Today’s edition of quick hits.
* Deadly military strike #43: “The U.S. military said on Friday that it blew up a boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three people.”
* Deadly military strike #44: “The Defense Department said that it blew up a boat in the Caribbean Sea on Monday, killing three people. The strike raised the death toll in the American campaign against people it accuses, without providing evidence, of smuggling drugs at sea to at least 150.”
* In Ukraine: “Russia pounded Ukraine’s power grid on Sunday with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles, killing at least one man in Kyiv, the capital, even as negotiators for both countries prepared for another round of peace negotiations in the coming days.”
* The Epstein scandal is having a major effect on the British government: “Peter Mandelson, the former British ambassador to the United States, was arrested Monday on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the second high-level arrest in the United Kingdom amid the fallout from the Epstein files.”
* The next round of tariffs: “President Donald Trump said Saturday he is raising global tariffs to 15% from the 10% import tax he imposed the day before in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling striking down his sweeping tariffs.”
* In Mexico: “The Mexican government said it killed the nation’s most wanted cartel boss on Sunday, setting off a wave of fires and violence across the country as cartel operatives sought to exact revenge in an unsettling show of force.”
* At Mar-a-Lago: “A man was fatally shot early Sunday morning after Secret Service agents and a local law enforcement officer opened fire on him for trespassing at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, federal and local officials said.”
* James Hundley joins an unfortunate club: “Almost immediately after federal judges in the Eastern District of Virginia on Friday appointed a veteran litigator as interim U.S. attorney, a position previously held by Lindsey Halligan, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche shut it down.”
* And updating a story from last week, Kevin Hassett, the director of the White House National Economic Council, said he wanted to see economists punished for disagreeing with the administration’s line on tariffs. On the weekend, Hassett walked that back, saying he “got a little emotional.”
See you tomorrow.
