In a rare public statement, the Israeli military said it struck Iranian

targets in a cross-border raid early Monday. Meanwhile, China clocked its slowest

annual growth since 1990.

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into alleged collusion between the Kremlin and President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign issued a rare statement Friday disputing a Buzzfeed report that Trump asked his attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress.

President Donald Trump denied Speaker Nancy Pelosi use of a military aircraft to visit troops in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Pyongyang’s top nuclear diplomacy negotiator arrived in Washington yesterday, where he’s expected to meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

A suicide bombing in the northern Syrian city of Manbij yesterday killed 19, including two U.S. soldiers and two American civilians.  Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Theresa May withstood Wednesday’s bid to remove her government from power, thanks to help from Democratic Unionist Party members and Tory Brexiteers who had rejected her plan for leaving the EU the day before.

British Prime Minister Theresa May faces the prospect of losing her

job in a confidence vote this evening. Meanwhile, Kenya’s president said security

forces had killed all four gunmen who attacked a luxury hotel yesterday.

Following British Prime Minister Theresa May’s last-ditch campaign

to promote her divorce deal with the European Union, lawmakers will vote on the

unpopular plan today. Meanwhile, Attorney General nominee William Barr will

field tough questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee today.

British Prime Minister Theresa May is making a final public pitch for her Brexit deal today. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump warned the U.S. would “devastate Turkey economically” if it attacks U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Syria.

Amid worries over unpaid air traffic controllers and abused national parks, the partial government shutdown over President Donald Trump’s border wall is now history’s longest. Also, new Attorney General pick isn’t wooing Democrats.

President Donald Trump claimed he has “the absolute right to declare a national emergency” if House Democrats refuse to fund his border wall. Meanwhile, Japanese prosecutors have leveled a new indictment against former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer recounted that after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it clear that Democrats would not fund the president’s Mexican border wall, Trump abruptly left the room, saying, “We have nothing to discuss.” Meanwhile, the electoral commission of the Democratic Republic of Congo declared that Felix Tshisekedi, leader of the country’s main opposition party, won the presidency today amid claims of fraud.