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News Roundup 6/5/18

by | Jun 5, 2018

News Roundup 6/5/18

by | Jun 5, 2018

  • Trump claims to have the right to pardon himself. [Link]
  • A Georgia police officer was fired for running down a suspect in his car. [Link]
  • The Air Force is developing a new video game to identify and recruit talented pilots. [Link]
  • The new B-21 bomber will be a boondoggle for the military-industrial complex. [Link]
  • Google expected to make up to $250 million on a contract with the Pentagon to develop AI for drones. [Link]
  • The US is considering deploying THAAD missiles to Germany. [Link]
  • Senate Democrats threaten to undermine an agreement with North Korea if their conditions are not met. [Link]
  • Mexican security forces are suspected to be behind the disappearance of 23 people since February. [Link]
  • Two more people have died during protests in Nicaragua. [Link]
  • Secretary of State Pompeo calls on the OAS to suspend Venezuela’s membership. Pompeo also called on the member states to sanction Venezuela. [Link]
  • Putin signs a counter sanctions bill that targets the US. [Link]
  • 14 people were killed in a suicide bombing of a meeting of Afghani religious figures. The attendees of the meeting were declaring the Afghan insurgency did not have a religious basis and condemning terrorism. [Link]
  • Nearly half of the children in Afghanistan do not attend school. [Link]
  • Over 18 million Yemeni could be in danger of starvation by the end of 2018. [Link]
  • The US has carried out several drone strikes in Somalia in recent weeks. The US claims to have killed dozens of fighters in the strikes. [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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