World: World leaders gathered in Normandy today to mark the 70^th anniversary of the allied invasion to free Europe from Nazi Germany. The inescapable irony is that Russian President Vladmir Putin, whose bullying of Ukraine threatens world peace, was present in Normandy.

The White House said President Obama had a few informal words with  Putin, who’s on the outs with everyone else for taking Crimea from Ukraine.

President Obama said yesterday that Russia has about a month to get its mitts off Ukraine and end the pro-Russia movement before facing tougher economic sanctions. Obama said Russian President Vladimir Putin should stop feeding the eastern Ukraine conflict with weapons and pro-Russian fighters. The president said, “Russia continues to have a responsibility to convince them to end their violence, lay down their weapons and enter into a dialogue with the Ukrainian government.”

>Boko Haram militants dressed as Nigerian soldiers massacred villagers in northeast Nigeria this week. According to accounts the militants gathered the villagers and told them they would be protected, then opened fire on them.

Boko Haram appears to be controlling a large area in northeast Nigeria and attacking at will, sometimes in retaliation against people who resist the Muslim sect.

>The gunman believed to have killed three police officers in Moncton, New Brunswick has been captured.

Econ 101: The economy has regained all of the jobs lost during the Great Recession, according to the government. The nation added 217,000 jobs in May, the fourth straight month of gains over 200,000. The unemployment rate is holding at 6.3 percent.

Nation: A man armed with a shotgun killed one person and wounded three others yesterday at Seattle Pacific University. When the shooter stopped to reload he was pepper-sprayed by a student security guard and taken down. The Christian school is about 10 minutes from downtown Seattle.

On Camera: Suspended “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan is back to work after a seven-month forced leave. Last fall Logan delivered a report about the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi based largely on the fictitious account published in a book and repeated on camera by private security contractor Dylan Davies. CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager described it at the time as a “black eye.” Logan might appear on other CBS broadcasts this summer, but “60 Minutes” is on hiatus until September.

The Obit Page: Chester Nez, the last of the 29 original Navajo code talkers in the Pacific war, died this week at age 93. Early in the war Nez was a student in an Indian boarding school that tried to erase Indian culture, punishing kids caught speaking their native language. The Marines came knocking, looking to put together a team of radio operators who could speak in an unbreakable oral code based on the Navajo language. Eventually about 400 Navajo served as code talkers, even though in some states they didn’t have the right to vote. Nez told USA Today in 2002, “All those years, telling you not to speak Navajo, and then to turn around and ask us for help with that same language. It still kind of bothers me.”

June 6: A remarkable number of healthy and feisty D-Day veterans attended ceremonies in Normandy today, about 1,000 in all. At 6:30 AM, the moment the invasion began 70 years ago, veterans of the 29^th Infantry division shouted “Twenty-nine, let’s go!” then downed shots of Normandy’s Calvados apple brandy.

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