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11:04 ص
Listing of Memorial Day events"Minneapolis Star Tribune"
Listing of Memorial Day events
Listing of Memorial Day events
Ann Klindworth painted the names of 15 relatives who have served in the U.S. military on the family barn in their honor for Memorial Day Sunday May 29 2016 in Chatfield, MN.

Memorial Day

Anoka: 10 a.m. program at Veterans Memorial at Forest Hills Cemetery. Speaker Lyle Bradley. Music by North Suburban Concert Band.

Apple Valley: 11 a.m. ceremony at Veterans Park, Post 1776 Apple Valley American Legion, 14521 Granada Dr. Sponsored by American Legion Post 1776.

Bloomington: 11 a.m. program at Washburn-McReavy Dawn Valley Memorial Park. Sponsored by Everett McClay Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1296 and Earl C. Hill American Legion Post 550.

Excelsior: 11 a.m. parade, with service following, at Oak Hill Cemetery, just north of Hwy. 7.

Fort Snelling National Cemetery: 10 a.m. program (9:45 a.m. wreath presentation) at intersection of Peck Avenue and Mallon Road on cemetery grounds. Speaker is Brig. Gen. Joe Kelly (retired).

Maple Plain: 10:30 a.m. service at Lewis Cemetery, Hwy. 12 and County Road 90. Speaker Dean Mooney. Music by Orono High School Band. Sponsored by Paul Stinson American Legion Post 514.

Maplewood: 11 a.m. program, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, 1800 Edgerton St.

Mendota Heights: 10 a.m. program, Acacia Park Cemetery, 2151 Pilot Knob Rd. Speaker Paul Monteen. Music by Prince Henry III Players.

Minneapolis: 10:30 a.m. ceremony, Lakewood Cemetery, 3600 Hennepin Av. S. Speaker David Geister. Music by Robert Robinson and his gospel quartet. Afternoon activities will include live music, art classes and guided tours.

Minneapolis: 10 a.m. ceremony, Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery, 2925 Cedar Av. S. History talk and tour at 1 p.m.

Rockford: 10 a.m. parade starts from Rockford Middle School, with services at the Crow River and Elmwood Cemetery.

St. Paul: 3 p.m. service at Minnesota Vietnam Veterans Memorial at the State Capitol grounds. Speaker Beth West. Sponsored by Anoka County Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 470.

St. Paul: 9:30 a.m. event sponsored by Veterans for Peace on grassy area near Vietnam Veterans Memorial on State Capitol grounds. Speakers, poetry, music.

St. Paul: 1 p.m. program at Minnesota Korean War Veterans Memorial on State Capitol grounds.

St. Paul: 11 a.m. program at Mount Zion Cemetery, 1670 Payne Av.

Stillwater: 11 a.m. ceremony at Stillwater Veterans Memorial, 3rd and Pine streets, to honor St. Croix Valley area casualties of war. Speaker Pete Hegseth. Music by the Stillwater Wind Symphony and the Croix Chordsmen. T-6 Thunder Flight Team flyover and rifle salute by local VFW members. Special recognition of Army Pfc. Douglas Merrill, a former Stillwater High School student killed in Vietnam on Aug. 18, 1969.

Stillwater: 7 a.m. program at Rutherford Cemetery, Washington County Roads 12 and 15.

Woodbury: 11 a.m. program at Woodbury Lions Veterans Memorial Park, 8301 Valley Creek Rd. Speaker Staff Sgt. Marcus Kuboy (retired).
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10:33 ص

A zoo's special response team shot and killed a gorilla that grabbed a four-year-old boy who fell into an exhibit moat at a US zoo.
The authorities said the child, who fell 10 to 12 feet at Cincinnati Zoo, is expected to recover after being picked up out of the moat and dragged by the gorilla for about 10 minutes.

He was taken to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre, and zoo officials said he was alert when transported there.

Director Thane Maynard said the zoo's dangerous animal response team decided the boy was in "a life-threatening situation" and they needed to put down the 17-year-old, 400-pound-plus male gorilla named Harambe."They made a tough choice and they made the right choice because they saved that little boy's life," he said. "It could have been very bad."

He said he had not yet talked to the boy's parents. The authorities initially said the child was aged three, but the zoo said in a press release later that he was four.

They are still investigating, but zoo officials believe the boy crawled through a railing then fell into the moat.

Mr Maynard said the gorilla did not appear to be attacking the child, but it was "an extremely strong" animal in an agitated situation.

He said tranquillising the gorilla would not have knocked it out immediately, leaving the boy in danger.

Mr Maynard said it was the first time that the team had killed a zoo animal in such an emergency situation, and he called it "a very sad day" at the zoo. The lowland gorilla is an endangered species.

The incident was reported at around 4pm on Saturday, and the area around the gorilla exhibit was closed off after zoo visitors reported hearing screaming.

Harambe came to Cincinnati last year from the Gladys Por- ter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas.

The zoo said its Gorilla World area would remain closed until further notice. Mr Maynard said he believed the exhibit remains safe.

Cincinnati Zoo prides itself on its work in protecting en- dangered species, and has been part of successful captive breeding efforts in recent years in the effort to save the endangered Sumatran rhino.
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10:22 ص

Texas floods: Two more bodies found as boy (11) who fell into swollen creek still missing
Texas floods: Two more bodies found as boy (11) who fell into swollen creek still missing

Two more bodies were found in central Texas, bringing the death toll from flooding in the state to six.


Meanwhile an 11-year-old boy is still missing in central Kansas, as torrential rain caused heavy flash flooding across parts of the US.

The latest flooding victim identified in Texas was a woman who died when the car she was travelling in was swept from the street by the flooded Cypress Creek about 1:30am local time on Sunday, Kendall County sheriff's Corporal Reid Daly said.
Texas floods: Two more bodies found as boy (11) who fell into swollen creek still missing
Texas floods: Two more bodies found as boy (11) who fell into swollen creek still missing

The car, with three occupants, was in Comfort, about 45 miles north of San Antonio. The driver made it to shore, and a female passenger was rescued from a tree. But 23-year-old Florida Molima was missing until her body was found 10 hours later about eight miles downstream.

In Bandera, about 45 miles north-west of San Antonio, an estimated 10 inches of rain overnight led to the rescues of nine people.

The deluge caused widespread damage, including the collapse of the roof of the Bandera Bulletin, the weekly newspaper, KSAT-TV in San Antonio reported.
Texas floods: Two more bodies found as boy (11) who fell into swollen creek still missing
Texas floods: Two more bodies found as boy (11) who fell into swollen creek still missing

The heavy rains led to numerous evacuations in south-east Texas, including two prisons. But the threat of severe weather has lessened over the long Memorial Day holiday for many places, though Tropical Depression Bonnie continued to bring rain and wind to North and South Carolina.

Near Austin, a crew aboard a helicopter found a body near the Circuit of the Americas motor racing track, which is close to where two people were reported to have been washed away by a flash flood early on Friday.
Texas floods: Two more bodies found as boy (11) who fell into swollen creek still missing

To the south-east along the rain-swollen Brazos River near Houston, prison officials evacuated about 2,600 inmates from two prisons to other state jails because of expected flooding.

Texas department of criminal justice spokesman Jason Clark said inmates in a low-level security camp at a third prison in the area are being moved to the main prison building.

All three prisons are in coastal Brazoria County, where the river empties into the Gulf of Mexico.

"TDCJ officials continue to monitor the situation and are working with our state partners as the river level rises," Mr Clark said, noting that additional food and water has been delivered to prisons that are getting the displaced inmates and sandbags have been filled and delivered to the prisons where flooding is anticipated.

In Kansas, the search for the missing 11-year-old has been expanded beyond the swollen creek he fell into on Friday night, according to Wichita Fire Department battalion chief Scott Brown. "We are more in body-recovery mode than rescue," he said.

Four people died from flooding in rural Washington County, Texas, located between Austin and Houston, where more than 16.5 inches of rain fell in some places on Thursday and Friday.

Tropical Depression Bonnie reached the South Carolina coast on Sunday, bringing heavy rain and rough tides to an area packed with tourists for the Memorial Day weekend.

Forecasters say up to 8 inches of rain have fallen in parts of southern South Carolina.
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9:58 ص

Police are investigating the parents of a boy who fell into a gorilla’s enclosure at a zoo after complaints of neglect.
Petitioners call for investigation into "neglectful" parents of boy who fell into gorilla enclosure
"neglectful"
Animal lovers are outraged that the endangered animal was shot dead by a zoo official in order to protect the boy.
Over 70,000 people have signed a petition on Change.org for police to investigate the parents of the child who fell 12 feet into the enclosure.
The petitioners are also demanding an explanation as to why the gorilla called Herambe, was not tranquilised.
The petition reads: "This beautiful gorilla lost his life because the boy's parents did not keep a closer watch on the child. We the undersigned believe that the child would not have been able to enter the enclosure under proper parental supervision.

 "Witnesses claim that they heard the child state that he wished to go into the enclosure and was actively trying to breach the barriers.

 


"This should have prompted the parents to immediately remove the child from the vicinity. It is believed that the situation was caused by parental negligence and the zoo is not responsible for the child's injuries and possible trauma.

 "We the undersigned want the parents to be held accountable for the lack of supervision and negligence that caused Harambe to lose his life.

 "We the undersigned feel the child's safety is paramount in this situation. We believe that this negligence may be reflective of the child's home situation.

 "We the undersigned actively encourage an investigation of the child's home environment in the interests of protecting the child and his siblings from further incidents of parental negligence that may result in serious bodily harm or even death.

 "Please sign this petition to encourage the Cincinnati Zoo, Hamilton County Child Protection Services, and Cincinnati Police Department hold the parents responsible."

 Police in Ohio said that charges could be brought against the parents as their investigation continues.

 Zoo Director Thane Maynard said the 17-year-old gorilla didn't appear to be attacking the boy, but it was “an extremely strong” animal in an agitated situation, so the Zoo’s Dangerous Animal Response Team had to respond to the “the life-threatening situation and made the difficult decision to dispatch the gorilla.”

 The child was taken to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre and is said to have sustained no serious injuries.
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12:18 م

It was one of the most closely watched cases in recent years of a black man dying after being in police custody.


With Baltimore reeling from demonstrations that sometimes had become violent, Marilyn J. Mosby , Maryland's attorney for the city, acted within weeks of the death of Freddie Gray to bring murder and manslaughter charges against six police officers.



"I heard your call for 'no justice, no peace.' Your peace is sincerely needed as I work to deliver justice on behalf of this young man," Mosby said just over a year ago on national television during a news conference.


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3:30 ص

Barack Obama has announced the lifting of a 50-year-old arms embargo on Vietnam in a historic signal of warming relations between former enemies that waged a bloody Cold War conflict.

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The move was unveiled by Mr Obama on a visit to Hanoi as the two countries face the shared challenge of Chinese aggression in the South China Sea.

The US leader was at pains to insist that the lifting of the embargo was not linked to Beijing's belligerence, although few security analysts shared that interpretation.

China's official reaction was subdued. "The arms embargo is a product of the Cold War and should never have existed," said a spokesman. "We welcome normal relations between Vietnam and the United States."

But Xu Bu, China's ambassador to the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), struck a more confrontational tone. Writing in the 'Straits Times', he described the US as "dictatorial and overbearing" and dismissed tensions over the disputed seas as "intentionally churned and hyped".

And campaigners criticised Mr Obama for lifting the embargo without securing public concessions from Vietnam on its dismal human rights record.

"In one fell swoop, President Obama has jettisoned what remained of US leverage to improve human rights in Vietnam," said Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch, the US-based pressure group.

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3:09 ص
Bill's legacy on trade, gay rights, Wall Street and welfare under fresh scrutiny


Like the upcoming sequel to Hollywood's 1996 blockbuster Independence Day, this summer Bill Clinton is hoping to revive the spirit of the 1990s after two decades away from the White House.


Frailer and thinner, and now with a whispery stage voice, the 42nd president of the United States has captured attention by revealing a deal with his wife Hillary to serve as an economic adviser should she defeat Donald Trump in November's presidential election.

But just as the film's writers updated their script to put a woman in the Oval Office, much has moved on since the last time a Clinton was behind the Resolute desk. What worked in the 1990s is no guarantee of box office success this time.

Though his exact role in any future administration remains unclear - a cabinet post has been ruled out - the emergence of William Jefferson Clinton as a central cast member in his wife's 2016 campaign is prompting a major reinterpretation of past performances. From trade liberalisation and welfare reform, to gay rights and the war on drugs, the much-vaunted legislative successes of the first Clinton decade are being re-evaluated in a much-changed political context.

Trump has also begun to re-examine old scandals - claiming Bill's womanising as an antidote to his own alleged misogyny, and threatening to dredge up everything from the Monica Lewinsky scandal to the Whitewater property deals in an effort to smear his opponent in attack adverts.

 "Nobody in this country was worse than Bill Clinton with women. He was a disaster," Trump claimed at a rally in Oregon, after his own record was challenged by his opponent's campaign. At least the Clintons have had time to develop a thick skin.
"You think the stuff they said about [Hillary] is bad? They accused me of murder," said Clinton last Friday, referring to the conspiracy theories that followed the suicide of White House aide Vince Foster.

 For many Democrats, the "first dude" - as Hillary once joked he might have to be called if she wins - nonetheless remains an unparalleled electoral asset.
The centrist tenets of Third Way politics in the US emerged relatively unscathed from Clinton's eight years in office between 1993 and 2001.
The reputation of the political "big dog" for both growing the economy and bringing Republicans and Democrats together - though more fondly remembered on the left than the right - is particularly attractive at a time of partisan rancour and economic insecurity.

 "There's been one time in 50 years when we all grew together and that's when I had the honour to serve and I would like to see it happen again," President Clinton told supporters in Kentucky as he revealed his offer to help his wife revitalise impoverished regions like Appalachia and the Rust Belt.
But while this focus on what former adviser James Carville once famously dubbed "the economy, stupid" makes just as much electoral sense now as back then, there is far less consensus that Clintonomics holds all the answers.

 Both Trump's capture of the Republican party and the persistent challenge of Bernie Sanders to Clinton's Democratic nomination rest on their shared critique of Clinton-era free trade deals. Both opponents blame the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) and permanent normalisation of trade relations with China in October 2000 for initiating a hollowing out of US manufacturing that accelerated under George W Bush and Barack Obama.
Sanders has singled out Clinton's reform of welfare entitlements for exacerbating poverty rates and removing a safety net once the economy turned sour.

 The collapse in middle-class incomes since the banking crash of 2008 can also arguably be traced to Clinton's decision to remove some of the restraints on Wall Street.
Recently revealed documents show two separate attempts by bank-friendly advisers, in 1995 and 1997, to hurry Clinton into supporting a repeal of the Glass Steagall Act and allow investment banks, insurers and retail banks to merge.

 A Financial Services Modernisation Act was passed by Congress in 1999, giving retrospective clearance to the 1998 merger of Citigroup and Travelers Group and unleashing a wave of Wall Street consolidation that was later blamed for forcing taxpayers to spend billions bailing out the enlarged banks after the sub-prime mortgage crisis.

 Even Bill Clinton's own labour secretary, Robert Reich, has become a major critic of the administration's legacy.
As Sanders supporters come under pressure to rally around Clinton, Reich acknowledged last week that she would be preferable to Trump, but with words of faint praise only.

 "Don't demonise or denigrate Hillary Clinton," he wrote, "... she'll be an excellent president for the system we now have, even though Bernie would be the best president for the system we need."

 On the campaign trail, Bill Clinton has also become a magnet for critics of the criminal justice system, who claim his 1994 crime bill, passed during the "war on drugs", was responsible for the incarceration of a lost generation of African-American men.

 "I don't know how you would characterise the gang leaders who got 13-year-old kids hopped up on crack, sent them out on to the street to murder other African-American children," he angrily told protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement last month, "... you are defending the people who kill the lives you say matter."
Though the language sounded as dated as the policy, some of it can be excused by the changing attitudes. Both Clintons have also been criticised by gay rights campaigners for supporting the Defence of Marriage Act in 1996, a decision perhaps partially excused by the fact that public support for same sex unions was far less evolved back then. Ultimately, however, such issues reveal the limits of relying on nostalgia to help the Clintons. Like grunge music, electronic pagers and tamagotchis, the world has moved on since then.
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11:57 ص
The effort to create this holiday was led by President Harry S. Truman, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson announced the creation of Armed Forces Day on August 31, 1949.



Armed Forces Day in the United States

What Do People Do?
Many events across the United States take place on Armed Forces Day to honor Americans in uniform who served their country in times of war and peace. Those who are honored on this day include people who serve the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard. National Guard and Reserve units may celebrate Armed Forces Day/Week over any period in May because of their unique training schedules. Events and activities may includ

Multi-service military displays in areas open for the public.
Various educational activities that teach children about the armed forces.
“Support the Troops” themed motorcycle rides.
Large parades and other local celebrations.


Certain types of music are also played at Armed Forces Day events, including at memorials and at cemeteries, as a way to respect those in the armed forces who died for their country. For example, buglers have played a bugle call, known simply as Taps, on Armed Forces Day in recent years. Taps is usually sounded by the United States military at events such as flag ceremonies, memorial services and funerals.

Public Life

Traffic and parking may be affected in areas where large-scale events are held for Armed Forces Day.

Background
On August 31, 1949, Louis Johnson, who was the United States’ Secretary of Defense, announced the creation of an Armed Forces Day to replace separate Army, Navy and Air Force Days. The event stemmed from the armed forces’ unification under one department – the Department of Defense. The Army, Navy and Air Force leagues adopted the newly formed day. The Marine Corps League declined to drop support for Marine Corps Day but supports Armed Forces Day too.

The first Armed Forces Day was celebrated on Saturday, May 20, 1950. The theme for that day was “Teamed for Defense”, which expressed the unification of all military forces under one government department. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the day was designed to expand public understanding of what type of job was performed and the role of the military in civilian life.
Armed Forces Day was a day for the military to show "state-of-the-art" equipment to Americans. It was also a day to honor and acknowledge Americans in the armed forces. Parades, open houses, receptions and air shows were held at the inaugural Armed Forces Day.  Armed Forces Day is still celebrated nationwide today and is part of Armed Forces Week.


Symbols
Posters and other material used to promote Armed Forces Day often show images of Americans in the armed services dressed in their uniforms. Some posters show a collage of images, including images of those in the armed forces with their families or friends, as well as the United States Flag.

Themes
Some themes that were used for Armed Forces Day in the past included:
Appreciation of a Nation
Dedication and Devotion
Freedom Through Unity
Liberty
Patriotism
Power for Peace
Prepared to Meet the Challenge
Security
Special Opportunity for Thanks
Teamed for Defense
These are only a few examples, and not a full list, of the Armed Forces Day themes in previous years.

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1:51 ص
Donald J. Trump and Megyn Kelly finally talked on Tuesday night about their raucous, contentious history over the last nine months. And it appears that things are all patched up.

“I like our relationship right now,” Mr. Trump said in the interview.


It was a convivial, easygoing interview that was taped more than two weeks ago for Ms. Kelly’s first prime-time special on Fox, “Megyn Kelly Presents.”

Ms. Kelly has not been shy about the purpose of the special: With Barbara Walters retired, she has said that she hopes to fill the vacuum of the prime-time host conducting the must-watch interview. Fox increased the exposure by presenting the show on its broadcast network, not the Fox News cable network, on which Ms. Kelly appears on weeknights.



Ms. Kelly’s contract with Fox News is set to expire in a little more than a year, and it is an open question whether she will stay. She said the prime-time special gave her an opportunity to flex “different muscles.”

The interview broadcast on Tuesday was decidedly not about policy. In keeping with the tradition of Ms. Walters’s prime-time specials over the years, Ms. Kelly took a more personal approach and asked Mr. Trump about his divorces, his brother’s alcoholism and his favorite movie and whether he was bullied as a child.

She also asked him about their relationship.

“Let’s talk about us,” Ms. Kelly said, then asked Mr. Trump about her first question to him in the first Republican debate in August.

At the time, Ms. Kelly asked about Mr. Trump’s treatment of women, saying, “You’ve called women you don’t like ‘fat pigs,’ ‘dogs,’ ‘slobs’ and ‘disgusting animals.’ ”

Mr. Trump said in the interview that the question had not gone over well with him.

“That’s the first question that I have ever been asked during a debate,” he told Ms. Kelly. “And I am saying to myself, ‘Man, what a question.’ ”

Mr. Trump said he felt it had not been fair, before Ms. Kelly jumped in: “You know, it’s not a cocktail party,” she said.

Mr. Trump acknowledged that the debate “might have been a favor” to him by preparing him for the worst. He also suggested that it was the first moment he realized he could have a realistic shot at the presidency.

“I think that first debate meant something, because I felt very, very comfortable with the subject and I felt very comfortable with the people I was competing against,” he said. He also said that if he does not win, “I will consider it to be a total and complete waste of time, energy and money.”

Ms. Kelly tried to ask whether anyone had ever hurt him “emotionally.”

“When I am wounded, I go after people hard, O.K.?” he said. “And I try and un-wound myself.”

In addition to Mr. Trump, Ms. Kelly interviewed Laverne Cox, Michael Douglas, and O. J. Simpson’s former lawyer, Robert Shapiro. But it was Mr. Trump who got the most airtime.


Over the last nine months, Mr. Trump’s attacks on Ms. Kelly (and on Fox News) have been one of the more intriguing sideshows of the presidential campaign. After the first debate, Mr. Trump famously said that Ms. Kelly had “blood coming out of her wherever,” a comment widely interpreted as referring to menstruation.


He skipped the second Fox News debate because of Ms. Kelly’s involvement, and took to calling her “Crazy Megyn” on Twitter. Then, in April, Ms. Kelly made a trip to Trump Tower to discuss his coming on for the special.

In the final segment of the special, Ms. Kelly asked Mr. Trump some “rapid-fire questions,” including inquiries about his favorite book (“All Quiet on the Western Front”) and movie (“Citizen Kane”).

The interview ended cordially, each saying, “Thank you very much,” along with a firm handshake.

Mr. Trump seemed plenty pleased with it. And after the special, he tweeted, in part: “Well, that is it. Well done Megyn — and they all lived happily ever after!”
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1:27 ص

Hillary Clinton barely won Kentucky on Tuesday, while her rival from Vermont earned a definitive victory in Oregon. What will this mean for the general?

The Democratic race isn’t over yet. Hillary Clinton claimed victory in Kentucky on Tuesday while Bernie Sanders comfortably won the Oregon primary. Donald Trump, the last man standing in the Republican 2016 race, unsurprisingly secured a victory in Oregon.


The results won’t fundamentally change the trajectory of the competition, but the outcome in the Democratic primary is nevertheless significant. Clinton continues to edge closer to formally securing the Democratic nomination and managed to slow some of Sanders’s recent momentum with her win in Kentucky. For Sanders, victory in Oregon creates an opportunity to claim moral high ground and helps him continue to justify his presence in the race, even though winning the nomination remains effectively out of reach.
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Sanders was widely expected to win in Oregon, a state with a heavily white electorate and the only sitting senator to endorse Sanders, Jeff Merkley. The Kentucky primary contest, on the other hand, turned out to be a nail-biter. Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes declared Clinton the “unoffical winner” late in the evening in an interview with CNN as the network’s own vote tally showed an extremely tight race with 99 percent of the vote counted. While Clinton might have liked to have won by a wider margin, her campaign is surely breathing a sigh of relief: This will make it easier to fend off questions about her Democratic rival. A loss would have been embarrassing given the hours Clinton spent campaigning in the state, which she won in the 2008 Democratic primary against then-challenger Barack Obama.

Beyond the immediate results, what’s striking is how contentious the Democratic primary has become at this late stage. Over the weekend, Sanders supporters at Nevada’s state Democratic convention protested, claiming party elites had tipped the scales in Clinton’s favor. The senator’s fans started to harass and violently threaten the state Democratic chairwoman. At least some Democrats are worried about the potential for a serious rift in the party.


Facing pressure to denounce the hostilities, Sanders was defiant. The Vermont senator condemned “any and all forms of violence” in a statement Tuesday afternoon. But he maintained that the convention was unfair, making it likely the furor won’t die down soon. As vote results rolled in Tuesday evening, Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz had sharp words for Sanders. “The senator’s response was anything but acceptable,” Schultz said bluntly in an interview with CNN. She added ominously: “It is never okay for violence and intimidation to be the response to that frustration. That’s what happens on the Trump campaign. We can never resort to the tactics that they engage in.”
Trump, on the other hand, did not appear interested in feuding with members of his party, at least for the moment. Instead, he spent much of the evening tweeting about his interview with Fox News personality Megyn Kelly and previewing attacks on Clinton. “I look so forward to debating Crooked Hillary Clinton! Democrat Primaries are rigged, e-mail investigation is rigged—so time to get it on!,” Trump tweeted at one point.


The challenge for Democrats, and particularly for Clinton, is to find out how to preserve unity as the primary drags on. One question is whether the kind of hostility seen in Nevada will play out at the national convention this summer. “There’s not going to be any violence in Philadelphia,” Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver told CNN on Tuesday. “Whoever the ultimate nominee is we want to unify the party … so that we can all go out and defeat Donald Trump in the fall. I don’t think there’s any question about that. What happened in Nevada, I think, is an aberration.” That likely won’t be enough to quell fears among Democrats who are concerned that unity will be difficult to achieve.

By some measures, there are plenty of Democrats who have coalesced around Clinton. She has amassed a popular vote lead of more than 3 million votes. And many Sanders supporters may switch allegiances if she becomes the nominee. People tend to vote according to the party they align with, and the threat of a Trump presidency may motivate disaffected Democrats not to sit on the sidelines of a general-election matchup featuring Clinton.

Still, Team Clinton undoubtedly would have preferred to be done with Sanders by now. The secretary and her allies have made clear they are now looking toward the general election. Priorities USA, a pro-Clinton super PAC, is set to begin airing attack ads against Trump in the battleground states of Ohio, Florida, Virginia, and Nevada. As Clinton and her allies ramp up anti-Trump rhetoric, they risk alienating Sanders supporters who may feel that Clinton is taking her nomination for granted. At this point, though, Clinton doesn’t really have any other options. Trump has begun to escalate attacks against her. She can hardly meet the real-estate mogul’s words with silence. —Clare Foran
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Sanders, as he has done many times before, vowed to fight on as he addressed a crowd in California, which will hold its primary contest next month. “Let me be as clear as I can be ...we are in until the last ballot is cast,” he promised. “Don’t tell Secretary Clinton, she might get nervous, I think we’re going to win here in California,” he added to cheers and applause, before promising to “take our fight into the convention.”

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7:48 ص
Republican women have “warmed a little” to Donald Trump, but he will need to do better with them in the general election than Mitt Romney did four years ago, journalist Megyn Kelly said today on "Good Morning America."


Although the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is doing well with white men, he still has work to do with GOP women, the Fox News anchor told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos.

“I think that Republican women have warmed a little to Trump,” Kelly said, noting that Romney lost the female vote to President Obama by 11 points in 2012. “The Republican candidate is going to need to do better than Mitt Romney did.”


Kelly said the female vote will be determined by whether women can tolerate the nature of some of Trump’s recent language about them, including her.


“The question remains to be seen whether they will vote or it will impact their vote to have a candidate who speaks in the way that Trump does and has for most of his lifetime about women,” Kelly said.


A one-on-one interview with Kelly and Trump is set to air Tuesday night on FOX Broadcast at 8 p.m. ET. She said it took her some time to find the right time to reach out to the billionaire real estate developer.

“In April there was a lull in the tweet storm, and I seized on the opportunity,” Kelly said. “I had been looking for months for just the right window to go in there. But every time I thought I was there, he’d start up again, whether it was boycotting the second Fox News debate or calling me crazy and sick after the third debate.”


Kelly said the interview was recorded after she met in person with Trump. The interview itself was the first time they discussed their recent falling out after Trump insulted her on Twitter multiple times following the first Republican debate on Fox News when she asked Trump a question about his comments directed at women.


“I think you will see him as you haven’t seen him before,” Kelly said. “I would say overall the tone was cordial, but there will be some moments where people will be feeling a little uncomfortable.”
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5:09 ص
If I could write this whole recap with emoji, there'd be several varieties of hearts, the running man, the dancing woman, and lots and lots of fires and heart-eyed faces. Those creepy dancing twin girls would also make an appearance. And there'd be a gun.

My imaginary emoji recap is appealing because it's incredibly hard to come away from a blockbuster hour of television like "Chapter Forty-Four" and pull together coherent thoughts that aren't just "AHHH!" or "WHY would you get ICE for the DAMN CHAMPAGNE?!" or "OMG FACE OFF MASK!" or "Why isn't all of life just Jane and Rogelio doing that father/daughter dance forever?" But I'll give it a try.


Jane the Virgin's season finale is a narrative fireworks display, a shock-and-awe storytelling spectacular that short-circuits emotional processing centers with blazing confidence. It drops jaws and crushes hearts and brings tears and also includes a pun so joyously dumb that I sat up on my sofa and started slow clapping.


The episode's success is partially due to a built-in feature of Jane the Virgins's genre, and of the show's own self-restraint earlier in the season. Telenovelas thrive on big, brash, bold, peel-off-the-mask moments, but if the density of face-burning epiphanies gets too high, they lose their punch. Jane made the choice to tone down a lot of those big moments throughout its second season. Oh sure, there's Anezka … and Derek's blackmailing … and Michael's dead partner … and the whole bit with the chip inside his leg. But throughout the season's back half, the crime lord plot has been clunking in the background, limping along on man-scarves and the occasional hint of lurking evil.

Now, at last, that pent-up energy is allowed to bust out into the open, fizzing and flying through the last 15 minutes of this finale like a genie that had been trapped in a bottle. Luisa, fresh from rehab, assures Rafael that he will be able to find love again — after all, she did it with Susannah. The wicked, clever cruelty of Rose smugly telling Susannah that she's loved one person all along is delicious, and it also deepens Jane the Virgin's commitment to Luisa as a tragic character. Similarly, the unbelievable pain of seeing Petra enjoy her daughter's first laugh (and also one of the episode's best laugh-out-loud lines — "Baby has your sense of humor, laughing at others' tears!") before Anezka slips her the syringe completes Petra's heartbreaking transformation from villainy to tragedy.

Jane's telenovela plotting aside, "Chapter Forty-Four" works because of the glorious wedding sequence, which hits all the right emotional notes and ping-pongs assuredly between tearfulness and laughter. It begins with relatively cheerful, low-key mayhem — Mateo walking, Rogelio and Xiomara fighting, a knocked-out priest — moves into touching warmth as Jane and Michael run through a seriously romantic itemized list of marriage discussion topics, and finally sparks into a charming dash down the aisle, after Jane runs to a ridiculous last-minute thesis meeting in the final hours before her wedding. This total absurdity allows Professor Donaldson to throw one last punch while buttoning Jane into her dress ("I feel like I'm locking you into the patriarchy as I do this,") and it lands Jane and Rogelio on a city bus, 17 long stops away from the church as the wedding is scheduled to begin.

Once Jane finally arrives, the wedding is everything a Jane fan could ask for, along with  several things I didn't even know to want. Rafael swallows his feelings (on Luisa's well-meaning but unexpectedly misinformed advice) and refrains from telling Jane he loves her. The Catholic ceremony is respectfully traditional, in a way that feels true to this show's desire to blend progressivism with custom. After a supportive nod from Alba, Michael gave his vows in Spanish — and yes, that was the point when I cried a little. The moment was immediately followed by delighted, crowing laughter: Jane and Michael are declared man and wife, and the church choir kicks up a roof-busting rendition of "Go Have Sex, Jane!"

The reception is pure, Rogelio-inspired fantasy. Bruno Mars gets his act together and RSVPs so that he can give Michael and Jane a dreamy, celebrity-enhanced first dance. Jane and Rogelio's father/daughter dance is an unadulterated distillation of the happy end of Jane the Virgin's emotional register, swinging instantaneously from gleeful tears to pumped-up synchronized awesomeness. I was not ready for this. And how could I have been? It's so dazzlingly fun, it's hard to even look at directly.

All in all, Jane's ceremony and reception goes much more smoothly than Alba's did — a wedding, we learn, that disintegrated into a brawl when someone revealed Alba's relationship with Pablo Alonso Segura in the middle of the ceremony. It even heals some of the rift between Xiomara and Rogelio, who still love each other, but simply cannot resolve their differences.

That may well change next season, though, as Esteban's Extra-Firm, Extra-Long Este-buns have done their work far too well: The finale's best candidate for "Plot Revelation That Got Buried By Everything That Came Next" is Xiomara discovering that she's pregnant. Eep!

And so, it's the moment of truth. Jane and Michael, desperate to follow the Virgin Mary's direct advice to Get It On, decide against driving to a Motel 6. But in a scene instantly recognizable to anyone who's seen a horror movie, Michael decides to leave the room. For ice. There in the hallway, after a throwaway reference to Alabama football, we learn that Michael's partner Susannah is not who she says she is, and she SHOOTS MICHAEL IN THE CHEST. Because SHE WAS SIN ROSTRO THIS WHOLE TIME.

I have to give full credit to Jane the Virgin. I absolutely knew this was coming, in some shape or another. In spite of that, this twist was completely stunning. To be clear, though: There is no corpse, there is no funeral, and this is a telenovela. We cannot say for sure that Michael Cordero is dead, and it seems reasonable to hope that's not the case. Let's remember: Mateo's kidnapping presented a huge challenge at the beginning of season two, and Jane handled it remarkably well. By withholding full confirmation of Michael's death, the show gets to forestall some of that inter-season hand-wringing a little bit — but if I know Jane, no resolution to this story will be fast or easy, and that is tragedy enough in itself. I had really hoped the title of this show would become winkingly nostalgic. Alas.

For now, this ending sequence packs an hour of feeling into three minutes of story. It's dizzying and horrifying and great. If Michael is really dead, I'm going to be really, really sad. He's been a great character, a surprisingly excellent love-triangle participant, an immensely lovable Perfect Man, and a great break-dancer.

To Be Continued … but not until the fall! DIOS MIO!

From Our Narrator, With Love:

For a brief second, I looking away from the final moments of this episode: Everything is the #Petrafied pun and nothing hurts. And also if you haven't read or heard this NPR feature on Anthony Mendez, the voice of Our Beloved Narrator, do not deprive yourself any longer.
Mateo can walk! "Behold the most amazing and coordinated boy in human history!"
"Rafael's family drama had recently taken a turn for the bonkers."
As Jane and Michael kiss: "Oh my God. Sorry. Gosh. [sniff] I just can't believe it actually happened."
#Rogelio:

Rogelio is in full Bluetooth-yelling, Rolls-Royce-burning, make-up-blotting, father-of-the-bride splendor — and on top of everything else, he's obviously responsible for putting Mateo in a lavender son-of-the-bride onesie. GREAT JOB! #hisbigday #everyboysdream
"Tell Bruno Mars if he doesn't confirm, I am cutting him from the lineup! Yes, I know he played the Super Bowl. Tell him this is the Super Bowl of weddings!"
"Why. Do. You. Have. A. Sex. Basket. From. My. Mortal. Enemy."
Rogelio announces Bruno Mars: "And now, for your first dance, I would like to introduce my third-best friend in the world!"
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Donald Trump has warned that he may not have a "very good relationship" with David Cameron after the Prime Minister branded his proposal to ban Muslims from the US as "stupid".



The presidential hopeful also sniped at new London Mayor Sadiq Khan, calling him "ignorant" for comments he made after being elected and warning him: "I will remember those statements."




The presumptive Republican nominee, {that is|who will be|who may be} likely to go against Democrat Hillary Clinton in a bid for the White House in {Nov|The fall of|Late}, was speaking to ITV's Good Morning Britain.

{Upon|About|In} being elected as {Greater london|London, uk|Birmingham} Mayor, Mr Khan said Mr Trump was "ignorant" in the views on Islam and he {endangered|chanced|endangereds} harming security on both sides of the Ocean.


Mr Trump said: "He doesn't know me, hasn't met me, doesn't know what I'm all about. I think they were very rude statements and frankly tell him I will remember those statements. They are very nasty statements."
He added: "When he won I wished him well. Now, I don't care about him, I mean it doesn't make any difference to me, let's see how he does, let's see if he's a good mayor."

Asked if he was offended by Mr Khan's public denouncement he replied: "Yeah, I am."


Mr Trump denied he was "at war" with Mr Khan, who said the tycoon's "ignorant view of Islam could make both of our countries less safe - it risks alienating mainstream Muslims around the world and plays into the hands of extremists".

Mr Trump said: "I just think it's very rude of him. In fact it's the opposite. I wished him well when I heard he won, he's a Muslim... I think it's ignorant for him to say that."
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6:31 ص
The momentous vote in Brazil's senate has placed President Dilma Rousseff on trial and suspended her from office for 180 days.


But it also showed how the former Marxist guerrilla, who became Brazil's first female leader, is losing her struggle for political survival.
Her opponents needed only a simple majority of the 81 members of the senate to force her to stand aside and go on trial for allegedly cooking the government's books.


Yet of the 77 senators present, 55 voted in favour of the impeachment process.
The result indicates that when the trial is over and it comes to a final vote on whether to remove Ms Rousseff - which would require the support of two-thirds of the senate - her chances of holding on are slim.

"The votes on the senate floor shows Dilma's News Americas comeback is practically impossible," said Juliano Griebeler, a political analyst at Barral M Jorge consultancy in Brasília.
Exiled

"The opposition already has the two-thirds necessary to guarantee the judgment and this scenario will be difficult to reverse."
Ms Rousseff has now been reduced to a president exiled in her own country.

While she is tried, she will remain in her residence, the Alvorada palace, and will retain a staff and an official plane.
But for the six months in which her trial is heard by the senate, Vice-President Michel Temer will be Brazil's interim president.



Mr Temer and his Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) left Ms Rousseff's governing coalition earlier this year as he set out his claim to the presidency.
With the impeachment process casting a shadow over the country, Mr Temer will try to offer some stability for Brazil in the midst of a protracted recession and political crisis.

Senator Romero Jucá, who is expected to be named among Mr Temer's cabinet, said: "The PMDB and other parties saw that it wasn't necessary to wait for the Titanic to hit the iceberg and thousands of people to die.
"It was necessary to change the ship's route. And to change the route of the ship, you have to change the captain. The feeling of the majority is a feeling of hope, of a new way."

Mr Temer will be able to form a majority government and is now finalising his ministerial appointments. He is understood to be planning to reduce the number of ministries.
One of the most pressing issues he will need to address is the economy. Mr Temer will probably want a vote on new fiscal targets within a week.

Mr Temer is seen as more business-friendly than Ms Rousseff and the markets are expected to react favourably to his impending leadership.

Yet Brazil's economy is forecast to shrink by 4pc this year while unemployment has already reached double figures.
Defiant

Francisco Lopreato, an economics professor at Unicamp, told a Brazilian newspaper: "The new government can enjoy a honeymoon period to begin with, but I believe that if the focus of policies is only austerity, it will encounter problems going forward."

Meanwhile, Ms Rousseff remained defiant in the face of the senate impeachment vote, saying, "Never will I stop fighting."
She has appeared publicly for the first time since the senate vote, calling the process "fraudulent" and "a coup."

She says it has been cooked up by opponents eager to snatch power and roll back social programmes.

Ms Rousseff, who was tortured under the country's dictatorship, has frequently argued she had not been charged with a crime and previous presidents did similar things.
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