Good Morning Australia!! - The AWU wants Federal Police to return papers seized in controversial raids - Two Republican Senators deliver blistering criticism of Donald Trump - Police arrest the ex-husband in the killing of an Australian woman - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

The Australian Workers Union (AWU) is heading to Federal Court today to try and regain possession of documents seized in controversial AFP raids on its offices in Sydney and Melbourne. The AWU will challenge the validity of the investigation and the warrants, which the Australian Federal Police (AFP) claims were part of an investigation into donations made to GetUp and Labor candidates.  "It beggars belief this is not a political raid," said Labor MP Brendan O'Connor, "This grubby Prime Minister is willing to use the police like his plaything, his own personal asset." 

A protester got close enough to throw small Russian flags at Donald Trump as he walked through the halls of Congress to a meeting on tax policy with Republican party senators.  The man yelled, "Trump is treason," and "This president has conspired with agents of the Russian government," as security officials subdued him.  "We should be talking about treason in Congress, not about tax cuts!"  The man is identified as Ryan Clayton from Americans Take Action, a group dedicated to seeing the impeachment of Donald Trump.

"Anger and resentment are not a governing philosophy," said Arizona Senator Jeff Flake, a conservative and critic of Donald Trump who says he will stand down after his term ends because his type of conservatism has no path to victory in the "nasty" era of Trump.  Using his emotional and eloquent retirement announcement as a full-throated and blistering rebuke of the orange clown, Flake said, "I will not be complicit or silent," denouncing the rampant rudeness and disrespect that his colleagues are too fearful and unwilling to call out, "Too many within the GOP and conservative movements have excused Trump's reckless, outrageous, and undignified behavior."  He also condemned the abandonment of American internationalism at a time when the world needs leadership, "The impulse to scapegoat threatens to turn us into a fearful and backward looking people."

Sen. Jeff Flake is no moderate; and neither is Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, who is also retiring because of Trump - and who started his day calling out the current infestation in the White House for telling lies, acting coarsely, and showing no interest in getting better at the job.  "The President has great difficulty with the truth.  On many issues," Corker told CNN, "I don't know why he lowers himself to such a low, low standard, and debases our country in a way that he does, but he does," and, "He's obviously not going to rise to the occasion as president."  Many Republicans are concerned that Trump's running feuds with conservative members of of his own party in Congress will stall their attempts to produce massive tax cuts for the rich.

Police in Kenya arrested the ex-husband of Australian teacher Gabrielle Maina, who was gunned down assassination-style in a suburb of Nairobi.  Cyrus Bernard Maina Njuguna and his cousin John Njuguna Waithira have appeared in court, starting the clock on seven days in which prosecutors can gather evidence to file charges.  Gabrielle Maina, originally from New South Wales, worked at the private Hillcrest Preparatory School in Nairobi but is said to have lived in fear of her ex-husband. 

About 80 Australian Defense Force (ADF) troops will deploy to the Philippines in the coming days to train local troops in urban warfare and counter-terrorism tactics.  Although, the Philippine forces seemed to do pretty well for themselves by driving so-called Islamic State fighters out of the southern city of Marawi recently.  "It will include a range of skills related to combat on urban environments" drawn from Australia's combat experience in the Middle East, said Defence Minister Marise Payne.  "It will involve information sharing and experience sharing to ensure that we are best able to use the skills that we have to hand," she added.

Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman asked for global support as he tries to transform the hardline country to "moderate Islam" and an open society.  The prince said his country had a poor reaction to the Islamic revolution in Iran in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and sunk into ultra-conservatism that doesn't befit or benefit "a G20 country" located "in the middle of three continents".  Earlier, Prince Mohammen said, "70 percent of the Saudis are younger than 30, honestly we won't waste 30 years of our life combating extremist thoughts, we will destroy them now and immediately."

China's Communist Party went ahead and enshrined "Xi Jinping Thought" into its constitution, making President Xi Jinping the most powerful leader of the country since Mao Zedong.  "It means Xi is effectively unassailable," said Bill Bishop, the publisher of the Sinocism newsletter on Chinese politics to The Guardian, "If you challenge Xi, you are challenging the party - and you never want to be against the party" in China.  Although the fundamentals of "Xi's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era" are a little fuzzy, the part the world can understand clearly will be manifest in a stronger military and a more assertive foreign policy.