The place does Trump’s indictment depart the U.S.?
Donald Trump’s indictment for making an attempt to overturn the 2020 election has thrown the U.S. into uncharted territory forward of the presidential vote subsequent yr. Although the previous president has been charged dozens of instances throughout three instances, he can nonetheless run for president and faces no marketing campaign restrictions.
But when he’s convicted on any of the felony counts, issues get difficult. The Structure and U.S. legislation have clear solutions for less than a number of the questions that might come up. Lots of the enormous selections would relaxation within the fingers of federal judges.
The indictment has put Mike Pence, Trump’s former vice chairman, on the heart of a rare second in U.S. politics. Pence is amongst Trump’s rivals within the race for the Republican Celebration nomination, and he criticized Trump on Tuesday, setting himself other than a number of different Republican candidates who largely prevented criticizing the previous president, even not directly.
The coup in Niger is completely different
At first, Niger’s coup, which started final week, resembled others which have roiled West Africa in recent times — troopers detained the president and declared that they had seized energy; international powers had been condemnatory however did nothing. However in latest days, issues have taken a special course.
The U.S. and France threatened to chop ties with Niger, endangering a whole bunch of tens of millions of {dollars} in support. The deposed and detained president, Mohamed Bazoum, spoke with world leaders, obtained guests and posted defiant messages on social media. And neighboring nations threatened to go to struggle — some to scuttle the coup, others to make sure its success.
Though Niger has an extended historical past of coups, Bazoum promised a democratic future. Elected in Niger’s first peaceable switch of energy in 2021, he advocated ladies’ training and tried to scale back the nation’s birthrate, the best on this planet. After years of stagnation, the economic system had been forecast to develop 7 % this yr.
U.S.-trained Ukrainian troops stumble in battle
Ukrainian troops who had been skilled and armed by the U.S. and its allies have develop into slowed down in dense Russian minefields below fixed hearth from artillery and helicopter gunships. Models bought misplaced. One unit misplaced its benefit by delaying a nighttime assault till daybreak. One other fared so badly that commanders yanked it off the battlefield altogether.
Now Ukrainian army commanders have modified ways, specializing in sporting down the Russian forces. However early outcomes have been blended. Ukrainian troops have but to make sweeping beneficial properties, elevating questions in regards to the high quality of their international coaching and about whether or not tens of billions of {dollars}’ price of weapons have been in a position to rework the army right into a NATO-standard preventing drive.
In Ukraine: The high-stakes standoff over grain shouldn’t be solely escalating tensions within the Black Sea and elevating worries over the worldwide meals provide; it’s additionally creating challenges for farmers throughout southern Ukraine.
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By way of the service Cameo, celebrities and others could be paid to make personalised movies commemorating birthdays, bachelorette events, divorces and the like. Final month, there was a 137 % enhance within the variety of accounts reactivated or created on the service in contrast with June. (Hollywood actors went on strike on July 14.)
With payments looming, Cheyenne Jackson, an actor who has appeared within the “American Horror Story” TV exhibits and in “30 Rock,” was amongst these to make the leap. “My husband cringed slightly,” he mentioned. “However you’ve bought to do what you’ve bought to do.”
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