🥽 Axios PM: Apple's big reveal

Plus: Toilet invaders | Monday, June 05, 2023

Open in app View in browser   Presented By UPS   Axios PM By Mike Allen · Jun 05, 2023 😎 Almost done with Monday! Today's PM — edited by Erica Pandey — is 657 words, a 2½-min. read. Thanks to Sheryl Miller for the copy edit.     1 big thing: The future through Apple's eyes Press and invited guests watch Apple's presentation at Apple Park in Cupertino, Calif., today. Photo: Mike Allen/Axios   Apple debuted Vision Pro, a long-awaited mixed-reality headset, today. Why it matters: The headset is Apple's most significant new device in years and a big bet that augmented and virtual reality are more than just fads, Axios' Ina Fried writes from Apple Park in Cupertino, California. The device, which resembles a futuristic set of ski goggles, allows users to view digital content on top of the real world and is controlled using voice, eye gaze and hand gestures. "It's the first device you look through and not at," Apple CEO Tim Cook said. "Your surroundings become an infinite canvas." 🥊 Reality check: Apple faces a series of headwinds, including a tech world whose attention has largely shifted from the metaverse toward AI, thanks to the arrival of ChatGPT. Snoopy appears on the Apple Watch as the company announces the device's new features. Photo: Mike Allen/Axios Here's what else Apple announced: The new 15-inch MacBook Air weighs 3.3 pounds, has a claimed 18-hour battery life and starts at $1,299. On the software side, Apple previewed iOS 17, which adds a new journaling feature, improved autocorrect and speech-to-text dictation, and NameDrop, a new feature that lets two iPhone users share contact information just by bringing their phones near each other. The next version of MacOS, dubbed Sonoma, adds many of the same features debuting with iOS 17. Go deeper.     2.🍦Scoop: ICE director announces retirement Tae Johnson speaks at a DOJ press conference in 2021. Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images Acting ICE director Tae Johnson is announcing his retirement on Monday after 30 years with the agency, Axios' Stef Kight reports. Why it matters: Johnson is the second senior immigration official to announce their departure during the past week — less than a month after the long-anticipated end of pandemic-era restrictions on immigration that enabled rapid expulsions of many migrants who crossed the southwest border. That policy, known as Title 42, has been replaced by strict asylum rules imposed by the Biden administration, resulting in a dramatic decline in crossings during much of the past month. 🔭 Zoom out: ICE hasn't had a Senate-confirmed director for more than six years. President Biden's nominee for the position — Harris County (Texas) Sheriff Ed Gonzalez, whose jurisdiction includes Houston — withdrew from consideration nearly a year ago, after a long and tumultuous nomination process in which he failed to gain support even among Democrats in the Senate. Johnson's retirement comes a week after Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz announced his retirement Go deeper.     A message from UPS The best benefits package in the industry is also the most accessible     You don't need a college degree or an executive title to have a successful career at UPS. Full- and part-time union employees at UPS receive industry-leading wages, low-to-no-cost health care, pension benefits, tuition assistance and more. Find out what the best benefits mean to our employees.     3. Catch me up Photo: Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images 🇮🇳 Above: Railway police walk past a carriage loaded with concrete slabs that will be used to restore tracks at the accident site of the recent disastrous three-train collision near Balasore in eastern India. 📰 New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) ruled out running for president in 2024."I will have more credibility speaking out against Trump as a non-candidate to help move the conversation toward the future I believe the Republican Party should embrace," Sununu wrote in a Washington Post op-ed today. Go deeper. 🗳️ Former Vice President Mike Pence filed paperwork today to launch his own presidential bid. Close Pence allies launched a super PAC, called Committed to America, in May. Go deeper.     4. 🦎 Floridian toilet invaders Illustration: Brendan Lynch/Axios   It's something of a ritual for Miamians to check for porcelain predators before using the restroom — especially at night when it's dark and you're half-asleep, Axios Miami co-author Martin Vassolo writes. One of the most invasive creatures we have is the iguana, which has made a habit of invading people's toilets and making the local news. 🖼️ The big picture: Ryan Goodman of Critter Control tells Axios that iguanas aren't the only creatures known to get into people's plumbing. He's had to remove rats and snakes from toilets before. What's happening: Pests can crawl in through an opening in the plumbing stacks on the roof and then bypass the bathroom's P-trap, which can dry out when the toilet isn't being flushed enough. 💡 Goodman recommends snowbirds leave their water service on after leaving town.     A message from UPS The best health care package is affordable for everyone     At UPS, our full- and part-time Teamsters-represented employees get health care benefits with no premiums and very low or no co-insurance and co-pays, so they can focus on the things that matter most. Next steps: Find out what the best benefits mean to our employees and their families.   Are you a fan of this email format? Your essential communications — to staff, clients and other stakeholders — can have the same style. Axios HQ, a powerful platform, will help you do it.   Axios thanks our partners for supporting our newsletters. Sponsorship has no influence on editorial content. 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