MANHATTAN — Not exactly a quiet place — half of New York was watching the Knicks, somewhere, while the other half went to see Brooklyn resident Emily Blunt: Blunt, left, and John Krasinski attend the “Disclosure Day” premiere at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater on Monday, June 8, 2026, in New York.
Blunt and Krasinski also starred in the 2018 dystopian horror film, “A Quiet Place,” about a family who must hide from an alien race that is blind but has acutely-sharp hearing.
Krasinski directed the film and played the husband of Blunt’s character. Blunt also stars in “Disclosure Day.”
NEW YORK — It’s live, it’s on screen, it’s in a court, it’s a bouncing ball, it’s flying toward a net … SCORE! A New York Knicks fan cheers at a watch party during Game 3 of the NBA Finals basketball series between the Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs, Monday, in New York.
Even though the Knicks blew a 13-game winning streak on Monday, they are still ahead 2 games to 1 in the Finals.
The Knicks and Spurs play Game 4 Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden in a best-of-seven series.
MANHATTAN — ‘It’s just not fair … all they care about is a bunch of guys throwing a ball around’: President Donald Trump attends Game 3 of the NBA Finals basketball series between the San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks, Monday, in New York. The Knicks hope to win their first NBA championship since 1973.
Trump was loudly booed. The last time a sitting president attended a basketball game was over 10 years ago, when Barack Obama saw Chicago’s season opener against Cleveland in 2015.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — ‘… And the great thing about AI is that you can sum it up in just two letters’: First Lady Melania Trump addresses the Inaugural Presidential AI Challenge National Champion Awards Ceremony at the White House on Tuesday, June 9, 2026.
More than 20,000 students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 49 Department of Defense Education Activity schools in 10 countries participated in the inaugural Presidential AI Challenge.
The inaugural class consisted of six champion school teams, who received praise from the first lady for incorporating AI into their solutions to real-world challenges.
KENYA — The perils of protest in tense times: Protesters gesture near the body of a person killed by a stray bullet during a demonstration against a proposed U.S. Ebola quarantine center at Laikipia Air Base in Nanyuki, Tuesday.
The protestors are accusing the U.S. of offloading asymptomatic Americans who have been exposed to Ebola. One resident said Kenyans learned about the quarantine center from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s remarks to Americans, and not from their own government.
They also fear that they are ill-equipped to treat the victims of another deadly epidemic.
LONDON — If the Red coats who attacked America via Brooklyn in 1776 had worn these hats, they would have won: Britain’s King Charles III inspects members of the Grenadier Guards during a ceremony to present the regiment with their new Colours, at Buckingham Palace, Tuesday.
The Grenadier Guards are one of the British Army’s most senior infantry regiments. They trace their origins to 1656, when a unit was formed in Bruges in the Spanish Netherlands as part of the exiled court of Charles II.
The Grenadier Guards have fought in many major wars involving Britain, including Waterloo, the Crimean War, World Wars I and II, and in Afghanistan, as recently as 2012.
MADRID — ‘Hey guys, don’t you already have my passport photo?’ Pope Leo XIV meets volunteers at IFEMA, an exhibition center in Spain, on Tuesday.
Pope Leo, while visiting Barcelona, upset some soccer fans after expressing his fondness for Real Madrid instead of Barça. The pontiff, who speaks fluent Spanish, made up for it by addressing the citizens of Barcelona in Catalan, their regional language.
Soccer and regional language are at the heart of two major rivalries within Spain.
NETHERLANDS — When they say World Cup, they mean it: Marktweg Street in The Hague is decorated ahead of the start of the soccer World Cup, Tuesday, June 9, 2026.
The entire town has decked itself in orange or Oranje (the nickname for the Netherlands national football team) in anticipation of the World Cup and to support the Dutch team, which is playing in its first World Cup since 2014.
Although the Dutch team has made it to the finals several times, they are still vying for their first-ever World Cup trophy.
