Larry Kudlow expected to make 'full and speedy recovery' after heart attack, White House says

White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow, 70, suffered a heart attack Monday and was hospitalized.

Mr. Kudlow’s wife, Judy, told The Washington Post Monday night that he is “doing fine.”

The news about Mr. Kudlow, a former financial analyst Fox Business Network and CNBC, was revealed by President Trump in Singapore, where Mr. Trump is meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un

“Our Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack. He is now in Walter Reed Medical Center,” Mr. Trump said.

Our Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack. He is now in Walter Reed Medical Center.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2018

Mr. Kudlow joined the White House economic team in April, replacing Gary Cohn. He had appeared on television Sunday, criticizing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a feud with Mr. Trump over tariffs and other trade policy.

There was no immediate report on Mr. Kudlow’s condition.He began his career as a financial analyst at the New York Federal Reserve, and joined the Reagan administration in 1981 in the White House Office of Management and Budget.

He also has held various positions at private firms on Wall Street.

Mr. Kudlow joined the White House just as Mr. Trump was ratcheting up his tariff feuds with China, Canada, and the European Union, offering a calm and experienced defense of the president’s policies on television interviews.

https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/11/larry-kudlow-had-heart-attack-donald-trump-says/

Justice Department lockdown lifted after 'hoax' active shooter report

Multiple news outlets reported that there was an active shooter inside the Justice Department on Monday afternoon, but it appears to have been a hoax.

Reports had come into Washington Metropolitan Police that the active shooter was in the building’s cafeteria, according to a Justice Department source.

Video posted by NBC showed law enforcement approaching the Justice Department building, which lies off Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and Congress.

BREAK - report of active shooter at @TheJusticeDept - @nbcwashington on scene as officers move in pic.twitter.com/2AsPIGA3dL

— Adam Tuss (@AdamTuss) June 11, 2018

But Fox 5 DC reported that there was no sign of an active shooter.

“Police say scene at DOJ cleared, no sign of active shooter. Authorities say call was made by ‘third party’,” the channel’s Twitter feed reported.

UPDATE: Police say scene at DOJ cleared, no sign of active shooter. Authorities say call was made by “third party” https://t.co/J9M6VC6t5c

— FOX 5 DC (@fox5dc) June 11, 2018

Both ABC-7 and NewsChannel 8 reported similarly.

“Police source says this was likely some kind of hoax call,” reported Evan Lambert of Fox 5 DC.

Police source says this was likely some kind of hoax call. https://t.co/mnLfevVoQR

— Evan Lambert (@EvanLambertTV) June 11, 2018

The Justice Department remained locked down at 5:30 p.m., with no one allowed in or out of the building commonly called Main Justice. At 5:45, the Justice Department lifted the lockdown, allowing workers to enter and leave the building.

Sarah Isgur Flores, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said on Twitter the building has been cleared for reentry.

“The ‘all clear’ has been given at the Department of Justice,” she tweeted. “No active shooter present.”

https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/11/justice-department-active-shooter-reported/

Feds say former Florida police chief framed teenager

Biscayne Park, Florida’s former police chief and two former officers were charged by federal prosecutors Monday with framing a 16-year-old for four unsolved murders in a bizarre scheme to keep perfect the town’s record for catching criminals.

Raimundo Artesiano, the former police chief, and ex-officers Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez were indicted on a host of civil rights charges. If convicted, the three could each face up to 11 years in prison.

Prosecutors say Mr. Artesiano and the two officers conspired to frame a juvenile only identified by the initials T.D. for four burglaries. There was “no evidence and lawful basis” to support the charges, according to the indictment.

The three police officials framed the youth in order to keep the department’s burglary clearance rate perfect, prosecutors said. Mr. Artesiano even bragged at a local city council meeting that his department had solved all of the burglaries they investigated.

The FBI and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement are investigating the case.

https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/11/feds-say-former-florida-police-chief-framed-teenag/

Federal judge shuts down Delta Pharma, Mississippi pharmaceutical company

A federal judge has shut down a Ripley, Mississippi, pharmaceutical company, the Department of Justice announced Monday.

The Justice Department and FDA alleged that Delta Pharma distributed potentially dangerous drugs because they were made in unsanitary conditions for more than a decade. Those conditions led to medicines being contaminated or adulterated, the two agencies said.

Investigators noted numerous unsanitary practices including using tubes that may not have been sterilized to process drugs. Delta also did not take steps to ensure chemicals or particles from the tubes would contaminate the medicines, according to court documents.

“Compounding pharmacies have a responsibility to ensure that they process and label drugs in a manner that ensures the safety and quality of such drugs,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Chad A. Readler of the Justice Department’s Civil Division.

Tommy T. Simpson, president of Delta Pharma, declined to comment when contacted by The Washington Times.

Judge Neal B. Biggers of the Northern District of Mississippi issued the permanent injunction after concluding the company violated the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The ruling bars Delta, Mr. Simpson and Vice President Charles Michael Harrison from manufacturing and distributing drugs until they comply with the FDA’s remedial measures.

https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/11/federal-judge-shuts-down-delta-pharma-mississippi-/

Senior administration officials define the Trump Doctrine: 'We're America, B—-'

Two senior administration officials have described President Trump’s foreign policy doctrine to a writer for Atlantic magazine in (nearly) the same vulgar declaration.

“We’re America, B–-.”

Technically, the second of the two officials described the “Trump Doctrine” as “We’re America, B–-es,” according toJeffrey Goldberg, the magazine’s editor-in-chief.

Mr. Goldberg made the revelation in an article that attempted to suss out whether it was possible to ascribe a coherent foreign policy idea to Mr. Trump, whom the writer described as “perhaps the most glandular president in American history” and a stark contrast to President Barack Obama, whom Mr. Goldberg called “cerebral to a fault.”

Mr. Goldberg described a conversation with “a senior White House official with direct access to the president and his thinking.”

“There’s definitely a Trump Doctrine,” the source said, prompting Mr. Goldberg to ask “What is it?” and getting this reply: “The Trump Doctrine is ‘We’re America, B–-.’ That’s the Trump Doctrine.”

Practicing journalistic due diligence in getting a second source, Mr. Goldberg described another senior official as rendering the doctrine in the plural: “We’re America, B–-es,”

The officials could both add some meat to those bones, in describing what the vulgar phrase means.

“Obama apologized to everyone for everything. He felt bad about everything …. [Trump] doesn’t feel like he has to apologize for anything America does,” the first official said.

According to Mr. Goldberg, he asked the second official whether Mr. Trump was familiar with the 2004 puppet-satire film “Team America: World Police,” whose theme song was titled “America, F– Yeah!”

The second official laughed and said the president “of course” was, and that the film describes his temperament well.

“The president believes that we’re America, and people can take it or leave it,” he said.

Mr. Goldberg had a third source, whom he described as “one friend of Trump,” as using a rather different vulgarism to describe Mr. Trump’s foreign policy.

“People criticize [Mr. Trump] for being opposed to everything Obama did, but we’re justified in canceling out his policies,” the source said. “There’s the Obama Doctrine, and the ‘F– Obama‘ Doctrine,” he said. “We’re the ‘F– Obama‘ Doctrine.”

https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/11/trump-doctrine-were-america-b-senior-administratio/

Justice Department backs lawsuit against University of Michigan's Bias Response Team

The Trump administration weighed in Monday on a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of policies prohibiting the expression of “bias” at the University of Michigan, arguing that the public school has been unlawfully punishing students for speech protected by the First Amendment.

In a statement of interest, the Justice Department said the Ann Arbor university has imposed a “system of arbitrary censorship of, and punishment for, constitutionality protected speech.”

“The University’s policies prohibit speech that any listener finds ‘bothersome’ or ‘hurtful’ — an overbroad, vague, and subjective standard that is a paradigmatic example of the chilling of free expression prohibited by the First Amendment,” the statement of interest read.

In a statement, acting Associate Attorney General Jesse Panuccio said freedom of speech and expression “are under attack” on college campuses.

“This Justice Department, under the leadership of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, is committed to promoting and defending Americans’ first freedom at public universities,” Mr. Panuccio said.

The free speech advocacy group Speech First filed a lawsuit against the University of Michigan in May.

Nicole Neily, president of Speech First, praised the Justice Department for weighing in on the case.

“We’re delighted that the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a statement of interest in our case against the University of Michigan,” Ms. Neily said in a statement. “Over the past year, DOJ has shown that they place a high priority on the First Amendment rights of students across the country, and we look forward to the court ruling on the merits of Speech First v. Schlissel.”

The lawsuit said the university’s Bias Response Team has investigated more than 150 incidents since April 2017 and has responded to reports of bias by removing flyers and posters, erasing whiteboards and investigating students and professors for their remarks.

The lawsuit claimed the Bias Response Teams’ determinations are “completely subjective,” citing the university’s declaration that the “most important indication of bias is your own feelings.”

There also have been signs that restrictions on speech were getting worse at the University of Michigan. The school announced in April that it would amend its Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities to prohibit “bias-related misconduct.”

A spokesperson for the school said the Justice Department had “seriously misstated the University of Michigan Policy and painted a false portrait of speech on our campus.”

“Contrary to the department’s statement, the university’s Bias Response Team does not ‘[have] the authority to subject students to discipline and sanction,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “Rather, it provides support to students on a voluntary basis; it does not investigate claims of bias or discipline students in any way.”

The University of Michigan also issued a clarification Monday on definitions of bullying and harassment in the Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities.

“The revised definitions more precisely and accurately reflect the commitment to freedom of expression that has always been expressed in the statement itself,” E. Royster Harper, vice president for student life, said in a statement.

Speech First is a member organization and represents students at campuses across the country.

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, are several University of Michigan students.

One student quoted in the lawsuit said free speech is permitted on campus only “if your ideals align with those the University imposed on us.”

“In other words, people have their right to freedom of speech and expression, but only until their beliefs no longer align with the so-called ‘correct’ beliefs, then people are not allowed to freely express those opinions,” the student is quoted as saying.

https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/11/trump-admin-um-bias-response-team-unconstitutional/

>>1709054

I thought it was interesting also, but I am wondering what they were trying to stop from moving forward today?

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Federal authorities arrest 74 people in wire transfer scam

Federal authorities have arrested 74 people — including 42 in the United States — for allegedly hijacking wire transfer funds through a sophisticated email scam, the Justice Department said Monday.

The arrests were part of Operation Wire Wire, a six-month investigation by the Justice Department, U.S. Postal and Inspection Service, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Department of the Treasury.

In total, arrests were made in five countries, including the United States. Roughly $14 million in fraudulent wire transfers were recovered and nearly $2.4 million was seized, according to the Justice Department.

All told, 29 individuals were arrested in Nigeria, and three were apprehended in Canada, Mauritius and Poland.

Federal authorities allege the individuals impersonated employees or business executives after gaining access to their email accounts, better known as a Business Email Compromise (BEC) scheme. Hackers initiate BEC scams by impersonating a business executive after gaining access to their email accounts. They then use the accounts to direct employees to transfer funds into bank accounts controlled by criminals.

The elderly are particularly vulnerable to such schemes, said Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

“Fraudsters can rob people of their life’s savings in a matter of minutes,” Mr. Sessions said announcing the arrests. “These are malicious and morally repugnant crimes.”

Since January, law enforcement agents have targeted 51 domestic BEC scammers and seized assets totaling nearly $1 million, the Justice Department said.

https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/11/feds-arrest-74-people-wire-transfer-scam/

Trump receives chilly reviews from Canada, Europe after G-7 summit

President Trump’s performance at the Group of Seven summit in Canada, including a late arrival, an early exit, a spat with the host and a rejection of the final communique, played to some largely negative reviews in Canada and Europe Monday.

His blunt talk and unapologetic “American first” agenda on trade may provide a boost for Mr. Trump with his U.S. political base, but it elicited unusually sharp comment from foreign news organizations and pundits.

It comes as no surprise that Canadian outlets were among the harshest critics, following Mr. Trump’s very public clash of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after the Canadian leader insisted after Mr. Trump departed that his country “would not be pushed around” on trade issues. CP24, a Toronto-based TV News organization, said Mr. Trump had acted the bully while praising Mr. Trudeau for “remaining above the fray.”

The Toronto Star in an editorial called Mr. Trump’s performance “dishonest and amateurish.”

“He sulked his way through the first part of the meeting, gave his delegation the OK to sign the summit’s pallid final communique, then threw a hissy fit and tore it up as soon as he was back on Air Force One,” the paper said.

Mr. Trump often found himself isolated at the G-7 gathering, for the tariffs he recently applied on Canadian, Japanese and European steel and aluminum and for rejecting the Paris climate agreement and the Iran nuclear deal. Hopes that the leaders could close the gap or at least paper over the differences evaporated quickly.

The German news site Der Spiegel said Monday that “the U.S. is treating its allies worse than its enemies,” calling Mr. Trump an “egomaniac” who, “because he thinks he is the greatest, … is immune to rational arguments.”

Le Parisien, one of France’s highest circulation newspapers, wrote that “the French woke up with the surprise of the American president backtracking, despite all the efforts made by [French President] Emmanuel Macron the day before to make [Mr. Trump] sign the final communique.”

Some said Mr. Trump was simply carrying through on promises to reorient American foreign policy, but that the G-7 summit provided little clarity on where Mr. Trump wants to take the alliance of the West’s most powerful democracies.

“It is now clear that the goal of the American president is to change the world order. That’s what he was elected to do,” wrote the Italian newspaper La Stampa. “The question what he wants to replace it with, and if the new model can really offer everyone more opportunities than the current one he intends to demolish.”

EU leaders offered muted — but occasionally pointed — evaluations of the summit’s outcome. British Prime Minister Theresa May made no direct comments attacking the U.S. president, but emphasized that London will honor the commitments it made to Canada and the rest of its allies.

The Japan Times said the G-7 summit provided a glimpse into both the working style and priorities of the U.S. president, who has cultivated a friendship with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe while taking a harsh line of Tokyo’s trade policies.

“If [President Trump‘s] objective is to make himself the center of attention at every international event, he is succeeding,” the paper wrote. “If he aims to undermine the legitimacy of international institutions, he is making progress. If, however, he seeks to make America great again, his actions are working at cross-purposes to his goal.”

While Russia and China were not included in the summit, their news outlets were quick to highlight the tensions evident at the summit.

Chinese state-owned media outlets highlighted the contrast between the acrimonious G-7 gathering and the far more placid gathering of leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Qingdao, which included Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“Against the backdrop of rising unilateralism and anti-globalization, the SCO’s opposition to trade protectionism in any form is especially encouraging,” the state-run newspaper China Daily said in an English-language editorial Monday.

The state-controlled Global Times reported that China’s vast and intense online community was obsessed with the already-famous photo of the G-7 leaders, apparently showing Mr. Trump tensely squaring off with his fellow leaders.

“The photo triggered interest among Chinese netizens,” Liu Weidong, a research fellow at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the online news publication. “The photo presents an unequal and antagonistic G7 group. It’s complicated.”

https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/11/donald-trump-receives-chilly-reviews-from-canada-e/

USS Pueblo still held hostage by North Korea as Trump, Kim meet

The USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned ship in the Navy, sits in Boston, revered by sailors and history buffs.

The second-oldest ship, the USS Pueblo, floats at a river dock in Pyongyang, still a hostage more than 50 years after North Korea seized it in a January 1968 raid in the frigid waters of the East Sea off the Hermit Kingdom’s northeastern coast.

Calls from the surviving crew to bring the ship back have amounted to naught. The Colorado legislature, protective of the ship named after one of its cities, also weighs in every year with a resolution calling for the ship’s return.

After one version passed 10 years ago, a state lawmaker got a postcard, featuring a photo of a North Korean soldier smashing his rifle butt against the head of a Western-looking man in a blue uniform. The card had a North Korean postmark and on it, in flawless English, the writer urged the politician to “come and take it, you dirty American.”

That’s actually the polite version of what was written, according to Republican state Sen. Bob Gardner from Colorado Springs, one of the sponsors of the “bring home the Pueblo” resolution this year. Mr. Gardner still marvels at the perfect, idiomatic English written on the unsigned card.

“But it proved that someone in Korea was watching our resolution even if no one in America does,” Mr. Gardner said.

As President Trump meets with in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, the possession of the USS Pueblo remains a sticking point between the two nations.

The Pentagon declined to comment on any efforts to get the Pueblo back, and referred all questions to the White House. The White House, in turn, did not respond.

Yet it wouldn’t be completely out of left field for Mr. Trump to mention the Navy ship, given the anniversary of its seizing in what the U.S. still insists was open ocean but North Korea says were its own territorial waters.

“This year marks the 50th anniversary of North Korea’s seizure of the USS Pueblo and I like many others in our state want to see the ship returned home,” Republican Rep. Scott Tipton wrote President Trump last month. “The historic summit that is to be held… presents a rare opportunity to directly make this request.”

The Pueblo was a spy ship, assigned to monitor North Korean communications and laden with top secret intelligence reports and machinery.

The North Koreans detected it and sent a flotilla to surround it, assisted by MiG fighters overhead. They demanded surrender, and sent a boarding party which raked the bridge and decks with gunfire, wounding the captain and several others, and killing one crew member, Duane Hodges.

Capt. Lloyd Bucher ordered his crew to smash the intelligence equipment and burn or shred the documents. There was so much that they even began to dump documents overboard, according to the USS Pueblo Veterans Association.

The U.S. insists the Pueblo was in international waters at the time. North Korea says it was inside the country’s boundaries, and seized the ship and crew, who were held and tortured for 335 days.

The Cold War crisis was finally resolved in vintage Hollywood fashion two days before Christmas 1968 when the gaunt prisoners walked, one by one, across the Bridge of No Return in the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea.

They were finally released after the U.S. signed an apology of sorts - then quickly rescinded it once all the American personnel were safely returned.

A National Security Agency analysis, declassified in 2012, described the scope of the intelligence disaster, saying North Korea was able to figure out which codes the U.S. had broken, which telecommunications systems the U.S. was able to monitor, and who in the North Korean hierarchy was of interest to the U.S.

https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/11/uss-pueblo-still-held-north-korea-trump-kim-jong-u/

>>1709262

I have a feeling that was the message there, just for that purpose,:)

>>1709356

Fun Fun Fun, until til then, hehe. oh soo sorry, not!

>>1709400

Good Old Colorado, you can always count on them for keeping the peace, not! I don't think there are many that even know this story, I didn't until tonight. How much of it is accurate, imo remains to be seen.

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Pope Francis accepts resignation of Chilean bishop accused of covering up child abuse

Pope Francis accepted the resignation of three bishops on Monday, one of whom was accused of covering up part of the child sex abuse scandal in Chile.

The Holy See confirmed that the pope accepted the resignations of Bishop Juan Barros of Osorno, Bishop Gonzalo Duarte of Valparaiso and Bishop Cristian Caro of Puerto Montt.

Bishop Barros was accused of protecting the Rev. Fernando Karadima, who was found guilt of sexual abusing minors.

The bishop denied ever having knowledge of Father Karadima’s behavior.

The pope initially stood by Bishop Barros, but then later said he had made “grave errors in judgment” about the bishop, The Associated Press reported.

Bishop Duarte and Bishop Caro both resigned because they reached the required retirement age for bishops.

The news comes as the Roman Catholic Church continues investigations into child sex abuse claims in several countries. A probe into sexual abuse claims and the church’s handling of the situation in Pennsylvania could be public by the end of June, AP reported.

https:// www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/11/pope-francis-accepts-resignation-of-chilean-bishop/

Donald Trump tells cameras to get a good photo of everyone before start of working lunch

>>1709606

Sauce: https:// graphics.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/Interactives/2018/06/trump-kim-summit/index.html

Talks at U.S.-North Korean summit moving 'more quickly than expected'

Discussions at the United States-North Korean summit have “moved more quickly than expected,” White House officials said Monday.

The White House released the update Monday morning while announcing the rest of President Trump’s schedule.

Tuesday’s summit will begin with the official meeting of the two heads of state at 9 a.m. (Singapore time), with a one-on-one meeting to follow. President’s Trump team, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and National Security Adviser John R. Bolton, will join an expanded meeting.

Mr. Trump will hold a press briefing before leaving Singapore Tuesday evening to return to the U.S.

Singapore is 12 hours ahead of Washington, D.C

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