News Roundup 6/18/18

by | Jun 18, 2018

News Roundup 6/18/18

by | Jun 18, 2018

  • The Texas Highway Patrol gives ICE lists of people who receive traffic violations. [Link]
  • A Calfornia judge allows a free speech lawsuit against Twitter for banning a user to move forward. [Link]
  • Aaron Mate explains how there is still no proof of Russian collusion in the 2016 election. [Link]
  • Ivan Duque wins Colombia’s presidential election. Duque ran on a platform that called for changes to the peace agreement with FARC. [Link]
  • A British boy has been hospitalized after authorities prevent him from taking his seizure medication. [Link]
  • Donald Trump reveals he set up communications with Kim Jong-un and plans a call for Sunday. [Link]
  • Joe Lauria on the disappointing reactions from the Democrats to Trump meeting Kim. [Link]
  • Israel carries out airstrikes in Gaza in response to burning balloons and kites. [Link]
  • A proposed Israeli law will prevent rights groups from filming Israeli soldiers. [Link]
  • The Taliban and the Afghan government are celebrating a ceasefire. ISIS-K kills at least 25 in a bombing in Afghanistan. [Link] ISIS-K is suspected of carrying out another suicide bombing that killed 18. [Link]
  • The Afghan War Inspector General says the US has spent $8.6 billion on the failed drug war in Afghanistan. [Link]
  • Turkey kills 35 Kurdish PKK fighters with an airstrike in northern Iraq. [Link]
  • Trump signs off on $6.6 million to the White Helmets. [Link]
  • Western governments back the YPG trading of Westerners fighting for ISIS back to ISIS. [Link]
  • Alex Potter profiles the victims of Saudi Arabia’s airstrike on a Yemen wedding. [Link]
  • The Saudi coalition bombs the airport in Hodeida. [Link]
  • French special forces are on the ground in Yemen. [Link]
  • 20 people have been killed by a bombing in Nigeria. Boko Haram is suspected of carrying out the attack. [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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