Posted By Press Release On June 8, 2011 @ 4:31 pm In Press Releases | No Comments Contact Michael Briggs (202) 224-5141 WASHINGTON, June 8 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today visited a National Museum of American History gift shop that was just restocked at his urging with all made-in-America merchandise. The Smithsonian Institution put all American products in the gift shop after Sanders questioned why the museum, which celebrates American history, sold busts of U.S. presidents and other items crafted in China and other countries. Sanders saw the Chinese-made U.S. presidential busts when he went to the Smithsonian late last year looking for Christmas presents for his grandchildren. “I love the Smithsonian’s…

By TOM PERROTTA ReutersRafael Nadal’s four-set victory over Roger Federer on Sunday in Paris gave him his sixth French Open championship. PARIS—Wasn’t this the French Open that was supposed to be different? Well, so much for that. It’s early June here and, as ever, Rafael Nadal is the French Open champion after a 7-5, 7-6(3), 5-7, 6-1 victory over Roger Federer. This was Nadal’s sixth title, a feat that puts him alongside Bjorn Borg, the only other man to win six times here, and above everyone else who has mastered the crushed red brick of Roland Garros. And there’s a strong case to be made that he has left Borg behind,…

7.01 pm: Rafa is one game away. Roger fights like a lion to get back to deuce, but nets a backhand to hand Rafa a 5-1 lead. The Spaniard is on the verge of making history. 6.56 pm: Rafa holds to lead 4-1 with the game being won on a disputed call that the line judge allowed but which was way out. Pascal Maria overruled and Rafa is again just eight points short.

By ISABELLA STEGER in Hong Kong and PAUL MOZUR in Taiwan   Huge crowds in Hong Kong turned out to commemorate the Tiananmen Square crackdown of June 4, 1989, amid concerns that the human rights situation in China has taken a turn for the worse in the past year.

source: http://www.rolandgarros.com/en_FR/news/articles/2011-06-04/201106041307201940284.html China’s Li Na held firm in the face of a ferocious comeback on the part of defending champion Francesca Schiavone to win 6-4, 7-6(0) and claim the first-ever Grand Slam title for a player from Asia. The sixth seed put in a brilliant display, dominating Schiavone in the opening set and then stymieing the Italian’s comeback in the second. Li is a fully deserving champion, having beaten four top ten seeds to claim the crown, and her success should do wonders for the popularity of the sport in China.

Dante Fenolio A captive bred Darwin’s frog is held by a researcher shortly after it was coughed up from its dad’s vocal sac. Ten baby frogs were coughed up at a breeding facility in Chile on Thursday. By John Roach A captive male Darwin’s frog coughed up ten babies Thursday at a zoo in Santiago, Chile, a milestone in a project to save the amphibians from extinction. The vulnerable species is one of two members of the only genus on Earth that rears its young inside of its vocal sac, a job taken on by the males. “They have a small opening below their tongue. … After [the eggs] hatch, he…