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Alec Baldwin isnt putting away the blonde wig and orange bronzer just yet.

The actor confirmed he will return to Saturday Night Live with his revered Donald Trump impression in the fall.

Yeah, were going to fit that in. I think people have enjoyed it, he told CNN. His busy schedule will keep his parody impersonations to a minimum though, with fans getting a couple celery sticks rather than a whole meal. In March, Baldwin mentioned he might not be back to Studio 8H for SNL at all because he didnt know how much more the audience could take of it.

Trump himself isnt necessarily a fan of Baldwins work, taking to Twitter to call his impersonation unwatchable.

Still, SNL can likely give a nod to Baldwins Trump along withMelissa McCarthys press secretary Sean Spicer for its most watched season in 23 years. In addition a guest role in a number of episodes, Baldwin hosted SNL for a record 17th time during its 42nd season.

Baldwin emphasized his decision to stick with the role is not out of necessity.

You get a little bit older and you think, Do I want to work right now? For me the question is not what do I want to do [its] do I want to do anything? Do I want to work? I dont need to work, he said. Do I want to work or do I want to just take it easy and smell the roses or do something else? When I decide I want to go to work I look at whats out there and pick something thats the best thats available to me.

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The European Tour is considering hosting the 2019 Scottish Open at President Donald Trumps golf course, according to reports, a decision that is expected to be met with resistance.

According to The Guardian, Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen, Scotland, is the favored venue for Aberdeen Asset Management,sponsorof the 2019 Scottish Open.

On Thursday, the tour revealed that Gullane Golf Club in East Lothian, Scotland,would host next years tournament. An announcement for the following year is not expected anytime soon, but the report says Trumps course is the favorite to host.

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Donald Trump at Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen, Scotland, on June 25. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty

Trump International Golf Linksopened in 2012, with European Tour officials said to have made several visits to the site to consider the viability of holding the event there.

A spokesperson for the European Tour told The Guardian: No decision on future venues of the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open has been taken beyond 2018. Our focus is on delivering a successful championship, with its strongest field to date, at Dundonald Links next month, followed by our return to Gullane next year.

The Donald Trump Organization is currently being run by his sons Donald and Eric, but Trump has indicated how keen he is to see the Tour travel to his course.

In 2015, he said, The Scottish Open is coming. The Scottish Open wants to be here forever, they think this is the best course theyve ever seen.

Next months U.S. Womens Open isbeing held atthe Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey, and there have been protests against the venue.

Trump is a longtime golf fan and competitor, and his time in officehas notquelled his interest. On Saturday, The Independent reported that Trump spent the30th day of his presidency visiting one of his golf courses.

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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

Anthony Kennedy, the longest-serving member of the current Supreme Court, was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988. He is a conservative justice but has provided crucial swing votes in many cases.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

Kennedy was born in Sacramento, California, on July 23, 1936. In this photo, circa 1939, he sits between his mother, Gladys, and his sister, Nancy.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

Kennedy wears his Cub Scout uniform as he poses with his brother, Tim, circa 1946.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

Kennedy, third from right in the front row, stands with other Cub Scouts in the 1940s.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

Kennedy, right, spent time with the California Army National Guard after finishing law school in 1961. The man on the left, John J. Hamlyn Jr., also became a lawyer like Kennedy.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

Kennedy, right, and Hamlyn pose for a photo after basic training.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

After more than a decade as a lawyer, Kennedy became a judge on the US Court of Appeals in 1975. He was nominated by President Gerald Ford on the recommendation of California Gov. Ronald Reagan.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

This courtroom photo of Kennedy was taken in 1976.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

Kennedy has breakfast with his wife, Mary, and his son Gregory in 1984.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

Kennedy and his wife walk together in Sacramento, California, in 1987.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

From 1965 to 1988, Kennedy was also a professor of constitutional law at the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

In 1987, Kennedy was nominated by President Reagan to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by Lewis Powell's retirement. The nomination came after the confirmation failures of nominees Robert Bork and Douglas Ginsburg.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

Kennedy, center, talks with US Sens. Ted Kennedy, left, and Joe Biden before a confirmation hearing in Washington. The two Kennedys are not related.

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Kennedy meets with President Reagan in the Oval Office.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

Kennedy is joined by his wife as he is sworn in by Chief Justice William Rehnquist on February 18, 1988. Reagan is on the right.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

Kennedy, top right, appears in a formal Supreme Court portrait in April 1988. In the front row, from left, are Thurgood Marshall, William Brennan Jr., Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Byron White and and Harry Blackmun. In the back row, from left, are Antonin Scalia, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor and Kennedy.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

Kennedy speaks at the McGeorge School of Law in 1991. He delivered the inaugural address in a lecture series named for the late Archie Hefner, whose portrait is behind Kennedy. Hefner was a prominent Sacramento attorney active in numerous civic and charitable groups. He died in 1988.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

Kennedy is on the far right in this Supreme Court portrait from 1998. In the front row, from left, are Antonin Scalia, John Paul Stevens, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Sandra Day O'Connor and Kennedy. In the back row, from left, are Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter, Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer.

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In 2004, Kennedy speaks to high school students at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.

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Kennedy speaks during a Senate subcommittee hearing in 2002.

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Kennedy discusses the court's budget requests with a House committee in April 2005.

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Kennedy participates in a panel discussion in Washington in November 2005.

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Kennedy receives an honorary degree at New York University in May 2006.

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Kennedy delivers the commencement address at New York University.

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In February 2007, Kennedy testifies at a Senate committee hearing on judicial security and independence.

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Kennedy testifies before a House subcommittee in March 2007. He and fellow Justice Clarence Thomas spoke about concerns with the ongoing remodeling of the court building, the reduction of paperwork due to electronic media, and the disparity of pay between federal judges and lawyers working in the private sector.

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The Supreme Court meets with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in September 2009. From left are Samuel Alito, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kennedy, John Paul Stevens, Chief Justice John Roberts, Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, Biden, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer and retired Justice David Souter.

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Kennedy leaves after a Catholic Mass in Washington in October 2009.

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Kennedy joins the President and other officials at a memorial for the victims of a shooting in Tucson, Arizona, in 2011.

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Kennedy smiles as he is introduced to faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in October 2013. Kennedy was teaching there for a week.

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Kennedy is saluted by sailors as he tours the USS John C. Stennis in 2015.

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Kennedy testifies about a Supreme Court budget request during a House subcommittee meeting in 2015.

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President Obama greets Kennedy and other Supreme Court justices before his final State of the Union address in January 2016.

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Kennedy, second from left, joins other Supreme Court justices in February 2017 during President Donald Trump's first address to a joint session of Congress.

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Kennedy and President Trump attend the swearing-in ceremony for new Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch in April 2017. Kennedy delivered the judicial oath.

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Gorsuch smiles at Kennedy before taking the judicial oath.

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Kennedy and Trump walk together after Gorsuch's swearing-in ceremony.

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Trump stands with the Supreme Court at Gorsuch's formal investiture ceremony in June 2017. From left are Elena Kagan, Samuel Alito, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kennedy, Chief Justice John Roberts, Trump, Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor.

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James Bovard, Opinion columnist 3:15 a.m. ET June 26, 2017

In Raqqa, Syria, on June 6, 2017.(Photo: Youssef Rabie Youseff, epa)

Last year on the campaign trail, crowds roared when Donald Trump denounced his opponent as "trigger-happy" Hillary. But President Trump is rapidly incarnating the vice he condemned. Nowhere is this more evident than in Syria, where Trumps recklessness risks dragging America into a major war.

U.S. policy towardSyria has been a tangle of absurdities since 2012. President Obama promised 16 times that he would never put U.S. "boots on the ground" in the four-sided Syrian civil war. He quietly abandoned that pledge and, starting in 2014, launched more more than 5,000 airstrikesthatdroppedmore than 15,000bombs on terrorist groups in Syria.

Four years ago, Trump warned in a tweet: "If the U.S. attacks Syria and hits the wrong targets, killing civilians, there will be worldwide hell to pay." But the Trump administration has sharply increased U.S. bombingwhile curtailing restrictions that sought to protect innocents. A British-based human rights monitoring group estimated Friday that U.S.-led coalition strikes had killed almost 500 civilians in the past month more than any month since U.S. bombing began. A United Nations commission of inquiry concluded that coalition airstrikes have caused a "staggering loss of civilian life."

The carnage is sufficiently embarrassing that "the Pentagon will no longer acknowledge when its own aircraft are responsible for civilian casualty incidents," Micah Zenko of the Council of Foreign Relationsrecently noted.

U.S.-led forces are reportedly bombarding the besieged city of Raqqa with white phosphorous, a munition that burns intensely and is prohibited by international law from use against civilians. Deployingwhite phosphorous to attack Raqqa couldbe a war crime, Amnesty International warns.

Trumps most dangerous innovation involves direct attacks on Syrian government forces, including last weeks shootdown of a Syrian jet fighter. The Russian government, which is backing Syrian President Bashar Assad, responded by threatening to shoot down any aircraft over much of Syria.

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After the Syrian government was accused of killing at least 70 civilians with sarin gas in April, Trump speedily ordered the launch of 59 cruise missiles against a Syrian military airfield. Much of the Americannews media hailed the Syrian missile attack as Trumps finest hour. When he gave the commencement address at Liberty UniversityinMay, the audience cheered when Trump was introduced as the man who "bombed those in theMiddle East who were persecuting and killing Christians." But America could pay a harsh price for Trumps "virtue signalling" with bombs and missiles.

The biggest delusion driving U.S. policy is the quest for viable "moderate rebels" which apparently means groups who oppose Assad but refrain from making grisly videos of beheadings. Americahas spent billions aiding and training Syrian forces who either quickly collapsed on the battlefield or teamed up with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria,or al-Qaeda-linked forces. Policy is so muddled that Pentagon-backed Syrian rebels have openly battled CIA-backed rebels.

The United Stateshas armed and aided al-Qaeda-linked groups in Syria despite federal law prohibiting providing material support to terrorist groups. A prominent Assad opponent who organized a conference of anti-Assad groups financed by the CIA was recently denied political asylum. The Department of Homeland Security notified Radwan Ziadeh thatbecause he provided "material support" to the Free Syrian Army, he has "engaged in terrorist activity."

By the same standard, thousands of CIA, State Department, Pentagonand White House officials should be jailed. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii,has introduced The Stop Arming Terrorists Actto prohibit any funding, supportor weapons for al-Qaeda, ISIS and allied terrorist groups.

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Every side in the Syrian conflict has committed atrocities, often with approval of their foreign patrons. Former CIA officerPhil Giraldi observed, "The Saudis, Qataris, Turks and Israelis are all currently (or have been recently) in bed with terrorist groups (in Syria)that the United States is pledged to destroy." The Wall Street Journal reported this month that "Israel has been regularly supplying Syrian rebels near its border with cash as well as food, fuel and medical supplies for years."

The Syrian government has never threatened the United States, and Congress has not approved attacking it. White House spokesmanSean Spicer justified Trumps cruise missile attack because "when its in the national interest of the country, the president has the full authority to act." But this is a recipe for unlimited power warring limited solely by self-serving presidential proclamations.

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va.,condemned Trumps attacks on Syrian government forces as "unconstitutional" and a "completely unlawful use of power." Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., concurs: "This is illegal war at this point."

Killing vast numbers of innocent civilians sows the seeds of future terrorist attacks on America. There are no good options for continuing U.S. intervention in Syria. The only question is whether Trumps blundering will turn that war into a catastrophe for Americans as well as Syrians. As Trump tweetedaboutObamas Syria policy in 2013: "Be prepared, there is a small chance that our horrendous leadership could unknowingly lead us into World War III."

James Bovard,author ofPublic Policy Hooligan,isa member of USA TODAYsBoard of Contributors. Follow him on Twitter@JimBovard

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CNNs announcement of new publishing restrictions on articles about President Donald Trump and Russia, as reported by Buzzfeed, has delightedright-wing media.

Populist website Breitbart reported that the very fake news scandal was consuming the network, while Fox News host Sean Hannity taunted CNN's Jeff Zucker on Twitter.

CNN has long been accused of liberal bias by criticsand has been one of the key focuses of President Donald Trumps relentless rhetorical assaultsagainst what he has branded the fake news media.

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A sign reading "CNN SUCKS" is held up as President-elect Donald Trump speaks at the Dow Chemical Hangar on December 9, 2016, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Trump aimed barbs at the network during his 2016 election campaign; White House press secretary Sean Spiceraccused it of spreading unsubstantiated rumoursin a bid to attract viewers. In his first press conference as president, Trump shouted down CNNs Jim Acostaafter denouncing the news network from the podium.

The following month, CNN was one of several media organizations denied access to an off-camera press briefing with Spicer, while handpicked reporters from conservative websites were invited. A pro-Trump Political Action Committee (PAC)even tried to run an ad on CNNin which the words "fake news"were superimposed on an image of networkanchors.

Another factor in CNN's nervousness is likely to be the declining faith in traditional news outlets, with a September 2016 Gallup poll finding that confidence in mass media to "report the news fully, accurately and fairly" had dropped to the lowest level recorded by the pollster, with only 32 percentsaying the media had their trust.

In such an environment, it is hardly surprising that CNN is taking care to make sure the fake news label does not stick, and tightening its coverage of Trump's alleged Russia ties, where key devel0pments have been leaked to media by officials on condition of anonymity.

CNNs retracted story, which allegedthat the Senate Intelligence Committee was probing claims that the chief of a $10 billion Russian investment fund had met with a member of Trumps transition team days before the presidents inauguration,was based on a single unnamed source.

News organizations generally rely on multiple, independent sources to verify key claims.

To avoidanother such situation,stories involving Trump and Russia now requirethe approval of senior executives before publication. The network is aiming to bolster its credibility in the face of unprecedented White House attacksand rising public skepticism about its integrity.

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