As the government shutdown surges toward becoming the longest in U.S. history, Senate Democrats are condemning President Donald Trump’s Wednesday evening declaration that his administration will resume nuclear weapons testing.
The U.S. military conducted a strike on an alleged narco-trafficking ship off the Coast of Venezuela, killing six aboard the vessel, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday. The move marks the fifth instance of such a strike in Caribbean waters in the last month, in an offensive which has now netted 27 deaths.
The resignation of France’s Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu on Monday and the resulting resignation of the French government have left President Emmanuel Macron with a series of largely untenable options to restore order in his floundering government.
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned from his post on Monday after only 27 days in power, marking his term as the shortest in France’s history since the Republic’s inception in 1958.
Thousands of protestors flooded the streets of Italy on Monday as a nationwide strike in solidarity with Palestine brought much of the country’s infrastructure to a grinding halt. Demonstrations centered around Italy’s main ports in Genoa and Livorno, also limiting access to public transportation and closing some schools, according to Euronews and The Guardian.
Russia’s former Minister of Transportation Roman Starovoit has shot himself dead, Russian media reported Monday. The Kremlin fired Starovoit from his role as Minister of Transportation early Monday.
President Donald Trump reportedly thought Ukraine’s June 1 surprise drone attack on Russia’s bomber fleet deep in the country was “badass,” reports Axios. The president told close aides that he thought the move was “pretty strong” and that he was “impressed” by the actions of the Ukrainians, according to anonymous sources reported by Axios.