Today in News:
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- Kellyanne Conway suggests that U.S. President Donald Trump will decide whether to invoke his presidential powers to block former FBI Director James Comey from giving congressional testimony next week.
- U.S. job growth slowed in May and employment gains in the prior two months were not as strong despite Trump’s claims that he is creating jobs..
- “This administration is the most foul I have ever seen in my life. The stench that comes from Washington can be smelled in my hometown," said Martin Carroll of Watchung, New Jersey, who drew a standing ovation when confronting his Republican Congressman.
- The 15-member Security Council on Friday unanimously expanded targeted sanctions against North Korea. This sanctions four entities, including the Koryo Bank and Strategic Rocket Force of the Korean People's Army, and 14 people, including the head of Pyongyang's overseas spying operations.
- President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that U.S. intelligence agencies could have easily faked what he said was false evidence that Russia had hacked the Democratic Party while saying Donald Trump had run a better presidential campaign than Hillary Clinton.
- Protesters demanding the resignation of the Afghan government clashed with riot police in Kabul on Friday in a confrontation that resulted in at least four deaths.
- Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that “for some reason or another, this issue of climate change has emerged as a paramount issue for the left in this country and around the world.” Pence is claiming a “climate change agenda.”Democratic governors in California, New York and Washington state announced a state climate coalition called the United States Climate Alliance.
- Ireland’s governing Fine Gael party elected Leo Varadkar, as its new leader on Friday, choosing the gay, 38-year-old son of an Indian immigrant to succeed Enda Kenny as prime minister in a striking sign of the country's rapid social change.
- Kurdish YPG militiamen (U.S. backed forces) captured a town west of Raqqa from ISIS on Friday as they push toward the militants' Syrian stronghold.
- Syria is unlikely to see a major "Marshall Plan" for reconstruction despite hundreds of thousands more civilians possibly returning to their homes.
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