Friday News Roundup – Domestic (Joshua Johnson, 1A) 2017-05-26

Winners and losers of the GOP budget proposal. A Montana Republican roughs up a reporter. New developments in the Russia probe. And jurors are chosen in the Bill Cosby trial.
Interview:
http://the1a.org/shows/2017-05-26/friday-news-roundup-domestic

Friday News Roundup – International (Joshua Johnson, 1A) 2017-05-26

A bombing in Manchester. President Trump on the foreign stage. A week of meetings and photo opportunities, as well as a gift with a message from the Pope – his 2015 encyclical on climate change. It’s the top international news stories of the week – on 1A.
Interview:
http://the1a.org/shows/2017-05-26/friday-news-roundup-international

GOP candidate accused of body-slamming reporter has said retirement is ‘not biblical’ - The Washington Post

“There’s nothing in the Bible that talks about retirement. And yet it’s been an accepted concept in our culture today,” he said at the time, according to a report in HuffPost. “Nowhere does it say, ‘Well, he was a good and faithful servant, so he went to the beach.’ It doesn’t say that anywhere.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/get-there/wp/2017/05/25/gop-candidate-accused-of-body-slamming-reporter-has-said-retirement-is-not-biblical/

Senate widens scope of Trump-Russia probe

Congressman Jim Himes discusses another night of blockbuster news on the Trump-Russia investigation and the scope of the investigation into the Donald Trump campaign. ...

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/senate-widens-scope-of-trump-russia-probe-to-whole-campaign-954601539812

Texas governor jokes about targeting journalists, days after Montana's newest politician was accused of assaulting one -- Business Insider:

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott joked Friday about targeting eporters - one day after the GOP's newest elected member of the House of Representatives allegedly assaulted a reporter. ...

https://mic.com/articles/178221/texas-governor-greg-abbott-makes-joke-about-targeting-journalists#.tfldnp0JA

Two People Stabbed to Death in Portland While Standing Up to White Supremacist's Hate Speech

When good samaritans attempted to calm the man, he killed two and hospitalized a third....
http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/known-white-supremacist-stabs-two-people-death-portland-train-following-hate-speech

How Trump’s Budget Affects Women

The Trump administration has been the target of full-throated resistance from women on the left, who say it could be one of the most damaging to women in recent memory. We tested these accusations by using an analysis known as gender-based budgeting, and found that the deepest cuts in President Trump’s budget would be in the programs that spend more on women than on men....
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/24/upshot/how-trumps-budget-affects-women.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_up_20170526&nl=upshot&nl_art=5&nlid=78638145&ref=headline&te=1

FFRF to Donald Trump in Full-Page New York Times Ad: “We Are Not a Nation of Believers”

Tomorrow’s New York Times will include a full-page ad from the Freedom From Religion Foundation reminding Donald Trump that, contrary to what he said at Liberty University last week, we’re not “a nation of true believers.”...
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/05/24/ffrf-to-donald-trump-in-full-page-new-york-times-ad-we-are-not-a-nation-of-believers/

Larry Klayman Is Outraged By Michelle Obama's Shoulders

Right Wing Watch reports on the extreme rhetoric and activities of key right-wing figures and organizations by showing their views in their own words. In this video, Larry Klayman says that Barack Obama is trying to undermine President Trump by vacationing in Italy....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho1zeLokWgg&spfreload=10

The ACLU Wants The Documents From This Meeting With Trump Made Public

The request comes in a voting rights case in Kris Kobach's home state of Kansas and could reveal the Trump ally's strategy for altering federal voting laws. ...
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mikehayes/koback-documents-aclu?utm_term=.kc618pDD8#.saK0lDBBl

Paul Ryan’s agenda has been a much bigger liability for the GOP than Trump’s scandals

Russia, James Comey's firing, Trump's spilling of national security secrets — none have had the political impact of Ryan's health bill. ...
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/23/15674450/paul-ryan-special-election

Al Franken, comedian-turned-senator, takes on Donald Trump, TV-star-turned-president

The two-term Minnesota senator is emerging as one of the fiercest challengers of President Trump ...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/23/al-franken-comedian-turned-senator-takes-donald-trump-tv-star-turned-president/101931684/

How Rollbacks at Scott Pruitt’s E.P.A. Are a Boon to Oil and Gas

In a gas field here in Wyoming’s struggling energy corridor, nearly 2,000 miles from Washington, the Trump administration’s regulatory reversal is crowning an early champion.

Devon Energy, which runs the windswept site, had been prepared to install a sophisticated system to detect and reduce leaks of dangerous gases. It had also discussed paying a six-figure penalty to settle claims by the Obama administration that it was illegally emitting 80 tons each year of hazardous chemicals, like benzene, a known carcinogen.

But something changed in February just five days after Scott Pruitt, the former Oklahoma attorney general with close ties to Devon, was sworn in as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/business/energy-environment/devon-energy.html?emc=edit_nn_20170522&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=78638145&te=1&_r=0

Why It's So Hard To Know Whether School Choice Is Working -- NPR

It's hard to know how schools of choice — charter or private — are performing. Researchers say that's precisely because they are schools of choice. But here's what we do know. ...
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/05/21/522051355/why-its-so-hard-to-know-whether-school-choice-is-working

Christopher Hitchens delivers one of his best hammer blows to audience member

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Dw3IikL40

With All Eyes On Trump, Texas May Soon Pass Horrific Anti-LGBTQ Laws

Amendments to bills would allow nurses, lawyers and pharmacists to discriminate on religious grounds and restrict bathroom use for trans students....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/with-all-eyes-on-trump-texas-may-soon-pass-horrific-anti-lgbtq-laws_us_5920a3c4e4b03b485cb200cc

Richard Dawkins The Beauty Of Science - YouTube

Richard Dawkins explains why science is beautiful with a short, inspirational tale. Use this video to start your day with the understanding that simply by being alive in this modern age, you already possess more knowledge than humans thousands of years ago ever could....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A72MtlDYXqs

lawrence krauss - good without god - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzxeKpc6BXY

VA gubernatorial candidate blames the left for anti-Semitism

Virginia Republican Corey Stewart thinks that the left is to blame for rising anti-Semitism in the United States. According to the Washington Post, Stewart, a gubernatorial candidate, was speaking at a Northern Virginia synagogue in Fairfax County Sunday night when he blamed progressives in the United States for an uptick in anti-Semitic incidents across the country...
https://thinkprogress.org/anti-semitism-virginia-democrats-corey-stwart-1974a9e1e828

The Kalam Cosmological Argument - Debunked (The First Cause Argument - Refuted)

Throughout the video I pint-point several flaws and fallacies that those who use the Kalam Cosmological Augment tend to commit, but for a very brief summery (extremely brief), they are as follows:...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EVGkl7lj_4&feature=youtu.be