Disney chief: abortion law would make it difficult to keep filming in Georgia

Bob Iger says many Disney employees would not want to work there if law that bans abortion as early as six weeks takes effectDisney has filmed blockbuster movies such as Black Panther and Avengers: Endgame in Georgia. Photograph: Imagine China/REX/ShutterstockThe chief executive of the Walt Disney Company said Georgia’s new strict abortion law would make it “very difficult” for the media company to keep filming in the state.Walt Disney Co chief executive Bob Iger told Reuters on Wednesday that the law would cause many people to not want to work in the state if it were to go in effect.Georgia’s Republican governor Brian Kemp signed the legislation earlier this month. The law bans abortion once cardiac activity can be detected – which can be as early as six weeks, before many women even realize they are pregnant. The law is due to take effect on 1 January, if it survives court challenges.Disney has filmed blockbuster movies such as Black Panther and Avengers: Endgame in the state. It is one of many film and TV production companies lured to the state by tax credits.The industry is now responsible for more than 92,000 jobs in Georgia, according to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and some 455 productions were shot in Georgia in 2018, according to the state.Asked if Disney would keep filming in Georgia, Iger said it would be “very difficult to do so” if the abortion law is implemented.“I rather doubt we will,” Iger said in an interview ahead of the dedication for a new Star Wars section at Disneyland. “I think many people who work for us will not want to work there, and we will have to heed their wishes in that regard. Right now we are watching it very carefully.”If the law takes effect, “I don’t see how it’s practical for us to continue to shoot there,” he added.Georgia is one of eight states to pass anti-abortion legislation this year in an effort to induce the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade, the 1973 landmark case that established a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy.Although some actors and producers have already said they will no longer work in Georgia because of the abortion law, many of the large production companies have remained publicly silent on the abortion law.On Tuesday, streaming service Netflix said it would “rethink” its film and television production investment in Georgia if the law goes into effect.In the meantime, Netflix will continue production there for now and work with groups that are fighting the law in US courts.

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White House wanted USS McCain 'hidden' from Trump: reports

The White House requested a Navy ship bearing the name of US President Donald Trump's late rival senator John McCain be kept "out of sight" during a recent presidential trip to Japan, US media reported Wednesday. The request came from an official who said he had been briefed on requirements for the visit by the White House Military Office and the Seventh Fleet, which is stationed in Japan. "USS John McCain needs to be out of sight," the email seen by the Wall Street Journal said.

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Showdown over Missouri abortion clinic postponed as governor weighs in

Gov. Mike Parson said court intervention in the fight over whether to renew the license of Missouri's lone abortion provider would be "reckless."

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Chicago native climbs Mount Everest, witnesses traffic jam aftermath

For a brief time, Alex Pancoe stood on top of the world over 29,000 feet high at the summit of Mt. Everest.

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Trump's Mexico Tariffs Risk Economic Turmoil Ahead of 2020 Vote

Trump announced a 5% tariff on all imports from Mexico unless it takes “decisive measures” -- as judged by his administration -- to stem migrants entering the U.S., according to a White House statement. The tariffs would begin June 10 and scale up incrementally until they reach 25 percent on Oct. 1.

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Eight tie in U.S. spelling bee as organizers run out of challenging words

After a marathon session stretching into early Friday, the contestants simply could not be separated. "We’re throwing the dictionary at you, and, so far, you are showing the dictionary who’s boss," the bee’s pronouncer, Jacques Bailly, told the finalists.

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Man charged after Nassau County police find woman, 2 boys with autism, 1 teen in car with 'CALL 911' sign

A man was charged after police say a woman holding a "CALL 911" sign and her three children were found inside his car on Long Island.

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Motorola just unveiled the $499 Moto Z4 with 2-day battery life and upgradeable 5G

The cat was let out of the bag a little early regarding Motorola's new Moto Z4, the $499 handset the company officially unveiled this morning -- and which Amazon mistakenly sold to a user two days before we were supposed to, er, know it existed. Nevertheless, it's here now -- or, rather, it will be soon, as it hits Verizon in the US two weeks from today. In keeping with past Z flagships, Verizon has got the exclusive stateside, and as with the announcement of the Moto Z3 as the world's first "5G-upgradeable" smartphone, the Z4 will likewise be upgradeable to 5G via the company's "Moto Mod" component once 5G networks are available in your area.Among the highlights of this newest addition to Moto's Z series: it will run Android 9 Pie out of the box and sport a Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 octa-core processor. You'll have 4GB of memory and 128 GB of internal storage, with up to 512 GB of expandable storage via microSD. The device also comes with an in-display fingerprint sensor and promises a battery life of "up to 2 days."Movies, games, and photos should look stunning on the 6.4-inch Max Vision OLED display that stretches from edge to edge and offers a screen-to-body ratio of 85%. The massive 3600 mAh battery here is also the largest ever on a Moto Z. Additionally, the device is equipped with a 3.5mm headphone jack and the company's largest-ever 48-megapixel rear camera sensor that uses new Quad Pixel technology to capture high-quality 12 MP images.The Z4's rear camera also includes 4x better light sensitivity, in addition to optical image stabilization plus AI-guided portrait lighting, AR stickers, live filters, support for Google Lens and much more. Motorola specifically touts Night Vision, which is included in the rear camera software and layers together eight separate frames taken with different exposure values. After performing some dynamic noise reduction and sharpening, the result is an image with enhanced detail and more accurate colors even in situations with challenging lighting.Verizon will start selling the Z4 in Flash Gray on June 13, and in Frost White later this summer, for $499. It will be available for $20.83 for 24 months on a Verizon Device Payment plan, but for a limited time if you switch to Verizon or add a new line and get a Z4 you can pay $10 for 24 months, an overall savings of more than $200.Existing Verizon customers can upgrade to a Z4 and save $100 when they buy a new phone on a Verizon Device Payment plan. Starting June 6, meanwhile, a universally unlocked version of the Z4 will be available for $499 bundled with the Moto 360 camera Mod at Best Buy, B&H Photo and at Amazon, with pre-sales starting today.

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US agents catch 1000 migrants crossing Texas border - BBC News

1. US agents catch 1000 migrants crossing Texas border  BBC News
2. 'Dangerous overcrowding': 900 migrants cram into Border Patrol center designed for 125 people  USA TODAY
3. Tlaib slams 'lack of outrage' about overcrowding at Border Patrol facility | TheHill  The Hill
4. Feds can't agree why 2K kids are waiting to get picked up from border stations  ABC News
5. Exclusive: DHS watchdog finds 900 people at border facility  CNN
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Donald Trump says Boris Johnson would be 'excellent' Tory leader - BBC News

1. Donald Trump says Boris Johnson would be 'excellent' Tory leader  BBC News
2. Trump says UK's Boris Johnson would be an 'excellent' prime minister | TheHill  The Hill
3. Trump backs Boris Johnson; calls Duchess of Sussex 'nasty'  The Guardian
4. Boris Johnson Is Back. Thank Trump and Farage.  Bloomberg
5. Nigel Farage accuses May of BANNING Trump from meeting him  Daily Mail
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Illinois House approves marijuana legalization bill backed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker - Chicago Tribune

1. Illinois House approves marijuana legalization bill backed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker  Chicago Tribune
2. Illinois Becomes 11th State to Legalize Recreational Marijuana  Bloomberg
3. Illinois sends legal recreational marijuana bill to governor's desk | TheHill  The Hill
4. Legalizing marijuana is a victory for freedom in Illinois  Chicago Tribune
5. Illinois bill to legalize recreational marijuana wins legislative approval  Reuters
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Warren grilled on Native American ancestry claims: 'You're kind of like the original Rachel Dolezal' - AOL

1. Warren grilled on Native American ancestry claims: 'You're kind of like the original Rachel Dolezal'  AOL
2. 2020 candidate Elizabeth Warren compared to Rachel Dolezal in interview  ABC News
3. Elizabeth Warren called 'the original Rachel Dolezal' in awkward interview over ancestry claims  Fox News
4. Charlamagne tha God Calls Elizabeth Warren “The Original Rachel Dolezal” in Tense Interview  Vanity Fair
5. Elizabeth Warren compared to Rachel Dolezal in awkward interview  New York Post
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Nadler: 'There certainly is' justification for impeaching Trump - POLITICO

Nadler: 'There certainly is' justification for impeaching Trump  POLITICO

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said on Friday that there “certainly is” justification for launching impeachment proceedings against President ...

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New top story on Hacker News: ‘This could ruin us’: A class-action suit imperils California freelancers

‘This could ruin us’: A class-action suit imperils California freelancers
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2020 is going to be a circus, unless voters demand better - Washington Examiner

1. 2020 is going to be a circus, unless voters demand better  Washington Examiner
2. Cedric Richmond, Biden’s New Co-Chairman, Sees a Path to the Nomination in the South  The New York Times
3. Has Biden Peaked?  The Wall Street Journal
4. Analysis | 5 Ways Trump Has Remade the Democratic Party  POLITICO
5. Why do black voters support Biden? They just want to beat Trump.  The Washington Post
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Heineken cuts ties with Fresno Grizzlies over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez video - AOL

1. Heineken cuts ties with Fresno Grizzlies over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez video  AOL
2. Ocasio-Cortez gets back behind the bar to mix it up for a cause close to her heart  NBC News
3. Ted Cruz And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Team Up To Ban Lawmakers From Lobbying  NPR
4. Fresno Grizzlies lose sponsor due to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez video  Los Angeles Times
5. Nationals comfortable with minor league team’s investigation of video targeting Ocasio-Cortez  The Washington Post
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ted Cruz agree on ban of lawmakers taking paid lobbying positions - CNN

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ted Cruz agree on ban of lawmakers taking paid lobbying positions  CNN

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and GOP Sen. Ted Cruz came together Thursday on Twitter in a professed effort to ban former lawmakers from ...

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Trump administration to send DHS agents, investigators to Guatemala-Mexico border - The Washington Post

Trump administration to send DHS agents, investigators to Guatemala-Mexico border  The Washington Post

Dozens of Homeland Security agents and investigators will deploy to Guatemala as part of the Trump administration's desperate attempt to slow unauthorized ...

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William Barr probably hates the 'Iliad' - Washington Examiner

1. William Barr probably hates the 'Iliad'  Washington Examiner
2. Barr interview: Read the full transcript from the exclusive CBS This Morning interview with Attorney General Bill Barr that aired today  CBS News
3. Swalwell Calls on Congress to Impeach Barr, Mnuchin  National Review
4. Attorney General William Barr, in exclusive CTM interview, on caring about his reputation: "Everyone dies"  CBS News
5. ‘Everyone dies’: Barr says he’s unconcerned about the toll his job is taking on his reputation  The Washington Post
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The Latest: Murky waters impair recovery of boat in Hungary - Fox News

1. The Latest: Murky waters impair recovery of boat in Hungary  Fox News
2. Capsized Budapest tourist boat to be lifted from the water, Hungarian foreign minister says  CNN
3. Survivors recall chaos as tour boat sank on Danube in Budapest  NBC News
4. Skipper of ship that struck tour boat on Danube, killing at least 7, arrested  NBC News
5. Hungary boat crash: Captain of vessel involved in collision arrested  BBC News
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Hannity calls out the media for their coverage of Mueller's 'clarification' - Fox News

1. Hannity calls out the media for their coverage of Mueller's 'clarification'  Fox News
2. Fact-checking Trump's flurry of falsehoods and lies after Mueller declined to exonerate him  CNN
3. Trump unleashes fury on Mueller  CNN
4. If your hot take from Mueller was obstruction or impeachment, you weren't listening | TheHill  The Hill
5. Can a Sitting President Be Charged With a Crime?  The New York Times
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Onslaught of severe weather to continue across Ohio Valley, mid-Atlantic states into Thursday night - AccuWeather.com

1. Onslaught of severe weather to continue across Ohio Valley, mid-Atlantic states into Thursday night  AccuWeather.com
2. Tornado touches down in Howard County  WTOP
3. Here's why the US has seen tornadoes, floods and extreme heat in the past few weeks  CNN
4. National Weather Service confirms tornado touched down in Howard County Thursday  WBAL TV Baltimore
5. Why Are There So Many Tornadoes Right Now?  Gizmodo
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Purdue Foreign Arm Caught Up in Opioid Probe in Europe - Snopes.com

1. Purdue Foreign Arm Caught Up in Opioid Probe in Europe  Snopes.com
2. New Jersey sues Sackler family for opioid epidemic  CNN
3. N.J. sues billionaire Sackler family for 'fueling' opioid crisis  NJ.com
4. Family accused of causing, profiting from opioid crisis sued again  ABC News
5. New Jersey sues Sackler family over toll of opoids  Daily Mail
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Arnav Gupta: Man who set himself on fire outside White House dies from injuries - CBS News

1. Arnav Gupta: Man who set himself on fire outside White House dies from injuries  CBS News
2. Arnav Gupta, man who set himself on fire near White House, dies  New York Post
3. Man who set himself on fire outside White House dies  Fox News
4. Man who set himself on fire outside the White House dies in hospital  Daily Mail
5. Man sets himself on fire near White House  CBS News
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Sorry, but that USS McCain story isn't fake news - Washington Examiner

1. Sorry, but that USS McCain story isn't fake news  Washington Examiner
2. McCain warship incident raises questions about a changing military culture under Trump  The Washington Post
3. Meghan McCain: Impossible to go through grief process  CNN
4. Trump attacks the late John McCain amid tensions over moving USS McCain  CNN
5. John McCain and Trump’s Narcissism: A Clash at Sea  The New York Times
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India’s Modi just won reelection in a landslide. Here’s what he could do next. - The Washington Post

1. India’s Modi just won reelection in a landslide. Here’s what he could do next.  The Washington Post
2. The Indian Elections Had an Unlikely Influence—Immigrants in the U.S.  Fortune
3. U.S. suspension of trade program with India 'a done deal': U.S. official  Reuters
4. Does Modi Threaten Indian Democracy?  The Wall Street Journal
5. The Indian elite and the erosion of democracy  Al Jazeera English
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New Mexico town gives We Build The Wall new permits, retracts cease and desist order - Washington Examiner

1. New Mexico town gives We Build The Wall new permits, retracts cease and desist order  Washington Examiner
2. Border wall construction group holds press conference on progress  Fox News
3. Cease and desist lifted, work on privately funded border wall will continue  USA TODAY
4. Private group unveils crowd-funded border wall, despite legal hurdles  ABC News
5. Sunland Park, New Mexico, allows We Build the Wall to resume construction  Washington Times
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D.C's new strange bedfellows: AOC, Ted Cruz partner to drain the swamp - NBC News

1. D.C's new strange bedfellows: AOC, Ted Cruz partner to drain the swamp  NBC News
2. Ted Cruz praises AOC on banning lawmakers from becoming lobbyists: 'I AGREE' with her!  Fox News
3. Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz strike Twitter pact to work together on lobbying legislation  POLITICO
4. AOC Does Not Understand the First Amendment  National Review
5. Ocasio-Cortez to Cruz: 'Let's make a deal' | TheHill  The Hill
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Here's one thing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ted Cruz agree on - CNN

Here's one thing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ted Cruz agree on  CNN

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and GOP Sen. Ted Cruz came together Thursday on Twitter in a professed effort to ban former lawmakers from ...

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Leonard Pitts: In letting fake Pelosi video stand, Facebook shows its true colors - Salt Lake Tribune

1. Leonard Pitts: In letting fake Pelosi video stand, Facebook shows its true colors  Salt Lake Tribune
2. Nancy Pelosi says Facebook 'willing enablers' of Russian interference  CNN
3. Facebook ignores Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi amid growing backlash over doctored video  Fox News
4. Pelosi: ‘Drunk’ Facebook Video Somehow Russia’s Fault  New York Magazine
5. Worry About Facebook. Rip Your Hair Out in Screaming Terror About Fox News.  The New York Times
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Louisiana lawmakers pass strict ban on abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy - The Boston Globe

1. Louisiana lawmakers pass strict ban on abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy  The Boston Globe
2. Louisiana passes law banning abortions after heartbeat is detected  BBC News
3. Louisiana's governor, a Democrat, signs 'heartbeat' abortion bill into law  Fox News
4. Louisiana becomes SEVENTH US state to pass abortion ban including in cases of rape and incest  The Sun
5. Louisiana lawmakers passes restrictive abortion bill  CBS News
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Benjamin Netanyahu faces another election after he fails to form government - Washington Examiner

1. Benjamin Netanyahu faces another election after he fails to form government  Washington Examiner
2. Israel faces new election as Netanyahu fails to form coalition  Guardian News
3. Netanyahu fails to form government, Israel to hold new elections  Fox News
4. In Israel’s New Election Campaign, Right Battles Right  The New York Times
5. Netanyahu Won the Election. Why Is Israel Doing It Over?  The New York Times
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Air Force dogfight exercise accidentally formed 'sky penis,' officials say - Fox News

1. Air Force dogfight exercise accidentally formed 'sky penis,' officials say  Fox News
2. Fighter pilots draw penis in the sky. Air Force says it was an accident.  CNN
3. Air Force Says Sky Trail Shaped Like Penis Was Unintentional  TIME
4. Air Force pilots drew penis-shaped symbol in the sky by accident, officials say  USA TODAY
5. F-35 Military jets 'accidentally' draw a huge penis in the sky during dog-fighting training stunt  Daily Mail
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Capital murder charge was key to finding Lizzy, prosecutor says - KSL.com

1. Capital murder charge was key to finding Lizzy, prosecutor says  KSL.com
2. First responders in Logan cope with trauma after uncle directs police to Elizabeth Shelley’s body  KSTU FOX 13 Salt Lake City
3. Uncle of missing 5-year-old Utah girl charged; a body found near her home  WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale
4. Police find body near home of missing girl  WTVR CBS 6 News
5. ‘We woke up and the front door’s wide open’ – Listen to the 911 call placed after Elizabeth Shelley’s disappearance  KSTU FOX 13 Salt Lake City
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Dem Louisiana governor defies party, will sign strict abortion ban - Fox News

1. Dem Louisiana governor defies party, will sign strict abortion ban  Fox News
2. 'The View' hosts push back at Elizabeth Warren skipping Fox News town hall  Washington Examiner
3. Poll: Democratic voters want their candidates to participate in Fox News town halls | TheHill  The Hill
4. Watching Elizabeth Warren debate with Meghan McCain on The View made me realise something about America  The Independent
5. Rep. Scalise responds to impeachment threats  Fox News
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Looks Like the Trump Administration Lied About the Census - The New York Times

1. Looks Like the Trump Administration Lied About the Census  The New York Times
2. New Memo Reveals the Census Question Was Added to Boost White Voting Power  Slate
3. Deceased G.O.P. Strategist’s Hard Drives Reveal New Details on the Census Citizenship Question  The New York Times
4. Busted: Evidence reveals effort to rig census for white Republicans  The Washington Post
5. Groups say U.S. census citizenship question was designed to influence elections  Reuters
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Nevada governor vetoes bill that would ignore Electoral College - CBS News

1. Nevada governor vetoes bill that would ignore Electoral College  CBS News
2. Nevada Democratic governor vetoes national popular vote bill | TheHill  The Hill
3. Nevada Gives 77,000 Ex-felons Right to Vote in 2020  Newsweek
4. Dems' nationwide effort to override Electoral College stumbles in Nevada  Fox News
5. Nevada's about to commit political suicide — is the Electoral College doomed? | TheHill  The Hill
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Woman says she was brutally attacked, left for dead at Dominican Republic resort - NBC News

Woman says she was brutally attacked, left for dead at Dominican Republic resort  NBC News

A Delaware woman says she was brutally beaten and left to die at a resort in the Dominican Republic. Tammy Lawrence-Daley said she wants to share her story ...

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Clarence Thomas tried to link abortion to eugenics. Seven historians told The Post he’s wrong. - Washington Post

Clarence Thomas tried to link abortion to eugenics. Seven historians told The Post he’s wrong.  Washington Post

Thomas is guilty of a gross misuse of historical facts," one professor said of Thomas's work to link abortion and eugenics. “It's really bad history," another said.

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Nunes: Mueller tried to do a victory lap - Fox News

1. Nunes: Mueller tried to do a victory lap  Fox News
2. Rachel Maddow's ratings plummet  Washington Examiner
3. Mueller does not exonerate Trump in 1st remarks  ABC News
4. Escalating Pressure From Democrats To Begin Impeachment After Mueller Statement | NBC Nightly News  NBC News
5. Mueller 'a true never Trumper': Trump  ABC News
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Trump Air Force Academy graduation: Watch live stream as President Donald Trump gives commencement address to Air Force Academy in Colorado — live updates - CBS News

1. Trump Air Force Academy graduation: Watch live stream as President Donald Trump gives commencement address to Air Force Academy in Colorado — live updates  CBS News
2. Donald Trump touts record, jabs at press in salute to Air Force Academy graduates  USA TODAY
3. Trump arrives in Colorado aboard Air Force One  Fox News
4. Trump sets politics aside in his address to US Air Force Academy graduates  ABC News
5. Trump emphasizes need for military strength in Air Force commencement speech | TheHill  The Hill
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The preachers getting rich from poor Americans

Some televangelists ask people to give cash to earn financial favour from God - it's often the hardest-up giving their last pennies.

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Trump Russia investigation: Charging Trump 'not an option', says Mueller

The US Special Counsel spoke publicly for the first time since publishing the results of the Russia inquiry

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The Yazidi family reunited after being IS slaves

Thousands of Yazidis were killed or enslaved by IS but Nashaat and his mother survived, and are about to be reunited.

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Thousands pay respects to Niki Lauda

Formula 1 stars including Lewis Hamilton and other celebrities in Vienna as Lauda's body lay in state at St Stephen's Cathedral.

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Growing crops in the shadow of Fukushima

Eight years on from the nuclear disaster, some have chosen to return to the small town of Okuma in Japan.

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Malaysia orders tonnes of imported waste to be returned

The country's government says it has become a dumping ground for wealthier nations.

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The diggers guided by satellites and drones

Moving earth is messy - but new technology means we can dig with an accuracy of a few centimetres.

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The tablet computer pulled by donkey

Communities in Mozambique learn about health, banking and elections via giant interactive screens.

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Everest deaths: Four reasons why this climbing season went wrong

Overcrowding is blamed for an increase in deaths on the world's highest peak, but other factors are at play.

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Nxivm trial: Six shocking things we've learned

Skin branding ceremonies, blackmail and punishment for weight gain were all part of the "sex cult".

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Has Narendra Modi ended dynastic politics in India?

A slew of candidates from political families have lost elections, but is it enough to end dynastic politics?

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Disney CEO Bob Iger Says Georgia’s Abortion Ban Will Make It ‘Very Difficult’ to Work There

The U.S. Expects China Will Quickly Double Its Nuclear Stockpile

The White House Ordered USS John McCain to Be ‘Out of Sight’ During Trump’s Japan Trip, a Report Says

Louisiana Lawmakers Pass Bill Barring Abortions Once Fetal Heartbeat is Detectable

Hillary Clinton Assails President Trump in a Commencement Speech, Calling for Accountability Over Russian Interference

7 Dead and 21 Missing After a Sightseeing Boat Capsizes in Hungary

Body Believed to Be a Missing 5-Year-Old Girl Found a Block From Her Utah Home

The NBA Has Plenty of Drama Right Now. But Don’t Forget About the Finals

Israel’s Parliament Votes to Dissolve, Triggering Snap Election

San Diego Hospital Reveals Birth of World’s Tiniest Surviving Baby

Tornado warnings issued for parts of Tarrant, Denton counties as storms move into DFW - Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Tornado warnings issued for parts of Tarrant, Denton counties as storms move into DFW  Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Hail, tornadoes, flash flood, wind damage possible Wednesday. National Weather *Service* issued tornado warnings this afternoon for parts of Tarrant, Denton ...

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Let's examine all the reasons Roy Moore is a terrible human being - Washington Examiner

1. Let's examine all the reasons Roy Moore is a terrible human being  Washington Examiner
2. Roy Moore hits back at Trump in defiant interview  POLITICO
3. Roy Moore is a living, breathing Republican nightmare  CNN
4. Trump warns Roy Moore 'cannot win,' says losing Senate seat again would be 'devastating'  Fox News
5. If Alabamans vote for Roy Moore, they deserve Doug Jones  Washington Examiner
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Democrats toughen qualifying standards for third presidential debate

Seeking to cull its crowded 2020 presidential field, the Democratic Party will make it tougher for candidates to qualify for a third debate scheduled for September. The party will require contenders to meet both a higher polling standard and a larger fundraising target, the Democratic National Committee said on Wednesday. In the first two debates, scheduled for June and July, contenders have to meet just one of the two criteria, leaving open the possibility that as many as 20 of the 24 announced Democratic candidates could be on stage.

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Vatican corrects omission in pope's quote about McCarrick

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican communications office on Wednesday corrected the Italian transcript of Pope Francis' comments about disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Earlier, it had omitted Francis' claim that he didn't remember if he had been told in 2013 of McCarrick's penchant for sleeping with seminarians.

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Man sues after his face is mauled by emotional support dog on Delta Airlines flight

A man who was allegedly attacked by an emotional support dog on a Delta Airlines flight has filed a lawsuit against the airline and the owner of the animal.Marlin Jackson has accused both Delta and Ronald Kevin Mundy Jr, a US veteran, of negligence after he was attacked while the flight was boarding in June 2017. Mr Jackson was seated in a window seat while the dog was next to him on the veteran’s lap, according to the lawsuit. The dog then attacked Mr Jackson, leaving his face permanently scarred. According to the complaint, Mr Jackson “bled so profusely that the entire row of seats had to be removed from the airplane.”“The attack was briefly interrupted when the animal was pulled away from Mr. Jackson. However, the animal broke free and again mauled Mr Jackson's face,” the lawsuit continued. The lawsuit also said Delta didn't verify the dog was trained or met the requirements of a service animal. A police report stated the Marine Corps veteran's dog was a chocolate lab pointer mix. Airlines later made changes to policies for emotional support animals following the attack, which drew national headlines in 2017.Mr Jackson has continued to endure “severe physical pain and suffering” according to the lawsuit, amid substantial medical bills and an apparent loss of income or earning potential. The lawsuit goes on to note Mr Jackson’s “entire lifestyle has been severely impaired by this attack.”Mr Jackson was reportedly travelling from Atlanta to San Diego when the attack occurred.Additional reporting by AP

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Tornadoes tear across US in record numbers, leaving trail of devastation

A vicious storm tore through the Kansas City area, spawning tornadoes that left a trail of devastation, as the US reeled from a record run of twisters.  The tornadoes downed trees and power lines, damaged homes and injured at least a dozen people in the latest barrage of severe weather that saw warnings as far east as New York City. Parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey were also under tornado warnings hours after a swarm of tightly packed twisters swept through Indiana and Ohio overnight, smashing homes, blowing out windows and ending the school year early for some students because of damage to buildings. One person was killed and at least 130 were injured. The storms in Kansas City on Tuesday were the 12th straight day that at least eight tornadoes were reported to the National Weather Service. After several quiet years, the past couple of weeks have seen an explosion of tornado activity with no end to the pattern in sight. The previous 11-day stretch of at least eight tornadoes per day ended on June 7, 1980. .@kmbc in Kansas City showing the tornado moving through Lawrence, KS on its way to Linwood. That is a massive tornado. Chopper pilot estimated it was a mile wide. KSwxpic.twitter.com/921tewWl9N— Drew Tuma (@DrewTumaABC7) May 28, 2019 "We're getting big counts on a lot of these days and that is certainly unusual," Patrick Marsh, warning coordination meteorologist for the federal Storm Prediction Centre, said. The National Weather Service had already received at least 27 more reports of tornadoes on Tuesday, suggesting that the record for consecutive days would be broken once the official totals are in. A large and dangerous tornado touched down on the western edge of Kansas City, Kansas, late on Tuesday, the National Weather Service office reported. At least a dozen people were admitted to the hospital in Lawrence, 40 miles west of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, and home to the University of Kansas, hospital spokesman Janice Early said. Damage also was reported in the towns of Bonner Springs, Linwood and Pleasant Grove in Kansas. But the Kansas City metropolitan area of about 2.1 million people appeared to have been spared the direct hit that was feared earlier in the evening when the weather service announced a tornado emergency. Assisting with search and rescue near linwood Kansas pic.twitter.com/mdSTiowT1O— Jesse Risley ������️‍�� (@Jesse_Risley) May 29, 2019 Mark Duffin, 48, learned from his wife and a television report that the large tornado was headed toward his home in Linwood, about 30 miles west of Kansas City. The next thing he knew, the walls of his house were coming down. Mr Duffin told the Kansas City Star that he grabbed a mattress, followed his 13-year-old to the basement and protected the two of them with the mattress as the home crashed down around them. "I’m just glad I found my two dogs alive," he said. "Wife’s alive, family’s alive, I’m alive. So, that’s it." The severe weather wasn’t limited to the Midwest. Tornadoes were confirmed in eastern Pennsylvania and the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for parts of New York City and northern New Jersey. The winds peeled away roofs - leaving homes looking like giant dollhouses - knocked houses off their foundations, toppled trees, brought down power lines and churned up so much debris that it was visible on radar. Highway crews had to use snowplows to clear an Ohio interstate. People look on as they examine the damaged remains of school in Dayton, Ohio Credit: AFP Some of the heaviest damage was reported just outside Dayton, Ohio. "I just got down on all fours and covered my head with my hands," said Francis Dutmers, who with his wife headed for the basement of their home in Vandalia, about 10 miles outside Dayton, when the storm hit with a "very loud roar" on Monday night. The winds blew out windows around his house, filled rooms with debris and took down most of his trees. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine declared a state of emergency in three hard-hit counties, allowing the state to suspend normal purchasing procedures and quickly provide supplies like water and generators. Outbreaks of 50 or more tornadoes are not uncommon, having happened 63 times in US history, with three instances of more than 100 twisters, Mr Marsh said. But Monday’s swarm was unusual because it happened over a particularly wide geographic area and came amid an especially active stretch, he said. An aerial photo shows damaged homes and debris marking the path of a tornado in Celina Credit: AP As for why it’s happening, Mr Marsh said high pressure over the Southeast and an unusually cold trough over the Rockies are forcing warm, moist air into the central US, triggering repeated severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. And neither system is showing signs of moving, he said. Scientists say climate change is responsible for more intense and more frequent extreme weather such as storms, droughts, floods and fires, but without extensive study they cannot directly link a single weather event to the changing climate. Want the best of The Telegraph direct to your email and WhatsApp? Sign up to our free twice-daily Front Page newsletter and new audio briefings.

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Satellite images show fields in northwest Syria on fire

New satellite images show fields, orchards and olive groves burning in northwest Syria, where the army has waged an assault against rebels in their last major stronghold. Government air strikes, backed by Russia, have focused on the south of Idlib province and nearby parts of Hama, uprooting nearly 250,000 people. The bombing has killed 229 civilians and injured 727 others, according to the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations (UOSSM) charity.

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No-deal Brexit is 'political suicide': Hunt

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Tuesday that Britain's governing Conservative Party would be committing "political suicide" if it tried to force through a no-deal Brexit. Hunt, who is among the 10 declared candidates vying to replace the outgoing Theresa May as Britain's prime minister, said trying to take the UK out of the EU without a deal would trigger a general election in which the Conservatives risked "extinction". The newly-formed Brexit Party led by Nigel Farage topped last week's European Parliament elections in Britain.

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Mom gives birth in car while three kids in backseat film

They were trying to make a pre-baby delivery video, but the 10-year-old ended up capturing the birth!

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One killed, scores hurt by Ohio tornadoes as twister threat lingers

An 81-year-old man was killed in Celina, a small city 65 miles (105 km) north of Dayton, after a tornado sent a vehicle crashing into his home, Celina Mayor Jeffrey Hazel said at a news conference. The deadly twister was one of several tornadoes to strike Ohio on Monday. The tornado in Celina, which touched down late on Monday, was at least an EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, with wind speeds of 136 miles per hour to 165 mph (219 to 266 km/h), said Patrick Marsh, warning coordination meteorologist at the federal Storm Prediction Center.

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Today’s best deals: $7.22 Alexa smart plugs, $199 Apple Watch, $30 Fire TV Stick, 55″ 4K TV for $330, more

Today's daily deals roundup is a doozy, and it all starts with a deal that gets you top-selling Alexa and Google enabled smart plugs for just $7.22 a piece when you buy a 4-pack and use the promo code KYSCVKIE at checkout. Other highlights from Wednesday's roundup include AirPods 2 for just $139.99, SanDisk Ultra 64GB microSD cards for only $12.58 each, Fire TV Stick for $29.99 instead of $40, Fire TV Stick 4K for $39.99 instead of $50, a crazy Apple Watch Series 3 sale with prices as low as $199, a massive $80 discount on renewed Sony WH1000XM3 Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones (this deal will sell out soon, but you can also buy them new and get a free 20,000 mAh portable charger) Eufy Lumos smart LED bulbs for $11.99 each, a gorgeous 55-inch 4K TV with built-in Fire TV for just $329.99, $40 off our favorite Instant Pot, and more. See all of today's top deals below.

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Planned Parenthood: Missouri's last abortion clinic may shut

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri's only abortion clinic could be closed by the end of the week because the state is threatening to not renew its license, Planned Parenthood officials said Tuesday.

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Boris Johnson faces court hearing for Brexit 'lies'

Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to become Britain's next prime minister, must attend court over allegations that he knowingly lied during the Brexit referendum campaign, a judge announced Wednesday. Johnson, the former foreign secretary, will be summoned to appear before a court over allegations of misconduct in public office, judge Margot Coleman said in a written decision, without specifying the date. The case is over the claim that Britain sends £350 million ($440 million, 400 million euros) a week to the European Union.

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Hong Kong Rejects U.S. Warning on Ship Breaching Iran Sanctions

The city’s government has “strictly” implemented United Nations Security Council sanctions, which don’t impose “any restrictions on the export of petroleum from Iran,” a spokesperson for Hong Kong’s Commerce and Economic Development Bureau said on Wednesday in response to a question about the U.S. warning. “Certain countries may impose unilateral sanctions against certain places on the basis of their own considerations,” they said.

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Bird attack at Disney World leaves woman with traumatic brain injury

A woman suffered severe brain injuries after she was attacked by a bird at Disney World, according to a lawsuit.Lisa Dixon was allegedly left with a traumatic brain injury and herniated discs in her neck after the animal struck her in the head at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida in May 2017.Her lawyer likened the force at which the bird struck her to being hit in the head by a baseball.It is not clear what breed the bird was.The woman, who is in her 30s and from nearby Celebration, Orlando, has filed a lawsuit at Orange Circuit Court, where she is seeking unspecified damages in excess of $15,000 (almost £12,000), according to The Associated Press.It accuses Disney of failing to properly warn visitors of the dangers seasonal nesting birds pose, among other allegations.The incident reportedly happened as Ms Dixon walked along a dock at Polynesian Village Resort where visitors can take a boat across the Seven Seas Lagoon to the Magic Kingdom or another resort, the lawsuit said.In June 2016, Lane Graves died after he was snatched by an alligator at the shore of the Seven Seas Lagoon at Disney World’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa.The two-year-old was on holiday with his parents Matt and Melissa Graves from Elkhorn, Nebraska, at the time.Disney was not immediately available for comment when approached by The Independent.

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Boeing aims for first flight of 777X in late June -sources

SEATTLE/PARIS, May 29 (Reuters) - Boeing Co is looking to make the first test flight of its 777X twin-aisle jet as soon as late June, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday, slightly later than the planemaker had planned, but still on track for putting the plane into airline service in 2020. Boeing hopes the new jet will extend its grip on the 'mini-jumbo' market, which it shares with rival Airbus SE's 365-seat A350-1000, and perhaps scoop up fresh orders following the demise of Airbus' A380 superjumbo. The test flight will likely be too late for Boeing to hit its previous target of flying the 777X to the Paris Air Show, which takes place June 17-23, where it had hoped to make a marketing splash in Airbus' backyard.

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With homes flooded and dams and levees stressed, Oklahoma hopes to survive Arkansas River's wrath

Work crews struggled on Wednesday to maintain aging levees and dams during what meteorologists predict will be Oklahoma's worst-ever flooding.

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College student pleads guilty to sneaking into Mar-a-Lago

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A college student pleaded guilty Tuesday to sneaking into Mar-a-Lago during President Donald Trump's Thanksgiving visit in a manner similar to how a Chinese national gained admission four months later.

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What's keeping Harriet Tubman off the $20?

Harriet Tubman, the famed abolitionist who freed slaves using the Underground Railroad, was scheduled to replace Andrew Jackson as the face of the $20 bill in 2020. However, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said during a congressional hearing last week that the redesign had been delayed until at least 2028.

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Tornadoes rip through Kansas City outskirts, warnings in NYC

A vicious storm tore through the Kansas City area in the latest barrage of severe weather that saw tornado warnings as far east as New York City.

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US climber becomes 11th Everest fatality

A US climber has died after descending from Everest, officials said Tuesday, taking this season's toll to 11 including several deaths blamed on overcrowding on the world's highest mountain. American Christopher John Kulish, 61, had already climbed the 8,848-metre (29,029-feet) peak, and was safely back at a camp below the summit on Monday evening. "All of a sudden he had a heart problem and passed away at South Col, according to his expedition organisers," said Mira Acharya from Nepal's tourism department.

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Israel to hold unprecedented second election after Netanyahu fails to form a coalition

Israel is heading for an unprecedented second election in less than six months after Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a coalition before a Wednesday night deadline and instead forced through a bill to dissolve parliament.  Mr Netanyahu won the most votes in April’s election but has spent the last six weeks struggling to convince smaller Right-wing parties to join his coalition and help him form a majority government.  After a series of frantic last-ditch negotiations broke down, a stony-faced Mr Netanyahu returned to parliament shortly before midnight on Wednesday and voted in favour of a bill to hold new elections on September 17.  The bill passed 74-45. Moments after the vote, Mr Netanyahu condemned the new elections as “superfluous, wasteful elections that nobody needs and nobody wants because the people already spoke”. Israel has never before been forced to hold two elections in a single year and the political chaos is a potentially seriously blow to Mr Netanyahu, who managed to win the April elections despite facing criminal corruption charges.  Parliament voted to dissolve itself and hold new elections Credit: ABIR SULTAN/EPA-EFE/REX The prime minister, who has held power for 13 years, had hoped to use his new government to change the law and shield himself from prosecution. Instead, he finds himself fighting an unwanted second election.      The turmoil in Israel is likely to have repercussions on the White House’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.  The economic half of the plan is due to be unveiled at a summit in Bahrain next month, while the more controversial political half was expected to be rolled out at a later date. It seems likely the political component will now be delayed or potentially shelved completely.   Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and point man on the peace process, is due to meet with Mr Netanyahu on Thursday.     The Israeli prime minister’s woes centred around Avigdor Lieberman, his mercurial former defence minister who leads the small Yisrael Beiteinu Right-wing party.  Letters from Jerusalem RHS Mr Lieberman, an avowed secularist, said he would only join Mr Netanyahu’s government if the prime minister pledged to move ahead with a law that would increase the numbers of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men conscripted into the Israeli military.  Ultra-Orthodox Jews are currently exempted from military service as long as they can show they are involved in full-time religious studies.  Mr Lieberman’s demands were flatly rejected by the ultra-Orthodox political parties, whom Mr Netanyahu also needed to form a majority government.  The prime minister spent weeks trying to broker a compromise between the two sides but was ultimately unsuccessful, despite an intervention from Donald Trump who said he was hoping for a deal. Mr Lieberman accused the prime minister’s Likud party of caving before the ultra-Orthodox, also known as the haredi.  “The Likud surrendered completely to the haredi,” he said, shortly before the parliamentary vote. Mr Netanyahu blasted Mr Lieberman, saying he was dragging the country to elections “because of his own whims”.

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Two 'screaming and snarling' raccoon dogs are running loose in a small village in England - USA TODAY

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Man sues after his face is mauled by emotional support dog on Delta Airlines flight - The Independent

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“I Am Supposed to Look”: Linda Gregg’s Prolific Vision

BECAUSE POETRY IS so attuned to death, it is common practice to look back at a poet’s work when he or she has died and consider how they confronted their mortality. When Mary Oliver died, “The Summer Day” gained an almost divine incandescence, and when W. S. Merwin died in March, many returned to his poem “For the Anniversary of My Death.” Because poetry, in the simplest terms, interrogates what it means to exist, it necessarily asks what it means to die. “Poetry begins with elegy,” wrote Donald Hall.

For Linda Gregg, who passed away at the age of 76 in March, confronting death was merely an extension of the problems she found in confronting life. “I am content to live in silence / with the dead,” she wrote in one of her later poems, “Hearing the Gods.” Silence, in all its varying forms, was of utmost concern to Gregg: silence as the unseen or the invisible, as the unsaid or unsayable. This silence isn’t an empty void or lack of vitality but something akin to the “sound of the gods / in the sound of a grasshopper” or “the sliding of the dead / in a lizard’s tail.” Gregg didn’t resign herself to the incommunicability between living and dead but rather lived in awe of it.

Though her career was prolific, in recent years Gregg’s work seems to have faded into obscurity. Many factors have contributed to this growing anonymity: she lived abroad for a large portion of her early adulthood, never settling into any literary scene, and in later life she described herself as living reclusively in her New York City apartment. Her first collection wasn’t released until she was nearly 40 (a useful anecdote to remember when idolizing young writers), her second book, Alma, which J. D. McClatchy hailed as “austere, intense, afflicted,” is out of print and difficult to acquire, and she never released a complete collection of poems. But she did receive numerous accolades in her lifetime, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and the highest honors for poets from organizations like the Poetry Society of America, Poets & Writers, and PEN America. Gregg was also a transformative teacher, mentoring writers such as poet laureate Tracy K. Smith. Yet perhaps most potent of all has been the integration of her work into the cult-veneration of another poet, Jack Gilbert.

I first encountered Gregg, like many, through Gilbert’s poetry. I discovered Gilbert when I was an undergraduate, and it seemed to me then that everything he touched flourished into myth. Romance was central to his poetry, and a distinctively lucid and elegiac style gave each of his relationships a profound, striking solemnity. Among my friends in the English department, his lovers were as legendary as Beatrice or the Dark Lady. There was Gilbert and Gianna Gelmetti, his first love; Gilbert and Michiko Nogami, a sculptor who died tragically young; and, of course, Gilbert and Gregg, with whom he lived for many years in Greece and Denmark.

It was part of the lore surrounding this latter relationship that Gregg was also a writer, but it took me years to read Gregg’s poetry. This is one of the great shames of the timeworn link between Gilbert and Gregg — it conflates them and in many ways subsumes Gregg in Gilbert’s hagiography. There is no denying the huge insights that can be gained by considering the two in conjunction. Their lives were inexorably tied, even after their years-long romance ended. Gregg dedicated both her first and third collections to him and maintained a close relationship with Gilbert through his death in 2012, acting as his primary caretaker when he suffered from dementia in his final years. They both lived enigmatic, often impoverished, lives outside of the literary establishment and were each concerned with travel, desire, and the inner spirit in their work. Volumes could be written about their poetic dialogue: between Gregg’s Eurydice and Gilbert’s Orpheus, between their conceptions of fidelity and infidelity. It is lamentable that Gregg’s career may only be given due consideration on its own grounds after her death.

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The word that seems to appear most frequently when describing Gregg’s poetry is “spare.” In this sense, her work more closely resembles that of Louise Glück than Gilbert. Take her astonishing poem “The War,” which depicts with devastating clarity a group of men tormenting a scorpion:

The men gathered around, their open pocket knives
held shoulder high. The man picked up the scorpion
by the tail and put it on his friend who yelped,
jumping. The men laughed. The scorpion fell.
Another man picked it up and threw it lightly
against the wall. The scorpion fell and kept trying …

The lines are pure image; there isn’t a single metaphor in the entire poem. The reader experiences only the men’s bald violence, the scorpion’s suffering. But the most remarkable moment occurs in the final lines, when Gregg writes, “Somebody else picked up the scorpion and I told John / I was going. We went outside where there was nothing.” There could hardly be a starker denouement. A lesser poet might have had ended with a revelatory image, something formidable and evocative. But the choice of absence magnifies the brutality of the scene and suggests that the poet’s role is not to look for what is immediately extraordinary but to see the world unadulterated, to turn your eye even to silence and nothingness.

Gregg frequently said that seeing, especially seeing what one might not otherwise make an effort to see, was essential to her work. In the essay “The Art of Finding,” she recounts being astonished “in [her] teaching to find how many poets are nearly blind to the physical world.” She had students keep journals logging things they saw each day, and she discovered that all her students typically saw the world “artistically, deliberately, or not at all.” But for Gregg, poetry depended on a mode of seeing so incorporated into daily life that it became passive. This was the only way to truly be attuned to the material world. Once her students realized this, she recalls, “Their journals filled up with lovely things like, ‘the mirror with nothing reflected in it.’” Here, seeing par excellence requires an eye on the profoundly mundane, on the apoetical world. A mirror with nothing in it is just one more iteration of “outside where there was nothing.”

Another facet of this perception was an aversion to excess. As McClatchy wrote, Gregg was “a poet of essentials.” Seeing clearly meant identifying the rudiments of any given thing, whether it was the images undergirding a scene or the emotions and motives at play in a relationship. In “Heavy With Things and Flesh,” Gregg paints a rural scene with intensely concentrated details:

Wind in the heat. A woman
in her farmhouse talking
to someone outside. Along with
hobbled goats in the field.
At eight in the evening
a man in his heavy wooden boat
is repairing the holes in
the yellow net piled around him.
I came here exhausted in my heart.

The stringent descriptions generate a taut energy. We can sense the weight of the scene, the spiritual fatigue embodied in the physical stillness. Yet there is wonder hovering over each image, awe at the heaviness of being.

Despite Gregg’s spartan eye, her poetry was distinctly romantic, always oriented toward “what is found out about the heart and the spirit.” In a tribute to Gregg on Literary Hub, Timothy Liu tells a story, possibly apocryphal, of a reading where Stanley Kunitz introduced Gregg and Glück. In his opening, Kunitz described Glück’s work as “haunted by cemeteries,” while Gregg’s was “haunted by cemeteries … that were flowering.” Gregg’s attention to the inner life was informed by affliction as much as by blessing, but she was fundamentally awake to beauty.

Gregg often pointed to her youth in Marin County, surrounded by uninhabited mountains and tall trees, as a creative wellspring. At an early age, she became fascinated with the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. She explained at a 2015 talk at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival that Hopkins’s invocation in “The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo” to “give beauty back” became her creed. Hopkins provided her with a “special way of knowing the earth and experiencing God,” and as she grew up, she developed a devotion to “nature, the sacred, love, and poetry.”

Gregg has an almost ecstatic eye for the natural world: “Everything that is touched by light / loves the light. We the stubborn-as-grass, / we who reel at the taste of sap,” she writes in “Surrounded by Sheep and Low Ground.” At times, her study of love intersects with this study of nature, but Gregg’s own use of the word “love” is a bit of a misnomer. Her most striking poems, as McClatchy observed in his review of Alma, are more concerned with desire than with love, with the violence and lust intertwined with longing. Her first collection, Too Bright to See, centers on the dissolution of her relationship with Gilbert, and later collections like Chosen by the Lion contemplate her affair with, eventual marriage to, and divorce from John Brentlinger.

The poems in these collections are anguished, exultant, and damning. When I first read Too Bright to See, I felt slightly embarrassed by my adulation of Gilbert, whom she so incisively lays bare. Take these lines from “The Defeated”:

Waking up with you there awake
in the kitchen. It was like being alive twice.
I’ll try to tell you better when I am stronger.

What does the moth think when the skin begins to split?
Is the air an astonishing pain? I keep seeing the arms
bent. The legs smashed up against the breasts,
with her sex showing.

The poem oscillates from poignant nostalgia to a disturbing rumination on sexualized mutilation, intensifying the implications of the enigmatic line, “It was like being alive twice” (which also serves as the book’s epigraph). Tucked in between these lines is the rapturous image of a moth rent by hands or by flame, further complicating the stanza with a mysterious violence. Or consider the tamer closing to “Eurydice,” perhaps the most lyrical addition to the long line of feminist revisions of the Greek myth:

Now you whistle, putting together
the new words, learning the songs
to tell the others how far you traveled for me.
Singing of my desire to live. […]

I did not cry as much in the darkness
as I will when we part in the dimness,
near the opening which is the way in for you
and was the way out for me, my love.

The poem is devastating in a far different way than “The Defeated.” Eurydice’s voice is somber, almost demurely restrained, like the speaker in Li Bai’s “The River Merchant’s Wife.” But there is a tragic foreknowledge, an understanding that Eurydice will be left behind, that reveals the hypocrisies of the Orpheus figure. “I know you will not take me back,” she writes. “Will take me almost to the world, / but not out to house, color, leaves.” His efforts to retrieve her are not heroic but selfish, his songs are not charms but appropriations of her misery. By losing her, he gains a story to “tell the others” at the expense of her suffering. “Eurydice” indicts not only masculinity but also sentimental or exploitative art.

Sight is always central to such examinations, as Gregg strives to perceive desire as a whole, neither purely love and pleasure nor lust and betrayal. In “Chosen by the Lion,” she writes, “I am the one chosen by the lion at sundown / […] Yanked back to bushes and torn open […] / Taken as meat. Devoured as spirit by spirit / […] for me now there is only faith.” Desire is at once ravishing and sacred, corporeal and ethereal. Violence is desire’s secret, Gregg implies, and in particular violence perpetrated against women. And yet somewhere in that cruelty is a seed of faith, the possibility of something more beautiful, more like love.

There is a moment early in Too Bright to See when Gregg articulates the poetics that would define her career. Or, more in line with her own lexicon, she makes it visible. In “There She Is,” a speaker encounters a “specter” whose “hands are eaten off.” The haunting image of a handless, bloodied woman evokes Lavinia of Titus Andronicus. But while the Shakespearean character was violated by Tamora’s sons, in Gregg’s scene the woman is the agent of her own harm, eating herself to avoid the insidious “other pain” of consciousness. At first, the speaker resists confronting the mutilated woman, yearning for forgetfulness, but ultimately realizes,

I am supposed to look. I am not supposed
to turn away. I am supposed to see each detail
and all expression gone. My God, I think,
if paradise is to be here
it will have to include her.

In these final lines, Gregg enunciates her doctrine: the poet “is supposed to look” not just at the beautiful but also at the awful. It’s a strange vision of paradise, a beauty that encompasses ugliness — not pleasant but rather a state of pure consciousness. In paradise, you are wholly awake to the world, to the real. You can see it.

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Gabriel Fine is a writer and poet from Colorado currently living in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in SPIN, Consequence of Sound, andWestword, among others, and he has poetry forthcoming from Image.

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