President Trump Issues Opioid Crisis a Public Health Emergency

On Thursday, President Trump declared the opioid problem in the United States an official public health emergency. President Trump gave an extensive speech about the opioid problem and stressed that the American people “cannot allow this to continue.” President Trump also added, “We can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic. We can do it.” President Trump stressed further enforcement and plans to tie in his US-Mexico border with efforts to stem the tide of illegal drugs coming into the United States.

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/26/politics/donald-trump-opioid-epidemic/index.html

JFK Documents Released

On Monday, President Trump announced 2,800 records related to the assassination of our 35th president, John F. Kennedy. On Thursday, President Trump delivered. Thousands of pages that were published online by the National Archives Thursday evening describe decades of spies and surveillance, informants, and assassination plots. Inside the documents were information about CIA plots to kill Fidel Castro, the possible involvement of Lyndon B. Johnson with the KKK, predictions of the Cuban revolution collapsing, and much more.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/10/27/strippers-surveillance-and-assassination-plots-the-jfk-files-wildest-documents/?utm_term=.7eac9ea4cb8b

George Bush Sr. Sex Scandal

As of Friday, three women have come forward and accused former president of the United States George H.W. Bush of inappropriately touching them. The three accusers all have a similar story: during a photo-op, they say the former president shared a dirty joke with them and then proceeded to grab them inappropriately. Bush’s spokesman, Jim McGrath, acknowledged the incidents, and directed CNN to a statement released on Wednesday. “To try to put people at ease, the president routinely tells the same joke — and on occasion, he has patted women’s rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner,” McGrath’s statement reads: “Some have seen it as innocent; others clearly view it as inappropriate. To anyone he has offended, President Bush apologizes most sincerely.”

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/27/politics/george-hw-bush-touching-allegations/index.html

US Naval Ships Dock in Pacific

As President Trump prepares for a visit to Asia in early November, the United States has prepared by sending two US Navy aircraft carrier strike groups in the Pacific. The two ships, the USS Theodore Roosevelt and the USS Nimitz, cover the eastern Indian and western Pacific oceans. While the Navy statements do not give any specific missions for the Roosevelt and Nimitz, the presence of the additional carriers is certain to draw attention in the region.

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/25/politics/us-navy-three-aircraft-carriers-pacific/index.html

Catalonia Government Declares Independence from Spain

Spain dismissed Catalonia’s president and Cabinet and dissolved its Parliament on Friday hours after lawmakers in the autonomous region defied Madrid and voted to declare independence. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said the moves to call new elections and fire the Catalan police chief were needed to restore legality after a political and constitutional crisis had gripped the country for months. The dramatic and fast-moving events pushed Spain into uncharted territory, testing the limits of the constitution drawn up after the restoration of democracy in the 1970s.

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/27/europe/catalonia-independence-spain/index.html