Top 8 today

Top eight stories for today including the Supreme Court ruled against a Navajo nation member who complained of double jeopardy; The House Jan. 6 committee held a hearing on how Donald Trump’s dissemination of election conspiracies after his defeat primed his base to lead an insurrection; The tide is slowly turning against Ukraine after 110 days of war, and more.

National

Supreme Court endorses back-to-back federal and tribal sentences

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Monday against a Navajo Nation member who said double jeopardy occurred when he was given tribal and federal sentences for the same instance of sexual assault.

The approach to Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park as the coronavirus plague arrived on Navajo lands. (Courthouse News photo / Bill Girdner)

Trump’s ‘big lie’ takes spotlight in second hearing of Jan. 6 committee

Fighting for accountability nearly 18 months after the 2021 Capitol riot, the House Select Committee investigating the events of Jan. 6 laid out its evidence Monday about the role former President Donald Trump played in maintaining that the 2020 election was stolen against the advice and findings of experts and his own counsel who said no election fraud occurred.

Then-President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

In private disputes from abroad, justices rule, US courts cannot force testimony

In a unanimous decision on Monday, the Supreme Court said that federal courts that help international investigations cannot order testimony or evidence for use by private arbitration panels.

Visitors walk outside the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 21, 2022. (Patrick Semansky/AP)

International

Fighting grinds on in Ukraine, diplomatic efforts pick up

Ukrainian forces were struggling to hold the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk on Monday and Russia’s military continued to press forward on the front lines in an effort to break through Ukraine’s defenses and seize the eastern regions of Donbas.

A man rides a bicycle in front of a building destroyed by attacks in Borodyanka, Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on Sunday, June 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Macron’s centrist party could lose majority in parliament

French President Emmanuel Macron’s second term in the Elysee is off to a rough start with his centrist coalition at risk of losing the majority in the National Assembly after the strong showing of a new left-wing coalition in the first round of legislative elections on Sunday.

France's President Emmanuel Macron leaves the voting booth while voting in the first round of French parliamentary elections at a polling station in Le Touquet, northern France, on Sunday, June 12, 2022. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

Argentina president delivers damning speech to Biden at a fractured Summit of the Americas

President Joe Biden called for unity as he closed the week-long Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, which was overshadowed by national absentees and Argentina’s president’s critical speech directed at the U.S.

Heads of delegations including President Joe Biden, center right, and Colombian President Ivan Duque center left, pose for a family photo at the Summit of the Americas, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Science

Scientists track the migrations of an extinct animal for the first time

A new study out of the University of Michigan tracked the migration pattern of a mastodon, an elephant-like mammal. Despite being extinct for 13,000 years, researchers have found a way to tell this animal’s life story.

University of Michigan paleontologist Daniel Fisher with a mounted skeleton of the Buesching mastodon, based on casts of individual bones produced in fiberglass, on public display at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History in Ann Arbor. (Eric Bronson/ Michigan Photography)

Study sheds light on how expanding stars swallow planets

New simulations show how planetary engulfment plays out on varying sizes of stars and planets.

On the left, a planet inside a giant star during a model of planetary engulfment, with its orbital decay trajectory as a dashed line. The image on the right shows density and velocity in a simulation of the flow near the planet (Ricardo Yarza et al/University of California, Santa Cruz)

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