| No Images? Click here   President Donald Trump said Friday he thinks Russia should be reinstated into the Group of Seven, the industrialized countries whose leaders are meeting in Canada this weekend.Trump, acknowledging his view “may not be politically correct,” told reporters before leaving for the summit: “We have a world to run and the G-7, which used to be the G-8 ― they threw Russia out. Russia should be in this meeting. They should let Russia come back in, because we should have Russia at the negotiating table.”Russia was expelled from what had been the G-8 in 2014 following its annexation of Crimea.Trump’s comment was in line with his unusually friendly stance toward Russia, despite evidence that it interfered in the 2016 election to help his campaign.The prospects of Russia being readmitted to the G-7 are dim. Just two months ago, G-7 foreign ministers pledged to set up a working group to “call out” Russian “maligned behavior.”Even before his Russia comment, Trump was at odds with fellow G-7 leaders on trade and other issues. He imposed a series of steel and aluminum tariffs on several G-7 countries to redress what he said in a tweet Friday was a “long time unfair trade practiced against the United States.”  WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING?Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has secured an indictment against a Russian-Ukrainian political consultant who worked with Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. Konstantin Kilimnik was named in a superseding indictment on Friday along with Manafort.Trump supports relaxing federal pot laws, in a blow to Jeff Sessions. If the legislation is signed into law, it would resolve a decadeslong conflict between state and federal marijuana laws.Barack Obama remembered Anthony Bourdain with a touching photo from Vietnam. Bourdain featured Obama in an episode about Hanoi, filmed in May 2016.      ICYMI
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