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Vance postpones Iran talks trip (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/19/us-iran-talks-vance-switzerland-trip-postponed-white-house
http://www.memeorandum.com/260618/p142#a260618p142

Vance Delays Trip to Switzerland for Direct Talks on Iran Deal (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/politics/vance-delays-trip-to-switzerland-for-direct-talks-on-iran-deal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260618/p147#a260618p147

U.S.-Iran talks postponed as Vance cancels trip and Israel intensifies strikes in southern Lebanon (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/us-iran-talks-postponed-vance-cancels-trip-israel-strikes-lebanon-rcna350830
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p26#a260619p26

Potential sponsor of Sean Duffy’s controversial ‘road trip’ reality TV show pulled out over ethical concerns, report says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/sean-duffy-road-trip-show-sponsor-b2977998.html

TikTok launches TikTok GO in the US for users to book hotels, attractions, and experiences directly in the app, partnering with Booking.com, Expedia, and others (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/tiktok-now-…

TikTok now wants to be the place you book the trip you just saw on TikTok | TechCrunch
TikTok is systematically converting its discovery engine into a transaction layer, which both deepens user retention and opens entirely new revenue streams for its new owners.

Iran Delays Nuclear Talks With US as Lebanon Clashes Worsen (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-19/vance-delays-swiss-trip-as-white-house-says-talks-never-simple
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p35#a260619p35

Cowboys’ 6,500-mile nightmare has Jerry Jones' team facing serious challenges https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/jerry-jones-cowboys-face-serious-challenges-6500-mile-trip/b2f95cc25…

A red card for US arms makers?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hit-with-immediate-nato-snub-on-overseas-trip/

Italian foreign minister cancels trip to US over Trump's comments about Meloni (Jennifer Hansler/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/politics/italy-trump-meloni-tajani
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p38#a260619p38

An upstate New York resident sued US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
for sending federal officers to his house with a warning over an email he sent to the agency’s one-time head.
David Streever, who is a US citizen, was on a trip to Finland when two officers showed up to his Rochester home in June
and presented his wife with a warning notice informing him that the email he sent months earlier was considered a threat, his attorneys said.
Streever sent the em…

New York man sues ICE for sending officers to his house after he emailed agency head
David Streever had emailed acting ICE director after an immigration officer fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis

Journalist Recounts How Border Agents Targeted Him Over Coverage Of Ayatollah's Funeral https://thedissenter.org/journalist-recounts-how-border-agents-targeted-him-over-coverage-of-ayatollahs-funeral/

The White House directed Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, to oversee a leak investigation into reporting by The New York Times
about security issues with the new Air Force One,
leading to a flurry of subpoenas to several Times reporters Friday night, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
Mr. Patel scuttled a planned trip to Chicago and spent roughly eight hours at the White House on Friday,
running the investigation from there rather than F.B.I. headqua…

White House Directed Patel to Oversee Investigation Involving Times Reporting
The F.B.I. director spent about eight hours at the White House Friday focused on the effort, which led to the subpoenaing of several Times reporters who wrote about the security of Air Force One.

Duffy's 'Great American Road Trip' Prompts Ethical Concerns (Karoun Demirjian/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/us/road-trip-duffy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p30#a260514p30

LOL: "One critic called the president’s Finals appearance the ‘most expensive taxpayer funded nap’ in history"
Trump appears to doze off during controversial trip to watch NBA Finals in New York | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-asleep-finals-knicks-madison-square-garden-b2992124.html

As reported by his wife in #AlanHale has passed away yesterday at 68: more in the thread https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/119679184 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/227002358661288/posts/1786784712683037/. In this picture from an astronomy-minded fantastic trip to Iran in 2000 - see https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3lulglljezs2d - Hale ist on the far left (and yours truly in postion 5; it also includes comet personality Charles Morris at position 6 and on the far right astronaut Bruce McCandless II who was capcom on Apollo 11 and made the first untethered spacewalk - both also no longer with us).

Rod Stewart praises King Charles for putting 'little ratbag in his place' on US trip (Paul Dallison/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/rod-stewart-praises-king-charles-putting-little-ratbag-in-his-place-on-us-trip/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p17#a260512p17

Glaciers in the Alps are melting at an alarming rate.
The brief video shows what we witnessed two days ago at the end of our work trip in Tyrol and what the locals confirmed to us as extreme levels (not that it wasn't obvious)... It shows different tributaries and stages of outflow of remaining glaciers of the Weißkamm and Kreuzkamm feeding into the Rofental, a small side valley of the Ötztal. Two kilometers downstream is the confluence with a similarly intense drainage from the neighb…

Trump brings controversial 'Rush Hour' and 'Melania' director Brett Ratner to China aboard Air Force One (Andrew Feinberg/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/brett-ratner-trump-china-trip-air-force-one-melania-rush-hour-b2975336.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p126#a260512p126

Chaos erupts behind the scenes of Trump's China trip -- including trampled White House aide (Emily Goodin/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/14/world-news/us-chinese-officials-in-shouting-and-shoving-matches-behind-scenes-of-trump-xi-summit/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p90#a260514p90

Rod Stewart tells King Charles he put 'that little ratbag in his place' during US trip (Judy Kurtz/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5873662-charles-us-tour-stewart-approval/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p38#a260512p38

The Israeli government approved on Sunday the allocation of approximately NIS 27 million (9 million US dollars)
to develop and construct hotels in the West Bank to promote tourism in the area.
The stated goal of the initiative is to build hotels to
transform the West Bank from a
“day-trip destination”
into a destination for overnight stays
According to the Tourism Ministry, one of the main obstacles to developing the tourism industry in the West Bank is the l…

Gov’t approves NIS 27 million for hotel construction in West Bank to promote tourism
Israel’s roughly 500,000 settlers live mainly in Area C of the West Bank, with most settlements considered legal under Israeli law and built on state land through government-approved decisions.

CIA chief makes historic trip to Cuba as US blockade chokes island's energy supplies (Chloe Taylor/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/15/cuba-cia-john-ratcliffe-oil-blockade-trump-blackouts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p13#a260515p13

Trump insists US-China relations are in a good place despite differences as he wraps up Beijing trip (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-xi-taiwan-iran-trade-e7a3cdf161c608de152ac1c6e5755452
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p31#a260515p31

Trump to make rare trip to Camp David as Iran tensions rise over US strikes (Emily Goodin/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/26/us-news/trump-to-make-rare-trip-to-camp-david-as-iran-tensions-rise-over-us-strikes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260526/p46#a260526p46

Trump Shouldn't Expect Much From His China Trip (Jacob Dreyer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/opinion/china-us-trump-summit.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260503/p3#a260503p3

Buckingham Palace in talks on King's US trip after Washington shooting (Milena Wälde/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/buckingham-palace-in-talks-on-king-charles-iii-us-visit-after-washington-shooting-donald-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260426/p51#a260426p51

Trump Extends Iran Truce, Maintains Blockade as Talks Falter (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/us-iran-peace-talks-uncertain-with-vance-trip-scrapped
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p128#a260421p128

Vance's Pakistan trip on hold as Iran refuses to commit to peace talks (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/21/iran-us-war-peace-talks-vance-pakistan
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p79#a260421p79

Iran War Live Updates: Vance's Trip to Peace Talks on Hold (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/21/world/iran-us-war-trump-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/260421/p80#a260421p80

In other random consumer news… imagine a pickup trip costing only $US 8950 in 1990 ($23,000 adjusted) and being small enough for an adult woman to see *over the roof*. 😂
Yes, sometimes I watch The Price is Right clips on YouTube. 😝 guilty pleasure. I loved Bob Barker!
#DoubleInflation #inflation #tpir #consumer

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Takes First Trip on Air Force One Jet From Qatar (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/01/us/trump-news?unlocked_article_code=1.ulA.FJL6.JD85wZsQYZ69&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260701/p131#a260701p131