June 16 1200 UTC Brief

In international news At the G7 summit, U.S. allies are trying to push Ukraine back up President Trump’s agenda as the war drags on more than four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion. Trump, meanwhile, has said the conflict is not a priority for him and that his focus is on Iran, a helpful way to describe a major European war as someone else’s problem. Iran’s top diplomat said any deal ending the war with the U.S. would also need Israel to withdraw from Lebanon. The U.S. has not said whether Lebanon is part of the final agreement. In Russia, a Tu-22M3 strategic bomber crashed during a training flight in the Irkutsk region, apparently after an engine failure. Officials said the aircraft was unarmed, the crew ejected safely, and four people were taken to hospital. Separately, the U.S. is trying to catch up as an Ebola outbreak spreads, a reminder that global health gaps tend to become everyone’s problem sooner or later. In U.S. news Luigi Mangione is due back in a New York courtroom Tuesday morning after a secret hearing earlier this month in his state murder case, with the judge offering no public explanation for why it was held behind closed doors. Federal authorities say they disrupted a potential drone threat aimed at the White House UFC event, with FBI Director Kash Patel saying the case led to multiple arrests after investigators picked up the chatter through Signal chats on June 10. In Pennsylvania Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled that skill games count as slot machines under the state Gaming Act and the Crimes Code, overturning a Commonwealth Court decision it called deeply flawed. The case centers on Pace-O-Matic, which has spent years insisting the machines are something else entirely. Scrutiny is also growing over more than $1 million in improvements to Gov. Josh Shapiro’s private home, even as the state has already spent more than $30 million on security upgrades at the Governor’s Residence after last year’s arson attack. Treasurer Stacy Garrity, who is challenging Shapiro, is pressing the issue. In Montgomery County, JBS Beef Plant in Souderton has filed a WARN notice saying its Pennsylvania locations will close this summer, putting 1,485 workers at risk of losing their jobs. In Philadelphia’s Wissinoming neighborhood, police say a man was shot during a parking dispute, the suspected shooter remained at the scene and is cooperating, and his handgun has been recovered. In business Rolls-Royce SMR has won a multi-billion-pound contract to build three small modular nuclear reactors for Sweden, a major step in its push to become a leading supplier of the technology in Europe. SpaceX completed the largest initial public offering in U.S. corporate history, with shares pricing at $135 and then jumping sharply on the first two trading days. Early investors, including Larry Ellison, Jack Dorsey, and a Saudi prince, got the kind of paper gains that make billionaires sound like they found a coupon in the sofa.