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D-Day, Mexico, French Open: Your Thursday Evening Briefing

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Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
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Good evening. Here’s the latest.
1.7,000 vessels, 11,500 airplanes, 156,00 Allied soldiers.
World leaders gathered in Normandy, France, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, one of the most consequential military operations in history. Above, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and French officials at Juno Beach.
“We are gathered here on freedom’s altar,” President Trump said. He left it to the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to praise the institutions built after World War II that are fraying under populist movements.
Only a handful of veterans, now in their 90s and beyond, survive. We gathered photos of the day they still remember. And field researchers in France have been digging up and preserving the physical remains of the invasion.
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2. Mexico and the U. S. made progress toward a deal to avoid tariffs that would require migrants to seek asylum in the first safe country they enter. Above, an immigration checkpoint in Tapachula, Mexico.
Mexico has also pledged to send thousands of troops to the border with Guatemala, if a deal is reached, and could also expand an American program in which asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases are processed. Any final agreement would await President Trump’s return from Europe.
If Mr. Trump does impose the tariffs, it would be an atypical use of his emergency powers. Here’s what that means, and here are the states that would be hardest hit.
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3. Republican Senators have threatened to revolt against President Trump’s tariff proposal. But that aside, the Senate tends to be where action goes to die.
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, has allowed barely a dozen roll-call votes this year on bills, amendments and legislation. Around 20 bills have been signed into law since January.
Mr. McConnell, who has called himself the “grim reaper” of Washington, has devoted the Senate floor almost exclusively to confirming conservative judicial nominations and Trump administration appointees.
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4. The car industry is begging to keep strong emission standards.
In a letter signed by 17 companies including Ford, General Motors, Toyota and Volvo, the world’s largest automakers told President Trump that his rollbacks of the standards threaten to hurt their profitability and produce “untenable” instability.

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