The Biden administration is pressing the Palestinian Authority to give the U.S. the bullet that killed Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in order to try to determine the source of the fatal shot, three U.S. and Israeli officials told Axios.
Why it matters: The White House and State Department, who are under political pressure from members of Congress over the Abu Akleh case, appear to want to be able to make some kind of breakthrough in the investigation before President Biden's visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank on July 13.
The United States will provide Ukraine with an additional $820 million in military aid, including air missile defense systems and counter-artillery radars, the Pentagon announced Friday.
The details: The latest security assistance will include two National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS), which Ukrainian officials had requested, according to CNN.
WNBA star Brittney Griner went on trial on Friday in Russia facing drug charges that carry up to 10 years in prison, Reuters reports.
Driving the news: Russian prosecutors outlined the charges against Griner, who was detained in Moscow in February. She is accused of intentionally importing drugs into Russia, according to the Russian state news agency TASS.
Russian missile attacks early Friday killed at least 19 people and injured dozens more in a coastal town near the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, authorities said.
Driving the news: Ukraine's State Emergency Service posted a video Friday showing the remnants of buildings in the town of Serhiivka, about 31 miles southwest of Odesa, where at least one child was killed in the attack.
China's President Xi Jinping said his government had acted "for the good of Hong Kong" and defended imposing a new "patriots only" elections system on the Asian financial hub during a visit to the city Friday.
Driving the news: Xi was in Hong Kong to mark the 25th anniversary of the former British colony's return to China as a semi-autonomous region and to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the city's new Chinese government-vetted Chief Executive John Lee, who helped lead the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 2019.
The U.S. Treasury Department said Thursday it's notified the Delaware-based Heritage Trust that it's blocking more than $1 billion in assets linked to the sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov.
New Zealand has added the Proud Boys and The Base to its list of terrorist groups.
Why it matters: The designation bars New Zealand residents from funding or supporting the two far-right extremist groups. It comes three years after the country's worst terrorist attack, which involved an Australian white supremacist.
Fewer than one in five U.S. Latinos keep guns in their homes, and an even smaller share have used them to hunt or fire them for any reason, according to a new Axios-Ipsos Latino Poll in partnership with Noticias Telemundo.
Why it matters: The results offer a rare window into the firearms culture among groups of Hispanics, and come a month after a gunman killed 19 children and two adults in the largely Mexican-American city of Uvalde, Texas.
More than 10,000 civilians have been injured or killed since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, according to new figures the United Nations shared Wednesday.
Driving the news: The recorded figures include 4,731 deaths through June 27, but the true toll is likely far higher, said Matilda Bogner, head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, the Washington Post reported.
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will become Israel's acting prime minister at midnight local time after lawmakers voted Thursday to call for an early election on Nov. 1 and dissolve the Knesset.
Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. was sworn in as the president of the Philippines on Thursday, more than three decades after his father was overthrown in a popular uprising.
The big picture: The return of a Marcos to the presidency is the stunning conclusion to a decades-long process to rehabilitate the family's political brand, Axios' Dave Lawler writes.
Two men are facing smuggling charges in connection with the deaths of 53 migrants who were found inside a tractor-trailer in searing heat in San Antonio, Texas, this week, federal officials announced late Wednesday.
Driving the news: Prosecutors said the alleged driver, Homero Zamorano Jr., 45, was charged with smuggling resulting in death, and Christian Martinez, 28, was charged with "conspiracy to transport illegal aliens resulting in death," per a Department of Justice statement.
