Michael Bluhm

Recently: What was Donald Trump trying to accomplish at the United Nations, telling his allies they’re committing civilizational suicide and the UN is a joke? Today: The U.S. Justice Department prepares to indict a former FBI director as time runs out. An American senator backs a third Trump term despite constitutional limits. An “ANTI-ICE” gunman kills a detainee in Dallas. China drops developing-country status, saying it’s still a developing country. Israel’s offensive into Gaza City continues.

Recently: Why is Russia screwing around with GPS navigation on flights across Europe? Darrell Driver on the psychological campaign to change European hearts and minds about Ukraine. Today: The American political activist Charlie Kirk has been murdered on a Utah campus, with police now questioning a person of interest—extending a recent pattern of U.S. political violence across party lines.

On May 21, when North Korea’s navy attempted to launch its second destroyer, the Kang Kon—with the country’s Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un, looking on—the ceremony ended in disaster. As the ship accidentally slid off its cradle into Kyŏngsŏng Bay, the weight of the vessel crushed and ruptured parts of the hull, leaving the ship’s stern stuck underwater for two weeks.