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Today, Jack, Gracie, and Lorraine are celebrating the end of another great school year and wanted to congratulate their amazing mom for finishing her year as PTO President for Oak Null Elementary by saying,

wait a go mom, we're so proud of you. I'm Tori, it's Friday, June 9th, 2023, and we begin with a piece of good news amidst all the bad from the war in Ukraine.

Twin brothers who escaped just four days before Russia invaded are now high school graduates in Maryland.

Yark and Vlad Vashchuk spent about six months in Poland before moving to Prince George's county at the start of the school year.

Their mom came with them, but their dad and the rest of their relatives stayed behind. They had to leave everything, including all their friends, but as Yark told NBC News, we're lucky.

We were in the right place at the right time because people had situations worse than we did, and they made the most of it, joining their high school basketball team, and going to the prom.

And this fall, they're headed to Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. Vlad says it's beyond their wildest dreams.

I've never seen a college like it, not even in a movie. The teens will study computer science.

More legal trouble for former President Trump. Late yesterday, he was indicted or charged over how he handled sensitive documents after he left the White House.

According to CBS News, the decision to pursue an indictment of Mr. Trump is a remarkable and unprecedented step as it is the first time the Justice Department has ever brought federal charges against a former president.

Mr. Trump maintains his innocence and is said in the past that he declassified the documents before moving them to Florida.

He's doing courts sometime next week in Miami.

If schools not out, it's back online for thousands of U.S. kids caught in the downwind smoke of those Canadian wildfires.

The air is still so bad hazardous in places that districts up and down the eastern seaboard are opting for safe oversawry.

The impact on air travel also continued yesterday as airports from New York to North Carolina reported smoke-related delays.

Conditions in the Northeast are steadily improving, but winds are sending the haze west toward Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Detroit.

More than 150 wildfires continued to burn in Canada, and President Biden yesterday told Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

that he's sending more firefighters to help the 600 Americans who have been on the front lines since May.

In restaurants of the future, your meal could be served, or in this case, tossed with a side of innovation.

Using a combination of programming and machine learning, researchers at the University of Cambridge have taught a robotic chef to make salads.

The report in the journal IEEE Access explains that the engineers programmed the robot with eight salad recipes,

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