DANISH STATUE DEFACED

KATHY GRIFFIN APOLOGIZES FOR ‘TRUMP DECAPITATION’

Kathy Griffin, who has never been shy about provoking people with her comedy, is now abjectly apologizing for being photographed holding a mock “decapitated” head of Donald Trump.

After her many critics, on the right and the left, responded with outrage, Griffin took to Twitter to beg for forgiveness.

“I sincerely apologize. I’m just now seeing the reaction of these images. I’m a comic, I crossed the line. I move the line then I cross it. I went way too far. The image is too disturbing,’ Griffin said in part.

The U.S. Secret Service said it would look into the incident, which Griffin first called an expression of art.

EX-PANAMANIAN DICTATOR MANUEL NORIEGA DIES AT 83

Manuel Antonio Noriega, the former Panamanian dictator who was ousted from power by a U.S. invasion in 1989, has died. He was 83.

Panama’s President Juan Carlos Varela announced Noriega’s death on Twitter on Tuesday, saying it “closes a chapter” in the country’s history. Miguel Mayo, Panama’s health minister, also confirmed Noriega’s death, Telemetro.com reported.

Noriega died from a hemor- rhage following surgery to remove a brain tumor.

The former general — a onetime U.S. ally who ruled Panama with an iron fist from 1983 until 1989 — served a 17-year sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering in the United States after his ouster.

After he completed that sentence in 2007, he was imprisoned in France for money laundering, before being returned in 2011 to Panama, where he had been convicted in absentia for crimes during his regime.

COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR OF WHITE HOUSE RESIGNS

Mike Dubke confirmed his resignation as White House communications director Tuesday.

The resignation was first reported by Axios which said Dubke, who has been in the role for three months, handed in his resignation on May 18.

“It has been my great honor to serve President Trump and this administration. It has also been my distinct pleasure to work sideby-side, day-by-day with the staff of the communications and press departments,” Dubke said in a statement.

Dubke did not work on the Trump campaign and did not know Trump before his hire.

IDA MARIE ODGAARD, EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY A worker cleans the Little Mermaid statue Tuesday in Copenhagen, a day after the iconic statue at the harbor in the Danish capital was doused with red paint in what appears to be an anti-whaling protest, according to police and local media.