Published on East County Magazine (https://www.eastcountymagazine.org)

Home > ECM WORLD WATCH: NATIONAL AND GLOBAL NEWS

ECM WORLD WATCH: NATIONAL AND GLOBAL NEWS

Share this

July 18, 2024 (San Diego’s East County) - East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen on important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

WORLD

For excerpts and links to full stories, click “read more” and scroll down.

U.S.

Law enforcement: Bomb making materials found in vehicle, at home of man suspected in Trump rally shooting (AP)

 Law enforcement officials tell The Associated Press bomb-making materials were found inside the vehicle of the man suspected in the Trump rally shooting. There were also bomb-making materials found at his home.

What we know—and don’t know—so far about the Trump rally gunman (Time)

Twenty-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was identified by the FBI on Sunday as the shooter behind the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump...

Joe Biden Stands Up For Democracy In NATO Speech (Meidas News)

... As over 32 world leaders gather in Washington, D.C. this week for the Summit, President Biden is putting the world on notice that the United States of America will always uphold democracy and will stand up to authoritarians like Vladimir Putin who work to tear democracy down. This NATO summit is particularly important given the fact that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has now entered its third year with Putin continuing his war of aggression, targeting civilians across Ukraine. 

 Trump claims not to know who is behind Project 2025. A CNN review found at least 140 people who worked for him are involved (CNN)

Donald Trump has lately made clear he wants little to do with Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for the next Republican president that has attracted considerable blowback in his race for the White House.  “I have no idea who is behind it,” the former president recently claimed on social media. Many people Trump knows quite well are behind it.

Biden is eyeing big changes for the Supreme Court. But he needs Congress to make them (NPR)

President Biden is preparing to call for term limits and an enforceable ethics code for U.S. Supreme Court justices in what would be sweeping changes to the high court and the way it operates. The proposals are a long shot because a constitutional amendment or congressional action — two routes that would likely be needed — are next to impossible in the current political climate.

Special counsel to appeal ruling dismissing Trump’s documents case  (The Hill)

Special Counsel Jack Smith will appeal a federal judge’s ruling earlier on Monday dismissing former President Trump’s classified documents indictment, according to Smith’s spokesman.  U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that Smith was not lawfully appointed, ordering that Trump’s charges be dismissed.  “The dismissal of the case deviates from the uniform conclusion of all previous courts to have considered the issue that the Attorney General is statutorily authorized to appoint a Special Counsel,” Peter Carr, spokesman for Smith’s office, said in a statement. 

J.D. Vance As Trump’s VP: “A Corporate CEO’s Dream And A Worker’s Nightmare” (Lever)

Vance authored the 2016 blockbuster memoir Hillbilly Elegy and fashioned himself as a “conservative outsider” fighting for everyday people. But during his 2022 U.S. Senate campaign, we revealed that the one-time venture capitalist counted himself among the elite few able to take advantage of a notorious carried-interest tax loophole ... In 2023, following our coverage of lax railroad safety regulations and the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, Vance co-authored the Railway Safety Act....But three months later, we exposed that Vance had since quietly amended his own legislation to delay the safety reforms at the request of rail and chemical industry lobbyists. 

JD Vance once compared Trump to Hitler. Now they are running mates. (Reuters)

 Eight years ago, in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, J.D. Vance was a bitter critic of Donald Trump. Publicly, he called the Republican presidential candidate an "idiot" and said he was "reprehensible." Privately, he compared him to Adolf Hitler. But by the time the former president tapped Vance to be his running mate on Monday, the Ohio native had become one of Trump's most ardent defenders, standing by his side even when other high-profile Republicans declined to do so.

President Biden tests positive for COVID, taking him off campaign trail during critical time (USA TODAY)

 President Joe Biden has again tested positive for COVID-19. Biden tested positive following an event Wednesday in Las Vegas, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. “He is vaccinated and boosted, and he is experiencing mild symptoms,” she said.

Biden pleads with Americans to cool down the political temperature (Politico)

 President Joe Biden used a rare Oval Office address on Sunday to condemn political violence and pleaded with Americans to turn down the temperature in the increasingly toxic political system after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

FAA orders inspection of 2,600 Boeing 737s over oxygen mask issue  (Reuters)

... The FAA said it was requiring the inspections of 737 MAX and Next Generation airplanes after multiple reports of passenger service unit oxygen generators shifting out of position, an issue that could result in an inability to provide supplemental oxygen to passengers during a depressurization event.

America’s most popular governors are also the most powerless (Politico)

Five state executives must contend with legislatures controlled by supermajorities from the opposite party.

WORLD

Satellite images show expansion of suspected Chinese spy bases in Cuba (Apple News)

Images captured from space show the growth of Cuba’s electronic eavesdropping stations that are believed to be linked to China, including new construction at a previously unreported site about 70 miles from the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay...The study from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank, follows reporting last year by The Wall Street Journal that China and Cuba were negotiating closer defense and intelligence ties, including establishing a new joint military training facility on the island and an eavesdropping facility.

Israel bombards central Gaza as tanks advance deeper in Rafah (Reuters)

Israeli forces bombarded the Gaza Strip's historic refugee camps in the centre of the enclave and struck Gaza City in the north on Thursday, killing at least 21 people, and tanks pushed deeper into Rafah in the south, health officials and residents said. A barrage of Israeli airstrikes killed 16 in Zawayda town, Bureij and Nuseirat camps and the overcrowded city of Deir-Al-Balah, the last major urban centre in Gaza not to be invaded by Israeli forces, health officials said.

 

Who is Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran's new president-elect? (Reuters)

Iran's president-elect, low-profile moderate Masoud Pezeshkian, carries the hopes of millions of Iranians seeking less restrictions on social freedoms and a more pragmatic foreign policy... The 69-year-old cardiac surgeon has pledged to promote a pragmatic foreign policy, ease tensions over now-stalled negotiations with major powers to revive a 2015 nuclear pact and improve prospects for social liberalisation and political pluralism.

A Moscow court orders the arrest of Alexei Navalny's widow in absentia   (NPR)

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz noted on X that Navalnaya is carrying on her husband's legacy and denounced the Moscow court's ruling as “an arrest warrant against the desire for freedom and democracy.”Russian authorities haven’t specified the charges against Navalnaya. They appear to relate to authorities designating Navalny’s Foundation for Fighting Corruption as an extremist organization...A number of journalists have been jailed on similar charges in recent months in relation to their coverage of Navalny.

NATO allies call China a 'decisive enabler' of Russia's war in Ukraine (AP)

In their most serious rebuke against Beijing, NATO allies on Wednesday called China a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s war against Ukraineand expressed concerns over Beijing’s nuclear arsenal and its capabilities in space. / The sternly worded final communiqué, approved by the 32 NATO members…. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said China provides equipment, microelectronics and tools that are “enabling Russia to build the missiles, to build the bombs, to build the aircraft, to build the weapons they use to attack Ukraine.”

How these Ukrainian artists are using their talents to support the war effort (NPR)

The Ukrainian war effort has been cobbled together through crowdfunding and volunteer initiatives. Along with drones, medical kits and body armor, many Ukrainians have donated private vehicles to help transport their defenders at the front, and chipped in for the purchase of cars and trucks from abroad.  Like so many Ukrainians, Neak, 43, one of the painters, asked himself what he could do to best support the military when the full-scale invasion began. He quickly realized his expertise with graffiti allowed him to perfect the complex art of obscuring vehicles from snipers, artillery and the electronic eyes of Russian drones.

Outrage in China over use of unwashed fuel tankers to transport cooking oil (Guardian)

It is not clear where the cooking oil in the fuel-contaminated tankers ultimately ended up. Follow-up reports tracking the truckers identified in the Beijing News article suggested that the tankers delivered oil to packaging facilities run by household brand names in China, intensifying concerns that people could be consuming toxic oil. The article also quoted an industry insider as saying that some of the oil may ultimately be packaged into small bottles for foreign sales.

 


Error message

Support community news in the public interest! As nonprofit news, we rely on donations from the public to fund our reporting -- not special interests. Please donate to sustain East County Magazine's local reporting and/or wildfire alerts at https://www.eastcountymedia.org/donate to help us keep people safe and informed across our region.

Source URL (modified on 07/18/2024 - 11:05):https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/ecm-world-watch-national-and-global-news-401?page=0