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An Israeli official told BuzzFeed News that Trump sharing their intel with Russia is the country's "worst fears confirmed," likely due to the balance of powers between the U.S., Russia, Israel, and Iran, since Russia could share the new information with Iran, an adversary of Israel. What we know:

Israel was the source of the classified information Trump disclosed to Russian officials about an ISIS plot to carry laptops laced with explosives onto planes, per two Israeli officials. The NYT first reported Israel was the source Tuesday.

Conservative political commentator Erick Erickson has chimed in with his take on Trump's classified disclosures to Russia, saying that he knows one of the sources personally — noting they're solidly pro-Trump — and approves of their leak as POTUS "will not take any internal criticism," per his blog The Resurgent.

His question: "If the President, through inexperience and ignorance, is jeopardizing our national security and will not take advice or corrective action, what other means are available to get the President to listen and recognize the error of his ways?"

Why it matters: This type of scandal — one that directly jeopardizes national security — is one that might begin to peel away even the staunchest conservatives from Trump's base of support.

President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort mortgaged his Hamptons home for $3.5 million via a shell company just after departing the campaign in August, but the requisite government documents weren't filed and there is no indication that the $36,750 in taxes owed on the mortgage was ever paid, per NBC News.

The intrigue: The mortgage loan was made by a capital group that's partially funded by Alexander Rovt, a Ukranian-American real-estate billionaire and Trump donor.

Why it matters: As Russia continues to dominate the news cycle, it's another bad look for Manafort, who can't seem to shake his connections to Russia and Ukraine.

Americans and Europeans are again riveted on intelligence leaks, cyber hacking and the latest surge of inward-looking fervor. In Beijing, though, the talk the last couple of days has been of globalization on a historic scale — the construction of a more than trillion-dollar global web of roads, ports, railroads and energy projects, all of them leading back to China.

The One Belt, One Road project would connect about 65% of the world's population and a quarter of its GDP, according to McKinsey, the consultant firm. If the project is realized as envisioned, much of world trade would be linked to Chinese economic strategy.

On Friday, a ransomware attack demanded payments of $300 before users could log in to their files in 74 countries around the world — including at a Spanish telecom company, the National Health Service in England, the Russian Foreign Ministry, and FedEx (read our Friday roundup here).

By the end of the day Monday, the ransomware had spread to 300,000 breaches across 150 countries, according to U.S. Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert. Here's everything else you missed Monday as the ransomware continued to cause problems around the world.

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Enormously destabilizing if true ... Some worrisome aftermath to this weekend's North Korean missile launch:

• North Korea boasted today that "the missile it launched over the weekend was a new type of long-range ballistic rocket that can carry a heavy nuclear warhead." (AP)
• "Outsiders also saw a significant technological jump, with the test-fire apparently flying higher and for a longer time period than any other such previous missile." (AP)
• North Korean propaganda must be considered with wariness.
• But monitors said today that the apparently successful launch of a mid-to-long range missile indicated a significant advance in its drive for an intercontinental ballistic missile, a worrying sign for the Korean peninsula and the United States. (Reuters)
• Wall Street Journal front-pager, "North Korea Accelerates Long-Range Missile Work": "In the past three years, North Korea has launched more major missiles than in the three previous decades combined."