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President Joe Biden has marked the 80th anniversary of D-Day by pledging during a ceremony at the American cemetery in Normandy that “we will not walk away” from Ukraine. He's drawing a direct line from the fight to liberate Europe from Nazi domination to today’s war against Russian aggression. We talk to Jesse Driscoll, a professor of political science and chair of the Global Leadership Institute at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego. Hamas rejects cease-fire deal. A teacher changing lives in the Northern Mariana Islands. And soy sauce flavored ice cream!

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called for urgent action to avert "climate hell." The 80th anniversary of D-Day with a modern-day warning. Russian President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed readiness to use nuclear weapons. And the race to space; a new space capsule launches from Florida and a new place to launch from in New Zealand.

President Joe Biden says he’s restricting asylum to help “gain control” of the U.S.-Mexico border. Mexico’s newly elected president faces a long list of challenges, including persistent cartel violence, a deeply divided country, and cash-straitened social programs. This week marks the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations in China. Veterans are in France to attend the 80th anniversary on Thursday of the D-Day landings, which will be marked with several ceremonies attended by world leaders

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday downplayed the immediate prospects for a cease-fire in the war with Hamas in Gaza, saying that a deal proposed by U.S. President Joe Biden to halt the fighting and release militant-held hostages was a partial outline. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused China of pressuring other countries to not attend an upcoming Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland later this month, a summit Vice President Kamala Harris will attend according to a statement released Monday. Hundreds of millions of European Union citizens will be able to vote June 6-9 to choose the 720 members of the next European Parliament. Young Europeans reflect on past promises and future hopes for the bloc, two decades since most of the countries in Central and Eastern Europe joined the EU in 2004.

If Hamas agrees to Israel's proposed truce on Gaza, the United States says it expects that Israel will accept the plan. Peace mediators from Egypt, Qatar and the U.S. have called on both sides to agree to a cease-fire and hostage release plan outlined by U.S. President Joe Biden Friday. Former President Donald Trump weighed in on Sunday about the possibility of being sentenced to jail next month after his conviction for falsifying business records. A new Netflix series made in India puts a historic red-light district in Pakistan in the spotlight. A nonprofit community of breast milk donors has formed in Uganda.

Donald Trump becomes the first former U.S. president in the nation’s history to be convicted of felony crimes after a New York jury finds him guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election. And with the 2024 election just five months away, Joe Biden and Donald Trump have very different views on fighting climate change. Another European country moves toward recognizing Palestinian statehood. How much for the price of a Big Mac? McDonalds responds to social media posts complaining of price increases