YOU’RE HIRED: Employers added 172,000 jobs in May, indicating that business is healthy even while wages are not keeping up with the cost of living for people doing the work.

  Many of the added jobs are in restaurants, bars, and hotels. 

  But The Supreme Court killing President Trump’s tariffs and the end of layoffs in the federal government appear to have eased some fears in the general population. Even the high price of gasoline has not thwarted job creation.

  That’s the good word. Stocks fell all week on fears that the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates high to prevent the economy from overheating and feeding inflation.

THE WAR ROOM: The US and Iran continue to trade fire as President Trump fails to reach a conclusion to the war.  The US says it shot down Iranian ballistic missiles and drones yesterday launched toward the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf Arab allies. 

  The US in return struck some of Iran’s coastal surveillance radar sites. 

INFINITE SCROLL:

— A federal judge in Rhode Island issued a blistering opinion knocking down Trump immigration policies under which asylum applications by people from 39 countries were put on indefinite hold.

  In a 135-page opinion, Judge John McConnell Jr. said that actions to lock eligible asylum seekers out of the immigration system and deny others temporary work permits made it functionally impossible for a broad swath of people to remain in the country. He said the measures were improperly fueled by “anti-immigration sentiments.” 

  The countries affected are largely in Africa and the Middle East.

— President Trump visited farmers in Wisconsin to reassure them about his support. “I don’t need this, I got elected, what the hell do I have to be here for?” Trump said to the crowd. “I’m doing this because I like the farmer,” he said, adding: “I could be home right now in the beautiful White House, enjoying watching somebody else on television talking.”

— A Justice Department lawyer argued in court yesterday that stopping construction of President Trump’s ballroom would pose a national security risk … as if the entire country would be in danger if Trump does not get his ballroom.

  He argued that only Congress, not the courts, can stop construction.

— Trump is adding to his Washington “improvement” projects a pedestrian walkway to connect the National Mall with the Potomac River. In the presence of Interior Secretary Doug Burghum, Trump said, “They want to call it the ‘Trump promenade,’ but I don’t know if I want to do that.” He never says who “they” are. 

  The US Commission of Fine Arts, in the meantime, approved the design for Trump’s 250-foot “triumphal arch”. 

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’: Xavier Becerra, a Democrat who was a late-coming factor in the final weeks of the California campaign for governor, will advance to the November election. Steve Hilton, a Republican former Fox News host, and Tom Steyer, a Democrat billionaire, are locked in a race for the second spot in the general election as vote counting continues.

  Becerra was Secretary of Health and Human Services under Joe Biden. If he faces the Republican Hilton in November he’ll get an easy win, not so much against Steyer.

IT’S POLITICAL: The reputation of Maine Oyster farmer Graham Platner continues to take a pummeling as he runs as a Democrat in the primary for US Senate.

  An ex-girlfriend came forward to say that he was sometimes physical, twisting her arm, and once locking her in a room to get her to calm down. Others have said he was a nice guy but was unfaithful. 

  Platner said in an interview that,  “The whole point of these stories is to make sure we’re not talking about healthcare, it’s to make sure we’re not talking about raising taxes on the rich, it’s to make sure we’re not talking about getting money out of politics.” 

TICK, TICK,TICK: The remaining three correspondents at CBS “60 Minutes,” Bill Whitaker, Lesley Stahl and Jon Wertheim, say they will stay with the show. They wrote in a memo, “Here’s why we’re staying: We don’t want ’60 Minutes’ to die.” 

  They also mentioned the firing of colleagues saying, “We want to express how sorry we are that these principled, fair and honest journalists were treated so shabbily, with such indecency.” 

HOOP DREAMS: The New York Knicks survived a comeback last night by the San Antonio Spurs to win game 2 of the NBA finals. They’ve now won 13 straight playoff games, the second-longest streak in NBA playoff history.

  San Antonio’s Victor Wembanyama, who scored 29 points for the Spurs, missed a jumper in the final moments, leaving the score at 105-104.

  Games three and four are in New York Monday and Wednesday.

 THE OBIT PAGE: Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French author whose popular graphic novel series “Persepolis” illustrated the struggles of Iranians during the years around the fall of the Shah and the Islamic Revolution, has died at 56. No cause was given.

  The publication of “Persepolis” in the early 2000s made Satrapi one of the best known and most successful authors in the art of the graphic novel. The life and struggles of the protagonist, Marji, closely mirrored Satrapi’s own life. She was 10 when the Shah was overthrown and lived through the rise of the clerics and devastation of the Iran-Iraq War.  

  Originally written in French, Satrapi’s books were translated and published in English. The series was adapted into a 2007 movie that was nominated for an Academy Award.

  “Probably I left Iran because I was not brave enough,” she told The Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 2003. “I just needed to have more social freedom to be able to do my work.”

BELOW THE FOLD: The New York Post reports that Taylor Swift and football star Travis Kelce will get married at New York’s Madison Square Garden, an event that rivals the Knicks being in the NBA finals.