HOUR 1 

• El Nino and its ramifications / (MB) https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2023/06/01/el-nino-is-so-back
• The Defense Department announced it will purchase Starlink satellite internet terminals from Elon Musk’s SpaceX to bolster Ukraine’s defenses in its fight against Russia  / (CNBC) https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/01/pentagon-awards-spacex-with-ukraine-contract-for-starlink-satellite-internet.html?
• Trump and DeSantis are working to set themselves apart / (CBS)
  https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-and-desantis-are-in-a-heated-competition-intensifying-the-race-for-the-gop-nomination/
• Biden's border crisis: Shocking video of giant gaps in the wall between U.S.-Mexico reveals easy access for migrants / (FOX News) https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gov-noem-send-50-national-guard-troops-southern-border-warzone-help-texas
• Hiring surged last month as U.S. employers added 339,000 jobs, far above expectations, according to a report from the Labor Department on Friday. / (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2023/06/02/1179621886/jobs-employment-employers-labor-market-economy-recession-inflation
• The U.S. Senate passed a bill to avoid defaulting on the federal debt Thursday night, on a 63-36 vote. But it stalled for a few hours when a group of senators, including Alaska’s Dan Sullivan, argued the bipartisan agreement doesn’t spend enough on the military / (NPR) https://alaskapublic.org/2023/06/02/sullivan-votes-against-lifting-debt-ceiling-saying-the-bill-didnt-have-enough-money-for-military/
• Two vacationing couples — including sisters — and a fishing boat captain were on a charter boat found partially submerged off southeast Alaska over the weekend amid rough seas, family members said Wednesday / (ANS) https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2023/06/01/family-sisters-among-4-missing-boaters-after-vessel-found-partially-submerged-alaska/
• A Washington man accused of killing a Ketchikan surgeon was convicted Thursday by an Anchorage jury on murder and theft charges.Alaska oil and gas regulators this week levied an unusually large fine against / (ADN) https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2023/06/01/jury-convicts-washington-man-of-murder-in-2017-killing-of-southeast-alaska-surgeon/
• Hilcorp Alaska for violating an approved drilling process, and said the company continues to engage in a pattern of misbehavior that has led the agency to issue more than 60 enforcement actions against it / (ADN) 

HOUR 2

• The USDA’s Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Alexis M. Taylor stopped in Alaska on her way to Japan for an agricultural trade mission. / (ANS) https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2023/06/02/usda-official-visits-alaska/
• Adam Holz from Plugged In reviews  Spiderman Across the Spider-verse and Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Arc 
• Todd Smoldon from Gov Dunleavy's office with an update
• Rebecca Logan discusses the new Alaska Oil & Gas Historical Society / Lear more here:  https://akoghs.org/