CANADIAN SENATE PASSES CANNABIS BILL

TORONTO» Canada’s Senate on Tuesday gave final passage to the federal government’s bill to legalize cannabis, although Canadians will have to wait at least a couple of months to legally buy marijuana as their country becomes the second in the world to make pot legal nationwide.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government had hoped to make pot legal by July 1, but the government has said provincial and territorial governments will need eight to 12 weeks following Senate passage and royal assent to prepare for retail sales.

Trudeau’s government is expected to decide a date that would legalize it in early or midSeptember.

Canada is following the lead of Uruguay in allowing a nationwide, legal marijuana market, although each Canadian province is working up its own rules for pot sales.

The bill passed in the Senate 5229.

In the neighboring U.S., nine states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana.

China has hopes for N. Korea-U.S. outcome.

» Chinese PresiBEIJING dent Xi Jinping told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday he hopes Pyongyang and Washington can fully implement the outcome of last week’s nuclear summit at which Kim pledged to work toward denuclearization in exchange for U.S. security guarantees.

State broadcaster CCTV said Xi told Kim that through the “concerted efforts of the relevant countries” negotiations regarding issues on the Korean Peninsula are back on track and the overall situation is moving in the direction of peace and stability.

The summit between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump in Singapore marked an “important step toward the political solution of the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue,” Xi was quoted as saying in the meeting at the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing.

White House deputy chief of staff to leave in July.

WASHINGTON

» The White House aide who led the planning for President Donald Trump’s meeting last week with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has decided to leave the Trump administration to return to the private sector.

Joe Hagin, the White House deputy chief of staff for operations, has served in every Republican White House since the Reagan administration. He held the same title in George W. Bush’s White House.

Hagin’s departure comes as the Trump administration continues to set records for staff turnover. More than 60 percent of those who served in senior positions at the beginning of the administration have exited.

Deputies search for suspects in slaying of rapper XXXTentacion.

FLA.» DepDEERFIELD BEACH, uties were searching for suspects Tuesday after troubled rappersinger XXXTentacion was fatally shot in the driver’s seat of a luxury electric sports car.

The 20yearold rising star, who pronounced his stage name “Ex Ex Ex tentaseeYAWN” and whose real name is Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, was pronounced dead Monday evening at a Fort Lauderdalearea hospital, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said. He was shot earlier outside a Deerfield Beach motorcycle dealership.

— Denver Post wire services