| By Derek Caney (@stax920)
Hillary Clinton clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, at least according to the AP and NBC (Bernie Sanders isn't so sure). That may render today's primaries in California, New Jersey, Montana, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, somewhat anti-climactic, but Clinton and Sanders will still play their part in the kabuki dance. 
Meanwhile, Sanders is exhorting to his stadium sized crowds that the race is not over. He will try to convince the superdelegates – party honchos and elected officials who can vote however they wish at the convention – that he has a better chance at beating Donald Trump than Clinton has. But here are the questions that remain: What does Sanders want? What will it take to bring the Sanders voters on board the Clinton bus? Does Sanders want to be the running mate? Does he want a cabinet position? Does he want a prime-time speaking slot at the convention? How far to the left are Clinton and the Democratic Party willing to move to win over Sanders' voters?
Fleeing Falluja 
A still image from video shows families attempting to escape the besieged city of Falluja, Iraq, by crossing the Euphrates River, June 3, 2016. Via REUTERS TV
Around the world - A car bomb ripped through a police bus in central Istanbul during the morning rush hour, killing 11 people and wounding 36. No one has claimed responsibility yet. It's the fourth major bombing in Istanbul this year.
- The presidential election in Peru is too close to call with former Wall Street executive Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's lead over Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of an imprisoned former authoritarian leader, narrowing to just 0.36 percentage point with 95 percent of the votes counted.
- Concerned over Congo's President Joseph Kabila's apparent attempts to cling to power, U.S. officials are pushing for sanctions against his inner circle but running into opposition from European powers wary of moving too quickly. Kabila is ineligible to stand in the Democratic Republic of Congo's next election due in November, after serving two elected terms. Opponents accuse him of plotting to hold onto power by delaying the poll or even changing the constitution to remove the term limit, as several African leaders have done.
Around the country - Tropical Storm Colin is expected to drench the Southeast before blowing out to sea. A tropical storm warning was in effect from the Altamaha Sound in Georgia to Oregon Inlet in North Carolina this morning.
- Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky displeased many people when he handed down a six-month sentence to a young man who was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman behind a dumpster at Stanford University. A petition calling for the judge's removal has attracted nearly 100,000 signatures. In a plea for leniency over the weekend, the boy's father said the boy has suffered enough because he no longer cooks, or something. He also called the sexual assault "20 minutes of action." The victim's version of events is here.
Digits of the day: $1.3 million BuzzFeed pulled out of an advertising deal with the Republican National Committee, supposedly worth $1.3 million, over objections to the party's presumptive nominee. "We don't run cigarette ads because they are hazardous to our health, and we won't accept Trump ads for the exact same reason," the site's chief executive, Jonah Peretti, wrote in an email to employees.
Around Wall Street - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen gave a largely upbeat assessment of the U.S. economy and said interest rate hikes are coming but gave little sense of when. She listed four main risks to the U.S. economy: 1) Slower demand; 2) Slower productivity; 3) Inflation; 4) Overseas risks. But she downplayed them all, saying she expects "further gradual increases in the federal funds rate are likely to be appropriate."
- Senior U.S. officials called on China to reduce barriers for foreign business, following a series of government moves targeting such companies and a new national security law limiting the use of overseas technology. The U.S. and China are in the middle of high-level talks in Beijing.
- Royal Dutch Shell plans to exit oil and gas operations in as many as 10 countries to narrow its focus now that it has bought BG Group for $54 billion.
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