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| Happy Tuesday, Daily Briefing readers! We're running a little late this morning because USATODAY.com was one of the many, many websites that were unavailable after an apparent widespread outage at cloud service company Fastly. |
| In the mean time, Steve is here with more of Tuesday's news. |
| 🌎New this morning: Dozens of women say they were duped by fertility doctors they trusted to inseminate them with sperm from various donors. They discovered the deceptions decades later, when their children took popular, at-home DNA tests. |
| ⚖ "...a much better relationship": Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, repeatedly pressured the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden in 2019. |
| 🌎"You can see it from miles away": A pair of fast-moving wildfires have grown in Arizona, burning more than 100,000 acres, prompting evacuations in some areas. |
| 🚨 "This violence has to stop": Authorities have arrested three teenagers linked to the deadly shooting at a South Florida graduation party. |
| 📺 Who was inside the box? Katie Thurston, star of this season's "The Bachelorette" on ABC, met 30 men and sent seven of them home in Monday night's premiere. |
| 🎧 On today's 5 Things podcast, hear how the Department of Justice recovered ransom payments to hackers who shut down the Colonial Pipeline. You can listen to the podcast every day on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on your smart speaker. |
| 🧑 Hey America. We need to talk. One conversation, even multiplied thousands of times, won't heal America. But it's a start. Join us and thousands of other Americans on Saturday, June 12 for America Talks. We will meet one-on-one in video conversations across political divides. 👉 Start here: Take the survey and register to participate now. |
| What else is happening today: |
Harris to meet with Mexican President, Biden critic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
| Vice President Kamala Harris will complete the second leg of her foreign trip Tuesday in Mexico, where she'll meet with the country's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. In addition to meeting with López Obrador, a vocal critic of President Joe Biden, Harris will also speak to other Mexican officials and local female entrepreneurs to help deepen ties between the two countries and mitigate migration to the United States' southern border. The border will be a focal point of Harris' discussions Tuesday as she seeks cooperation on a politically fraught issue that has dogged the Biden administration in its first months. While visiting Guatemala Monday, Harris announced new initiatives to address corruption and human trafficking in Central America. |
In the spotlight: Manchin to meet civil rights leaders amid voting bill discussion |
| West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who has announced he will vote against the party's flagship voting reform package and has repeatedly stated he will not vote to eliminate the filibuster, will meet with civil rights figures, including Rev. Al Sharpton and Marc Morial, in Washington Tuesday. President Joe Biden urged them to visit Manchin to discuss the voting bill and the legislative agenda. Manchin's opposition to the voting rights bill is such a blow because many Democrats view it as crucial to protecting democracy and a direct response to restrictive new voting laws in Republican-led states. |
What else people are reading: |
| 🔵 "I did this to prove a point": A 30-year-old mother who was arrested after posing as her daughter, 13, at a Texas school says she did it to push for better security. |
| 🔵 The FBI was able to "turn the tables": Authorities dealt a blow to a hacking group that forced the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline, recovering the "majority" of the $4.4 million in cryptocurrency ransom paid to restore the energy system. |
| 🔵 Recall could be coming: Dozens of popular sunscreens have been contaminated with benzene, a chemical that can cause cancer, according to a new report. |
| 🔵 Fact check: Former President Donald Trump did not wear his pants backwards during a speech over the weekend. He wore them properly, images and videos show. |
| 🔵 "We're not trying to stick it to anyone": When a neighborhood association told Wisconsin homeowners that their Pride flag had to be taken down, they found a clever loophole. |
 | | A homeowner in Wisconsin washed his home in rainbow flood lights. | | Submitted photo; USA TODAY graphic | |
Suspects in fatal shooting of 6-year-old boy to appear in court |
| The two men who were arrested in connection to a road rage shooting that killed a 6-year-old boy in California will appear in court Tuesday . Marcus Anthony Eriz, 24, and Wynne Lee, 23, were taken into custody Sunday and are likely to be charged with murder. Aiden Leos, 6, was shot fatally on May 21, as his mother was driving him to school. According to Leos' mother, Joanna Cloonan, and those who stopped to help her, she made a hand gesture to a car that cut her off, which then drove behind her, and someone fired into Cloonan's vehicle. Aiden, who was sitting in the back seat, was shot in the abdomen and pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. |
Newsmakers in their own words: Teen speaks out after getting his diploma |
 | | Ever Lopez, right, and his mother, Margarita, with his diploma | | The Courier Tribune photo; USA TODAY graphic | |
| Ever Lopez received his high school diploma Monday, four days after his principal set off a social media firestorm by refusing to present it at graduation because the teen draped a Mexican flag over his gown. More than 100,000 people had signed an online petition demanding Lopez get his diploma. |
Amazon launches its internet-sharing feature |
| On Tuesday, Amazon Sidewalk will launch on eligible Echo and Ring devices . The program will pool a "small portion of your internet bandwidth" with neighbors in an effort to allow devices to work better and help locate lost ones. Amazon says its Sidewalk feature has multiple layers of privacy and security to protect personal information, but users will have the option to turn off Sidewalk if they decide not to participate. Ring owners with an eligible device can opt out by visiting the control center in the Ring app or Ring website. Customers who own an eligible Echo device can make changes in Settings in the Alexa app. |
Aaron Rodgers is happy with Shailene Woodley, not so happy with the Packers |
| NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers is not expected to attend the Green Bay Packers' minicamp, the lone "mandatory" activity on the NFL's offseason schedule, after skipping voluntary organized team activities for the first time in his career. The question now becomes what happens next in the team's saga with its disgruntled MVP quarterback. |
| Actress Shailene Woodley said in a recent interview that she and Rodgers jumped "headfirst" into a relationship. Woodley said the couple "immediately" moved in together when they first started dating during the pandemic. Rodgers joined Woodley in Montreal, where she was filming an upcoming project. |
 | | Shailene Woodley and Aaron Rodgers enjoyed a stay at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort during a vacation to Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | | Matt Stroshane, Matt Stroshane, Photographer | |
Duchess Meghan publishes children's book 'The Bench' |
| It's been a busy few days for Duchess Meghan. After welcoming her second child with Prince Harry Friday – baby Lilibet – the new mom is publishing her debut children's book, due out Tuesday. "The Bench" was inspired by her husband and their son , Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, who recently turned 2. Meghan says she and award-winning artist Christian Robinson worked closely to illustrate the special bond of fathers and sons through an inclusive lens. "My hope is that 'The Bench' resonates with every family, no matter the makeup," she said. Meghan, 39, and Harry, 36, stepped back from their senior royal roles in early 2020 and moved to California several months later. |
ICYMI: Some of our top stories published Monday |
| 🥊Column: The Floyd Mayweather-Logan Paul match over the weekend shows that celebrity boxing has gone too far, writes Josh Peter. |
| 💦 A crisis at the iconic Hoover Dam: The effects of drought and climate change are visible, as the dam will soon hold the smallest amount of water since it was filled in the 1930s. |
| ⚽ "Total lack of respect for what's happening on the field ...": Sunday's CONCACAF Nations League final between the United States and Mexico in Denver was marred by an anti-gay chant late in the match, and fans throwing objects on the field. |
📸 Photo of the day: 'Sea snot' has become a problem on the Turkish coast 📸 |
 | | June 7, 2021: An aerial photo of the sea at the Caddebostan shore, in Asian side of Istanbul, with a huge mass of marine mucilage, a thick, slimy substance made up of compounds released by marine organisms, in Turkey's Marmara Sea. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised Saturday to rescue the Marmara Sea from an outbreak of "sea snot" that is alarming marine biologists and environmentalists. | | Kemal Aslan, AP | |
| Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised to rescue the Marmara Sea from a "sea snot" outbreak that is alarming experts. Erdogan said dumped untreated waste and climate change caused the sea snot bloom. |
| For more stunning photos from around the world, check out our Day in Pictures photo gallery. |
| Contributing: The Associated Press |
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