America's top 15 cities by percentage growth last year were clustered in Arizona, Texas and Florida, with a few in Idaho and one in Tennessee.

• Why it matters: The U.S. is spreading out, heading South and West and creating new boomtowns, tech hubs and powerhouses.

Click here for an interactive version of the map above, with data for every dot.

A Census Bureau release last week showed Georgetown, Texas, had the most growth from July 2020 to July 2021 — 10.5%, a rate that would double the population in less than seven years.

• Next were Leander, Texas (10.1%) ... Queen Creek Town, Ariz. (8.9%) ... Buckeye, Ariz. (8.6%) ... and New Braunfels, Texas (8.3%).

The sixth-fastest-growing area was Fort Myers, Fla. (6.8%).

• Then Casa Grande, Ariz. (6.2%) ... Maricopa, Ariz. (6.1%) ... North Port, Fla. (5.5%) ... Spring Hill, Tenn. (5.4%) ... Goodyear, Ariz. (5.4%) ... and Port St. Lucie, Fla. (5.2%).

Three suburbs of Boise, Idaho were in spots 13-15: Meridian (5.2%) ... Caldwell (5.2%) ... and Nampa (5.0%).

San Antonio topped the list of largest numeric gainers (graphic above).

• Go deeper: See what happened in the 10 biggest cities.

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The Justice Department says its review of the law-enforcement response to Uvalde will "identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events."

• Why it matters: Texas officials initially gave contradictory and evasive accounts about their actions while the mass shooting was in progress. Then they admitted mistakes that have left families wondering how many kids could have been saved.

💬 As President Biden left a church service in Uvalde yesterday, someone in the crowd yelled: "Do something!"

• Biden vowed: "We will."

Timeline: Uvalde shooting, minute by minute.

"In 2019, I went to see a doctor after a few months of lower back pain and excessive bleeding," Susanna Quinn — an entrepreneur and board member of the Prevent Cancer Foundation — writes for the Daily Beast:

I assumed it was brought on from stress, as my husband had recently had a double lung transplant. But like so many busy women, my own health fell to the bottom of the chore chain.

"The source of the pain," Quinn continues, "turned out to be multiple tumors intertwined with my abdominal tissues. Only 50 years old, I was told I had stage 4 ovarian cancer, that it was inoperable, and that I would be an outlier if I lived more than two years. It's been three."

💡 70% of cancer deaths in this country are from types — including ovarian cancer — for which there aren’t early detection tools, Quinn adds.

• But mammograms, colonoscopies and Pap tests can save our lives ... if we get them.

Keep reading: "New technology can take time to become standard of care. This is where the work of Congress is essential."

A man pauses at a grave yesterday while walking among headstones at Leavenworth National Cemetery in Kansas, on the eve of Memorial Day.

Valeesa Rush of Kansas City, Kansas, photographs a grandparent's grave at the Leavenworth cemetery.

The Lincoln Memorial — dedicated on May 30, 1922 — has presided over the nation’s capital for a century, "beckoning thousands of visitors each day up his steps and into his hallowed chamber," The Washington Post writes in a lovely front-pager, "Lincoln Memorial still beckons a nation divided."

• "The Lincoln Memorial is by far the city’s most popular monument, attracting about 8 million people in a normal year," The Post says. "But what draws so many from every corner of the country and the world is as complicated as the slain president that the building immortalizes":

They come to learn, to give thanks, to protest, to be inspired, to propose, to eat lunch, to walk dogs, to peddle T-shirts, to snap selfies, to launch school trips, to shoot movie scenes, to share a kiss, to have a nightcap, to give speeches, to ask for votes, to pray for change, to mourn America’s greatest sin and remember its greatest ideals, to hope that the union Abraham Lincoln died to preserve will endure.

Keep reading.

A man disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris yesterday, and shouted at people to think of planet Earth.

• The pastry attack left a white creamy smear on the glass (above), but Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece wasn't damaged, AP reports.

Security guards were filmed escorting the wig-wearing activist away as he called out to startled visitors in the gallery: "Think of the Earth."

Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum raises the NBA Eastern Conference MVP trophy in Miami last night after beating the Heat, 100-96, in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals.

• The Golden State Warriors host the Celtics on Thursday night in San Francisco for Game 1 of the NBA Finals.

Lookahead: For the Celtics, it’s a chance at an 18th NBA championship — which would break the tie with the L.A. Lakers for the most in league history. For the Warriors, it’s a chance at a seventh crown — which would break a tie with the Chicago Bulls for third-most in league history.

• It's a rematch of the 1964 finals, when Bill Russell and the Celtics topped the Warriors in five games. —AP

3 things to watch.

Paramount and Skydance's huge Memorial Day weekend opener for "Top Gun: Maverick" shows how much audiences trust Tom Cruise, age 59, to continue delivering at the box office, four decades into his career.

The highly anticipated sequel brought in $124 million at the domestic box office as of last evening, and $248 million worldwide, Axios' Sara Fischer reports.

• This is the first Cruise-starring movie to debut with more than $65 million at the domestic box office.
• The film debuted 28% above Cruise's last big hit, "Mission: Impossible — Fallout" in 2018.

Zoom out: The film could oust Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" as the top-performing Memorial Day opener ever, if it brings in enough ticket sales today.

• The movie has gotten rave reviews from both consumers and critics. So repeat viewers are expected this weekend.

Cruise's older audience makes the film's massive debut even more notable: Paramount says 55% of viewers were over 35. The first "Top Gun" movie debuted in 1986 — 36 years ago.

• "Top Gun: Maverick" was released on more than 25,000 screens globally, making it Paramount's widest release in its history.

Go deeper: "Movie stocks take off as 'Top Gun' sequel hits screens" (Reuters).