| We’re covering the 75th anniversary of D-Day, U.S. tariffs against Mexico and Madonna at 60. | |  By Alisha Haridasani Gupta | | | President Trump at a D-Day commemorative event in Portsmouth, England, where he read an excerpt from a prayer delivered by President Franklin Roosevelt on the eve of the military operation. Doug Mills/The New York Times | | | On this day 75 years ago, thousands of Allied troops landed on the beaches of Nazi-occupied France in an operation that eventually changed the course of World War II. | | | Overlooked no more: Alan Turing was one of the most influential code breakers of World War II, who yielded intelligence believed to have hastened the Allied victory. But he was cast aside and died in 1954 a criminal, prosecuted for his homosexuality. He never received a Times obituary — until now. | | | Migrants at the Texas border with Mexico this week. Joe Raedle/Getty Images | | | And in an announcement designed to put more pressure on Mexico, administration officials said migrant arrests at the southern U.S. border rose in May to more than 144,278, the highest monthly total in seven years. | | | Reminder: Mr. Trump threatened to impose a 5 percent tariff on Mexican imports starting Monday and to increase it to 25 percent by October if Mexico fails to meet his demands. It’s still unclear exactly what steps Mexico could take to satisfy Mr. Trump. | | | Separately: Small American brands, like Everlane, that manufacture in China are bracing for new U.S. tariffs there and trying to figure out how to avoid passing on higher costs to consumers. | | | The fine is the latest move against an American company amid growing economic tensions, though it was unclear if it is directly connected to the U.S.-China trade war. | | | Chinese regulators have penalized automakers on similar grounds in the past, but Beijing tends to become more stringent with regulations at times of geopolitical tensions. | | | The country is taking a more aggressive approach toward journalists — investigating them and raiding their homes and offices — fitting into a global trend in which democracies, including the U.S., the Philippines and India have tried to clamp down on the media. | | | Quotable: “To be perfectly frank, this is an absolute international embarrassment,” said one expert in Melbourne. “You’ve got a mature liberal democracy that pursues and hunts down whistle-blowers and tries to kill the messenger.” | | | JR for The New York Times | | | She is the highest-charting female musician in history and an artist who changed the pop-culture game forever. 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It's beautiful email marketing done simply. | | | Learn More | | | | Thailand: The leader of the junta that seized power five years ago, Prayuth Chan-ocha, was chosen by Parliament to be the country’s prime minister after an election that has been marred with charges of manipulation. | | | China: President Xi Jinping arrived in Moscow on Wednesday for a three-day state visit, underscoring strengthening ties with Russia at a time when both countries have seen their relationships with the U.S. deteriorate. | | | Japan: The country has the highest debt in the developing world and yet remains an economic powerhouse, a fact celebrated by proponents of a new economic approach called modern monetary theory. But Japan’s leaders criticize the theory as “extreme,” “simplistic,” and even “dangerous.” | | | France: The government plans to ban the destruction of unsold consumer products — a widespread practice that currently results in the disposal of new goods worth more than $900 million a year — by 2023, urging retailers and manufacturers to donate, reuse or recycle the goods instead. | | | Paternal leave: Allowing fathers — or another adult caretaker — to take paid leave in the first six months after a woman gives birth improves the mother’s health, according to a study of a 2012 Swedish law giving men up to 30 days of parental leave. | | | Chang W. Lee/The New York Times | | | Women’s World Cup: The soccer tournament in France kicks off on Friday with the host country taking on South Korea. Here’s a primer on the teams, the players you should know and what to expect. | | | What we’re reading: This article in The Hollywood Reporter. It’s a deep dive about David Young, the talent agency head at the center of the writers’ war. Brooks Barnes, who covers the movie industry for The Times, calls it “a master class in navigating very tricky Hollywood terrain with balance and integrity.” | | | David Malosh for The New York Times | | | Cook: Enchiladas can be a weeknight, vegetarian meal if you keep things simple with beans and cheese. | | | Read: Three novels from France explore the relationship between creativity and affairs of the heart. | | | Eat: Una Pizza Napoletana has become one of the most enjoyable pizzerias in New York, our critic writes. | | | Smarter Living: Confidence is like running water at home — most notable when it’s excessive or missing. Psychologists identify three overlapping components to confidence, each of which can be strengthened by reflecting honestly on what you’ve done well. They are the belief in your ability to accomplish tasks, or self-efficacy; a more general belief in your ability to achieve goals, or self-confidence; and belief in your worth, or self-esteem. And remember: Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as arrogance. | | | And planning for the 50th anniversary of the first human lunar landing on July 20 is well underway. | | | Astronaut Edwin Aldrin Jr. on the moon in 1969. Literature imagined such a landing centuries before. Agence France-Presse — Getty Images | | | The idea of travel to the moon dates back centuries in literature. | | | In the 1600s, the astronomer Johannes Kepler described an Icelandic man’s voyage to the moon in “Somnium,” while Jules Verne in 1865 wrote about a launch from Florida in “From the Earth to the Moon.” | | | Cyrano de Bergerac, Daniel Defoe, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe and Hans Christian Andersen are among other notables to have written early lunar tales. But the 1960s, when space travel was suddenly no longer fictional, were especially rich in such stories. | | | That’s it for this briefing. See you next time. | | Thank you
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