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“America is once again a nation of laws, says Trump, who just told cops to beat the shit out of people they arrest.”
(COMMONDREAMS) In a speech before law enforcement officials in Long Island, New York on Friday, President Donald Trump celebrated his administration’s crackdown on immigration and encouraged police officers to be “rough” with those they detain — a statement that was widely seen as an explicit call for police brutality.

Andre Vltchek with military leaders in Marawi, Philippines. 
Andre Vltchek
21st Century Wire

In July 2017, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted 24-7 to approve an amendment that would allow vets legal access to medical marijuana as part of the 2018 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill. The bill, if met with final approval, would allow physicians at VA hospitals in legal marijuana states to recommend and write medical cannabis prescriptions for veterans. [1]

(ZHE) Update: As part of the two hour discussion between presidents Trump and Putin, AP reports that the Russian president asked for “proof and evidence” of Moscow’s alleged interference in the 2016 election which Russia denies.

(RPI) Chicago police are keeping busy confiscating “illegal guns.” Last year through the summer, the confiscations were occurring at a rate of one every 59 minutes according to Chicago Police Department figures related by Mark Berman in an October 2016 Washington Post 

US Army paratrooper in Afghanistan’s Konar province (Photo: Spc. Lorenzo Ware/US Army. Source: Wikicommons)
Miles Elliott
21st Century Wire

US Air Force personnel testing chemical weapons (Photo: Robin Cresswell. Source: Wikicommons)

(ANTIMEDIA Op-Ed) Between last week’s bombing in Manchester, the patriotic three-day weekend in the United States, comedian Kathy Griffin’s mock beheading of President Trump on Tuesday, and the president’s recent ‘covfefe’ tweet, the media and public have been busy.

(ANTIMEDIA) While Donald Trump was in Riyadh, raving incessantly about the over-hyped Iran threat, Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif was trolling America’s foreign policy establishment. He advised Trump to discuss with Saudi Arabia how to avoid another 9/11 atrocity rather than making baseless claims against Iran.

(ANTIMEDIA) Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump embarked on his first foreign policy trip since his inauguration. He is visiting many U.S. strategic allies, including a NATO summit of the alliance’s 28 member countries in the Belgian capital, Brussels, at the end of this month.