Senator Sanders

Strolling of the Heifers Lots of cheering and mooing could be heard Saturday in Brattleboro, Vermont, at the annual Strolling of the Heifers festival. Sen. Bernie Sanders joined the parade, WCAX-TV and The Associated Press reported. “What we're celebrating today is not just Vermont agriculture and our desire to preserve family farms in Vermont and all over this country, but we're celebrating community.”  LINK, LINK, VIDEO 

Electric Co-op Grant The Vermont Electric Cooperative is getting a $2.1 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help pay for cleanup and repairs following severe weather last December. The grant was announced Friday by Sens. Patrick Leahy and Sanders and Rep. Peter Welch, AP reported. LINK

Times Columns Frank Bruni wrote in his New York Times column that it is “inevitable” Clinton will be the Democrats’ nominee. “This time around, in contrast to 2008, there’s no Barack Obama in the wings … Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley and Lincoln Chafee don’t qualify.” Ross Douthat said Sanders, O’Malley and Chafee are “saving their party's nominating contest from resembling a presidential re-election in Kazakhstan.” LINK, LINK

World 

G7 Summit Protests Police responded with pepper spray when a group of marchers tried to break through their cordon; scuffles first broke out as the demonstrators, some throwing bottles, faced off with riot police at the G7 Summit in Germany. The crowd was estimated by police at 3,500 to 4,000, while organizers put it at 7,500, ABC reported. LINK

Putin Urges Western Pressure for Peace in Ukraine President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia called on the United States and Europe on Saturday to pressure the Ukrainian government to comply with a cease-fire accord, saying that Russia would do what it could to influence separatists in the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk but held no sway in Kiev, the capital, The New York Times reported. LINK

National

Chinese Hack The massive hack that may have stolen the personal information of four million federal employees appears designed to build a vast database in what could be preparation for future attacks by China against the U.S., cybersecurity experts advising the government told CNN Friday afternoon, CNN reported. LINK

Vermont 

Lake Champlain With a bill to clean up Lake Champlain and other Vermont waters awaiting the governor's signature, a group devoted to preserving the lake is raising an alarm about a recent spate of spills from municipal wastewater plants into its tributaries, AP reported. LINK