⚪️ Today’s House & Senate committee meetings & hearings (6/8/23):

⚪️ Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy is among those testifying on the causes of young people’s worsening mental health & possible solutions. The hearing takes place before the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?528585-1/surgeon-general-testify-youth-mental-health

⚪️ Officials from the Agriculture & Interior departments, among others, testified on the federal response to escalating wildfires before the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?528572-1/hearing-federal-response-escalating-wildfires

⚪️ A Senate Commerce subcommittee holds a hearing on protecting consumers from junk fees:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?528610-1/senate-commerce-subcommittee-hearing-junk-fees

⚪️ UN Live Schedule (6/8/23):

⚪️ Today at the Knesset (6/8/23):

⚪️ Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in a joint press availability with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia:

https://www.youtube.com/live/at_xnIlgpyA?feature=share

⚪️ Former Vice President Mike Pence announced Wednesday he’s running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/07/politics/pence-2024-presidential-campaign/index.html

⚪️ Sarah Idan, who represented Iraq in the Miss Universe pageant in 2017 but lost her citizenship when she posed for a selfie with Miss Israel, is running for Congress in California to replace outgoing Rep. Adam Schiff. Idan says that she is running as a pro-Israel, secular Muslim to provide a counterweight to anti-Israel voices like Reps. Ilhan Omar & Rashida Tlaib, both within her party & the Muslim community:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/06/08/sarah-idan-former-miss-iraq-runs-for-adam-schiffs-seat-as-pro-israel-democrat/

⚪️ The Senate on Thursday confirmed Dilawar Syed as deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration, ending more than 2 years of delays after a blockade by Republicans in the last Congress:

https://archive.ph/codkQ

⚪️ The ex-lawyers of “That ’70s Show” actor & convicted rapist Danny Masterson were sanctioned Wednesday for leaking confidential discovery material about his victims to the Church of Scientology:

https://nypost.com/2023/06/08/danny-matersons-lawyers-leaked-discovery-material-to-scientology/

⚪️ China has reached a secret deal with Cuba to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island roughly 100 miles (160 km) from Florida:

https://www.reuters.com/world/china-post-spy-facility-cuba-off-southeastern-us-wsj-2023-06-08/#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20June%208%20(Reuters),officials%20familiar%20with%20classified%20intelligence.

⚪️ NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service, issued an El Nino Advisory, noting that El Nino conditions are present & are expected to gradually strengthen into the winter:

https://www.weather.gov/news/230706-ElNino