Here's a roundup of news trending across the nation and world today.
What to know now:
1. Obama in Hiroshima: President Obama touched down in Hiroshima, Japan, Friday, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the city that saw the first atomic bomb used in war. The visit, according to the White House, is aimed at paying tribute to the 140,000 people who died after the bomb was dropped in August, 1945. However, the president will not be apologizing for the decision to drop the bomb, a decision that led to the end of World War II.
2. Berman retiring?: Several media outlets are reporting that ESPN's Chris Berman will retire following the 2016 football season. His agent, however, says Berman is not retiring, but staying with the network he began working for in 1979. Berman has covered nearly every sport ESPN broadcasts, but narrowed his focus when the network began broadcasting NFL football in 1989.
3. Trump tops 1,237: Uncommitted Republican delegates have told The Associated Press that they plan to vote for Donald Trump at the July Republican National Convention, giving the New York businessman more than the number he needs to secure his party's nomination. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination for president. Trump has reached 1,238 with the unpledged delegates coming out in favor of him Thursday. In a news conference Thursday, Trump attacked Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton saying, "Here I am watching Hillary fight, and she can't close the deal."
4. Superbug in U.S.: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that the first known case of a superbug resistant to even the strongest antibiotics has been reported in the United States. A woman in Pennsylvania has been diagnosed with a rare E. coli infection that has been shown to be resistant to antibiotics. It's not known where the woman contracted the disease. She has not traveled outside of the United States within the last five months.
5. Beck, Thor on Trump: Radio talk host Glenn Beck and best-selling suspense author Brad Thor are saying comments they made about whether a "patriot" would step up and "remove" a President Donald Trump if he were to abuse his presidential power have been taken out of context. On Beck's radio show Wednesday, Thor asked the question, "With the feckless, spineless Congress we have, who will stand in the way of Donald Trump overstepping his constitutional authority as president? If Congress won't remove him from office, what patriot will step up and do that if, if, he oversteps his mandate as president, his constitution-mandated authority as president, I should say." Thor clarified his comment on Twitter, tweeting, "What @glennbeck & I discussed was a hypothetical scenario in which a President Trump goes full dictator."
And one more
Teams searching for the wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804 say they have detected signals they believe are from the downed plane. The emergency signals have narrowed the search, according to Egyptian officials, to a radius of three miles. The plane, carrying 66 passengers and crew, crashed last Thursday during a flight from Paris to Cairo.
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For the troops on Memorial Day weekend.
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