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(18 Jun 2025)

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New York - 18 June 2025

1. Rep. Dan Goldman walking up to podium after exiting federal building

++BLACK FRAMES++

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Dan Goldman, (D) New York:

“We just went in to conduct our constitutional oversight authority of ICE and ICE detention facilities. We were denied access. Previously- even though we are allowed to show up unannounced by statute and we must be allowed in, we gave advance notice that we would be coming this morning and they still denied our access.”

++BLACK FRAMES++

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Dan Goldman, (D) New York:

“We are very concerned about what conditions these immigrants are being held in while this mass deportation scheme is underway. We observed the courtroom before that, where the government is trying to dismiss their cases. These are non-violent, non-criminal immigrants going through the proper process.”

++BLACK FRAMES++

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Jerry Nadler, (D) New York

“ICE agents and FBI agents are wearing masks, no identifying feature, just the word ICE or the word FBI on their accoutrements. What are they hiding? If normally you assume a police officer, an FBI person, has an identification, if he misbehaves you can complain about him, you can file a report. But these people are wearing masks and are totally unidentified. The question is why?”

++BLACK FRAMES++

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Dan Goldman, (D) New York:

“And I say this to the president, if you have a problem with our immigration system, we observed one court case in there where the judge set the asylum hearing for August 16th, 2029, more than four years from today. If you want to fix our immigration system, let's fix our asylum processing system. That's how we do it, not to deceive people to trick immigrants going through the proper process so that you can boot them out with minimal due process under questionable legal authority.”

++BLACK FRAMES++

6. Officials walking away

STORYLINE:

Just a day after New York City Comptroller and mayoral candidate, Brad Lander, was arrested and later released by ICE at a federal facility in lower Manhattan, an attempt by U.S. congressmen to inspect the facility was denied.

New York representatives Dan Goldman and Jerry Nadler, both democrats, said that their constitutional oversight authority allows them to inspect detention centers and had even given advanced notice of their arrival, yet they were turned away Wednesday.

“We are very concerned about what conditions these immigrants are being held in while this mass deportation scheme is underway,” said Representative Goldman.

Rep. Nadler wants to know why both ICE and FBI agents working in the building were wearing masks to cover up their identities, “What are they hiding?,” he said.

ICE is stating despite some immigrants staying over for 1 or more days, that 26 Federal Plaza is not a detention center, but instead is a “processing center” so the representatives have no lega... [truncated]

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(18 Jun 2025)

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New York - 10 June 2025

1. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeezy, recording artist/entrepreneur - on his snowman shirts that were banned in U.S. schools after accusations they promoted drug culture:

"Samuel L. Jackson told me something a long time ago -- a great friend of mine -- he just said the snowman represents people that were demonized, and it was bigger than me. Because, you know, it's like Bruce Wayne: he's only Bruce Wayne but Batman is something different. And Snowman was that for me. It was this imagery of something that I was inspiring to be. And to know that they would suspend kids from school and keep them from wearing, you know, something that would represent that tells me that the message was loud and clear. That they got somebody to help on their side. Now, it is not just what you say. It's like we got a hood hero -- we got a neighborhood hero. We got a people's champ. And I think that's what the snowman represents."

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New York - 4 November 2005

2. STILL IMAGE: A snowman shirt is seen in New York, Friday, Nov. 4, 2005. The snowman image, which comes from drug dealer-turned-rapper Young Jeezy, has anti-drug campaigners and education officials alarmed. They say snowmen shirts are part of a sophisticated marketing campaign using coded symbols for drug culture that parents and teachers are not likely to understand. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)

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New York - 10 June 2025

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeezy, recording artist/entrepreneur- on his snowman shirts that were banned in U.S. schools after accusations they promoted drug culture:

"I used to see people with the Wu-Tang shirts and be like, 'Ah, man!' But snowman's in there now. That's crazy. And for me, it's just like, I love it. That's a legacy. That means that you did something that was bigger than you."

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(18 Jun 2025)

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Kyiv - 18 June 2025

1. Wide of residential building destroyed by Russian missile attack

2. Wide of rescue workers carrying body of a person killed in attack 

3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Valentyn Hrynkov, resident of the destroyed building:

"A bright flash and it was so scary. Everything shook. My wife and I jumped up. My wife's whole back was cut up by shrapnel, everything was in shrapnel. My legs were cut up pretty badly. A fire started, cars started burning, a garbage can was burning. All this smoke was coming towards us. There were no windows, not a single window, all the doors were broken, everything was broken, only the walls remained. The refrigerator fell. My wife was crying, she was bleeding. We had no flashlights, no light, no water either, I started to open the doors, but all the doors were jammed, all these doors were jammed."

4. Wide of psychologist of state emergency service Karyna Dovhal helping woman who just found out that her loved one was found under rubble

++PARTIALLY COVERED++

5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Karyna Dovhal, psychologist of state emergency service: 

"The people who were here yesterday and are still here, not all of their loved ones have been pulled out from under the rubble. People were waiting for their sons, brothers, uncles."

6. Various of people watching on the building 

STORYLINE:

Emergency workers pulled more bodies Wednesday from the rubble of a nine-storey Kyiv apartment building demolished by a Russian missile, raising the death toll from the latest attack on the Ukrainian capital to 28.

The building in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district took a direct hit and collapsed during the deadliest Russian attack on Kyiv this year.

Authorities said that 23 of those killed were inside the building. The remaining five died elsewhere in the city.

Workers used cranes, excavators and their hands to clear more debris from the site, while sniffer dogs searched for buried residents.

The blast blew out windows and doors in neighboring buildings in a wide radius of damage.

The attack overnight on Monday into Tuesday was part of a sweeping barrage as Russia once again sought to overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses.

Russia fired more than 440 drones and 32 missiles in what Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said was one of the biggest bombardments of the war, now in its fourth year.

Russia has launched a summer offensive on parts of the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line and has intensified long-range attacks that have struck urban residential areas.

At the same time, U.S.-led peace efforts have failed to grain traction.

AP Video shot by Vasilisa Stepanenko

Production by Yehor Konovalov

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(18 Jun 2025)

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(18 Jun 2025)

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ARCHIVE: Washington - 4 December 2024

1. Wide of protesters waving U.S. and LGBTQ pride flags outside the U.S. Supreme Court building

2. Close of flags being waved in front of the court

3. Tilt down from a large U.S. flag and a large transgender flag outside the court

4. Mid of protesters in favor of transgender rights holding up signs outside the court

5. STILL: Supporters of transgender rights rally by the Supreme Court

6. STILL: Transgender rights supporters hold up their banners as they rally outside of the Supreme Court

7. STILL: A young person who preferred not to give her name, cheers as supporters of transgender rights rally by the Supreme Court

8. STILL: Supporters for transgenders rights protest during a rally outside of the Supreme Court.

9. Mid of protesters opposed to transgender rights holding up signs outside the court

10. STILL: Protesters rally with others who support a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth.

11. STILL: Attorney and transgender rights activist Chase Strangio speaks to supporters outside of the Supreme Court

12. STILL: Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti talks to reporters outside of the Supreme Court

ASSOCIATED PRESS

ARCHIVE: Nashville, Tennessee – 10 February 2025

13, STILL: Governor Bill Lee delivers his State of the State address.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

ARCHIVE: Wentzville, Missouri - 22 September 2023

14. STILL: A stockpile of testosterone sits on a shelf

15. STILL: Boxes containing testosterone

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ARCHIVE: Florida – 1 June 2023

16. STILL: A vial of testosterone is prepared for injection at a home in Florida

ASSOCIATED PRESS

ARCHIVE: Orlando, Florida – 27 May 2023

17. Pill bottles containing spironolactone and estradiol

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ARCHIVE: Washington - 7 October 2022

18. Various angles of justices

19. Chief Justice John Roberts sitting for photo

20. Justice Sonia Sotomayor sitting for photo

STORYLINE:

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a stunning setback to transgender rights.

The justices’ 6-3 decision in a case from Tennessee effectively protects from legal challenges many efforts by President Donald Trump’s Republican administration and state governments to roll back protections for transgender people. Another 26 states have laws similar to Tennessee’s.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for a conservative majority that the law does not violate the Constitution’s equal protection clause, which requires the government to treat similarly situated people the same.

“This case carries with it the weight of fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, efficacy, and propriety of medical treatments in an evolving field. The voices in these debates raise sincere concerns; the implications for all are profound,” Roberts wrote. “The Equal Protection Clause does not resolve these disagreements. Nor does it aff... [truncated]

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(18 Jun 2025)

ASSOCIATED PRESS

London - 16 June 2025

1. Various shots performance The Establishment

2. Wide shot Sarah Woolfenden opens the festival

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Patricia Langa and Sarah Woolfenden, clown performers:

Langa: "I suddenly realized that we have a very wrong concept of what is clowning, which is actually just being joyful, find your inner child, and it's humor really - it doesn't mean that you wear a red nose and you are, yeah."

Woolfenden: "Yeah, it's just about being silly and making mistakes."

4. Performance Lil Wenker

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Lil Wenker, clown performer:

"It's very different than the kind of the, like, killer clowns you see in horror movies. Different kind of makeup, and you're honestly like, if a clown is not making the audience laugh and feel, like, pleasure and excitement, they're probably doing their job wrong. So it's very different than the kind of serial killer movies."

6. Various shots performance Josh Glanc

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Josh Glanc, clown performer:

"I guess there's an ethos of silliness and openness and seeing games all the time. You know, when you're a clown you are looking for games and for patterns and you know, having fun and being silly and being naughty."

8. Various shots performance Tom Penn (with Julie Nesher out of vision)

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Julie Nesher, clown performer:

"It comes far away from the concept that people have about clowns and when you start talking to them about it, they understand that it's leaning more to Buster Keaton and more to Charlie Chaplin and things that they are familiar with but actually never had a chance to find themselves doing. And when your explain it a little bit, it kind of sits on the place of being a child and having that really innocent sense of joy and freedom to follow your instincts and your impulses, and every human being, that sounds delicious."

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Dan Lees, clown performer and founder, London Clown Festival:

"Back in the day, back in the sort of silent film period when you had people like Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, these were all clowns but they didn't wear makeup, you know, and there's many examples - I mean, Mr Bean is kind of a clown. Anything that involves a kind of an idiot, a clown is like an idiot and we're laughing at an idiot."

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Julie Nesher, clown performer:

"When you see a good clown who's really open, really soft, it really sinks into you a little bit. You're a little more uplifted, a little bit lighter, feel a little bit more spacious and a bit more daring, hopefully."

12. Performance excerpt from "Conchola" by Patricia Langa and Paulina Lenoir

13. Various shots performance Tom Penn and Julie Nesher

14. SOUNDBITE (English) Julie Nesher, clown performer:

"There's such a chaos right now that is happening in the world and to find yourself carving time to actively and willingly be absurd and light and look for the jokes and things, it sometimes feels... [truncated]

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(18 Jun 2025)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bat Yam, Israel - 15 June 2025

1. Tilt down of damaged apartment building

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tel Aviv, Israel - 17 June 2025

2. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Tetiana Kurakova, a 40-year-old makeup artist from Ukraine:

++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7++

"I understood there was a strike, but at that time I didn’t even pay attention to the house that was hit, because I very quickly went up to the second floor where I lived, to my apartment. I started pulling my suitcases very quickly, packing my things. At least some things, because I understood that maybe a strike was coming, and I needed to get ready fast. I was afraid something might collapse—the house, or something might fall, or something else might happen. I was afraid of that. I thought I needed to quickly grab my documents, papers, some important things and run. Of course, it reminds me of the war in Ukraine. I don’t even stop seeing dreams that I’m hiding somewhere, running from Shahed drones, bombs, and looking for shelter somewhere—and that’s why I think my psyche is already shaken. What do I feel? I feel terrified inside and outside. I feel terrified by the hopelessness. Do you understand? It’s very painful. Each time, you don’t know if you’ll survive or not. Or whether you’ll be in a situation where you won’t even be found. Every time there is stress, it is painful. That was the reason I left Ukraine. I thought it wouldn’t start here. I didn’t understand that it was possible here."

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bat Yam, Israel - 15 June 2025

3. Wide of damaged apartment buildings

4. Mid of rescuer searching through debris

5. Mid of damaged apartment building

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tel Aviv, Israel - 17 June 2025

6. Close of hands

7. Mid of Tetiana Kurakova crying

STORYLINE:

When Tetiana Kurakova, a 40-year-old Ukrainian makeup artist arrived in Israel in 2022, fleeing the war between Russia and Ukraine, she thought she had arrived in a safer place.

She had already been forced to flee her home twice – once in 2014, when Russia occupied her home region of Donetsk, and she moved to Kyiv, and again in 2022, from Kyiv to Israel.

In Israel, friends helped her re-launch her career, and she found herself slowly building a life, working long hours doing makeup for media productions.

But early Sunday, an Iranian missile tore through the building next to hers, killing nine people, injuring dozens, and destroying hundreds of homes, including Kurakova’s.

It was the deadliest single strike from Iran, which has killed 24 people and injured hundreds.

Five of the victims were Ukrainians who had come to Israel recently, trying to escape the war in their country.

Four of them were from the same family, including a 7-year-old who was in Israel for cancer treatment, Israeli media reported.

Days later, staying in a hotel in Tel Aviv with 250 other evacuees from Bat Yam, Kurakova still cries when she thinks about the attack.

Kurakova thought ... [truncated]

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(18 Jun 2025)

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates - 18 June 2025

1. US congressmen talking

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Bacon, U.S. Congressman:

"These countries know that a nuclear armed Iran is an existential threat to their country, and it can't be allowed to happen. I think we're there, if needed, if Israel can't get the job done or if Iran will not back down, we'll be prepared to act."

3. Congressmen talking

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Brad Schneider, U.S. Congressman:

"A nuclear armed Iran is an existential threat to every country in the Gulf, to Israel, to the world's peace. And the world needs to unite to ensure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon."

5. Congressmen talking

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Zach Nunn, U.S. Congressman:

"This is something that needs to be on the negotiating table to make the Iranians aware that there's a real threat here if they refuse to negotiate a peaceful end to their nuclear program, the U.S. Has the ability to eliminate it for them."

6. Congressman on his phone and walking

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Bacon, U.S. Congressman:

"If Iran attacks our forces, I will guarantee you that there will be a very hard response, and that's why I think the president is moving forces in place to be prepared."

8. Congressmen talking

STORYLINE:

U.S. Congressmen say America is “prepared to act” if Iran doesn’t end its nuclear program.

The congressmen are visiting the United Arab Emirates, a key ally in the Gulf, as the conflict between Israel and Iran has frozen nuclear talks between Washington and Tehran.

“A nuclear-armed Iran is an existential threat,” said Democratic Rep. Brad Schneider told The Associated Press.

He's one of four U.S. representatives — two Democrats and two Republicans — visiting wealthy Persian Gulf allies, including Saudi Arabia.

Democratic Rep. Brad Schneider said they're working to get a sense of the challenges facing the so-called Abraham Accords, in which four Arab countries normalized relations with Israel in 2020.

Schneider represents Illinois’ 10th District, which includes wealthy and working-class communities along Lake Michigan and is a classic swing district with a large number of Jewish voters.

Highlighting deterrence, Republican Rep. Donald Bacon of Nebraska said: "If Iran attacks our forces, I will guarantee you that there will be a very hard response, and that's why I think the president is moving forces in place to be prepared."

Republican U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn, who represents Des Moines, Iowa, and its suburbs, said the U.S. would back up nuclear negotiations with firm consequences.

"This is something that needs to be on the negotiating table to make the Iranians aware: that there's a real threat here if they refuse to negotiate a peaceful end to their nuclear program, the U.S. has the ability to eliminate it for them," Nunn told the AP in Dubai.

AP video shot by Malak Harb

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(18 Jun 2025)

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++BEGINS AND ENDS ON SOUBDBITE++

 

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Washington – 18 June 2025

1. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R) South Carolina:

"(Reporter: When was the last time you’ve gotten a change to speak to the president about Iran?)

Last night.

(Reporter: How did that conversation go?)

I think he's, you know, he's been very steady. He's intent on making sure that Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon. Israel has done an amazing job to control the skies. We have one facility, it would be hard for Israel to hit without our help. We’ll see what the president does.”

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Rick Scott, (R) Florida:

“If you care about the freedom, you care about your own life, you want to be thankful that this president has been such strong supporter of Israel and has allowed Israel to go forward and do what they should be doing, and that's to destroy Iran's capabilities.”

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. John Kennedy, (R) Louisiana:

“Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, or the ability to deliver a nuclear warhead. Period.”

++WHITE FLASH++

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. John Kennedy, (R) Louisiana:

“If Israel were somehow allowed to use America's heaviest bombs, bunker busters, would that do the trick? None of us know the answer to that. The President does, and our intelligence services do.”

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Rick Scott, (R) Florida:

“Hey look, here's what we know about President Trump. Here's a guy, we watched what he did his first four years. He's the one who knows the war. He wants to defend the freedom of this country. So, I'm sure he'll make the right decision.”

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R) South Carolina:

“The end of the Iran nuclear program is very close, and the world will be better off for us.”

++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++

 

STORYLINE:

President Donald Trump won't say if he has decided to order a U.S. strike on Iran.

 

It's a move that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned would be greeted with stiff retaliation if Trump goes that direction.

 

On Capitol Hill Wednesday, Republican Senators weighed in on the conflict between Israel and Iran and the U.S. president’s handling of the situation.

 

Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R) South Carolina, said he spoke with the president Tuesday night.

 

“I think he's, you know, he's been very steady. He's intent on making sure that Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon. Israel has done an amazing job to control the skies. We have one facility, it would be hard for Israel to hit without our help. We’ll see what the president does,” Graham said.

 

Sen. Rick Scott, (R) Florida, said people who care about freedom should be grateful for President Trump’s leadership.

 

“If you care about the freedom, you care about your own life, you want to be thankful that this president has been such strong supporter of Israel and has allowed Israel to go forward and do what they should be doing, and that's to destroy Iran's capabilities,” Scott said.

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(18 Jun 2025)

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++BEGINS AND ENDS ON SOUBDBITE++

 

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Washington – 18 June 2025

 1. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R) South Carolina:

"(Reporter: When was the last time you’ve gotten a change to speak to the president about Iran?)

Last night.

(Reporter: How did that conversation go?)

I think he's, you know, he's been very steady. He's intent on making sure that Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon. Israel has done an amazing job to control the skies. We have one facility, it would be hard for Israel to hit without our help. We’ll see what the president does.”

++BLACK FRAMES++

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R) South Carolina:

“The end of the Iran nuclear program is very close, and the world will be better off for it.”

++BLACK FRAMES++

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Rick Scott, (R) Florida:

“So first off, I trust President Trump will do the right thing. We know that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. I'm very appreciative of what the Israelis have done to try to demolish the scientific leadership and the military forces in Iran. Hey look, here's what we know about President Trump. Here's a guy, we watched what he did his first four years. He's the one who knows the war. He wants to defend the freedom of this country. So I’m sure he'll make the right decision.”

++BLACK FRAMES++

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Rick Scott, (R) Florida:

“Well, when they get a nuclear weapon, they've already said death to America. So, they'll use a nuclear weapon. I don't think there’s any ifs and or buts about it. So, if you care about the freedom, you care about your own life, you want to be thankful that this president has been such strong supporter of Israel and has allowed Israel to go forward and do what they should be doing, and that's to destroy Iran’s capabilities.”

++BLACK FRAMES++

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. John Kennedy, (R) Louisiana:

“Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, or the ability to deliver a nuclear warhead. Period. Now to correctly assess where we are now, you have to distinguish between could and should. If Israel were somehow allowed to use America's heaviest bombs, bunker busters, would that do the trick? None of us know the answer to that. The President does, and our intelligence services do.”

++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++

STORYLINE:

President Donald Trump won't say if he has decided to order a U.S. strike on Iran.

 

It's a move that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned would be greeted with stiff retaliation if Trump goes that direction.

 

On Capitol Hill Wednesday, Republican Senators weighed in on the conflict between Israel and Iran and the U.S. president’s handling of the situation.

 

Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R) South Carolina, said he spoke with the president Tuesday night.

 

“I think he's, you know, he's been very steady. He's intent on making sure that Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon. Israel has done an amazing job to control the skies. We have one facility, it wou... [truncated]

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