Nightly Brief

Top CNS stories for today including American employers added just 75,000 jobs last month as the unemployment rate held steady at 3.6%; NASA announced it will open the International Space Station up to private astronauts as soon as 2020; The former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman after she called 911 to report a possible rape near her home was sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison, and more.

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National

In this Tuesday, June 4, 2019 photo, job applicants line up at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood during a job fair in Hollywood, Fla. On Friday, June 7, the U.S. government issues the May jobs report. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

1.) Marking a sharp decline in the pace of hiring, American employers added just 75,000 jobs last month as the unemployment rate held steady at 3.6%.

Secretary of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Senior White House Advisor Ivanka Trump and others, wait to enter 10 Downing Street, Tuesday, June 4, 2019, in London. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

2.) The No. 1 provider of petrochemicals to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was hit with sanctions Friday, marking the latest effort by the Trump administration to amp up pressure on Iran.

This March 25, 2009 photo provided by NASA shows the International Space Station seen from the Space Shuttle Discovery during separation. In the background is Earth's atmosphere. On Tuesday, April 30, 2019, NASA announced that a major power shortage at the station has delayed a SpaceX supply run later in the week. (NASA via AP)

3.) Looking to plan a trip where you can really get away from it all? The International Space Station may have a room for you. NASA announced Friday that it will open the orbiting outpost up to private astronauts as soon as 2020.

4.) The Food and Drug Administration called out vaping companies Friday for violating advertising rules through their social media promotions of flavored nicotine products by paid “influencers.”

Regional

Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor leaves the Hennepin County Government Center after the first day of trial in Minneapolis on Monday, April 1, 2019. Noor is charged in the July 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, who was killed after she called 911 to report a possible sexual assault behind her home. (Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

5.) The former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman after she called 911 to report a possible rape near her home was sentenced Friday to 12 1/2 years in prison.

Gwen Carr speaks to supporters outside NYPD headquarters on Thursday after closings in the administrative trial of Staten Island police officer Daniel Pantaleo. With no criminal charges on the table, Pantaleo could lose his badge if found to have killed Carr's son, Eric Garner, with an illegal chokehold in 2014. (Photo by JOSH RUSSELL/Courthouse News Service)

6.) Closing New York City’s case against the police officer who killed Eric Garner in an illegal chokehold, a prosecutor repeated Garner’s now-immortal last words.

International

7.) The International Court of Justice heard the final round of oral arguments Friday over Ukraine’s claims that Russia financed rebel terrorist groups and discriminated against an ethnic group in the annexed Crimea region.

Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says Mexico will not respond to U.S. President Donald Trump's threat of coercive tariffs with desperation, but instead push for dialogue, during his daily morning press conference at the National Palace, in Mexico City, Friday, May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

8.) Mexico’s president said Friday he is confident his negotiators can reach a deal with the Trump administration to stop the United States from moving ahead with its plan to impose 5% tariffs on Mexican imports starting Monday.

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