'Mike Pence deserves it': Trump's ire at VP a focus of U.S. Capitol riot hearings

The Reuters Daily Briefing Friday, June 10, 2022 by Linda Noakes Hello Here's what you need to know. Ukrainian and Russian forces are fighting street by street, Shanghai locks down millions again, and Japan edges closer to intervention in the yen Today's biggest stories A video of former Vice President Mike Pence speaking is shown on a screen during the hearing of the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol, in Washington, June 9, 2022 U.S. A congressional panel investigating last year's assault on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters presented evidence at its prime-time hearing that the former president posed a danger both to American democracy and his vice president, Mike Pence. A police officer who suffered a brain injury at the hands of rioters during the attack described the scenes of violence and chaos - including fellow officers bloodied and on the ground. Former Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio and two other members of the far-right group pleaded not guilty to seditious conspiracy charges that were filed against them earlier this week in connection with their alleged roles in storming the Capitol. A divided Supreme Court allowed the counting of undated mail-in ballots in an undecided 2021 election for a Pennsylvania judgeship in a case that again revealed the tensions among the justices over voting rights. A gunman opened fire on his co-workers at a manufacturing facility in northern Maryland, killing at least three people and critically wounding a fourth before being taken into custody after a shootout with police. A white police officer was charged with second-degree murder for the fatal shooting of a Black man during an altercation after a traffic stop two months ago in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in a case that sparked racial justice protests in the city. A Ukrainian service member at a position on the front line in Donetsk region, June 9, 2022 WORLD Ukrainian forces were holding their positions in intense street fighting and under day and night shelling in Sievierodonetsk, officials said, as Russia pushes to control the bombed-out city, key to its objective of controlling eastern Ukraine. Here's what you need to know about the conflict right now. China's commercial hub of Shanghai will lock down millions of people for mass COVID-19 testing this weekend - just 10 days after lifting its grueling two-month lockdown - unsettling residents and raising concerns about the business impact. U.S. President Joe Biden and fellow leaders of the Americas are set to pitch a plan designed to stem illegal migration and manage record migrant numbers as a regional summit roiled by diplomatic squabbling draws to a close. Iran dealt a near-fatal blow to chances of reviving the 2015 nuclear deal as it began removing essentially all the International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring equipment installed under the deal, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said. Britain will present legislation to parliament on Monday to unilaterally revise the post-Brexit trade arrangements for Northern Ireland, raising the risk of a trade war and a new clash with Brussels. Brazilian police investigating the disappearance of a British journalist and an indigenous expert in the Amazon rainforest are focusing on people involved in illegal fishing and poaching in indigenous lands. The PGA Tour suspended longtime fan favourite Phil Mickelson and all other members who decided to join the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series and said anyone else who makes the jump will face the same fate. BUSINESS The U.S. Federal Reserve will hike its key interest rate by 50 basis points in June and July, with rising chances of a similar move in September, according to a Reuters poll of economists who see no pause in rate rises until next year. China's factory-gate inflation cooled to its slowest pace in 14 months in May, depressed by weak demand for steel, aluminum and other key industrial commodities due to tight COVID-19 curbs and bucking the global trend of rapidly accelerating prices. Japan's government and central bank said they were concerned by recent sharp falls in the yen in a rare joint statement, the strongest warning to date that Tokyo could intervene to support the currency, which has sunk to 20-year lows. A dearth of IPOs, a plunge in stock prices and slowing global economic growth are clouding the outlook for revenue at global investment banks after pandemic spending by governments and central banks fueled a blockbuster 2021. The Bank of England said it was satisfied lenders had taken steps to ensure they were no longer "too big to fail" in any future crisis, though it found shortcomings at three major banks. The BoE is aiming to stop banks from requiring taxpayers to bail them out, as happened in the 2007-09 global financial crisis. Defiant South Korean truckers embarked on broader and more aggressive strike action, threatening to severely curtail deliveries of raw materials for semiconductors and petrochemical products. Sunday marks a new dawn for Russia's fast-food lovers as former McDonald's restaurants reopen under new branding and ownership, more than three decades after the arrival of the chain. Quote of the day "I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone but your dishonor will remain." U.S. Representative Liz Cheney Notable quotes from the first hearing on the Capitol riot Video of the day Wildfire rages in southern Spain A mountain wildfire has forced the evacuation of 2,000 people from the center of the town of Benahavis and injured three firefighters. And finally… Europe's largest meat-eating dinosaur found Fossilized bones discovered on a rocky seashore on England's Isle of Wight are the remains of a meat-eating dinosaur that may be larger than any other known from Europe, a beast that was a cousin of the biggest carnivorous dinosaur species on record. More from Reuters Sustainable Business The Great Reboot Disrupted Legal News Breakingviews Thanks for spending part of your day with us. You are receiving this email because you signed up for newsletters from Reuters. No longer want to hear from us? Unsubscribe from The Reuters Daily Briefing. Terms, conditions, and privacy statement © 2022 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. 3 Times Square, New York, NY 10036