Today in News:
- British police identified that man, Khuram Shazad Butt, also known as Abu Mohammad, a 27-year-old Pakistan-born Briton as one of the men believed to have carried out the deadly weekend attack in central London was a known radical Islamist who was filmed unfurling a black flag resembling the one used by the Islamic State group.
- President Donald Trump outlined a plan on Monday to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system to modernize it and lower flying costs, but his proposal drew immediate criticism from Democrats who said it would hand control of a key asset to special interests and big airlines.
- Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed diplomatic relations with Qatar in a coordinated move. In announcing the decision to cut ties, Saudi Arabia accused Qatar of providing support to Shi'ite Iran. Yemen, Libya's eastern-based government and the Maldives joined later. Qatar, a small peninsular nation of 2.5 million people that has a large U.S. military base, denounced the action as predicated on lies about it supporting militants.
- U.S. officials were blindsided by Saudi Arabia's decision to sever diplomatic ties with Qatar. The United States will quietly try to calm the waters between Saudi Arabia and Qatar, current and former U.S. officials said on Monday, arguing that the small Gulf state was too important to U.S. military and diplomatic interests to be isolated.
- Charges were announced to an NSA contractor less than an hour after a op-secret document from the U.S. National Security Agency that described Russian efforts to launch cyber attacks on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and send "spear-phishing" emails, or targeted emails that try to trick a recipient into clicking on a malicious link to steal data, to more than 100 local election officials days before the presidential election last November.
- Australia, a staunch ally of the United States and its escalating action against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Australian police on Monday shot dead a gunman in the city of Melbourne who had been holding a woman hostage, a confrontation for which the militant group Islamic State claimed responsibility.
- The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of more than $1.4 billion worth of military training and equipment for Saudi Arabia. The proposed sales include a radar system made by Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) as well as a training program for the Royal Saudi Air Force and other Saudi forces inside and outside of Saudi Arabia.
- The conflict itself may have lasted only six days, but the occupation that followed is now entering its sixth decade — the longest military occupation in the world. Fifty years of humiliation and subjugation; of pregnant Palestinian women giving birth at checkpoints and of Palestinian cancer patients denied access to radiation therapy and more.
- President Trump has assailed his own Justice Department for its legal strategy to defend his travel ban. “ “To the extent that there is a process for making decisions and communicating them, he seems to ignore it more often than not,” Alex Conant, a top adviser to Senator Marco Rubio.
- Marked top secret and only to be shared with the "Five Eyes" nations (Canada, Britain, New Zealand and Australia), a report from the NSA claims the Russian intelligence agency GRU targeted more than 120 email addresses associated with local government organizations, which it speculates were taken from the earlier hack. Russian intelligence agents hacked a U.S. voting systems manufacturer in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election.
- London Mayor Sadiq Khan is calling on the British government to cancel a state visit from President Trump after Trump criticized his response to this weekend’s terror attacks in London.
- “I don’t think there will be. I just don’t think we [Republicans] can put it [Obamacare] together among ourselves,” Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Monday said about a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare before the end of the year.
- A United States Congressman has called for a war against "Islamic horror" in response to the attacks in London over the weekend that claimed the lives of seven and wounded 48.
- Moroccan authorities stifled a women's protest in the coastal city of Al-Hoceima, campaigning for access to jobs, health services and infrastructure in the northern Rif region. Police encircled hundreds of female protesters in a public park late on Saturday, impeding others from joining, as the women chanted "freedom, dignity and social justice.”
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