5 Things To Know For Your New Day-Wednesday June 20th
via CNN:
Trump’s Hill meeting ‘didn’t move the ball’ on immigration bill:
Congressional Republicans, keen to secure an end to a policy separating children from their parents at the US border, received unclear marching orders from President Donald Trump on Tuesday after a meeting on Capitol Hill.
Over 500 guns found at convicted felon’s California home, officials say:
he first time the sheriff’s department searched one convicted felon’s home, they say they found 432 firearms. When they went back a day later, they found another 91 guns hidden in the residence.
Fit Is Everything in the NBA, So Which Draft Prospects Fit Which Teams Best?:
The Big Men Are Coming! The Big Men Are Coming!
Overly dramatic? Maybe. But a revolution is on its way, NBA executives say, and the seeds of it will be planted Thursday night at the NBA draft. Which seeds ultimately blossom to lead the revolution, though, will depend on where they are planted. And by whom.
“This draft,” one Western Conference assistant GM said, “is going to change the way the game is played over the next eight to 10 years, because the way to beat teams that play small and defensively switch everything is to have big skilled guys. And that’s what this draft is full of.
Starbucks says it will close 150 stores next year:
Starbucks will close 150 poorly performing company-operated stores next year, about three times as many as it typically closes.
The affected stores are located in mostly urban areas that are densely populated with Starbucks locations
The company told investors late Tuesday that it expects same-store sales to grow just 1% for the quarter that begins next month, lowering its previous guidance. The stock slumped 3.5% in after-hours trading
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow ended the night in tears. So did many of her viewers.
Maddow, one of the most popular hosts on cable news, choked up while sharing a news story about what’s happening to the youngest migrants who are separated from their parents at the southern US border
Maddow later apologized via Twitter for the tearful broadcast. But viewers responded by expressing sympathy and saying that they, too, were heartbroken by the story.
The emotional moment crystallized days of TV coverage of the Trump administration policy that results in the breakup of families that cross into the United States illegally.
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