Tipsheet — The Memo: Trump seizes spotlight to distract from defeat

View in your browser     The Memo: Trump seizes spotlight to distract from defeat BY NIALL STANAGE   It’s like he’s never been away. Former President Trump will return to a campaign-style setting on Saturday, when he addresses the North Carolina Republican Party’s convention. It will be only Trump’s second major public speech since his remarks near the White House on Jan. 6 — an address that became central to his second impeachment, on the charge of inciting the insurrection that followed. Read the full story here     Biden rejects new GOP offer as spending talks drag on BY MORGAN CHALFANT   President Biden on Friday rejected the latest GOP offer on infrastructure during a phone call with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), according to the White House, though the two agreed to speak again next week. Read the full story here     Facebook suspends Trump until at least 2023 BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO AND REBECCA KLAR   Facebook announced Friday that it is suspending former President Trump until Jan. 7, 2023, a full two years after he was first barred from the platform. Read the full story here     Key takeaways from May jobs report BY SYLVAN LANE   Politicians, economists and lawmakers are all pouring over the May jobs report that showed the U.S. added jobs as the unemployment rate fell. Read the full story here       Democrats claim vindication, GOP cries witch hunt as McGahn finally testifies BY MIKE LILLIS AND CRISTINA MARCOS   Don McGahn, former lead counsel to the Trump White House, on Friday provided members of the House Judiciary Committee with damning details of his eyewitness view to the former president’s first years in office, including Trump’s efforts to kill an investigation into his dealings with Russia. Read the full story here     FBI director draws 'parallels' between ransomware attacks and 9/11 BY MAGGIE MILLER   FBI Director Christopher Wray is comparing the increasing ransomware hacks on critical U.S. companies to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.  Read the full story here     Putin claims US trying to hold back Russia's development ahead of summit with Biden BY TAL AXELROD   Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. of trying to hold back Russia’s economic development ahead of what is expected to be a tense summit with President Biden later this month.  Read the full story here     The biggest revelations from Fauci's inbox BY JUSTINE COLEMAN   Freedom of Information Act requests produced thousands of pages of emails this week sent and received by Anthony Fauci during the tumultuous period when COVID-19 first emerged. Read the full story here     'So interesting': Trump pitched on idea to run for House, become Speaker BY TAL AXELROD   Former President Trump on Friday called a proposal that he run for the House in 2022 to try to win the speaker’s gavel “interesting,” though the chances of him actually doing so remain low. Read the full story here     Pentagon to keep ban on Pride, most other flags from being flown on military installations BY ELLEN MITCHELL   The Pentagon will not grant an exception to fly LGBT flags on U.S. military installations during Pride Month, keeping in place a Trump administration policy to limit the type of flags displayed on base, the Defense Department’s top spokesman said Friday. Read the full story here     Let's pay for infrastructure in ways that are fair to future generations BY MICHAEL GRANOF   OPINION l Regardless of how we define infrastructure, if we reap the benefits of Biden’s plan, we are obligated to pay for them ourselves, rather than to pass on the costs to the taxpayers of the future — our children and grandchildren.  Read the full story here     Overcoming vaccine hesitancy among communities of color: past, present and future hurdles BY DR. DARA UDO   OPINION l How we handle inclusion in mass vaccination — essential to raise us individually and collectively out of the medical, social and economic turmoil unleashed by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic — sets a precedent moving forward.   Read the full story here     The Associated Press: US judge overturns California’s ban on assault weapons BY DON THOMPSON A federal judge Friday overturned California’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, ruling that it violates the constitutional right to bear arms. Read the full story here     The New York Times: US waged secret legal battle to obtain emails of 4 Times reporters BY CHARLIE SAVAGE AND KATIE BENNER In the last weeks of the Trump administration and continuing under President Biden, the Justice Department fought a secret legal battle to obtain the email logs of four New York Times reporters in a hunt for their sources, a top lawyer for the newspaper said Friday night. Read the full story here     The Washington Post: Harris heads to Guatemala, Mexico to address migration and manage expectations for quick results BY NICK MIROFF, CLEVE R. WOOTSON JR. AND KEVIN SIEFF Vice President Harris will depart Sunday for Guatemala and Mexico, a two-day trip crafted to highlight the Biden administration’s efforts to remedy what it calls the “root causes” of mass migration from Central America to the United States. Read the full story here     Bloomberg: Historic global tax deal nears as G-7 seeks agreement on tech BY ALESSANDRA MIGLIACCIO, SALEHA MOHSIN, WILLIAM HOROBIN AND ALEX MORALES The world’s richest governments enter a second day of talks in London seeking to pave the way toward a historic rewrite of the tax code for international business. Read the full story here     NBC News: UFO report: No evidence of alien spacecraft, but can't rule it out BY COURTNEY KUBE Are there alien spacecraft flying above us? A highly anticipated government report sheds little light on the mystery, finding no evidence of extraterrestrial activity but not ruling it out either, according to two U.S. officials. Read the full story here         Did a friend forward you this email? 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