Today’s comic by Ruben Bolling is Trump pulls out of Paris Accord to negotiate a better deal:
• Polls close in the British snap election at 2 p.m. Pacific Time. As voters headed out to cast their ballots, sentiment as revealed by public surveys showed the Conservatives were gaining.
• Jennifer Palmieri, deputy press secretary in the Clinton administration, says in op-ed that a White House investigation makes it “nearly impossible” to get anything done.
Having worked in a White House under investigation, I know from experience that it’s even more disorienting than it appears. No one in a position of authority at the White House tells you what is happening. No one knows. Your closest colleague could be under investigation and you would not know. You could be under investigation and not know. It can be impossible to stay focused on your job.
There will be other collateral damage. In the Clinton White House, we tried hard to isolate the team of lawyers working on impeachment so President Clinton and his staff could continue advancing their policy goals. Yet Congress was consumed with impeachment for months, and it was nearly impossible to get anything done.
• Remains of World War II Army officer returned home after 74 years: 1st Lt. Robert Eugene Oxford was aboard a supply aircraft on a run to India with seven others. The plane disappeared and was not found until 2015 when Army investigators went to the site of a crash identified in 2006. Oxford is being returned Thursday to his hometown of Concord, Georgia, where he will be buried. The remains of his seven fellow crewmen were never found, but photos of them will lie beside the coffin at the memorial service and then be placed inside it for burial.
• Look hard enough and you’ll always find a silver lining.
• In the Arctic spring, ice retreat has been sluggish, except in the Chukchi Sea:
After setting satellite-era record lows during winter, Arctic sea ice extent declined at a steady but somewhat sluggish pace during May. However, ice has retreated at a record rate in the Chukchi Sea, and open water extended to Barrow, Alaska. In the Southern Hemisphere, ice extent continues its seasonal expansion, but extent remains well below the long-term average for this time of year.
Arctic sea ice extent for May 2017 averaged 12.74 million square kilometers (4.92 million square miles), the fourth lowest in the 1979 to 2017 satellite record. This contrasts strongly with the past several months, when extent tracked at satellite-era record lows.
• Iran blasts Donald Trump’s response to terrorist attack on Tehran as “repugnant”: ISIS announced that it had launched the attack on Iran’s parliament building and a shrine to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Seventeen people were killed. Trump said in a statement Wednesday that the United States would “grieve and pray” for the victims, but added:“We underscore that states that sponsor terrorism risk falling victim to the evil they promote.” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif took to a favorite venue of Trump, tweeting: “Repugnant WH [White House] statement … as Iranians counter terror backed by US clients.”
• Today is World Oceans Day: It’s a day of planetwide celebration for the world’s oceans, with hundreds of events planned for more than 100 nations. The United Nations is also holding its Oceans Conference in New York City. This theme this year is "Our Oceans, Our Future." A key focus of the day is the ever-expanding problem of plastic pollution. The organizers point to six reasons why people should care about oceans: They generate most of the oxygen we breathe, help feed us, regulate our climate, clean the water we drink, provide a pharmacopeia of medicines, and offer us limitless inspiration.
• Madrid goes after 'el manspreading' on public transport with new signs:
Madrid’s transport authorities are taking a stand against seated male selfishness with a campaign to tackle the social scourge that is manspreading.
Fed up with men whose thighs fail to respect the boundaries of bus seats, the Spanish capital’s Municipal Transport Company (EMT) is to put up signs discouraging the practice.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, it’s Comey Day, and Greg Dworkin & Armando are on hand for the pre-game & kickoff. Other threads are also unraveling, too. A Miss Universe contestant says Trump’s behavior in Moscow was less than discreet. And that 19.5% sale of Rosneft? Qatar bought it!
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