Bourdain and More: Anthony Bourdain, a celebrity chef whose show “Parts Unknown” on CNN took food and culture lovers on trips around the world, has been found dead, an apparent suicide. He was 61.

With his baritone voice, lean body, and a face lined by experience, Bourdain was an engaging and likable personality. The network said in a statement this morning, “His love of great adventure, new friends, fine food and drink and the remarkable stories of the world made him a unique storyteller.”

Bourdain was in France working on a new episode when he was found in his hotel room.

  Just days after fashion icon Kate Spade killed herself, and now Anthony Bourdain, the Centers for Disease Control released a study saying suicide across the country rose 25 percent between 1999 and 2016. Suicides were more than double homicides.

The CDC says 45,000 Americans 10 or older killed themselves in 2016 alone. They do not pin it to any single cause or mental condition. The CDC says contributing factors are social isolation, lack of mental health treatment, drugs, alcohol abuse, and gun ownership.

The G-6 Meeting: President Trump arrives in Quebec today to meet with a small pack of angry allies for the G-7 summit. The finance ministers and several heads of government of the other six members are highly annoyed about the tariffs Trump recently levied on foreign metal imports.

The other six are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the Britain.

“The American President may not mind being isolated, but neither do we mind signing a 6 country agreement if need be,” French President Emmanuel Macron said in an acerbic tweet “Because these 6 countries represent values, they represent an economic market which has the weight of history behind it and which is now a true international force.”

Trump battled back last night tweeting, “Prime Minister Trudeau is being so indignant, bringing up the relationship that the U.S. and Canada had over the many years and all sorts of other things…but he doesn’t bring up the fact that they charge us up to 300% on dairy — hurting our Farmers, killing our Agriculture!”

But on the same day the President appears to have won a big victory with his tough guy approach to trade. After shutting down parts supplies to the Chinese telecom firm ZTE because it evaded economic sanctions on Iran and North Korea, the Chinese agreed to pay a $1 billion fine and put $400 million in escrow to ensure they won’t do it again.

The administration’s action nearly put ZTE out of business. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said, “So I think the Chinese are well aware there’s a new marshal in town and it’s called Donald J. Trump, and he’s a very, very good shot.”

Hermit Kingdom: While dealing with unhappy allies, Trump is prepping — sort of — for his potentially historic meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. The President said he doesn’t think much preparation is necessary on his part.  “This isn’t a question of preparation,” he told reporters in the Oval Office. “It’s a question of whether people want it to happen.”

Appearing in the Rose Garden with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, Trump said, “I believe we’re going to have a terrific success or a modified success.”

Trump Agonistes: With all of this going on, Trump is tortured by the special counsel’s Russia investigation and showing it. He tweeted, “Isn’t it Ironic? Getting ready to go to the G-7 in Canada to fight for our country on Trade (we have the worst trade deals ever made), then off to Singapore to meet with North Korea & the Nuclear Problem…But back home we still have the 13 Angry Democrats pushing the Witch Hunt!”

Trump’s “13 Angry Democrats” are members of Robert Mueller’s investigation team. It’s one of Trump’s talking points to undermine the investigation. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, for one, is a Republican.

Columnist EJ Dionne writes in The Washington Post, “Our chief executive instinctively knows what Alexander Hamilton taught long ago: that the despot’s object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.’  If the news gets troublesome, Trump and his minions create all manner of controversies and distractions that consume a lot of media space and time.”

The Obit Page: David Douglas Duncan, one of the most influential war photographers of the 20^th Century who took lasting images of combat in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, has died at age 102.

Renowned photographer Edward Steichen called Duncan’s book “This Is War!”, a collection of Korea photos, “the greatest book of war photographs ever published.”

Duncan, who was wounded several times, told The NY Times in 2003, “I just felt maybe the guys out there deserved being photographed just the way they are, whether they are running scared, or showing courage, or diving into a hole, or talking and laughing. And I think I did bring a sense of dignity to the battlefield.”

Fourth Estate: In an ominous development for both leakers and reporters, a former Senate Intelligence Committee aide was arrested yesterday and the phone and email records of a NY Times reporter were seized.

James Wolfe, 57, the intelligence committee’s chief of security, was charged with lying to investigators about his contacts with reporters. NY Times reporter Ali Watkins, who’s had a romantic relationship with Wolfe, was informed by letter that her records had been seized.

The indictment says Wolfe used encrypted messages to give information to reporters.

The Sports Page: Good News from the Swamp. The Washington Capitals won the Stanley Cup last night, beating the Las Vegas Golden Knights 4-3 in game 5 of the series. It’s the first ever Stanley Cup for the DC hockey team it its 44 years, and the capital city’s first major league sports championship since 1992.

Donald Trump had nothing to do with it.

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