After U.S. Attorney General William Barr announced the federal government would resume executing prisoners, capital punishment appeared set to

reemerge as a hot-button issue. Meanwhile, North Korea says yesterday’s launch

of two short-range missiles was “personally organized” by leader Kim Jong Un

as a “solemn warning” to South Korean “warmongers.”

Former special counsel Robert Mueller’s methodical and occasional-

ly halting Capitol Hill testimony yesterday neither damned nor exonerated Presi-

dent Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló has an-

nounced that he’ll step down Aug. 2.

All eyes are on special counsel Robert Mueller as the famously tight-

lipped prosecutor appears today on Capitol Hill to testify in back-to-back con-

gressional hearings on his Russia probe. Meanwhile, after Queen Elizabeth II’s

official appointment of the former London mayor as prime minister today, he’ll

assemble what insiders say will be a diverse government.

One of Brexit’s prime movers, former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, has been elected Britain’s Conservative Party leader and the country’s new prime minister. Meanwhile, South Korean says its warplanes fired warning shots at a Russian aircraft that violated the country’s airspace -- twice.

A pipe- and club-wielding mob attacked protesters at a Hong Kong area railway station, leaving 45 injured and questions about how eager police were to help demonstrators they’ve clashed with. Meanwhile, President Trump has said progressive “squad” congresswomen should apologize to America for saying “horrible” things.

Iran seized a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz Friday, two weeks after Britain took control of an Iranian tanker London said was going to break a Syrian embargo, raising new fears of conflict in the Persian Gulf. Meanwhile, much of the United States is broiling in a potentially deadly heat wave

With his daughter Ivanka and electorally challenged Republicans egging him on, President Donald Trump said he was “not happy” that supporters in North Carolina chanted “send her back,” referring to Somali-born Representative Ilhan Omar. Meanwhile, tensions are again high in the Persian Gulf after Iran’s impoundment of a foreign ship and the U.S. Navy’s purported destruction of an Iranian drone.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to declare the attorney general and the commerce secretary in criminal contempt of Congress for not complying with a subpoena for Census citizenship question records, but an effort to impeach the president was soundly defeated in a bipartisan vote. condemn President Donald Trump’s exhortation for progressive congresswomen to “go back where they came from. Meanwhile, an arson at a Kyoto animation studio has killed 26 people.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to condemn President Donald Trump’s exhortation for progressive congresswomen to “go back where they came from. Meanwhile, Sudan’s military rulers signed an accord with opposition leaders to share power for three years until elections can be held.

President Donald Trump has doubled down on his stinging criticism

of four progressive Democrats, claiming “they hate our country” and should

leave it. Meanwhile, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Tehran’s recent breaches weren’t significant enough to warrant more sanctions.