August 1, 2019 (San Diego’s East County) -- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen on important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Funds earmarked for defense can be used for border wall, Supreme Court rules (10 News)
• Trump says Guatemala signing deal to restrict asylum cases (KUSI)
• How a Fed rate cut will affect your credit card payment, home equity line, savings rates (USA Today)
• At debate, Warren and Sanders spar with centrists over party direction, how to beat Trump (Los Angeles Times)
• Biden fights back against attacks in Detroit presidential debate (2^nd night) (Detroit News)
• Science division of White House empty as last staffers depart (CBS News)
• Mitch McConnell Received Donations from Voting Machine Lobbyists Before Blocking Election Security Bills (Newsweek)
• Washington Post columnist accuses McConnell of doing Putin’s bidding (The Hill)
• Trump attacks another African American lawmaker, and calls Baltimore a 'disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess' CNN)
• Have we no decency? A response to President Trump (The National Cathedral)
• Juul Targeted Children at Schools and Online, U.S. House Panel Says (Bloomberg News)

WORLD

• It’s not just the Russians anymore: Iranians, others turn up disinformation efforts ahead of 2020 vote (Washington Post)
• Murders in Mexico surge to record in first half of 2019 (Reuters)
  
  South Korea fires hundreds of warning shots at Russian military plane (Reuters)
• Russia: Police arrest hundreds at Moscow election protest (BBC)
• Syrian Rebel Town Pounded, 11 Killed in Market Airstrike (New York Times)
• Death toll from India, Nepal, Bangladesh floods jumps to over 300 (Reuters)
• Missing Mekong waters rouse suspicions of China (Reuters)

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July 18, 2019 (San Diego’s East County) -- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen on important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Trump Says U.S. Navy Ship Shot Down Iranian Drone (Newsweek)
• Outdated software could make new voting systems vulnerable to hackers (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Trump administration files regulation that could dramatically limit asylum claims (10 News)
• Refugee mothers separated at border to sue Trump administration for $3 million each (San Diego Union-Tribune
• House holds Barr and Ross in contempt (New York Times)
• Where the candidates stand on issues (Politico)
• U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta resigns amid questions about handling of Epstein case (CBS News)
• …Trump administration agrees to independent investigation of health conditions for children at border facilities  (CNN)
• The Trump Administration Is Making Immigrant Parents Pay $800 for DNA Tests to Get Their Kids Back  (Yahoo news)

WORLD

• France's Macron to speak to Rouhani, Putin and Trump to ease Iran tension (Reuters)
• Israel says EU's response on Iran recalls Nazi appeasement (Reuters) Radiation in parts of the Marshall Islands is far higher than Chernobyl, study says  (Los Angeles Times)
• Man screams ‘die!’ as he sets fire to Japanese cartoon studio, police say, killing at least 20 (Washington Post)
• Italy seizes weapons, missile, Nazi plaques (ABC)

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July 4, 2019 (San Diego’s East County) -- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen on important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Tanks, fighters readied for Trump's July 4th celebration but taxpayer cost not being disclosed (ABC news)
• Judge orders swift action to improve conditions for migrant children in Texas (New York Times)
• Hispanic caucus: Detained migrants being told to ‘drink from toilets’ (NBC 7)
• Winners and losers from two nights of Democratic debates (The Hill)
• Court blocks federal funds for parts of border wall in California, New Mexico (Fox 5)
• Trump administration ending in-person interpreters at immigrants’ first hearings (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Digital jail: how electronic monitoring is driving defendants into debt (Pro Publica)
• Taking migrant children from parents is illegal, U.N. tells U.S. (New York Times)
• Bank of America to cut ties with companies that help run immigrant detention centers, private prisons (USA Today)
• Cast of Hollywood stars perform live reading of the Mueller Report (CBS)

WORLD

• Deadly India Heat Wave Temperature Reaches 123 Degrees in Second-Driest Pre-Monsoon Spell in 65 Years (Weather Channel)
• A strange, wavy jet stream is blasting Europe with heat. Scientists say this could be the 'new normal.' (NBC 7)
• Iran poised to press ahead with uranium enrichment despite Trump warning (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Russia plans to tow a nuclear power station to the Arctic. Critics dub it a 'floating Chernobyl' (CNN)
• Russia behind GPS failures over Ben Gurion airport, Israelis believe (CNN)

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June 19, 2019 (San Diego’s East County) -- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen on important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• U.S. blames Iran for “blatant assault” on oil tankers in Gulf of Oman (NBC)
• Feds open door to rate cuts under pressure from Trump (The Hill)
• Trump says he’s draining the swamp as he fills cabinet with ex-lobbyists (CBS)
• Supreme court declines to take up contraceptive mandate case (CNN)
• Federal agency recommends that Kellyanne Conway be removed (Politico)

WORLD

• Drone shooting raises risk of war, exposes Iran divides in Trump team (CNN)
• Staff evacuated as rocket strikes near foreign oil firms in Iraq (Reuters)
• Hong Kong leader apologizes as protesters press demands for her to quit (Reuters)
• As Peru tightens its border, desperate Venezuelans cling to asylum lifeline (Reuters)
• Iran Says It Will Exceed Nuclear Deal's Limit On Uranium 'In 10 Days’ (NPR)
• Asian countries take a stand against the rich world’s plastic waste (Los Angeles Times)
• Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mursi dies after collapsing in court (Reuters)
• At least 161 dead in northeast Congo in apparent ethnic clashes (Reuters)
• China raids North Korean 'Underground Railroad' (Reuters)

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June 5, 2019 (San Diego’s East County) -- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen on important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

Border issues

• Border Patrol is confiscating migrant kids’ medicine, U.S. doctors say (Yahoo News)
• Border apprehensions spike in may, topping 130,000 (The Hill)
• Funding for migrant children running out with no deal in sight (Roll Call)
• Trump's Mexican tariffs could hit U.S. refiners, add to fuel costs (Reuters)
• Father of four ‘bled to death’ in ICE custody: lawsuit (Daily Beast)

Other national news

• Five takeaways from the biggest swarm of U.S. tornados since 2011 (Washington Post)
• Trump administration ends government fetal tissue research (Newsweek)
• The Mueller Report Was My Tipping Point: I was a Trump transition staffer, and I’ve seen enough. It’s time for impeachment. (The Atlantic)
• Democratic presidential contender Warren seeks law allowing presidents to be indicted (Reuters)
• Supreme Court rejects transgender bathroom case, allowing transgender students to use bathroom of choice (CBS News)

WORLD

• On Normandy's beaches, leaders and veterans recall sacrifice of D-Day (Reuters)
• Mexico eyes steps to cut immigrant flows to U.S. border, official says (Reuters)
• Cruise ship ban causes uncertainty and confusion among travelers (CNN)
• Assange won’t face charges over role in devastating CIA leak (Politico via Apple News)
• Trump’s unprecedented foray into UK politics (CNN)
• Scores injured in blasts at Russian military plant (Reuters)
• North Korea executes 5 officials over failed Kim-Trump summit: South Korean media (Fox News)
• Rockets fired from Syria at Israeli-occupied Golan Heights (Reuters)
• In double whammy, Fitch downgrades Mexico and Moody's lowers outlook (Reuters)
• Leader of Mexico-based church accused of rape, child porn (Reuters)

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May 22, 2019 (San Diego’s East County) -- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen on important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Trump to Democrats: No deals on infrastructure, drug prices until they drop investigations (USA Today)
• Protests across U.S. on abortion bans (Reuters)
• U.S. placed immigrant children with traffickers, report says (New York Times)
• Morehouse College grads are surprised by a billionaire's promise to pay off their student loans (CNN)
• Judge orders Trump accounting firm to hand over records to Congress (CNN)
• First Republican lawmaker says Trump engaged in impeachable conduct (Reuters)
• Where women call the shots (Washington Post)
• The Trump administration is scrubbing Obamacare from government sites (Wired.com)

WORLD

• Wildfires force nearly 5,000 Canadians out of their homes as firefighters continue to battle growing blazes (CNN)
• Austrian government collapses as far right leader caught in video sting (Reuters)
• Ford will cut 7,000 white-collar jobs worldwide (CNN)
• Japanese manufacturers brace for fallout — and losses — from ongoing U.S.-China trade war (Japan Times)

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May 8, 2019 (San Diego’s East County) -- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen on important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Trump exerts executive privilege over full Mueller report (New York Times)
• House Judiciary votes to hold Barr in contempt for defying Mueller report subpoena (CBS)
• A Constitutional Showdown Between the White House and Congress Just Got Closer (Politico)
• Senate Intelligence Committee subpoenas Donald Trump, Jr. (CNN)
• ACT test: The number of perfect scores is soaring everywhere, as expensive test prep booms (USA Today)
• Decade in the red: Trump taxes reveal $1 billion in business losses (New York Times)
• The White House revoked my press pass. It’s not just me — it’s curtailing access for all journalists. (Washington Post)
• Again in the age of 'run, hide, fight,' student heroes thwart a school shooter (CNN)

WORLD

• US deploying carrier and bomber task force in response to 'troubling' Iran actions (CNN)
• Japan’s Emperor Abdicates Throne for First Time in 200 Years (US News)
• After Weekend Of Deadly Violence, Reports Of A Truce In Gaza (NPR)
• Kim oversees missile firing drills, tells North Korean troops to be alert (Politico)
• As Saudi Arabia Builds A Nuclear Reactor, Some Worry About Its Motives (NPR)

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April 24, 2019 (San Diego’s East County) -- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen on important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Barr releases Mueller's report - and feels the heat (Reuters)
• Trump failed at obstruction because his aides refused to carry out orders, Mueller finds (NBC)
• The impossible challenge of tracking visa overstays  (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• Ex-Obama lawyer charged with lying about foreign lobbying after leaving White House (USA Today)
• Airline employee pleads guilty to working as agent for Chinese government (Washington Post)

WORLD

• Notre-Dame blaze: 24 hours that rocked Paris and shocked the world (France 24)
• Evacuation plan saved most of Notre-Dame's treasures: insurance adjuster  (Reuters)
• As Sri Lanka mourns, ISIS claims Easter bombings (AP)
• Peru's ex-president Garcia kills himself to avoid arrest in Odebrecht probe (Reuters)
• Conservative victory in Canada's Alberta may spell trouble for Trudeau  (Reuters)
• Cyclone Idai's death toll rises to 847, hundreds of thousands displaced (Reuters)

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March 28, 2019 (San Diego’s East County) -- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen on important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

Mueller report

• Mueller Finds No Trump-Russia Conspiracy, but Stops Short of Exonerating President on Obstruction (New York Times)
• Barr’s Declaration on Trump Puts Justice Dept. Back in Political Crucible (New York Times)
• Democrats demand Mueller’s full report by next week (Politico)
• Robert Mueller once again failed as federal prosecutor (Reno Dispatch)

Other national news

• Trump administration now wants all of Obamacare struck down (CNN)
• Boeing pushed hard for self-oversight as Congress allowed it to take over some FAA functions (Washington Post)
• FEMA mistakes put 2.3 million disaster victims at risk of ID theft, watchdog says (USA Today)
• German billionaire family that owns Einstein Bros. Bagels admits Nazi past (Washington Post)
• A Growing Problem in Real Estate: Too Many Too Big Houses  (The Wall Street Journal)

WORLD

• May's offer to quit fails to break Britain's Brexit stalemate (Reuters)
• Islamic State group: Syria's Kurds call for international tribunal (BBC)
• Mexico demands apology from Spain and the Vatican over conquest (BBC)
• Netanyahu cuts short U.S. trip after rocket attack from Gaza (Reuters )
• Israeli rabbi, wounded in Palestinian attack, dies: hospital (Reuters)

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March 13, 2019 (San Diego’s East County) --- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen on important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• FAA grounds all Boeing 737 Max planes effective immediately (CBS New)
• Trump said he wouldn’t cut Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare. His 2020 budget cuts all 3. (VOX)
• Trump budget proposes huge cuts to health programs for elderly, poor and disabled (Washington Post)
• House Democrats introduce bill to offer 2.5 million immigrants chance at permanent status (Vox)
• In another blow to Trump, judge rules in favor of ACLU in family separations case (Washington Post)
• Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin among dozens indicted in largest-ever case alleging bribery to get kids into colleges (USA Today)
• Jussie Smollett indicted on 16 counts over allegedly phony claims of racist, homophobic attack (Chicago Tribune)

WORLD

• Hundreds surrender as Islamic State nears defeat in last enclave  (Reuters)
• Russia laws ban 'disrespect' of government and 'fake news' (BBC News)
• UN investigating suspected North Korean arms dealers in Iran (NBC News)
• Desperate Venezuelans swarm sewage drains in search of water (Reuters)

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February 28, 2019 (San Diego’s East County) --- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen on important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Michael Cohen says President Trump was involved in a hush money scheme. He brought checks to Congress to prove it. (Washington Post)
• Judge rules male-only draft is unconstitutional (Fox 5)
• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just expertly laid a trap to get Donald Trump’s tax returns (Mother Jones)
• Hiker rescued from quicksand inside Utah national park (NBC News)
• New problem for legal weed: Exploding pot factories (Politico)

WORLD

• Colombia demolishes drug kingpin Pablo Escobar's former home (Reuters)
• Venezuela's Maduro starts shutting borders to block humanitarian aid (Reuters)
• China uses DNA to track its people, with the help of American expertise (New York Times)
• Eighth lawmaker quits Britain's Labour Party (Reuters)
• France shaken by outbreak of anti-Semitic violence and abuse (Reuters)
• The Vatican’s secret rules for priests who have children(New York Times) 

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February 14, 2019 (San Diego’s East County) --- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen on important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a  variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Tax code change leave Americans asking ‘What happened to my refund?’ (NBC)
• Trump suggests he’s open to border deal as lawmakers resolve late snags (Washington Post)
• Supreme Court blocks Louisiana abortion law (New York Times)
• Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says National Enquirer publisher tried to extort him (CNN)
• Judge rules Manafort lied, breached plea deal (Reuters)
• Sen. Ted Cruz's solution to border wall impasse: Make El Chapo pay for it (Washington Post)
• Virginia scandals pit Democrats against themselves and their message (The Hill)
• Senate Passes Anti-BDS Bill (Jewish Journal)

WORLD

• Military-police partnership targeting Tijuana's high homicide numbers rolls out (SDUT)
• U.S. meeting on Middle East brings together Israel, Gulf Arab states (Reuters)
• Suicide bomber kills 27 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards (Reuters)
• Russia plans new missile systems to counter U.S. by 2021  (Reuters)
• Macedonia signs accord to join NATO despite Russian misgivings (Reuters)
• Russia jails Jehovah's Witness for six years in landmark case (Reuters)

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January 30, 2019 (San Diego’s East County) --- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen on important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a  variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• 75 below zero? Polar vortex yields deadly cold as thousands endure power cuts, travel issues mount in Midwest  (Accuweather)
• [Chicago’s} largest shelter breaks protocol, takes in 800 overnight (Chicago Sun Times)
• Mueller charges Stone, striking deep inside Trump’s inner circle (Wash. Post)
• 3 big takeaways from the Roger Stone indictment (VOX)
• Democrats Are About to Give Big Pharma the Big Tobacco Treatment (New Republic)
• Stripper-turned-pharma exec gave a doctor a lap dance to get him to prescribe drugs, officials say (Washington Post)
• FBI finds no motive in Las Vegas shooting, closes investigation (NPR)
• Shutdown blame stays on Trump, with his approval at a historic low (ABC)
• Fact Check : Trump Repeats Unfounded Arguments in New Appeal for a Border Wall (New York Times)

WORLD

• Murders in Mexico rise by a third in 2018 to new record (Reuters)
• Foreign troops to quit Afghanistan in 18 months under draft deal: Taliban officials (Reuters)
• Russia secretly offered North Korea a nuclear power plant, officials say (Washington Post)
• Nine bodies found after Brazil mining dam burst, count seen climbing (Reuters)
• Brazil has nearly 4,000 dams at high risk: minister (Reuters)
• Palestinian PM, government resign (Reuters)
• French ‘yellow vests’ march through Paris, keeping pressure on Macron (Reuters)
• Europe's patience with Iran wears thin, tiptoes toward Trump (Reuters)
• Russia acknowledges new missile but says it does not breach treaty (Reuters)
• Iran impatient to fight and destroy Israel: state-linked news site (Reuters)
• Modern China's birth rate falls to lowest ever (Reuters)

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January 18, 2019 (San Diego’s East County) --- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen on important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a  variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Trump kept details of meetings with Putin from senior officials in administration (Washington Post)
• Mueller Draft Report Says Trump 'Helped Putin Destabilize the United States', Watergate Journalist Says (Newsweek)
• Trump says he’s canceling Pelosi’s foreign trip a day after she asked him to delay his State of the Union speech (Washington Post)
• In first, Native American tribe displaced by sea gets land to relocate (Reuters)
• Dems eye lawsuit if Trump declares border emergency (The Hil)
• GoFundMe intervenes to give refunds to Trump's border wall donors  (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia (New York Times)

WORLD

• Ethnic violence in Congo killed nearly 900 over a few days in December (Reuters)
• Honduran migrant gunned down shortly after U.S. deportation (Voice of America)
• ‘Smiling face’: Saudi teen fleeing family is granted asylum in Canada  (Washington Post)
• Russia, U.S. fail to save missile treaty, Washington to pull out  (Reuters)

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January 3, 2019 (San Diego’s East County) --- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen on important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a  variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Democrats Unveil Changes To House Rules On Debt Ceiling, Ethics (NPR)
• House Votes to End Shutdown Amid Trump Veto Threat Over Wall (Bloomberg News)
•  Shutdown Leaves Food, Medicine and Pay in Doubt in Indian Country (New York Times)
• US: Active grand jury probe tied to Russian social media (Associated Press)
• Mitt Romney asserts his independence — and Trump’s GOP critics see an opening (Washington Post)

WORLD

• Seven global trends to watch in 2019 (Christian Science Monitor)
• Jair Bolsonaro, on Day 1, Undermines Indigenous Brazilians’ Rights (New York Times)
• Saudi Arabia seeks death penalty for five suspects in Khashoggi killing (New York Times)
• Russia has formally charged Paul Whelan, an American citizen, with espionage, Interfax news agency reports (Washington Post)
• U.S. warns Iran against space launches, ballistic missiles (Reuters)

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