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 12 months. Although the previous President has been charged dozens of occasions throughout three circumstances, 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 under a number of the questions that will come up. Lots of the enormous choices would relaxation within the palms of federal judges.
The indictment has put Mike Pence, Trump’s former vp, on the heart of a rare second in U.S. politics. Pence is amongst Trump’s rivals within the race for the Republican Get together nomination, and he criticized Trump on Tuesday, setting himself other than a number of different Republican candidates who largely averted 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 lately — troopers detained the president and declared that they had seized energy; overseas powers have been condemnatory however did nothing. However in latest days, issues have taken a distinct course.
The U.S. and France threatened to chop ties with Niger, endangering lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in assist. The deposed and detained president, Mohamed Bazoum, spoke with world leaders, obtained guests and posted defiant messages on social media. And neighboring international locations threatened to go to warfare — 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 women’ schooling and tried to scale back the nation’s birthrate, the very best on the earth. After years of stagnation, the financial system had been forecast to develop 7 p.c this 12 months.
U.S.-trained Ukrainian troops stumble in battle
Ukrainian troops who have been skilled and armed by the U.S. and its allies have grow to be slowed down in dense Russian minefields beneath 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 techniques, specializing in sporting down the Russian forces. However early outcomes have been blended. Ukrainian troops have but to make sweeping good points, elevating questions in regards to the high quality of their overseas 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 combating pressure.
In Ukraine: The high-stakes standoff over grain isn’t 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 means of the service Cameo, celebrities and others might be paid to make customized movies commemorating birthdays, bachelorette events, divorces and the like. Final month, there was a 137 p.c improve 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 a bit of,” he stated. “However you’ve bought to do what you’ve bought to do.”
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