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Alice Marie Johnson, Whose Cause Was Taken Up by Kim Kardashian West, Is Granted Clemency by Trump WASHINGTON — President Trump commuted the sentence on Wednesday of a 63-year-old woman serving life in prison for a nonviolent drug conviction after her case was brought to his attention by the reality television star Kim Kardashian West. Although short of a full pardon, the decision will free Alice Marie Johnson, who has been locked up in federal prison in Alabama since 1996 on charges related to cocaine distribution and money laundering. Ms. Kardashian West, who learned of the case through a video that went viral on social media, visited Mr. Trump at the White House last week to lobby on Ms. Johnson’s behalf. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/us/politics/trump-alice-johnson-sentence-commuted-kim-kardashian-west.html

Trump Pulls Out of North Korea Summit Meeting with Kim Jong-un WASHINGTON — President Trump, citing a flurry of hostile statements from North Korea, pulled out of a highly anticipated summit meeting with Kim Jong-un on Thursday, telling the North Korean leader…

Trump Pardons Dinesh D’Souza, Weighs Leniency for Rod Blagojevich and Martha Stewart WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday pardoned Dinesh D’Souza, a conservative author, commentator and filmmaker, and said he was strongly considering commuting the sentence of former Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois, a Democrat. Flexing his clemency power as he and his team face multiple criminal investigations of their own, Mr. Trump also said that he was thinking about the case of Martha Stewart, the lifestyle mogul who spent five months in prison for lying to investigators about the timing of a stock sale. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/us/politics/dsouza-pardon.html?3

Eric Greitens, Governor of Missouri, Resigns Amid Scandal Gov. Eric Greitens of Missouri announced on Tuesday that he will resign, bowing to months of pressure as he faced a felony charge, a scandal tied to an extramarital relationship and the threat of impeachment. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/us/eric-greitens-resigns.html

Alan Bean, 4th Person to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 86 Alan Bean, who became the fourth man to walk on the moon and turned to painting years later to tell the story of NASA’s Apollo missions as they began receding into history, died on Saturday at Houston Methodist Hospital. He was 86. https://nyti.ms/2JbfUWQ

Ireland Votes to Legalize Abortion in Blow to Catholic Conservatism DUBLIN — Ireland voted decisively to repeal one of the world’s more restrictive abortion bans, the prime minister said Saturday, sweeping aside generations of conservative patriarchy and dealing the latest in a series of stinging rebukes to the Roman Catholic Church. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/26/world/europe/ireland-abortion-yes.html

Arrested on Rape Charges, Weinstein Posts $1 Million Bail Harvey Weinstein turned himself in to New York City detectives and appeared in court on Friday on charges that he raped one woman and forced another to perform oral sex, a watershed in a monthslong sex crimes investigation and in the #MeToo movement. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-arrested.html

U.S.-North Korea Summit Set for June 12 in Singapore, Trump Says https://nyti.ms/2KS0fcX?2

More Than 100 Die as Aging Cuban Airliner Crashes A Cuban state airliner crashed and burned moments after takeoff from Havana on Friday, killing nearly all 114 people aboard the nearly 40-year-old plane. It was one of the worst airline crashes in Cuba, which has been struggling to operate with a decrepit fleet of planes that it has blamed partly on the longstanding economic embargo imposed by the United States. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/world/americas/cuba-airplane-crash.html?4

Texas School Shooting: 10 Dead, 10 Hurt, and Many Not Surprised It Happened SANTA FE, Tex. — A nation plagued by a wrenching loop of mass school shootings watched the latest horror play out in this small Southeast Texas town Friday morning, as a young man armed with a shotgun and a .38 revolver smuggled under his coat opened fire on his high school campus, killing 10 people, many of them his fellow students, and wounding 10 more, the authorities said. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/us/school-shooting-santa-fe-texas.html?3

Senate Confirms Haspel to Lead C.I.A. Despite Torture Concerns WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Gina Haspel on Thursday to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, elevating a woman to the directorship for the first time despite bipartisan misgivings about her role in the agency’s brutal detention and interrogation programs in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/us/politics/haspel-confirmed.html

Supreme Court Ruling Favors Sports Betting https://nyti.ms/2GfabtI