Good Morning Australia!! - It seems one way or another, the most powerful nation on earth is veering towards a constitutional crisis - Zuck testifies before Congress - The woman poisoned with a Russian nerve agent is released from hospital - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The White House is hilariously claiming that the orange clown Donald Trump is cancelling his first visit to Latin America this weekend to focus on the US response to the Syrian government's alleged chemical weapon attack on its own citizens.  However, this comes a day after FBI agents raided the offices and hotel room of his lawyer Michael Cohen, reportedly for information related to the payoff made to porn star Stormy Daniels to remain silent about her alleged affair with Trump.  Information about other possible payoffs was also sought. 

That Trump is angry is an understatement: "He's losing his shit," said a Republican party operative to Politico, "We're at a different level now."  Not least of this is because Trump's own appointees allowed the raid on his attorney to go through:  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein signed off on it, and New York federal prosecutor Geoffrey Berman recused himself from the case to avoid any conflict of interest - Berman had donated money to Trump's 2016 campaign.  Trump appointed Berman to replace Preet Bharara in the job.  And while Trump groused the raid supposedly violated the US legal concept of attorney-client privilege, Bharara tweeted, "Long live the crime-fraud exception."  In other words, communications between an attorney and client aren't protected if they're plotting crimes.

Congress is warning Trump not to try to fire Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, who appears to be the one who came up with the evidence to justify the raid on Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen.  The White House on Tuesday said Trump thinks the Mueller probe into corruption and Russian influence over the 2016 election had "gone too far", and he has the power to fire Mueller.  Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina is pushing legislation to insulate Mueller from any attempt to fire him, and is in talks with prominent lawmakers from both parties.  "It's a good bill that's going to have enduring value beyond this presidency," Tillis said.

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Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg testified before the US Congress about data mining, and apologized for failing to stop third party apps from gleaning users' personal data. 
He really isBut while he vigorously defended the social network's user data-driven business model, some lawmakers were skeptical.  "Mr. Zuckerberg, would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night?" asked Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, to which Zuck replied, "No."  Durbin countered, "I think that may be what this is all about.  Your right to privacy."  And then Lawmakers nailed him on that whole "Russian influence" thing.

Federal prosecutors charged US actor and comedian T.J. Miller with phoning in a fake bomb threat on an Amtrak train. 
Andy Dic--- Oops I mean TJ MillerThe former star of "Silicon Valley" and actor in films such as "Deadpool" and "Cloverfield" faces up to five years in prison.  Prosecutors said Miller gave conflicting descriptions of a woman he thought was rummaging through a bag suspiciously, while Amtrak officials said Mr. Miller appeared to be intoxicated on the train from Washington, DC to New York City last month, and had been involved in "hostile exchanges" with a woman in the same coach.  No bomb was found. 

Moonshine killed at least 45 people in Indonesia is recent weeks, and officials fear the death toll with rise.  The problem is that illegal producers often "fortify" their spirits with methanol, sometimes in lethal doses.  Jakarta, West Java, and Papua have all recorded fatalities.

Yulia Skripal has left a British hospital for a "secure location", a month after being poisoned with a nerve agent believed to be of Russian origin.  She was earlier reported to be conscious and talking, but it's unclear if she is ambulatory:  "This is not the end of her treatment but marks a significant milestone," said hospital officials.  Her father, former double agent Sergei Skripal is still in hospital, though no longer in a critical condition.  Russia denies involvement in the hit against the man it had briefly jailed for passing secrets on to The West.

Israel is confirming that a video circulating online showing a sniper cheering after killing a Palestinian is authentic.  But while human rights groups and politicians elsewhere are appalled, Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said the sniper "deserves a medal", while the soldier who filmed the evidence deserved "a demerit".  The incident happened in December, and the man who was shot and killed was unarmed and standing still at the time.

The Guinness World Records people are confirming that the world's oldest man is Masazo Nonaka from Ashoro, a town on Japan's northern-most island Hokkaido. 
Erika Ogawa of Guinness and Masazo NonakaYayHe clocks in at 112 years, 259 days old, and inherits the title from Spain's Francisco Nunez Olivera who passed away in January this year at the age of 113.  Mr. Nonaka's family credits his longevity to his no-stress lifestyle:  He likes to eat dessert, go to hot springs, read the newspaper, and watch Sumo on TV.  Guinness is still looking for the world's oldest woman, since the former title-holder Violet Brown of Jamaica died last year at age 117.

A bunch of Orcas was spotted swimming off Seattle in Elliot Bay, coming in from the Pacific Ocean via Puget Sound.