NYC Preps for NBA Finals, H1-B Visa Fee Voided, Apple’s New Siri and more
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🗓️ 8 June 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, from CNN. I'm Christabel Polanco with The Five Things You Need to Know for Monday, June 8th. |
| 0:07.5 | Iran and Israel have halted their attacks on each other in the worst escalation since the April |
| 0:12.1 | truce, after the U.S. president intervened. An Israeli source and a U.S. official familiar with the |
| 0:17.2 | matter say that as Israel was preparing for a significant attack on Tehran, |
| 0:21.2 | President Donald Trump told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold off on any more retaliatory |
| 0:25.9 | strikes. This was during the two leaders' second phone call in less than 24 hours since Iran |
| 0:31.2 | launched its first strikes on Sunday. Netanyahu said attacks in Lebanon against Iran-backed militant |
| 0:36.8 | group Hezbollah will continue, |
| 0:38.7 | and Iran warned that if that were to happen, they would continue their strikes against Israel. |
| 0:44.0 | More news coming up, including a legal fight over a literal fight at the White House. |
| 0:48.6 | Stick around. |
| 0:52.8 | New York City is buzzing as the Knicks take on the San Antonio Spurs tonight in game three of the NBA finals. |
| 1:00.1 | The Knicks are two wins away from their first championship since 1973. |
| 1:05.2 | President Trump is expected to attend tonight's game at Madison Square Garden after being invited by Knicks owner James Dolan. And because of the president's attendance, there's heightened security in the city with essentially a five-block lockdown around the garden. Some Nick's fans told CNN they aren't happy about Trump's visit. I think people should still come out. I don't even think Trump should even be here, to be honest with you. He doesn't really came to myself as a New Yorker. We've been waiting for this for like how long, and, you know, a lot of people can't afford to get into the game on one of those people. |
| 1:31.3 | He doesn't live here and he's kind of pooped on us for a while and, you know, so, like, I think this is our time and he's distracting from our time. New York mayor Zoram Mamdani will be there too and said he bought his own standing room-only ticket for tonight's game. |
| 1:45.3 | I bought my tickets for nearly $1,000 from... Mayor Zoram Mamdani will be there too and said he bought his own standing room-only ticket for tonight's game. |
| 1:46.0 | I bought my tickets for nearly $1,000 from Madison Square Garden. |
| 1:50.0 | I'll be going to tonight's game three, and I'll be standing for the duration of the game. |
| 1:56.0 | A federal judge has voided President Trump's requirement of a $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas. |
| 2:02.9 | The judge ruled that Trump lacked authority to impose the new policy on the visas, and only |
| 2:07.1 | Congress had the power to change the policy to include this kind of requirement. |
| 2:10.6 | A coalition of Democratic State Attorneys General brought the case in December, months |
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