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President Biden on Saturday will hold his first campaign rally since formally declaring his 2024 reelection bid earlier this year.

Biden, who will address union members in Philadelphia, enters the weekend with a swell of endorsements from major unions and labor organizations, including the AFL-CIO and the American Federation of Teachers. 

Others backing Biden include the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; National Nurses United and the American Federation of Government Employees.

The Hill’s Alex Gangitano noted that a number of labor groups are backing Biden much earlier this cycle than in 2020. An AP VoteCast survey showed around 6 in 10 union members supported Biden in that election.

By speaking to a friendly crowd in a key swing state, Biden is seeking to project strength against a bevy of would-be 2024 GOP rivals as he makes his inaugural appearance on the campaign trail.

“The White House frequently describes Biden as the most pro-union president in history,” The Hill’s Brett Samuels wrote. “He has spoken at numerous union gatherings as president, backed pro-union legislation in Congress and met with organizers leading unionization efforts at major companies such as Amazon and Starbucks.” 

Former President Trump won Pennsylvania by less than 1 percentage point in 2016, turning the state red for the first time since 1988. Biden later defeated Trump in The Keystone State by just over 1 point in 2020.

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• President Biden selected Mandy Cohen as the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Read more here.
  
  
• A Justice Department investigation after George Floyd‘s murder found the Minneapolis Police Department routinely used excessive force and unlawfully discriminated against Black and Native American people, along with other systemic issues.
  
  

• The man who killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018 was found guilty of federal hate crime charges and his case is scheduled to enter the sentencing phase June 26.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said the country has sent nuclear weapons to Belarus, which borders Ukraine, while speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday.

Asked about the use of nuclear weapons in war, Putin said, “This is a deterrence measure [against] all those who think about Russia and its strategic defeat.”

“These measures can be used only if there’s a threat to Russian statehood,” Putin also said.

From The Hill’s Brad Dress: “After the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, Belarus was one of four former Soviet Union members, including Ukraine, that transferred nuclear weapons over to Russia.”

“Moving the nuclear weapons back into Belarus marks the first nuclear weapon transfer for Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union,” Dress noted. Read more here

Attorney Jim Trusty withdrew from representing former President Trump in his defamation lawsuit against CNN, one week after Trusty and another attorney left the classified documents case in which Trump was arraigned Tuesday.

Trusty’s request to the court Friday said, “Mr. Trusty’s withdrawal is based upon irreconcilable differences between Counsel and Plaintiff and Counsel can no longer effectively and properly represent Plaintiff.” The judge overseeing the defamation case approved Trusty’s withdrawal.

The day after Trump’s indictment in the documents case, Trusty and attorney John Rowley wrote, “Now that the case has been filed in Miami, this is a logical moment for us to step aside and let others carry the cases through to completion.” Read more here

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Parts of the upper Midwest experienced air quality issues Friday due to the Canadian wildfires, a day after Minneapolis was rated “very unhealthy” by air quality company Plume Labs (conditions in that city improved Friday). Read what experts and health officials are saying about wildfire smoke here.

In the fifth installment of The Hill’s series on cancer, Nathaniel Weixel looks at the issue of cancer research funding from a number of angles, including potential impacts of the debt limit deal and disparities in how the money is spent. Read the full story here.

(The Hill is also hosting an in-person Future of Health Care summit next week in D.C. with several prominent speakers — RSVP here.)

Catch up on previous installments from The Hill’s cancer series this week:

• Cancer rates are climbing among young people. It’s not clear why.
• How COVID set back the fight against cancer, and why it’s only getting worse
• Who you are, where you live help determine your chances of beating cancer
• America’s war on cancer rages on — from Nixon’s salvo to Biden’s moonshot

According to a ResumeBuilder.com survey, around 3 in 10 U.S. employers will offer a four-day work week by the end of the year. The Hill’s Daniel de Visé breaks down other results from the survey and what proponents and critics are saying.

“Democrats should junk the primaries: Here’s why” — Will Marshall, president and founder of the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI). (Read here)

“Ranked-choice voting is an elections-administration nightmare” — Chad Ennis, vice president of the Honest Elections Project and a former director of the Forensic Audit Division for the Texas Secretary of State. (Read here)

508 days until the presidential election.

Saturday: President Biden will delivery remarks at a rally with union members at the Convention Center in Philadelphia.

Sunday is Father’s Day.

Monday is Juneteenth.

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