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After a dramatic week of Brexit brinkmanship in the Commons, what has actually changed? As Tory rebels and Brexiters both claim the other side blinked first, our expert panel will fill you in on what really happened – and what comes next. Joining Pippa Crerar this week are our political correspondent Jessica Elgot, Allie Renison from the Institute of Directors and Sam Lowe from the Centre for European Reform. Also this week: Britain marks the first anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. Our reporter Robert Booth describes a week of commemoration and reflects on the opening weeks of the judge-led inquiry into the disaster. Plus: with populism on the rise and rescue boats being turned away from harbours in Europe there is at least one place that wants the right to attract higher immigration. Libby Brooks reports from Scotland on why the SNP sees new arrivals as the answer to a demographic time bomb.

Charles Krauthammer, the beloved and brilliant Fox News Channel personality who gave up a pioneering career in psychiatry to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning political analyst, on Friday revealed the heartbreaking news that he is in the final stages of a losing battle with cancer. The 68-year-old’s incisive takes on politics of the day have been missing from Fox News Channel’s “Special Report” for nearly a year as he battled an abdominal tumor and subsequent complications, but colleagues and viewers alike had held out hope that he would return to the evening show he helped establish as must-viewing. But in an eloquent, yet unblinking letter to co-workers, friends and Fox News Channel viewers, Krauthammer disclosed that he has just weeks to live. Although a series of setbacks left him in the hospital in the ensuing months, he believed until recently that he was on the road to recovery. “There was no sign of it as recently as a month ago, which means it is aggressive and spreading rapidly. This is the final verdict. "His always principled stand on the most important issues of our time has been a guiding star in an often turbulent world, a world that has too many superficial thinkers vulnerable to the ebb and flow of fashion, and a world that, unfortunately, has only one Charles Krauthammer. "His words, his ideas, his dignity and his integrity will resonate within our society and within me for many, many years to come," Murdoch added. As the dean of “The Fox News All Stars,” the panel of pundits who break down headlines and events nightly on Fox News Channel’s top-rated “Special Report,” Krauthammer could be counted on to make viewers think, question and even chuckle. After medical school, he became chief psychiatry resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he studied depression and published ground-breaking findings in top medical journals.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Kimberly Atkins of the Boston Herald and Reihan Salam of the National Review to discuss the stalled talks between the U.S. and North Korea, President Trump's insistence that there was a spy on his campaign, and whether his attacks on the FBI are similar to his attacks on the press. Reihan, do you think that's what happened this week with President Trump and North Korea? SHAPIRO: Kimberly, what's the narrative you offer? He might be taking the same approach he took in his New York real estate deals - sort of, you know, if the deal doesn't look good, walk away and see if that gives you more leverage. What I will say, however, is that this might also weaken the prospect for putting maximum pressure on North Korea by making it seem as though North Korea is the victim, that North Korea actually was trying to make a good-faith effort, a spurious claim but a claim that they could make perhaps. It could lead them to actually be more permissive vis-a-vis the North Koreans, which would give the United States and its allies less leverage. President Trump has been talking up this story a lot. SHAPIRO: And, Reihan, this narrative is interesting because a lot of Democrats see the FBI as having thrown the campaign to President Trump. SHAPIRO: That's Kimberly Atkins of the Boston Herald and Reihan Salam of the National Review and The Atlantic. Catch up the latest stories, news and analysis from NPR politics reporters around the country.

Teachers have difficult jobs and so in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, we went out to Hollywood Boulevard to give people a chance to say sorry for the terrible things they did while in school. Jimmy Kimmel on the Met…

In December 2015, the Guardian revealed that Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign was using psychological profiles based on data harvested from tens of millions of Facebook users. Facebook attempted to dampen the impact of Wylie’s whistleblowing interviews by publishing its own mea culpa and banning Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from its platform, hours before publication but two years after the data breach was first reported. The day after Wylie’s bombshell revelations, US congressional investigators from the house intelligence committee asked Cambridge Analytica’s CEO, Nix, to testify before Congress. On Sunday 25 March, Wylie spoke about Cambridge Analytica connections to AggregateIQ, a Canadian firm that worked with different leave campaigns in the European referendum. Play Video 1:18 Soon afterwards, US watchdogs filed a legal complaint against Cambridge Analytica with the Federal Election Commission. How academic at centre of Facebook scandal tried – and failed – to spin personal data into gold Read more Vote Leave has repeatedly denied coordination between the campaigns and said the donation was legitimate under election law. Facebook suspended AggregateIQ, a data firm with which the Vote Leave campaign spent 40% of its budget, on 6 April, following reports that it was connected to SCL. That same week, Zuckerberg faced 10 hours of questioning by members of Congress. Nix was summoned to appear before a British parliamentary committee on fake news the following week for questioning over “inconsistencies” in evidence he had given the committee in February, when he claimed: “We do not work with Facebook data, and we do not have Facebook data.” However, on 17 April he cancelled his appearance, citing the ICO’s ongoing investigation into his company. On 2 May, the same day that Cambridge Analytica announced it was going into liquidation, Chris Vickery of the data security firm Upguard gave evidence to the digital, culture, media and sport committee that the Trump campaign had access to psychological profiles derived from Facebook data, that AIQ and Cambridge Analytica were technologically entwined and that illegal co-ordination of data by leave campaigns was “indisputable”.

Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution and Mary Katharine Ham of The Federalist about the political news of the week including the Korea summit, EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and Ronny Jackson's withdrawal as VA nominee. Earlier today, the world witnessed a historic handshake between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. DIONNE: Well, if North Korea gives up all its nuclear weapons, I promise I'll say yes to that. And Kim Jong Un seems more to be the driver of events so far. HAM: Yeah, I mean, I think he does deserve some credit for his unorthodoxy and unpredictability, changing the calculus in a really intractable problem. CHANG: Well, about that strategy, I mean, in the next several weeks, the president's expected to sit down with Kim Jong Un. CHANG: But it wasn't just Jackson this week. CHANG: Sure. I mean, the the list of people who have left is staggering compared to any other administration, and a lot of the people who leave leave with their reputations much diminished from where they were before, which I think is dangerous for the country, putting aside what you think of Trump, 'cause it's going to be very hard for Trump to attract people to government - good people to government 'cause they don't want to be soiled by the very process you describe really well. CHANG: All right, that's E.J.

AirTalk’s weekly politics roundtable wraps up the big headlines you missed this weekend and looks ahead to the week in D.C. and California. Washington Post reports Sessions warned WH not to fire Rosenstein DNC lawsuit against Russia, Trump campaign, WikiLeaks (this might be more current) Rudy Giuliani joining Trump’s legal team Cohen and Trump’s relationship moving forward North Korea latest (Kim says they no longer need missile tests, Trump says he hasn’t made too many concessions) Supreme Court to hear travel ban case Wednesday Emmanuel Macron & Angela Merkel visit D.C. this week Barbara Bush’s funeral (and possibly working in a mention of that Fresno State professor who tweeted some incendiary comments about the former First Lady) Guests: Lisa Garcia Bedolla, professor in the Graduate School of Education and director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley; she tweets @GarciaBedolla Jeremy Carl, research fellow at the Hoover Institution; served in an advisory capacity Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign; he tweets @JeremyCarl4

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Kristen Soltis Anderson, of The Washington Examiner and author of "The Selfie Vote", and Jason Johnson, politics editor at The Root, about Former FBI director James Comey, new additions to President Trump's legal team, and the nomination of CIA Director Mike Pompeo to be Secretary of State. SHAPIRO: So if the two of you both feel like these notes were kind of a nothing burger news-wise, I'm curious about why Republicans in Congress were so eager to release them. SHAPIRO: I mean, Kristen, do you think he's right? So, Jason, clearly at least the president is hitting on this leaking classified information talking point. SHAPIRO: Well, let's talk about that Mueller investigation. Rudy Giuliani... SHAPIRO: I mean, wow, that's quite a... I mean, there were a lot of people - remember; that was the agency - that was the division, the FBI, that was considered Trumpland (ph), and there were lots of different avenues they had to go through before Cohen was investigated. SHAPIRO: Boy, Kristen, it's quite a thing to say, I don't trust this guy Giuliani enough to put him in my Cabinet, but I do trust him enough to be my lawyer in this very-high-stakes investigation. Remember that earlier this week, James Comey in an interview said, look; even if you fire Mueller at this point, you're not going to end these investigations. SHAPIRO: Kristen Soltis Anderson and Jason Johnson, thank you so much.

AirTalk’s weekly political roundtable. Topics subject to change but here’s what we’re watching through the weekend: The latest on the Syria chemical strike, plus Trump calls out Putin by name on Twitter, John McCain tweets that Trump saying he was going to pull troops out of Syria may have emboldened Assad to carry out this attack and Russia blames Israel for follow-up airstrikes North Korea willing to discuss denuclearization, but does that word mean the same to us as it does them? China trade war latest Zuckerberg testifying before Congress tomorrow NYT: GOP seizing on impeachment as an edge in 2018 midterms GOP focuses on saving Senate majority Paul Ryan may be on the outs if midterms go south for GOP Scott Pruitt’s political future More on plans for National Guard at border – TX & AZ to deploy troops Evangelical leaders want a sit down with Trump over Stormy Daniels Trump to skip White House correspondents dinner Guests: Pete Peterson, dean of the School of Public Policy and senior fellow at The Davenport Institute at Pepperdine University; he tweets @Pete4CA Matt Rodriguez, Democratic strategist and founder and chief executive officer of Rodriguez Strategies; he is also a former senior Obama advisor in 2008; he tweets @RodStrategies

By Andrew Nicla | 22 hours ago Welcome to the eighth installment of The State Press Politics Roundup, where we bring you the week's coverage of on-campus and local politics. In recent USG and campus news ABOR approves ASU tuition increases The Arizona Board of Regents approved tuition proposals for the next academic year from the state's public universities Thursday. USG reflects on abysmal election turnout Student government elections ended last week, drawing the lowest overall voter turnout since 2008, despite efforts by current and newly elected USG officials to increase "student engagement." Candidates cited a lack of student interest, uncontested tickets and nuances in campus culture as possible factors for the low turnout. This week's reporting ASU academics "heartened" by funding boost to solar energy University researchers rejoiced over Congress' passing of H.R. 1625, which increases funding by 14 percent to the Energy Efficiency and the Renewable Energy Office. The court is currently hearing a lawsuit brought forth by Attorney General Mark Brnovich in which he claims the group of students are not eligible to receive it. School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership fights national criticism ASU's School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership has faced criticism for its Western-centric philosophy and its financial supporters from some since its founding last spring. Like The State Press on Facebook and follow @statepress on Twitter. Related Stories ASASU elections end with the lowest voter turnout since 2008 By Tina Giuliano | 04/05/18 9:07pm Arizona Board of Regents approves 2018-2019 tuition proposals By Andrew Howard and MacKinley Lutes-Adlhoch | 04/05/18 1:39pm A conversation about the March for Our Lives demonstrations in Phoenix By Cassandra Laubach | 23 hours ago