Trump calls Bezos, NBA playoffs and Martha Stewart: The week in review

The cicadas come. Tennessee and North Carolina have reported the first sightings of what a 13-state swarm of the loud (but harmless) insects will soon become. They are known every 17 years as a brood XIV and do not appear in large parts of the eastern United States. They are sometimes known as a pilgrim bruod – sightings were first recorded in Plymouth colony in today's Massachusetts in 1634. The settlers “knew nothing about periodic cicadas,” said Gene Kritsky, a cicada expert at Mount St. Joseph University in Ohio. “They are unique in the eastern part of the United States. The pilgrims did not notice that they would return in 17 years.”

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Trump calls head of the Amazon complaint department

A report that Amazon was planning to list the costs of President Donald Trump's tariffs alongside his product prices lit a fire under the White House, which declared it an “enemy and political law”. The report on Punchbowl News, citing an unidentified source, also sent Trump, who celebrated his 100th day in office, to the phone to choose Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. An Amazon spokeswoman later denied the report and said USA Today that “this was never approved and will not happen”. The call said to reporters: “Jeff Bezos was very nice. He was great. He solved the problem very quickly.”

No, Martha Stewart doesn't make you take away

Let Martha Stewart leave it not to let anyone do something for you what she could do herself – and probably better. In a performance in “The Kelly Clarkson Show” with the celebrity chef José Andrés, for her new cooking competition “Yes, boss!” “You have never gone like this, 'It's a Taco Bell night.'?” Asked an unbeliever Clarkson. Andrés could only shake his head, but later he demanded: “Provide it.”