him most about Flagg was how much care he put into every part of practice. He specifically recalled a defensive drill in practice during which Flagg pulled a teammate, Orlando Magic guard Jalen Suggs, aside for extra insight.

“He was just asking a ton of questions. Defensively, that stood out,” Mosley said, adding that he believes Flagg will be a better defender in the NBA than people expect. “Offensively, he was always trying to make the right play at the right time. You could see how his brain was clicking on making different reads based on where people were on the floor.”

Clips of Flagg’s performance went viral. He ran pick-and-rolls with Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum as his primary defender. He drove to the hoop against James. He hit a turnaround fadeaway over Celtics guard Jrue Holiday and a pull-up 3 in the face of Mavericks big man Anthony Davis.

Even before his first college game, Flagg looked comfortable on the floor against the elite of the NBA’s elite.

Mosley said what stood out about Flagg was “his fearlessness to not worry about the name on the jersey and just recognize he’s a good enough basketball player to be on the floor with these guys.”

Hill said: “He didn’t back down. He felt like he belonged. He showed everybody why there had been so much talk about him. Everybody who was there in the gym — including those that were on the court— I think they walked away with a lot of respect for him and his game.”

In every basketball environment he’s been thrown into, Flagg has succeeded. Now all that’s left for him is the NBA, where he will take his versatility and decision-making to a veteran-laden Mavericks team that needs the exact type of player Flagg is on the wing.

“I think what he’s demonstrated is, even with all the accolades and all the attention, that his desire to work and get better and improve is through the roof,” Hill said. “What you’ll see in the first month, the first year, is only the beginning of what his potential is.”

A woman charged in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont is due in federal court Tuesday in one of multiple criminal cases linked to a cultlike group known as Zizians.

Authorities have said Teresa Youngblut fired the bullet that killed agent David Maland during the January traffic stop. Another agent fired back, wounding Youngblut and killing her companion, Felix Bauckholt, officials have said.

The Zizians are a group of followers of Jack LaSota, a computer scientist who has blogged as “Ziz” on subjects including veganism, gender identity and artificial intelligence. The group mostly consists of computer scientists who met online, shared anarchist beliefs and became increasingly violent.

Youngblut and Bauckholt were both affiliated with the group, which authorities have also linked to killings in Pennsylvania and California. Youngblut has pleaded not guilty to charges of intentionally using a deadly weapon towards law enforcement, and using and discharging a firearm during an assault with a deadly weapon.

The Tuesday federal court appearance is a discovery hearing in Burlington. Discovery is a pre-trial proceeding in which both sides of a case exchange evidence and information.

Both sides declined to comment in advance of the court date. The office of Steven Barth, who has represented Youngblut, said it had no comment on the case. Fabienne Boisvert-DeFazio, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont, said the office “does not comment on ongoing cases beyond the public record.”

In Vermont, authorities had been watching Youngblut for several days after she and Bauckholt checked into a hotel wearing black tactical gear and carrying guns. Local border patrol agents also were told that Bauckholt was a German citizen with unknown immigration status. Authorities said Youngblut shot Maland after being pulled over.

The shootout was one of several violent incidents that has been linked to the Zizians. Members of the group have been tied to the death of one of their own during an attack on California landlord Curtis Lind in 2022, Lind’s subsequent killing, and the deaths of a Pennsylvania couple.

Mick Ralphs, a guitarist, singer, songwriter and founding member of the classic British rock bands Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, has died.

A statement posted to Bad Company’s official website Monday announced Ralphs’ death at age 81. Ralphs had a stroke days after what would be his final performance with the band at London’s O2 Arena in 2016, and had been bedridden ever since, the statement said. No further details on the circumstances of his death were provided.

Ralphs is set to become a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Bad Company in November.

“Our Mick has passed, my heart just hit the ground,” Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers said in a statement. “He has left us with exceptional songs and memories. He was my friend, my songwriting partner, an amazing and versatile guitarist who had the greatest sense of humour.”

Ralphs wrote the 1970’s song “Ready for Love” for Mott the Hoople, later revamped for Bad Company’s 1974 debut album, which also included the Ralphs-penned hit “Can’t Get Enough.” He co-wrote Bad Company’s 1975 classic “Feel Like Makin’ Love” with Rodgers.

Born in Stoke Lacy, Herefordshire, England, Ralphs began playing blues guitar as a teenager, and in his early 20s in 1966, he co-founded the Doc Thomas Group. In 1969, the band would become Mott the Hoople, a name taken from the title and title character of a 1966 novel by Willard Manus.

The group’s self-titled first album, recorded in a week, won a cult following, but the two that followed were critical and financial flops. They finally found popular success and became glam-rock giants with the 1972 David Bowie-penned-and-produced song “All the Young Dudes.” But Ralphs felt creatively cramped in the band led by singer-songwriter Ian Hunter and left in 1973.

He would soon form Bad Company with Rodgers, a singer who had left his own band, Free.

The two had intended only to write songs together, and possibly to make a one-off album as a project. But when Free drummer Simon Kirke asked to sit in, they realized they were nearly a proper group already and went seeking a bassist. They found him in former King Crimson member Boz Burrell.

“We didn’t actually plan to have a band,” Ralphs said in a 2015 interview with Gibson Guitars. “It was all kind of accidental I suppose. Lucky, really.”

Kirke said in a statement Monday that Ralphs was “a dear friend, a wonderful songwriter, and an exceptional guitarist. We will miss him deeply.”

Bad Company found immediate success. its albums were full of radio-ready anthems, and its live sound was perfectly suited to the 1970s height of arena rock.

Their self-titled debut album went to No. 1 on Billboard’s album chart. And Ralphs’ “Can’t Get Enough” — often mistakenly called “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love” because of its chorus lyrics — would be their biggest hit single, peaking at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.

“We actually did the whole thing in one take live,” Ralphs said in the Gibson interview. “It wasn’t perfect, but we just said, ‘Yeah, that’s great, it’s going to capture the moment.’ That’s what I like to do in recording. It doesn’t have to be perfect as long as it captures the moment. That’s what it’s all about.”

Bad Company’s 1975 follow-up, “Straight Shooter,” was also a hit, going to No. 3 on album charts in both the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. and the UK Albums Chart.

Its opening track, “Good Lovin’ Gone Bad,” written by Ralphs, was a modest hit, and the song that followed it, “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” was a big one that would remain in rotation on classic rock radio for decades.

The band’s statement says Ralphs is survived by “the love of his life,” his wife Susie Chavasse, along with two children, three step-children and “beloved bandmates” Rodgers and Kirke.

“Our last conversation a few days ago we shared a laugh,” Rodgers said. “But it won’t be our last.”

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