The three UCLA basketball players who were arrested for shoplifting in China last week thanked President Trump, during a press conference Wednesday, for his help in getting them home. Their coach, Steve Alford, also stated that the boys are suspended indefinitely while the university reviews their case.
Hours ago, Trump tweeted: "Do you think the three UCLA Basketball Players will say thank you President Trump? They were headed for 10 years in jail!
The 7.3 magnitude earthquake that hit the border of Iran and Iraq this weekend has taken the lives of 452, per CNN, and more than 7,000 people injured.
The details: Most of those killed were in Iran, although 7 are reported dead in the Kurdish region of Iraq. The center of the earthquake was outside Halabja, Iraq, per the AP, which is the same city where Saddam Hussein's regime killed about 5,000 people with a chemical weapons attack in 1988.
The FBI is looking into 60 transactions where a Kremlin-backed Russian bank sent a total of $380,000 to various embassies last year, Buzzfeed reports. A $30,000 wire transfer was sent to the U.S. embassy right before the U.S. election and included the memo: ""to finance election campaign of 2016."
Why it might matter: This could be more proof that Russia intentionally interfered with the U.S. election. It could also be that the money transfers were in connection to the polling stations opened at embassies for Russian voters living abroad since there was an election for the Duma — the lower Russian house of parliament — that year, Buzzfeed reports
