SURVIVORS OF MASS SHOOTINGS SUFFER FROM PTSD, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES: In one week in March, two student survivors of the Parkland school shooting killed themselves. Around the same time, the father of a 6-year-old killed girl in Newtown died of an apparent suicide. He had created a foundation in his daughter's name to support research on violence prevention. Austin Eubanks, a Columbine student who was shot and watched his best friend die in the school massacre, died last month, possibly of an overdose. He struggled with opioid use after the attack and later became an addiction recovery speaker. A memorial fund established in his name is seeking funds for a trauma-informed program for families and victims of mass violence. After the Parkland suicides, Hunschofsky says, many people sought mental health help for the first time. "They just told me, 'I thought I was OK, but after this happened, maybe I'm not. Maybe I do need to talk to someone.'" The community's wellness center, established after the Parkland shooting, extended its hours.
https://www.wral.com/mass-shootings-create-rippling-network-of-stricken-survivors/18426269/

GK BUTTERFIELD JOINS OTHER DEMS CALLING FOR IMPEACHMENT OF TRUMP: Rep. G.K. Butterfield became the first of North Carolina’s three Democratic House members to call for the impeachment of President Donald Trump on Thursday. “The evidence that has been produced so far is sufficient in my opinion to support an impeachment inquiry and impeachment and removal,” Butterfield told McClatchy in a phone interview on Thursday. “I am prepared to vote for an impeachment inquiry ... and I will vote for impeachment and removal.” Butterfield, a former North Carolina Supreme Court justice, represents the 1st Congressional District, which includes Durham in its far-west end and stretches east along the Virginia border. Butterfield said last week that he was getting “pretty darn close” on impeachment. Special counsel Robert Mueller issued a public statement on Wednesday, his first comments since his completed report was made public.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article231004988.html

MILLENNIALS ARE STRUGGLING MORE FINANCIALLY THAN PREVIOUS GENERATIONS: Millennials are doing far worse financially than generations before them, with student loans, rising rents and higher health care costs pushing the average net worth below $8,000, a new study shows. The net worth of Americans aged 18 to 35 has dropped 34 percent since 1996, according to research released Thursday by Deloitte, the accounting and professional services giant. This demographic is paying more for education and such basics as food and transportation while incomes have largely flatlined. “The vast majority of consumers are under tremendous financial pressure,” said Kasey Lobaugh, Deloitte’s chief retail innovation officer and lead author of the study. “That is particularly true for low-income Americans and millennials.” The growing gap between the nation’s wealthiest residents and everybody else, he said, is affecting the way consumers spend. Education expenses have climbed 65 percent in the past decade. Food costs have jumped 26 percent, health care is up 21 percent, housing jumped 16 percent and transportation rose 11 percent.
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TRUMP TWEETS CHILDISH INSULT AT LONDON MAYOR BEFORE LANDING: Hours before he was scheduled to visit Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, the president launched a Twitter attack against London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who has publicly objected to the plan to fete Trump with a ceremonial state visit. Trump responded by criticizing Khan’s record as mayor and attacking him over his height. “@SadiqKhan, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London, has been foolishly ‘nasty’ to the visiting President of the United States, by far the most important ally of the United Kingdom. He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me,” Trump wrote on Twitter as Air Force One was about to land in Britain. “Kahn [sic] reminds me very much of our very dumb and incompetent Mayor of NYC, de Blasio, who has also done a terrible job - only half his height. In any event, I look forward to being a great friend to the United Kingdom, and am looking very much forward to my visit. Landing now!”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/trump-arrives-in-london-calls-mayor-sadiq-khan-a-stone-c...

TRUMP TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY USED HER POSITION TO PROMOTE FAMILY'S BUSINESS IN CHINA: Ms. Chao’s office had made a series of unorthodox requests related to her first scheduled visit to China as a Trump cabinet member, according to people with knowledge of the email. Among them: asking federal officials to help coordinate travel arrangements for at least one family member and include relatives in meetings with government officials. The trip was abruptly canceled by Ms. Chao after the ethics question was referred to officials in the State and Transportation Departments and, separately, after The New York Times and others made inquiries about her itinerary and companions. Ms. Chao has no formal affiliation or stake in her family’s shipping business, Foremost Group. But she and her husband, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, have received millions of dollars in gifts from her father, James, who ran the company until last year. And Mr. McConnell’s re-election campaigns have received more than $1 million in contributions from Ms. Chao’s extended family, including from her father and her sister Angela, now Foremost’s chief executive, who were both subjects of the State Department’s ethics question.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/us/politics/elaine-chao-china.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stor...