--- title: Morning Must Reads: June 6 description: Obama honors D-Day heroes. canonical: https://time.com/2837330/morning-must-reads-june-6/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-06T13:05:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T08:15:37.849Z article:section: Politics og:title: Morning Must Reads: June 6 og:description: Obama honors D-Day heroes. og:url: https://time.com/2837330/morning-must-reads-june-6/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1079c9db8e7e40f/698696803bc999491f1a3f4f/ap160428943945.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4075 og:image:height: 2292 og:image:alt: France D-Day Commemorations og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Morning Must Reads: June 6 twitter:description: Obama honors D-Day heroes. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1079c9db8e7e40f/698696803bc999491f1a3f4f/ap160428943945.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Morning Must Reads: June 6 > Sponsored content. 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Thibault Camus—AP by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Jun 6, 2014 1:05 PM UTC Happy Friday, morning must readers! Today is the 70th anniversary of D-Day. Check out TIME’s 1944 [D-Day maps](http://time.com/97633/d-day-maps-from-time-magazine-charting-audacity/) and more of our anniversary coverage online. * In today’s news: Obama honors D-Day heroes \[[TIME](http://time.com/2836702/president-obama-honors-sacrifices-of-d-day-veterans/)\] * North Korea detains an American tourist for violating an unspecified law. \[[NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-detains-american-tourist-violating-law-n124226)\] * US adds 217k jobs in May \[[BLS](http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm)\] * National Institute of Health warning: teens need to stay away from weed \[[The Hill](http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/208398-nih-study-warns-against-marijuana-use)\] * Hillary Clinton writes of Biden, Bergdahl in new book \[[Politico](http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/hillary-clinton-bowe-bergdahl-joe-biden-memoir-107502.html?hp=f3)\] * Texas GOP could endorse “reparative therapy” for gays and lesbians at their annual state convention. Similar therapies have been banned in other states, including New Jersey and California \[[AP](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/texas-gop-advances-reparative-therapy-gays)\] * Obama on Putin: his Russian counterpart “has a chance to get back into a lane of international law,” Obama said, following a meeting Thursday of G7 leaders in Brussels, Belgium, at which Russia was excluded. \[[CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/05/politics/obama-europe/)\] * Hillary opens up to _People_: “I know I have a decision to make… But part of what I’ve been thinking about, is everything I’m interested in and everything I enjoy doing – and with the extra added joy of ‘I’m about to become a grandmother,’ I want to live in the moment. At the same time I am concerned about what I see happening in the country and in the world.” \[People\] * The last time Qatar promised to watch a a Gitmo prisoner, he walked \[[TIME](http://time.com/2828640/qatar-bowe-bergdahl-taliban/)\] * Obama is sabotaging Democratic Senate hopes: “The president reportedly has told his close allies that losing the Senate would be “unbearable,” but his administration is doing everything possible to make things difficult for his party’s most vulnerable senators.” \[[National Journal](http://www.nationaljournal.com/against-the-grain/obama-is-sabotaging-democratic-senate-hopes-20140605)\] * [Top Senators strike VA reform deal ](http://time.com/2828132/va-veterans-john-mccain-bernie-sanders/)\[TIME\] * Rahm Emanuel: DC hero, Chicago goat \[[Politico](http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/rahm-emanuel-dc-hero-chicago-goat-107511.html)\] * Michelle Obama to speak at Maya Angelou memorial service \[[Washington Post](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/06/05/michelle-obama-to-speak-at-maya-angelou-memorial-service/)\] * For a decade, GM response to fatal flaw was a shrug \[[NYT](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/06/business/gm-response-to-a-fatal-flaw-was-to-shrug.html?hp)\] * Senate confirms Sylvia Matthews Burwell to head HHS \[[LA Times](http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-hhs-confirmation-20140605-story.html)\] The Morning Must Reads are published daily on weekdays. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2837330/morning-must-reads-june-6/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2837330/morning-must-reads-june-6/"},"headline":"Morning Must Reads: June 6","datePublished":"2014-06-06T13:05:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:15:37.849Z","description":"In the News: World Leaders commemorate the 70th Anniversary of D-Day; North Korea detains American tourist; Hillary opens up to People magazine; and what GM knew about fatal flaw","url":"https://time.com/2837330/morning-must-reads-june-6/","keywords":["Morning Must Reads"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1079c9db8e7e40f/698696803bc999491f1a3f4f/ap160428943945.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta1079c9db8e7e40f/698696803bc999491f1a3f4f/ap160428943945.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"France D-Day Commemorations","caption":"France D-Day Commemorations","creditText":"Thibault Camus—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/morning-must-reads/","name":"Morning Must Reads"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2837330/morning-must-reads-june-6/","name":"Morning Must Reads: June 6"}}]}] ```