WE’RE BACK! — June 13, 2019

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1920 – THE POST OFFICE MAKES IT OFFICIAL — CHILDREN CANNOT BE SENT BY MAIL

1940 – PARIS IS EVACUATED AS GERMANS ADVANCE ON THE CITY

1966 – ‘YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT…’ SCOTUS RULES IN ‘MIRANDA V ARIZONA’

1967 – LBJ NOMINATED THURGOOD MARSHAL TO THE SUPREME COURT

1971 – THE NY TIMES BEGINS PUBLISHING THE PENTAGON PAPERS

News and The Politics out of D.C.

TRUMP SAYS FOREIGN ‘DIRT’ NOT ELECTION INTERFERENCE — AND HE WOULD LOOK AT IT

FORMER TRUMP AIDE HOPE HICKS AGREES TO TESTIFY BEFORE JUDICIARY

HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE TO HOLD TOP US OFFICIALS IN CONTEMPT

BERNIE SANDERS THINKS THERE ARE AMERICANS WHO WOULD LOVE TO PAY MORE TAXES

DEM HOUSE MEMBER SAYS MEN WHO OPPOSE ABORTION ARE ‘SEX-STARVED MALES’

DEFICIT SURGES IN MAY (BUT, IT’S NOT ABOUT REVENUE — THE JUMP WAS IN SPENDING)

PRESIDENT TRUMP TO SEND 1000 ADDITIONAL TROOPS TO POLAND

OBAMA ADMIN DELETED YEARS OF ICE SPEECHES ON IMMIGRATION CRISIS HOURS BEFORE TRUMP INAUGURATION

SCOTUS WATCH: THE COURT’S SET TO RULE ON 24 CASES IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS

OREGON GOVERNOR SIGNED BILL PLEDGING STATES ELECTORAL VOTES TO NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE WINNER

General News

AT LEAST TWO DOZEN POLICE OFFICERS INJURED IN MEMPHIS FOLLOWING OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING

HONG KONG — THE TENSION IS STILL RISING

STANFORD SAILING COACH GETS JUST ONE DAY IN PRISON FOR HIS PART IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS SCANDAL

OIL PRICES SPIKE AFTER A TANKER IS ATTACKED IN THE GULF OF OMAN

NYPD SWARM MIDTOWN STREET AFTER CAGES WITH ‘KIDS’ INSIDE APPEARED

HOW MANY STATES HAVE LEGALIZED ASSISTED SUICIDE? NOW THAT MAINE HAS APPROVED IT, 8 STATES

UBER IS LOOKING AT DRONE DELIVERY OF FOOD, UNVEILS NEW AUTONOMOUS CAR

STILL THINKING SOCIALISM IS A GOOD IDEA? MORGUE IN VENEZUELA TELLS PEOPLE TO TAKE BODIES HOME

TEEN VOGUE MAGAZINE IS TEACHING 16-YR-OLDS HOW TO GET AN ABORTION WITHOUT YOUR PARENTS KNOWING

Strange News Catching My Eye

NOT THE ONION: ‘MEN IN BLACK’ STAR SUGGESTS A WOKER NAME — ‘HUMANS IN BLACK’

HAS IT REALLY BEEN 25 YEARS SINCE OJ’s WIFE NICOLE AND RON GOLDMAN WERE BRUTALLY MURDERED?

81-YR-OLD ROBS BANK…BECAUSE HE WANTED TO GO BACK TO PRISON

REPORT: BY 2040, MOST ‘MEAT’ WON’T COME FROM DEAD ANIMAL

TARANTINO IS REMAKING ‘STAR TREK’ AND IT’S GOING TO BE R-RATED AND KIRK WILL BE CURSING

YIKES! CHICAGO WILLIS TOWER SKYDECK CRACKS UNDER THE FEET OF TOURISTS