Senator Sanders

Sanders Strong on Trade Saying past trade deals were ‘a disaster for the American workers,” Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday restated his position on a proposed 12-nation Pacific Rim trade pact. He told Ed Schultz on MSNBC that he cannot understand why some are ducking the issue. LINK, LINK, LINK, LINK, VIDEO, VIDEO  

College Costs States across the country have slashed higher education budgets over the last several years. In fact, only three states have higher per-student public university funding now than in 2008. Sen. Sanders backs free public education for all, reported the Los Angeles Times. LINK  

American Justice Politifact deemed “mostly true” Sanders’ assertion, in a PBS interview, that “a black male baby born today, if we do not change the system, stands a 1-in-3 chance (of) ending up in jail." LINK  

Minimum Wage Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti used the backdrop of a park in struggling South Los Angeles to sign a minimum wage law he said would lift a million Angelenos out of poverty and bridge the city's inequality gap.  The mood at Saturday's event was celebratory. A woman passed out fliers promoting presidential candidate Sen. Sanders, the Los Angeles Daily News reported. LINK

Seniors and Hunger Some 17 million elderly Americans need of government-funded meal service, but 90 percent of them don't receive it, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office prepared for Sen. Sanders, RT reported. LINK 

Stock Buybacks Stock buybacks are suddenly controversial, with critics arguing that they are hurting the American economy, killing jobs, and manipulating stock prices and therefore must be banned. Bernie Sanders has made slamming buybacks a theme of his campaign, Roger Lowenstein asserted in a Boston Globe column which went on to argue that buybacks are “both useful and benign.”

Obama's Biggest Mistake The biggest mistake President Barack Obama made, according to Sen. Sanders, was saying to the legions of people who supported him, “Thank you very much for electing me, I’ll take it from here.” Acccording to The Intercept, however, the move was intentional because Obama saw his supporters “like a tiger you can’t control.” LINK  

World

Al Qaeda’s Leader in Yemen Killed in U.S. Airstrike Al Qaeda said its second in command was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Yemen, the biggest blow to the terrorist organization since Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. raid in Pakistan in 2011. A video dated Sunday and released on Tuesday announced the death of Nasser al-Wuhayshi, who also served as the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, the organization’s affiliate in Yemen. LINK

National

Obama Scrambles to Resurrect Trade Deal Congressional Republican leaders and White House officials on Monday explored ways to resurrect trade legislation that stalled last week when House Democrats objected. In meetings around the Capitol and in telephone conversations with administration officials, lawmakers ticked through a list of complicated procedural options that could circumvent House Democratic opposition to granting the president the power to expedite trade deals, The New York Times reported. LINK

Vermont

Lake Champlain Vermont environmentalists are hoping a new law that will provide tens of millions of dollars to help clean up Lake Champlain will finally begin to reverse the long-term decline in the quality of the water in the lake. Gov. Peter Shumlin is going to use the lake as a backdrop Tuesday in Burlington where he will sign the Lake Champlain cleanup bill the Legislature passed this spring, AP reported.