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London, Trump, Paris View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [The New York Times]( [The New York Times]( Sunday, June 4, 2017 [NYTimes.com »]( [Your Weekend Briefing]( By MAYA SALAM AND HEATHER CASEY  Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead. Will Oliver/European Pressphoto Agency 1. Britain endured [another deadly terrorist attack]( on Saturday night, with seven civilians killed in [the center of the capital](. The police said assailants in a van mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge, then drove to a nearby nightlife area, where they stabbed people. The police said they killed all three attackers. [Here’s what we know](. This attack comes less than two weeks after a bomber, Salman Abedi, killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. Officials say that he had [met in Libya with members of an Islamic State]( unit linked to the 2015 attacks in Paris. _____ Branden Camp/Associated Press 2. The United States is out of the Paris climate accord. President Trump announced America’s withdrawal on Thursday, calling into question whether [the world can meet its broader climate goals](. The United States is the biggest [carbon polluter in history](. Several American cities, states and companies are bucking the decision and [preparing to submit a plan]( to the U.N. pledging to meet emissions targets. We look at how G.O.P. leaders went from debating [how to combat climate change]( to arguing about its existence. At the White House, no one can say whether the [president still considers climate change a]( job.”]( _____ Drew Angerer for The New York Times 3. A broad shake-up may be brewing in Washington, spurred by the [resignation of Michael Dubke]( the White House communications director. Four possible successors declined to be considered, indicating that [the volatile administration]( has driven candidates away from normally highly coveted West Wing jobs. President Trump does not plan to [invoke executive privilege]( to try to prevent James Comey, above, the former F.B.I. director, from providing potentially damaging testimony to the Senate panel investigating Russian election meddling. The C.I.A. has named a new chief to run its Iran operations: [Michael D’Andrea, a.k.a. the Dark Prince]( who oversaw the hunt for Osama bin Laden. _____ Jawad Jalali/European Pressphoto Agency 4. Kabul and Manila are reeling from violence on a shocking scale. Three [blasts ripped through a funeral service]( in the Afghan capital, above, where more than 1,000 people had gathered to bury a man killed at antigovernment protests. At least seven were killed, and more than 80 injured. The attack came just days after a [truck bomb caused devastation in the city center]( killing nearly 100 people and wounding hundreds more. In Manila, [dozens of bodies were found]( after a gunman carrying a container of gasoline set fire to the Philippines’s biggest hotel-casino. The police have [blamed it on one gambling addict]( not terrorism. The suspect killed himself during the attack. _____ Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press _____ Justin Sullivan/Getty Images 5. Americans can expect to hear more this week about how President Trump plans to fulfill his promise of [$1 trillion in infrastructure spending]( and create millions of jobs while he’s at it. He intends to shift the costs of rebuilding roads, bridges, railways and waterways to states, cities and corporations. He will also endorse a plan to privatize and modernize the nation’s air-traffic control system. _____ Doug Mills/The New York Times 6. Investigators are examining whether the president’s son-in-law, [Jared Kushner]( center, was seeking a [direct line to the Russian president in a December meeting]( with the head of a bank with Kremlin ties. Mr. Trump’s Homeland Security secretary [defended the effort]( calling it “a good thing.” [Back channels during presidential transitions]( are not unprecedented, but they are always fraught. _____ Kim Raff for The New York Times 7. The economy added [138,000 jobs in May]( and the unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent, pushing the United States close to full employment. While that may sound great, the numbers raise an unsettling possibility: that this is [as good as it’s going to get](. The data also put the Federal Reserve on a path to raise interest rates again when it meets in mid-June. _____ Al Drago/The New York Times 8. [New consumer protections]( requiring financial advisers to put their customers’ interests ahead of their own — at least when handling their retirement money — take effect on Friday. President Trump had signed an executive order in February with the goal of [potentially unraveling the rule]( prompting regulators to delay its implementation. _____ Nate Smallwood/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, via Associated Press 9. Bill Cosby’s [criminal case is set to go to trial]( in Pennsylvania on Monday. He has been charged with [felony aggravated indecent assault](. In recent years, dozens of women have accused the comedian of sexual assault, drawing intense worldwide attention. But the criminal case rests on what happened in [a single encounter with Andrea Constand in 2004](. She says Mr. Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her. _____ Caitlin Ochs for The New York Times 10. Hundreds and thousands of [women who receive birth control benefits]( at no cost under the Affordable Care Act may soon be denied them because of a sweeping revision, drafted by the Trump administration, of the government’s contraception coverage mandate. Money has always made a big difference in the medical world, but the virtual velvet rope seems to be extending further these days, to [boutique doctors and high-end hospital wards]( with annual fees up to $80,000. _____ Aurore Simonnet/Sonoma State/Caltech/MIT/LIGO 11. In less earthly matters, astronomers said Thursday that they had detected the [third black-hole smashup]( since they started keeping watch on the cosmos in September 2015 with LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. The findings validated Einstein’s longstanding prediction that space-time can shake when massive objects swing their weight around. _____ Scott McIntyre for The New York Times 12. We asked five first-generation journalism students — [the first in their families to attend college]( — to interview other first-generation students about the challenges they have faced. “In Ghana, we were poor and my parents couldn’t afford to raise me, so they sent me to America to work,” said Agnes Gyimah, a 43-year-old nursing student. “Before I left my mother, she told me, ‘Agnes, one day you’re going to be a nurse.’ That has stayed with me, and so I strive, I strive, I strive.” _____ Warner Bros. Television 13. Finally, need a few moments away from the real world? How about streaming some cozy television? [Here are a few familiar shows]( that can offer you a simple escape. Have a great week. Photographs may appear out of order for some readers. Viewing [this version]( of the briefing should help. Your Weekend Briefing is published Sundays at 6 a.m. Eastern. And don’t miss Your Morning Briefing, weekdays at 6 a.m. Eastern, and Your Evening Briefing, weeknights at 6 p.m. Eastern. 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