William: The U.S. Job market is
still going strong, despite
higher prices and interest
rates.
That's the upshot of the may
employment numbers.
The labor department reports
employers added a net 390,000
jobs last month.
At the same time, the
unemployment rate remained
steady at 3.6%
.
President Biden welcomed the
news but he also acknowledged
that the job gains were the
smallest in a year.
Pres. Biden: As we move to a new
period of stable, steady
growth, we should expect to see
more moderation.
We aren't likely to see the
kind of blockbuster job reports
month after month like we had
this past year, but that's a
good thing.
That's a sign of a healthy
economy.
William: We'll take a closer
look at the economic signals
after the news summary.
There's another disclosure in
the Texas school massacre of 19
children and 2 teachers.
Reports today say Pete
Arredondo, the schools' police
commander, did not have his
radio, and thus could have
missed critical information.
Arredondo held off sending
officers against the gunman for
nearly an hour.
Also today, a congressional
committee announced it will hear
next week from parents and
survivors of the shootings in
uvalde and Buffalo, New York.
A federal grand jury indicted
former trump adviser Peter
Navarro for contempt of congress
today for refusing to cooperate
with the January 6th
investigation.
He has argued that the former
president's claim of executive
privilege bars him from
answering questions.
Congressional investigators want
information about his efforts to
overturn the results of the 2020
presidential election.
In Ukraine, the reached its
100th day, with Russia grinding
out gains in the east.
British intelligence warned that
all of luhansk province could be
russian-controlled within 2
weeks.
The Russians kept up their
assault on the neighboring
cities of several donetsk and
Lucy Sean's could.
They're the last two Ukrainian
holdouts in luhansk.
But Ukraine is still sending in
troops, including foreign-born
fighters.
The volunteers insist they won't
leave without a victory.
>> I am just a 22-year-old kid
and I felt that is the right
thing to do.
We are gonna push the Russians
back.
We are on the right side of
history.
So we are going to make sure all
of us, we gonna get back home
with our families.
William: In Washington,
president Biden said it will
take a negotiated settlement to
end the war.
But he deferred to Ukraine on
whether to trade territory for
peace.
We will hear from Ukraine's
ambassador to the U.S. Later in
the program.
Back in this country, much of
the Florida peninsula is under a
tropical storm warning tonight
from the atlantic hurricane
season's first named storm.
People sand-bagged coastal
properties today, amid forecasts
of 10 inches of rain.
The system started as pacific
hurricane Agatha which struck
Mexico last weekend.
Remnants reached the gulf of
Mexico and are expected to
reform into tropical storm Alex.
Federal scientists report that
the major driver of climate
change has passed a milestone.
As of may, carbon dioxide levels
in the atmosphere were more than
50 times higher than before the
industrial age.
The greenhouse gas traps heat,
and the national oceanic and
atmospheric administration says
the levels in our atmosphere now
resemble Earth 4 million years
ago, when the planet was much
hotter.
On Wall Street, the strong jobs
report raised fears that the
federal reserve will keep
raising interest rates
aggressively to slow growth and
curb inflation.
The Dow Jones industrial average
lost 348 points, 1%, to close
below 32,900.
The NASDAQ fell 304 points,
2.5%.
And the S&P 500 slipped 68, more
than 1.5%.
And the winner of this year's
Scripps national spelling bee is
harini Logan of San Antonio.
The 14-year-old took the title
last night in Washington.
William: The nation's new top
speller walks away with more
than $50,000 in cash and prizes.
Congratulations to her.
Still to come, students speak
out about the impact gun
violence has on their daily
lives.
David brooks and Jonathan
Capehart weigh in on whether we
can topple -- we can tackle that
violence.
We will take a closer look at a
pulitzer prize winner's modern
take on hamlet plus just -- plus
much more.
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