6/17: The Biden-Putin summit promises cooperation, but no breakthroughs. Extreme heat in the West has millions in danger.

President Biden says he did accomplish his goal of re-starting diplomacy with a major adversary of the United States. But it's not clear yet if any real progress was made, on issues like election interference and cyberattacks. A brutal heat wave in the West enters its sixth straight day. Critics of Texas Governor Greg Abbott say he's playing politics with his proposal that the state build its own border wall. The European Union is getting ready to end pandemic-era restrictions on visitors from the U.S. Congress passed a bill to make June 19th a national holiday, in honor of Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when Black Texans finally learned they were free.

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