U.S. drone:Â The Pentagon has released video showing a Russian jet dumping fuel onto the U.S. drone that crashed into the Black Sea near Ukraine. Russia is now claiming that the drone was not struck by one of its jet fighters but instead crashed after making a maneuver. The U.S. reported that the drone was in international airspace when it was struck by the Russian jet.
North Korean missile:Â North Korea this morning launched an intercontinental ballistic missile as a protest to today’s summit meeting between Japan and South Korea. Leaders of those two countries are agreeing to work on mutual security and settling a dispute over trade. The North Korean missile landed in water between Japan and South Korea.
Credit Suisse:Â The Swiss Bank Credit Suisse has borrowed $54 billion from Switzerland’s Central Bank, calming fears that Credit Suisse would collapse. The move has somewhat calmed fears in Europe that the banking situation would grow worse and spread to other counties.
TikTok:Â The British Broadcasting Corporation this morning confirmed reports that TikTok was told by the U.S. government that it might be banned in the U.S. if its Chinese owners did not sell out. TikTok gathers a lot of data about its users and the U.S. has expressed fears since the Trump Administration that the data could find its way to the Chinese government and be used to hurt the U.S.
Trump phone call: The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that another damning tape recording of Donald Trump exists providing more evidence of what he did to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The newspaper reports that a tape of a phone call Trump made to the Speaker of Georgia’s House of Representatives, David Ralston, reveals that Trump pressured Ralston to call a special session of the Georgia legislature so it could vote to take the victory away from Joe Biden and give the election to Trump. The recording was played to the grand jury in Georgia that recommended indicting Trump. Ralston did not do what Trump wanted.
Missing uranium:Â The U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency says that 2-1/2 tons of natural uranium disappeared from a storage site in Libya. The uranium can be enriched and used to make a nuclear bomb. The U.N. says it is trying to find out where the uranium is.
