Foreign Affairs: The gathering of the G-20 leaders in Hamburg, Germany was met last night by thousands of protesters marching in the streets and confronted by riot police backed with water cannon. The protesters promised a night of what they billed as “Welcome to Hell.” There isn’t enough space here to list everything they’re against.

President Trump is scheduled to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin today, a major test of his leadership and savvy. Yesterday in Poland, Trump declined to fully blame Russia for election hacking, but called on the restive country to “cease its destabilizing activities in Ukraine and elsewhere and its support for hostile regimes, including Syria and Iran.”

In a speech to a mostly Polish crowd, Trump said, “The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive. Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any cost? Do we have enough respect for our citizens to protect our borders? Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and destroy it?”

In his remarks before the foreign audience, Trump attacked US leaders, America’s free press, former President Obama, and US intelligence agencies. It was a crowd-pleaser.

  At a press conference also in Poland, Trump answered a question about North Korea saying, “As far as North Korea is concerned, I don’t know, we’ll see what happens. I don’t like to talk about what I have planned, but I have some pretty severe things that we’re thinking about. That doesn’t mean we’re going to do them. I don’t draw red lines.”

The Ethicist: Government ethics watchdog Walter Schaub Jr. has resigned in frustration over dealing with the White House. Schaub’s term as director of the United States Office of Government Ethics was set to expire in January and he had little hope of being re-appointed.

With the President refusing to reveal his tax returns or divest himself of his vast business holdings, Schaub found himself ignored in an administration in which cabinet members have followed the President’s lead while an influx of lobbyists and advisers from business has presented enormous conflicts of interest that are being dismissed.

Hey Babe: In its continuing investigation of sexual harassment at the network, Fox News has suspended its business anchor Charles Payne after a female political analyst went to a lawyer. Payne’s lawyer says he did nothing wrong.

Friendly Skies: United Airlines, which has become a punchline for its customer relations, apologized for-reselling the seat of a two-year-old whose mother, in accordance with company policy, had paid $1,000 to fly her son from Hawaii to Boston.

Shirley Yamauchi said United sold her son’s seat to a man during a layover in Houston and the flight attendant merely said, “The flight is full.” Yamauchi said she didn’t protest because of the harsh way some United passengers have been treated in recent months. She said her legs went numb holding her 25-pound son in her lap which, by the way, is a violation of United policy.

The airline attributes its latest error to a ticket-scanning failure.

The Obit Page: Once there was only “Miss” and “Mrs.” until the feminist and civil rights activist Sheila Michaels campaigned to popularize “Ms.,” an honorific for women that does not refer to their marital status. Michaels died late last month at age 78.

Michaels did not invent “Ms.,” which had its first recorded use as early as 1901. Michaels liked the title because it did not indicate that she belonged to a man. She wasn’t a fan of marriage. She was basically going nowhere with it until Gloria Steinem heard Michaels talking about it on the radio and decided to name her new magazine “Ms.,” which first published in 1971

First Lady of the Air: One of the evergreen stories in this world is the fate of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, who disappeared with her navigator Fred Noonan 80 years ago on a flight over the Pacific.

Various theories have it that the pair simply crashed and died, or that they became marooned on an island and died there.

Now, a photograph has surfaced in the National Archives of a group of people standing on a pier on the Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The photo shows a crouching woman with her back turned who bears some similarities to Earhart, and a man with a distinctive hairline similar to Noonan’s. The theory developed from the photo is that Earhart and Noonan died as prisoners of the Japanese because their flight was actually a spy mission for President Roosevelt.

Well, anyway, it’s a theory.

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