News Roundup 5/29/18

by | May 29, 2018

News Roundup 5/29/18

by | May 29, 2018

  • Trump signs executive orders weakening federal workers’ unions. [Link]
  • Immigration enforcement lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children in their care. [Link]
  • An immigration enforcement officer murdered a woman in Texas. [Link]
  • Chesterfield County, Virginia pays out a $6.5 million settlement to a man who was set on fire with a taser fired by police officers. [Link]
  • A Virginia police officer is on paid administrative leave after shooting and killing an unarmed man. [Link]
  • John McCain admits the Iraq War was a mistake. [Link]
  • Mike Pompeo announces the US will be expelling two Venezuelan diplomats. In response to US sanctions, Venezuela expelled two US diplomats. [Link]
  • No candidate in Colombia’s presidential election met the 50% requirement to win. A runoff election is scheduled for June 17th. [Link]
  • Kim Jong-un and Mood Jae-in meet in a surprise summit. Trump suggests that the Summit between Trump and Kim may occur June 12th in Singapore as previously planned. [Link] Mike Pompeo tells South Korea the US remains committed to Korean denuclearization. [Link] South Korea says that North Korea is still committed to the summit. [Link]
  • Bangladesh security forces kill 70 people during drug raids. [Link]
  • The Israeli Supreme Court rules that Israeli forces can fire on unarmed protesters. [Link]
  • Israel bombs a Syrian Airbase. Reports suggest that Hezbollah members were killed at the base. [Link]
  • The US targets Iranian airlines with new sanctions. [Link]
  • Scott Ritter explains why Mike Pompeo’s 12 demands for Iran will end in disaster. [Link]
  • Russia says that only Syrian forces should be on the border with Jordan and Israel. [Link]
  • Taliban leaders in Helmond order opium production to be moved outside of urban areas. [Link]
  • The Inspector General for the Afghan War finds the $5 billion stabilization program has failed. [Link]
  • 11 people, mostly children, were killed or maimed in an explosion in Afghanistan. [Link]
  • The House adopts an amendment to the Pentagon funding bill that requires an investigation into the American role in UAE torture prisons in Yemen. [Link]
  • Saudi backed forces make progress in the campaign to take the port of Hodeida. [Link]
  • Saudi bombs kill five people, including three children, in northern Yemen. [Link]
  • Cameroon’s Army kills scores of separatists. [Link]

Kyle Anzalone

Kyle Anzalone

Kyle Anzalone is news editor of the Libertarian Institute, opinion editor of Antiwar.com and co-host of Conflicts of Interest with Will Porter and Connor Freeman.

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