Payroll employment adds 390,000 jobs in May … Nonfarm payroll rose by 390,000 jobs in May, as the unemployment rate remains unchanged at 3.6%, giving the White House an economic counterpoint to the high inflation rate, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports Friday. 

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The power of the NRA … loomed over President Biden’s impassioned speech reacting to mass shootings in Buffalo, Uvalde and Tulsa Thursday evening, as he called for changes to the nation’s gun laws, including banning assault weapons and limiting high-capacity magazines. It would be a claw-back to the U.S. assault weapon ban of 1994-2004. But without skipping a beat and in conceding that Senate Democrats would find 10 Republicans to join them in passing such a ban Biden said he would settle for raising the minimum age to buy an assault rifle from 18 to 21. 

Meanwhile, the Judiciary Committee advanced a gun control bill combining eight individual laws into one Thursday. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) argued the bill would be the first step toward stricter gun laws. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will bring the bill to the full House next week.

From Tulsa: The 45-year-old man who police say shot four people including his doctor before shooting himself at St. Francis Hospital purchased a semi-automatic rifle about three hours before his attack Wednesday, The Washington Post reports.

--Todd Lassa