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The Russian Duma actually went ahead and overwhelmingly approved legislation to soften domestic violence laws.  If this travesty is approved by the Federal Council and signed by President Vladimir Putin, first-time offenders (known in civilization as "abusers") who do not cause "serious" injury to their spouses or children will face a maximum of 15 days police custody instead of up to two years in jail.  "This law calls for the exoneration of tyrants in the home," said Maria Mokhova, the executive director of the Sisters crisis center for abuse victims.  "The message is: Let's not punish a person who at home beat up his family, just because he has the right to do that," she added.

Russian president Putin will talk with Kremlin employee of the year Donald Trump later on Saturday.  Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said that removing US sanctions on Russia is "under consideration".  But later in the day, Trump seemed to walk that back a bit during his joint appearance with British PM Theresa May, who was the first foreign leader to visit the White House, saying it was "very early to be talking about that".  US allies around the world will be watching with great unease to see if Trump backstabs them to further his love affair with Putin.  May says Trump has guaranteed to her that the US will continue to back the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which he described as "obsolete" during the presidential campaign.  'Guess we'll find out soon enough.

Before this, Trump held a phone conversation about the crisis of his own making with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.  The call lasted for about an hour, and Trump descriebd it as "very friendly".  But the two did not change their positions - Trump still wants to build his stupid border wall, and Pena Nieto is not not not not not not not going to frigging pay for it.  They agreed to limit public comment on the idiotic idea.

The Mayor of Berlin is urging Trump "not to go down the road of isolation".  Michael Mueller's city was divided by a wall built by the Soviets from 1961 to 1989.  Mueller released a statement saying that walls cause "slavery and pain" and would "destroy the lives of millions".  He's speakng out now because "We cannot let our historical experience get trashed by the very people to whom we owe much of our freedom: the Americans".

The food crisis in Yemen could become a famine this year, according to the UN's humanitarian chief.  Stephen O'Brien told the UN Security Council:  A child under five dies every 10 minutes of preventable causes;  child malnutrition has risen 63 percent in a year; and two million people need emergency food aid to survive.  The cause of all of this suffering is the civil war pitting Saudi and Western backed forces against those supported by Iran.