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June 9 2000 UTC Brief
In business
Used electric vehicle prices are rising faster than gas car prices, as wholesale buyers bid more aggressively and higher fuel costs make EVs more attractive on the secondhand market. Marks & Spencer is also expanding in London, with two new food halls open and more store upgrades planned for next year.
Paramount Skydance has hired former Biden official Shuwanza Goff to lead U.S. government affairs as it works through its merger plans. Corporate Washington remains allergic to simplicity.
In courts and crime
In California, San Benito County deputies say Adrian Joseph Lujan killed his 2-year-old son, then tried to strangle his sleeping girlfriend before being arrested after a struggle in Merced County. He is charged with murder and attempted murder, and investigators say he confessed but have not identified a motive.
In North Texas, jurors found Karmelo Anthony guilty of murder in the fatal stabbing of student athlete Austin Metcalf at a school track meet in 2025. And in Montgomery County, officials are offering a $2,500 reward for information in a 2011 Norristown murder case, now 15 years cold.
In education
New data from an independent inquiry says white working-class pupils are missing far more school than average, with lesson absence at 13 percent compared with 7 percent overall. The report says the problem is especially severe for boys and calls for earlier support, smoother transitions into secondary school, and clearer routes into work.
In international news
At least 11 people have been killed in clashes between protesters and police in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, raising fresh questions about what happens next in the region.
Donald Trump said on social media that Iran shot down a U.S. military helicopter and that the United States must respond. He also said his interests and Benjamin Netanyahu’s have diverged in recent days, complicating ceasefire talks. A neat reminder that geopolitics is still being run on the world’s loudest group chat.
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