Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson, and this is five things you need to know Friday, the 16th

of June, 2023.

Today, charges for the alleged Pentagon leaker, plus the Supreme Court sides with tribes in

a Native American adoption ruling.

And what's next for USAID for the war in Ukraine?

The Air National Guard member accused of retaining and transmitting classified defense information

was indicted yesterday by a grand jury.

21-year-old Jack Tashera faces six charges under the Espionage Act.

He had a top-secret clearance at Otis Air National Guard Base and allegedly distributed

sensitive documents to a private Discord channel made up of 20 to 30 people.

The documents are said to have provided data on military activities, including US spy

planes and on sensitive records about the war in Ukraine.

Each of the six counts in the indictment is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

The Supreme Court yesterday let's stand a 1978 law intended to end the mass removal of

Native American children from their homes.

I spoke with USA Today's Supreme Court correspondent, John Fritzi, to learn more.

Hello, John.

Hey, what did the court decide here, John?

Well, before we get to that, let's back up and deal with the history.

So between 1819 and the 1960s, something like tens of thousands of Native American children

were removed from their tribes and from their families, sometimes forcibly, as part of

a process of assimilation, which was the way that the government and nonprofit groups

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