Munitions made in the United States were used in the deadly Israeli strike on a displacement camp in Rafah on Sunday, a CNN analysis of video from the scene and a review by explosive weapons experts has found. cnn.com/2024/05/28/mid…

Double rainbow at Andrews Air Force base in Maryland as we get ready to take off with Secretary Antony Blinken for a trip to Moldova and Czechia, where the main issue on the agenda will be Russia’s hostility.

Blinken will fly into Moldova on Wednesday to discuss Russian hostility there with President Maia Sandu, who has staked her re-election on pushing EU membership. Then he goes to a NATO meeting in Prague, where the Ukraine war is on the agenda. Story: nytimes.com/2024/05/28/us/…

1/ Last month, my editor suggested I look into a piece on loneliness at work. The story is out today, and I hope you’ll read. After dozens of conversations with workers, companies & social scientists, here’s what I found:

Great reporting by @elizabethDias and ⁦Lisa Lerer⁩ on how conservatives overturned Roe while everyone else slept. Can’t wait to read their book! nytimes.com/2024/05/28/mag…

Trump promised to crush pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, telling a roomful of donors — a group that he joked included “98 percent of my Jewish friends” — that he would expel student demonstrators from the US. Via Josh Dawsey washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

The latest true-life yarn from Evan Osnos bringing us into the world of the American con artist. If you like Ripley, read this.

Israeli officials told US counterparts days after Oct. 7 that they were ready to wage total war in Gaza. They pointed to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and said to the Americans: Why can’t we do something similar? Earlier story: nytimes.com/2023/11/07/us/…

Pandas are back in DC. nytimes.com/2024/05/25/us/…

.The New York Times reported in December that the Biden administration is preparing to lift the ban on offensive weapons to KSA. And we’ve reported that a bilateral term of the “megadeal” being negotiated by US/KSA is advanced arms to KSA. Our Dec. story: nytimes.com/2023/12/21/us/…

This 👇is disinformation. The US did not 'send' Congressman McCaul to Taiwan. Members of Congress decide on their own to visit Taiwan and do not seek nor require the permission of the executive branch. The US does not and is not supporting Taiwan independence.

'Cycling encourages a slightly different orientation about space, and that can affect the way you think about things around you.' Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/neighborhood-b…

Excl: China’s last major mosque to have retained Arab-style features has now lost its domes, a major moment in Beijing’s Sinification of Islam policy⁩

With ⁦Elena Morresi⁩ theguardian.com/world/article/…

It’s also a very hard language to learn, mainly because of the writing. Here’s a classic essay by David Moser — “Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard”: pinyin.info/readings/texts…

Burns, Barnea and Sheikh Mohammed have ended their meeting in Paris. They hope to get Israel-Gaza hostage-ceasefire talks restarted within a week, officials say. Netanyahu's ongoing strikes in Rafah could affect that. w/ Patrick Kingsley. nytimes.com/live/2024/05/2…

For those on Biden age watch: George Miller, the director of Furiosa, is 79, a bit younger than Biden. He made the first Mad Max film 45 years ago. youtube.com/watch?v=ZX0Cvf…

I haven't been paying close attention to the film festival circuit, and this is the first word I'm seeing that Jia Zhangke has a new film out. Jia's films on 21st-century China have been extraordinary (though one signature movie, Platform, also delves into earlier history).

PEN America is outraged by images of an Israeli soldier setting fire to books in a library in Gaza. Israel has an obligation to protect Palestinian cultural heritage in Gaza. ynet.co.il/news/article/h…

I think this is the right reading of the ICJ's order: the court is ordering Israel to end its military offensive in Rafah. The facts laid out, especially at paras 46 and 47, are critical background to the order. See also similar threads from Janina Dill and Kevin Jon Heller.

Interesting news from inside Trump world. Cotton, Rubio and Vance are all hawks on China, but they have different positions on Russia. And Cotton and Vance like to engage in 'culture war' issues on talk shows.