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Ukraine strikes major oil refinery near Moscow · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: In the day's other headlines, dozens of Ukrainian drones struck targets,
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  Speaker 1: including a major oil refinery near Moscow today, their second
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  Speaker 1: hit on Russian energy targets in a week. Eyewitness video
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  Speaker 1: captured the explosion at a fuel depot, with the massive
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  Speaker 1: storage lid flying into the air like a popped cork.
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  Speaker 1: A drone also hit this residential building nearby. The barrage
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  Speaker 1: turned the skies over Russia's capital city into a ceiling
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  Speaker 1: of smoke. Speaking in Brussels today, Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelinsky
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  Speaker 1: said the strikes were in response to Russia's attack on
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  Speaker 1: an historic monastery complex earlier this week.
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  Speaker 2: Our mid range strikes are seriously disrupting Russian military logistics,
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  Speaker 2: but Putin is not stopping this war.
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  Speaker 1: Russia's Defense ministry said today's Ukrainian assault was the largest
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  Speaker 1: since the war began more than four years ago, and
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  Speaker 1: Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov vowed that strikes on Ukrainian targets
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  Speaker 1: will continue quote on a regular basis. The U s
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court today sided with a Texas man who said
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  Speaker 1: his marijuana use shouldn't make it a crime for him
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  Speaker 1: to have a gun. The justices unanimously found that the
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  Speaker 1: federal ban against all regular drug users from owning guns
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  Speaker 1: violated the Second Amendment. That same law was used to
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  Speaker 1: convict Hunter Biden back in twenty twenty four. He was
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  Speaker 1: later pardoned by his father, then President Joe Biden. The
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration has defended the law despite arguing against other
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  Speaker 1: gun restrictions. Today's opinion was a narrow one, applying only
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  Speaker 1: to drug users who are not considered dangerous. In parts
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  Speaker 1: of the Midwest, Today, residents took stock of the wreckage
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  Speaker 1: after powerful storms tour through the area. Cell Phone video
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  Speaker 1: showed what appear to be a large tornado hitting Effingham,
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  Speaker 1: Illinois over night. By daybreak, the extent of the damage
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  Speaker 1: was clear, though authorities say there were no serious injuries. Meantime,
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  Speaker 1: Croden McCurry or downpours from what buzz tropical Storm Arthur
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  Speaker 1: swamped entire Gulf Coast neighbourhoods. More rain is expected through
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow from Mississippi to the Carolinas, and from floods to flames.
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  Speaker 1: Firefighters in Washington State have been working to contain a
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  Speaker 1: blaze near Spokane that's destroyed at least fifteen homes and
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  Speaker 1: forced about fifteen hundred people to evacuate. Authorities say they
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  Speaker 1: found possible human remains in one of the homes. In
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, officials say there's no longer any threat of
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  Speaker 1: hazardous air after a massive warehouse fire east of the city.
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  Speaker 1: It tore through a cold storage warehouse, sending large plumes
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  Speaker 1: of smoke across the Boyle Heights neighborhood. Authorities say it
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  Speaker 1: started all the building's roof, which is covered in solar panels,
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  Speaker 1: and reached an ammonia line, which led to several small
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  Speaker 1: explosions that prompted a shelter in place order, which has
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  Speaker 1: since been lifted. There have been no reports of injuries.
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  Speaker 1: In Washington, d C. Janice Lewis George has won the
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  Speaker 1: city's Democratic primary for mayor, meaning she will almost certainly
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  Speaker 1: become the first new leader in the heavily democratic city
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  Speaker 1: in more than a decade. The Democratic Socialists had run
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  Speaker 1: on issues like education and affordable housing. She's also pledged
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  Speaker 1: to push back against federal intervention in local affairs, telling
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  Speaker 1: reporters today about the need to stand up for the
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  Speaker 1: city's autonomy. Earlier this month, President Trump said he would
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  Speaker 1: consider putting Washington under direct federal control if Louis George
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  Speaker 1: becomes mayor. Former President Barack Obama celebrated the opening of
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  Speaker 1: his Presidential Center in Chicago today. The nation's forty fourth
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  Speaker 1: commander in chief was joined by his family, a host
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  Speaker 1: of celebrities, and three former presidents. In his remarks, mister
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  Speaker 1: Obama said that the eight hundred and fifty million dollars
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  Speaker 1: center was an expression of thanks to the city that
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  Speaker 1: gave him his start in politics. President Trump was notably absent,
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  Speaker 1: and Obama did not mention him by name, but there
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  Speaker 1: were some nods to the current administration, with Obama remarking
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  Speaker 1: in his words, how precious our democracy truly is.
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  Speaker 3: People aren't looking for perpetual anger and division. They are
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  Speaker 3: looking for fairness and common sense and mutual respect that
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  Speaker 3: deep in our gut, we want to find a way
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  Speaker 3: to turn towards each other again.
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  Speaker 1: Not further away, the Obama Presidential Center is expected to
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  Speaker 1: draw more than a million visitors annually. It officially opens
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  Speaker 1: to the general public tomorrow on Juneteenth. On Wall Street today,
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  Speaker 1: stocks ended higher ahead of the juneteenth holiday weekend. The
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  Speaker 1: Dow Jones Industrial Average rose about seventy points. The Nasdaq
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  Speaker 1: jumped nearly five hundred points, or almost two percent. The
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  Speaker 1: S and P five hundred closed about one percent higher
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  Speaker 1: to close out the trading week and in New York today,
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  Speaker 1: joy and confetti filled the air as the city celebrated
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  Speaker 1: its first NBA championship in more than half a century.
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  Speaker 1: An estimated two million people lined the famous Canyon of
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  Speaker 1: Heroes in Lower Manhattan, forming a sea of orange and
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  Speaker 1: blue of the Knicks colors. It was the first ever
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  Speaker 1: ticker tape parade for the Knicks, despite winning two titles
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  Speaker 1: in the nineteen seventies. The route ended at City Hall,
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  Speaker 1: where Mayor Zoron Mamdani presented the Knicks with keys to
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  Speaker 1: the city and addressed what this moment means for New York.
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  Speaker 2: So often when the city comes together, it is because
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  Speaker 2: we are forced to by a moment of tragedy or adversity.
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  Speaker 2: What a gift it is to be brought together by pure,
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  Speaker 2: unfiltered joy. For as long as we live, we will
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  Speaker 2: remember this feeling of a city together, a city alive,
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  Speaker 2: a city overcome by happiness.
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  Speaker 1: The celebrations cap off a dominant and improbable run for
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks, who beat the San Antonio Spurs for the
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  Speaker 1: title in five games. Owner James Dolan has said the
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  Speaker 1: team has accepted an invitation to visit the White House.
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  Speaker 1: No date has been set, but they would be the
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  Speaker 1: first NBA champions to do so during President Trump's time
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  Speaker 1: in office. Still to come, on the News Hour, and
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  Speaker 1: of the war with Hespelat, where pardoned January sixth, Rioters
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  Speaker 1: are today from new convictions to public office. Andrew Lloyd
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  Speaker 1: Weber reflects on the reimagined musical Cats, the Jellical Ball,
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  Speaker 1: and Americans give a warm welcome to World Cup fans
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  Speaker 1: from across the globe.
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