President Donald Trump was brutally fact-checked to his face by Chinese leader Xi Jinping over claims he made about solving another war. Trump has, several times, claimed to have been the driving force behind stopping the border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia that turned violent, clearly irritating Xi, who was keen to set the record straight on Trump’s role. When the two sat down for a bilateral meeting in South Korea, Xi cast Trump as a supportive bystander.| The Daily Beast via Yahoo News
President Donald Trump has claimed he could send the Navy, Air Force, and Marines into U.S. cities to do “whatever I want” and the courts would not stop him. As tensions escalate over the administration’s deployment of the National Guard, Trump warned that he could “routinely” invoke the Insurrection Act to bypass the legal system if he wanted to use all arms of the military against his own citizens. “If I want to enact a certain Act, I’m allowed to do it,” he said.| The Daily Beast via Yahoo News
Officials sent notice to Congress labeling alleged traffickers ‘nonstate armed’ combatants in bid for legal justification for extrajudicial killings| The Independent
This could have been predicted. The cease fire in the Middle East is falling apart. Israel on Tuesday carried out military strikes in Gaza after the nation accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire …| Pharyngula