Hello Australia!! - Trump's latest sacrificial lamb meets his inevitable destiny - McCain gets his revenge - North Korea shoots off another one - Great news for Europe's last old growth forest - Hey, stop beating that Panda! - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

After a hilariously cruel week of slights and public criticism, Donald Trump finally sacked his beleaguered Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and replaced him with Homeland Security Secretary and retired Marine Corps four-star General John Kelly.  The 45-year military veteran is seen as a stabilizing force in a chaotic administration characterized by leaks, incompetence, and fearful staff constantly checking over their shoulders for the next rumor (or Twitter bomb from their boss).  "John has done a spectacular job at Homeland Security," said Trump.  "He has been a true star of my administration."  Kelly can only be successful if Trump gives him authority - is it really likely that Trump is going to place Kelly above his own daughter Ivanka or her husband Jared Kushner?  LOL.

The orange clown announced the change over Twitter, adding to the vulgarity of the moment.  Ousted Reince Priebus is a former GOP chairman who came up alongside House Speaker Paul Ryan from the bitter and mean-spirited, ultra-conservative, billionaire-worshipping Wisconsin state Republican party which played on the politics of resentment to replace decades of progressive run governments, tanking the state economy once they got in.  Trump stopped publicly praising Priebus months ago, and just this week the new White House communications chief Anthony "Mooch" Scaramucci launched a foul-mouthed tirade on him - which Trump did not rebuke.  Why?  Because Trump kept Priebus around just to be fired in case he needed to change the subject.

And boy, did Trump need to change the subject after the stinging defeat of the latest (and possibly last) Republican attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), known as "Obamacare".  Having had seven years to think about it, the Republicans failed to have ANY turn-key replacement ready for this week's abortive votes.  Each proposal they came up with would have thrown tens of millions of Americans off of their health insurance plans while raising monthly or yearly payments for everyone else.  The last-ditch move to get rid of Obamacare was the so-called Skinny Repeal which would have targeted key elements such as the individual mandate requiring all working Americans to get covered.

Here's where it gets good:  Two Republican women US Senators broke with the party and voted with Democrats, leaving the vote count at 50 against and 49 for the Skinny Repeal.  The Republicans needed just one more vote for a tie, which would then have been broken by Vice President Mike Pence (breaking Senate ties and waiting for the president to die are the only reasons for Vice Presidents to exist).  Problem is, that last hold-out was Arizona Senator John McCain.  The guy whose heroism and patriotism was questioned by Trump earlier in the presidential campaign.  The Admiral's son who survived five and a half years as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton while rich-kid Trump avoided the draft by claiming to have bone spurs in his foot.  He was tortured while in captivity and is seen as a war hero by many Americans.

Vice President Mike Pence spent twenty minutes on the Senate floor trying to convince a stone-faced McCain, even handing his personal phone over for Trump to plead.  As Republican Senators Marco Rubio, John Cornyn, and others gathered at the rostrum, McCain walked up and gestured in a downward motion to register a no vote, delivering a debilitating liver-shot to the orange clown.  McCain briefly glared at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (now seen as a failure) and walked past his colleagues - because John McCain doesn't give a crap about what Marco Rubio thinks - and sat down.  On Friday, McCain announced he was riding off into the sunset to Arizona, where he will be treated for brain cancer which was diagnosed last week.  The Senate will go off into Summer vacation.

Moving along...

North Korea launched another ICBM in a rare late-night operation.  It flew for 45 minutes and came down in the Sea of Japan in Japan's exclusive economic zone.  Analysts believe the launch showed Los Angeles was within range of the new  North Korean missile, with Chicago, New York and Washington, just out of reach.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has stood down over his secret off-shore money, which was exposed by The Panama Papers.

The European Court of Justice is ordering Poland's RWNJ government to stop logging in Bialowieza forest, the oldest on the continent and home to rare and endangered European bison, lynx, wolf, otter, and other species.  The provisional logging ban was sought by environmentalists, UNESCO, and the European Commission as they take Poland to court trying to stop increased logging in the last place in Europe that looks like it did 10,000 years ago.

Charlie Gard has died just shy of what would have been his first birthday.  The British baby was born with a rare genetic condition; his parents fought with the UK's National Health which refused to release the baby from hospital so he could undergo experimental, unapproved therapy at a US doctor.  That idea went away when the US doctor said the treatment couldn't help Charlie.

German police arrested a man from the UAE for a stabbing spree in a Hamburg supermarket.  One 50-year old man was killed and six people were hurt.  The suspected reportedly yelled "Allahu Akbar" during the spree.

54 people hurt in a train crash in Barcelona, Spain.

More than 40 people were killed in a Nigerian military assault seeking to free people captured by Boko Haram.  Soldiers are among the dead, as are five members of an oil exploration team. 

Brazil's military deployed 10,000 troops in Rio de Janeiro state to help police fight organized crime.  Violence has been on the rise in Rio since the democratically-elected government was ousted for an appointed conservative group of austerity jockeys.

India's Supreme Court will not allow doctors to perform an abortion on a ten-year old girl who was raped by an uncle.  The girl is 32 weeks pregnant, which the court ruled is too far along.  The case has been winding through the courts for several weeks.

China's Panda lovers are outraged over a video showing the apparent mistreatment of two giant panda babies at a famed research facility in Chengdu.  The Panda keepers insist that the growing bears were "grumpy" and bit them, and the men had to defend themselves.  "The online community claims we don't love pandas," complained keeper Guo Jingpeng, "But we choose to stay and work here because we love these creatures."