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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/31/president-trump-tweets-despite-the-constant-negative-press-covfefe-twitter-explodes/

>A few minutes after midnight in Washington, D.C., President Trump tweeted a strange sentence.

>Within two hours, it had been retweeted more than 60,000 times and “liked” more than 74,000 times — making it one of his most popular tweets in months.

>The word “covfefe” does not appear in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. When searching for it on the company’s website, the dictionary suggests “coffee,” “coven,” “cover,” “covet,” “covey” and “cuvee.”

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Comedian Kathy Griffin has participated in a photo shoot where she poses holding a bloody decapitated head of President Donald Trump

http://www.trunews.com/article/kathy-griffin-poses-with-bloody-beheaded-president-trump

>(VERO BEACH, FL) The graphic images were taken by photographer Tyler Shields, who at one point during the shoot was told by Mrs. Griffin that they would need to “move to Mexico” once their pictures were released, inferring the imagery could land them in federal prison.

>Mrs. Griffin endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016, and in 2015 told Billboard magazine that “The dream scenario is that [Trump] gets elected and then gets impeached 48 hours later and we just have two days of utter chaos and then Hillary comes in and makes it all better.”

>TMZ obtained the pictures prior to a release from Mr. Shields, who released a behind-the-scenes video of the photoshoot in which Mrs. Griffin said, “Tyler and I are not afraid to do images that make noise.”

>Mike Cernovich, the author of “Gorilla Mindset,” who gained notoriety during the 2016 campaign for promoting President Trump’s “America First” agenda, compared Kathy Griffin’s photoshoot with a picture of performance artist Marina Abramovic posing with a bloodied skull from what appears to be a goat.

>Mrs. Abramovic, who also supported Hillary Clinton in the past election, became one of the focuses of the WikiLeaks email release on campaign chairman John Podesta. In the emails was an invitation from Mrs. Abramovic to a Spirit Cooking event, a term referring to a satanic ritual.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-climate-idUSKBN18O00J

U.S. President Donald Trump has told "confidants," including the head of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt, that he plans to leave a landmark international agreement on climate change, Axios news outlet reported on Saturday, citing three sources with direct knowledge.

On Saturday, Trump said in a Twitter post he would make a decision on whether to support the Paris climate deal next week.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A source who has been in contact with people involved in the decision told Reuters a couple of meetings were planned with chief executives of energy companies and big corporations and others about the climate agreement ahead of Trump's expected announcement later in the week. It was unclear whether those meetings would still take place.

"I will make my final decision on the Paris Accord next week!" he tweeted on the final day of a Group of Seven (G7) summit in Italy at which he refused to bow to pressure from allies to back the landmark 2015 agreement.

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/22/us/university-of-maryland-stabbing/index.html

>Richard Wilbur Collins III was with two friends on the university's campus in College Park when he was approached by a man and stabbed in the chest with a knife Saturday morning, University of Maryland Police Chief David Mitchell told reporters.
>The 23-year-old had been commissioned as a lieutenant in the US Army two days before his death and had been set to graduate from Bowie State University (BSU) on Tuesday in a ceremony at Maryland, Mitchell said.
>The University of Maryland student suspected of Collins's killing was a member of a Facebook group named Alt Reich, Mitchell said.

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Does it bother anyone else that the general populace seems to have forgotten that these are WILD animals that know nothing about human's & their habits

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/05/21/video-shows-the-terrifying-moment-a-sea-lion-yanks-a-girl-into-the-water/?utm_term=.23e331b28277#comments

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At a time when the president of the United States routinely accuses Democrats of conspiring with the news media to thwart the will of the people and overturn his stunning Electoral College landslide, it’s not terribly surprising to learn that the White House is instructing federal agencies to stonewall efforts by the minority party in Congress to exercise oversight. But it’s another sign of another layer of bipartisan tradition being stripped away. And given the timing, it makes you wonder if Team Trump wants to make sure congressional Republicans can keep dangerous information bottled up, with respect to the Russia probe and other sensitive matters.

>Politico has the scoop:

>The White House is telling federal agencies to blow off Democratic lawmakers’ oversight requests, as Republicans fear the information could be weaponized against President Donald Trump.

>At meetings with top officials for various government departments this spring, Uttam Dhillon, a White House lawyer, told agencies not to cooperate with such requests from Democrats, according to Republican sources inside and outside the administration.

>A White House spokeswoman said the policy of the administration is “to accommodate the requests of chairmen, regardless of their political party.” There are no Democratic chairmen, as Congress is controlled by Republicans.

>Bit of a catch, eh?

>Turns out, according to The Wall Street Journal, the Department of Justice has given the green light to this partisan interpretation of congressional oversight powers:

>The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, a unit that answers legal questions for government agencies and the White House, said congressional authority to oversee the executive branch may be exercised only by committees and subcommittees controlled by the party in power.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/06/fed-agencies-turn-deaf-ears-on-info-requests-from-democrats.html

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A Republican congressman said last week that, were the impacts of climate change to become a “real problem,” God would intervene.

>“I believe there’s climate change,” Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) told constituents at a town hall Friday, as seen in a video of the event posted online. “I believe there’s been climate change since the beginning of time. I think there are cycles.”

>“Do I think that man has some impact? Yeah, of course,” he continued. “Can man change the entire universe? No. Why do I believe that? As a Christian, I believe that there is a creator, God, who’s much bigger than us. And I’m confident that, if there’s a real problem, he can take care of it.”

https://youtu.be/hMxTUhLp8qc

>President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter Wednesday that he would announce whether the United States would stay in the Paris climate accord, a landmark agreement reached between nearly every nation on Earth in 2016 to collectively curb emissions.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tim-walberg-climate-change-god

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/us/politics/stephen-bannon-white-house-ethics-waivers.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

>The Trump administration may have skirted federal ethics rules by retroactively granting a blanket exemption that allows Stephen K. Bannon, the senior White House strategist, to communicate with editors at Breitbart News, where he was recently an executive.

>The exemption, made public late Wednesday along with more than a dozen other ethics waivers issued by the White House, allows all White House aides to communicate with news organizations, even if they involve a “a former employer or former client.”

>The waiver, which was undated, did not mention Mr. Bannon specifically, but appeared to benefit him by potentially dislodging him from a pending ethics complaint over his past discussions with Breitbart editors. It would also free him from restrictions on his future communication with the conservative media company.

>The waiver, and the fact that it remains unclear when it was originally issued, seemed unusual to Walter M. Shaub Jr., the director of the Office of Government Ethics, who questioned its validity.

>“There is no such thing as a retroactive waiver,” Mr. Shaub said in an interview. “If you need a retroactive waiver, you have violated a rule.”

>A spokeswoman for the White House did not respond to a request for comment. The ethics waivers had prompted a dispute between the White House and the Office of Government Ethics, which pressed the administration to make them public. The waivers reveal what past work might conflict with aides’ new official duties.

>In January, President Trump signed an executive order that put in place stringent ethics rules for his political appointees like Mr. Bannon. Under the policy, Mr. Bannon would be barred from contacting Breitbart employees for two years to discuss issues that were under his purview while he was an executive there.

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Bernie Sanders may not have won the 2016 presidential election, but his supporters are beginning to fill elected seats across Donald Trump’s America. Christine Pellegrino, a Sanders delegate in last year’s Democratic primaries, defeated her Republican opponent in a New York state district that overwhelmingly voted for President Donald Trump. The new Democratic representative replaced Republican…


https://allsorce.com/sanders-delegate-wins-ny-state-election/

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https://archive.is/JnMUK
奇妙な果実にしちまおう="Let's make PRESIDENT Abe Strange Fruit"

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A 25-year-old federal contractor is facing charges she leaked a classified National Security Agency document to a news outlet in May.

>The charges against Reality Leigh Winner came about an hour after the publication of a story based on an NSA document detailing Russian attempts to hack American voting systems in 2016.

>President Trump has been pushing Justice to go after leakers inside the federal government, which he has identified as "the big story" when it comes to Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election. Winner's arrest could signal the federal government is going to aggressively investigate and prosecute individuals who send classified intelligence to news organizations.

>Trump and other Republican allies in Washington have made pursuing leakers one of their top priorities, but Winner is the first to face charges for releasing classified intelligence.

>Winner, of Augusta, Ga., is facing charges that she removed classified material from a government facility and mailed it to a news outlet. She was arrested on Saturday and appeared on the charge Monday.

>A 25-year-old federal contractor is facing charges she leaked a classified National Security Agency document to a news outlet in May.

>The charges against Reality Leigh Winner came about an hour after the publication of a story based on an NSA document detailing Russian attempts to hack American voting systems in 2016.

>President Trump has been pushing Justice to go after leakers inside the federal government, which he has identified as "the big story" when it comes to Russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election. Winner's arrest could signal the federal government is going to aggressively investigate and prosecute individuals who send classified intelligence to news organizations.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/federal-contractor-reality-leigh-winner-arrested-for-sending-classified-nsa-intelligence-to-news-outlet/article/2625014

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http://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/more-than-90-percent-of-citizens-consider-themselves-ethnic-ukrainians/

An overwhelming 92 percent of citizens of Ukraine consider themselves ethnic Ukrainians, according to a recent survey by the Razumkov Center. Six percent of the respondents consider themselves ethnic Russians, and 1.5 percent cite other ethnic groups. This is the highest recorded percentage of Ukrainian self-identification since Ukraine regained independence. Sociologists say Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its aggression in the Donbas accelerated the self- identification process.

According to the 2001 census, 78.8 percent citizens called themselves Ukrainian; in 2015 (according to the Razumkov Center) it was 86 percent; and today it is 92 percent. According to the most recent survey, which was conducted in March, the percentage of those who consider themselves Ukrainian is highest among the youngest respondents – age 18 to 22 – at 96.2 percent. Among those over the age of 60 it is less than 90 percent.

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/british-police-rush-to-london-bridge-after-reports-of-van-hitting-pedestrians/ar-BBBV0Ez?OCID=ansmsnnews11
Reuters
By Megan Revell and William Schomberg
25 mins ago

UK police rush to three attacks in Central London, at least one dead

LONDON, June 4 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday that the incident in London was being treated as a potential act of terrorism.
"Following updates from police and security officials, I can confirm that the terrible incident in London is being treated as a potential act of terrorism," May said just over four days before voting is due to begin in a June 8 national election.

"This is a fast moving investigation," May said. "I want to express my huge gratitude to the police and emergency services who are on the scene. Our thoughts are with those who are caught up in these dreadful events." (Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge, Editing by Paul Sandle)

LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) - British armed police rushed to three incidents in central London on Saturday after a van plowed into pedestrians on London Bridge and reports of multiple stabbings in the nearby Borough Market area.

Police sent out security advice to Londoners on Twitter saying "run, hide, tell" if they were caught in an attack. The BBC cited police as saying there had been more than one fatality.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow3Uo_MurgM

The newly-elected president of South Korea ordered a probe into why the country’s defense ministry failed to report to him the import of four more rocket launchers for the US anti-missile system in addition to the two confirmed publicly.
“President Moon said it was very shocking,” to hear the four additional launchers had been installed without being reported to the new government or to the public, presidential spokesman Yoon Young-chan told a media briefing on Tuesday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtRXIlGHlUo

The deployment of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system was approved by the previous conservative government in Seoul, which fell after then-President Park Geun-hye of the Saenuri Party was impeached under the corruption charges. Moon Jae-in, a Democrat, won the May 9 election and is in the process of power transition. A promise to review the controversial THAAD deal was part of his campaign.

Moon’s office announced a probe into an undisclosed entry of four THAAD launchers, which were brought into the country in addition to two units, the deployment of which was publicly announced.

The US has denied misleading its allies.

"We continue to work very closely with the Republic of Korea government and we have been very transparent in all of our actions throughout this process," Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis

Moon has been critical of many policies of his predecessor, including the decision to deploy the THAAD system. He said Park failed to get a parliamentary approval for the move, but is yet to bring the issue to lawmakers himself.

The deployment was touted in Seoul as a measure to protect the country from a possible attack by North Korea. But the strongest opposition to the move came from China, which sees THAAD as a threat to its national security, both due to the range of its radar and because of its potential to pave way for further deployments in the region.

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The death toll in the Philippines city of Marawi has exceeded 100 people, including at least 27 civilians and 61 terrorists, while 2,000 people reportedly remain trapped as ISIS-linked Maute militants mercilessly kill “betrayers” who try to flee the city.
At least 27 civilians have been killed in Marawi since Maute fighters, aligned with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), raided the city last Tuesday.

This figure includes the latest victims – eight males, whose bodies were discovered with gunshot wounds to their heads on a roadside in the outskirts of Marawi on Sunday. According to locals, the victims were civilians who worked at a rice mill and a medical college and had attempted to flee the city.

A signed note attached to one of the men indicated that the victims had “betrayed their faith,” police officer Jamail Mangadang told the Philippine Star.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqUi-bp9vS8

In another discovery, the bodies of four men, three women and a child were found on Saturday near a university in the city.

“These are civilians, women. These terrorists are anti-people. We found their bodies while conducting rescue operations,” regional military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jo-ar Herrera said, according to Manila Standard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGJSnl8kWpE

In addition to the civilian casualties, Military spokesman Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla said a total of 11 soldiers and four police officers have been killed since the fierce fighting erupted last Tuesday.