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The Man Who Told America the Truth About D-Day
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/magazine/d-day-normandy-75th-ernie-pyle.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190606&section=topNews

The Oldest Man To Go Ashore On D-Day
https://townhall.com/columnists/larryprovost/2019/06/06/the-oldest-man-to-go-ashore-on-dday-n2547648?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=06/06/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

My grandfather's secret D-Day journal 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0619/secret_d_day_journasl.php3

GENERAL INTEREST
How to Make and Throw an Indoor Boomerang
https://start.att.net/player/category/lifestyle/article/wired_videos-how_to_make_and_throw_an_indoor_boomerang-condenast

Hell freezes over as Jim Acosta, Joe Scarborough praise Trump???s D-Day speech
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/hell-freezes-over-as-jim-acosta-joe-scarborough-praise-trumps-d-day-speech

HEALTH
Ultimate limit of human endurance found
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-48527798

Coffee Doesn???t Kill After All
See the third Wall Street Journal article, below.

An Australian Doctor???s Dream: Curing America???s Opioid Curse
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/world/australia/opiate-opioid-treatment-naltrexone.html?te=1&nl=evening-briefing&emc=edit_ne_20190606

HEALTH CARE
Liberals rip Democratic leaders for writing drug pricing bill in secret
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/447210-liberals-rip-democratic-leaders-for-writing-drug-pricing-bill-in-secret

HUMOR
The News in Zingers 
http://jewishworldreview.com/0619/hamilton.php3

FINANCIAL
The Fed Can???t Bail Trump Out
See the second Wall Street Journal article, below.

HISTORY
A Nation Not Made by Flimsy People 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/the-british-are-coming-rick-atkinson-book-revolutionary-war/

ECOLOGY
Animals
https://e.nationalgeographic.com/pub/sf/ResponseForm?_ri_=X0Gzc2X%3DYQpglLjHJlYQGu3BhK1dojjR23HjDv7fhFKyd5kzc9pOKLw8sDoREcYUkE0aDzfzc8yVXMtX%3DYQpglLjHJlYQGu3BhK1dojjR23HjDv7fhFJ76oApu5X602yJg7zg3yWihwvePzffhT&_ei_=EvFBTjM356G9OqtZ8HVNAkI

AVIATION
You Need a Human Pilot When the Airplane???s Computers Fail 
See the first Wall Street Journal article, below.

WEATHER
Watch Dramatic Moment Floodwaters Wash Away Road in Oklahoma
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/watch-dramatic-moment-floodwaters-wash-away-road-in-oklahoma?pl=pl-the-latest

Rain or shine: Watching the weather for 250 years
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48517085

CYBER SECURITY
Can hackers tell what you???re texting or searching just by listening?
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/can-hackers-tell-what-youre-texting-or-searching-just-by-listening

FCC votes to allow phone carriers to block robocalls by default 
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/447270-fcc-votes-to-allow-phone-carriers-to-block-robocalls-by-default

DEFENSE
The Army says it will have hypersonic missiles and laser weapons ready for combat sooner than you think
https://taskandpurpose.com/army-hypersonic-missiles-lasers-fielding

As North Korea Threat Grows, U.S. Anti-Missile Warhead Stumbles
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/as-north-korea-threat-grows-us-anti-missile-warhead-stumbles/ar-AACuM4Q?ocid=spartandhp

BIG BROTHER
Amazon wants its home security company Ring to double as a police surveillance network, report claims
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7109067/Amazon-wants-home-security-company-Ring-double-police-surveillance-network.html

YouTube faces backlash after unveiling 'supremacist' content policy
https://news.yahoo.com/you-tube-faces-backlash-after-unveiling-supremacist-content-policy-221227475.html

Australia May Well Be the World???s Most Secretive Democracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/world/australia/journalist-raids.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190606&section=whatElse

POLITICS
Trump's giant gender gap: 62 percent of women say they are unlikely to vote for him
https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/447308-trumps-giant-gender-gap-62-percent-of-women-say-they-are

Wreck the Electoral College, Destroy the Country
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/wreck_the_electoral_college_destroy_the_country.html

In reversal, Biden opposes ban on federal money for abortion
https://start.att.net/news/read/article/the_associated_press-joe_biden_reverses_course_on_hyde_abortion_amendme-ap/category/news

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"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end ??? 
which you can never afford to lose ??? with the discipline to confront
the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
        - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (without permission)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-need-a-human-pilot-when-the-airplanes-computers-fail-11559763986?emailToken=4e4dd878aeb641564ea2a4235a01fafc4GU9zfwiDZV3Obh97W+q/2wmsRMWvbWPpkLMclf83XM33eAVDYiR+O2RZRu/8/2tgFr8UsbSfG6q4D9KGNqy5oiwNFjGi3g+8ifZLW2OHIv8m72a0OSdhMbVRPcpLDIv&reflink=article_email_share

You Need a Human Pilot When the Airplanes Computers Fail

Boeing will fix the automation issues with the 737 MAX soon enough, but there will always be times when human pilots will be called on when computers and automation systems have failed them.

June 5, 2019 3:46 p.m. ET

Dennis Muilenburg (lower L), CEO of Boeing, joins a Boeing test pilot for a flight demo of updated MCAS software on a 737 MAX 7 in April. Photo: Paul Weatherman/Boeing/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Regarding Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.???s ???Boeing vs. Pilots???? (Business World, June 1): Without question, the failure of the pilots to deal with a malfunction was a major factor in both 737 MAX accidents. But in the accident chain, and it is almost always a chain of events that cause an airliner to crash, the root cause of both crashes

Michael J. Carreiro
Pittsboro, N.C.
The real mistake lies firmly with an aircraft manufacturer placing computer software on a plane to outsmart the pilots and not telling the pilots it was there, or what to do in case it malfunctions. That was the real error that cost 346 people their lives.
Adam Wilson
Tampa, Fla.

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The Fed Cant Bail Trump Out

Monetary stimulation didnt help Obama and wont now counter reckless spending and trade wars.

By

George Melloan

June 5, 2019 6:37 p.m. ET

Illustration: Chad Crowe

President Trump???s April tweet that stocks and economic growth would be higher ???if the Fed had done its job properly,??? is worth re-examining in light of market developments after Mr. Trump won his tussle with Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. Mr. Powell backed off his brief attempt at ???quantitative tightening??? under presidential and market pressure. Now that the Fed has ???done its job properly,??? where are the salutary results?