Politics

After giving hours of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 8th (which we covered here), Sally Yates sat down for another round of interviews with CNN's Anderson Cooper to answer all the same questions about Michael Flynn's dismissal all over again.  The full interview is set to air tonight at 8pm EST on CNN but a teaser clip has been released for our early digestion.

Perhaps the most provocative part of the teaser comes at the 0:24 mark when Cooper asks whether Flynn's underlying conduct was "illegal."  To which Yates responded:

Does Bush Have Afterthoughts?

Paul Craig Roberts

Recently I learned from a feature article in a print magazine that George W. Bush, as Jimmy Carter and Winston Churchill did, has taken up painting. Among Bush’s subjects are 98 war veterans from Bush’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq who suffered traumatic injuries. Some of the portraits were reproduced in the magazine, and they are good. Three months ago 98 portraits were published in a coffee table book, Portraits of Courage, the proceeds from which are donated to the Bush Center.

Authored by Alex Gorka via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

The following map, from BofaML's Transforming World Atlas, shows the world mapped proportionally by country according to the number of times mentioned  by President Trump in his tweets and speeches (campaign and presidency)...

Source: BofAML

The Top 8 are: USA, China, Syria, Russia, Iraq, Mexico, Iran, and United Kingdom

Authored by Peter Pry, chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission, op-ed via The Hill,

Since Sept. 11, 2001, analysts have been increasingly concerned terrorists might steal, buy, build, or be given a nuclear weapon — and the War on Terrorism would become a nuclear war. The Department of Homeland Security’s National Planning Scenario #1 is detonation of a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon, as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb, in a location such as New York City or Washington, D.C.