Geoff Bennett:
The U.S. has sent a three-person team to Myanmar and pledged $2 million in emergency aid. A group of Democratic senators sent a letter to the Trump administration criticizing what they called the paltry U.S. aid response.
Israeli leaders say their military will establish a new security corridor across Gaza and would be, in their words, seizing large areas to add to the security zones. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling it the Morag Corridor, invoking the name of a Jewish settlement that used to sit between the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Yunis, suggesting the corridor would run between them.
Meantime, local hospitals say more Israeli strikes overnight killed at least 40 Palestinians, including nearly a dozen children. The U.N. says Israeli evacuation orders since fighting resumed have rendered more than 60 percent of Gaza inaccessible to its people.
Denmark’s prime minister spoke out against President Trump’s ambition to take control of Greenland today during a visit to its capital, Nuuk. She also pledged to stand with the semiautonomous territory, saying that it belongs to Greenlanders, not the U.S.
It comes after Vice President J.D. Vance visited a U.S. air base there last week. He criticized Denmark for underinvesting in the territory and failing to keep the island safe.
Back in this country, a U.S. official confirmed to the “PBS News Hour” that senior Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev was at the White House today. He’s the top economic and investment envoy in Moscow, the chief of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, and a close adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Dmitriev met with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff about the ongoing cease-fire effort in Ukraine. He’s the most senior Russian official to visit the White House since Russia invaded Ukraine back in 2022. The administration has not said what came out of the meeting.
A federal judge officially and permanently dismissed the corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams today. Judge Dale Ho did so with prejudice, meaning the charges cannot be refiled. Still, the judge blasted the Trump Justice Department for what he called its troubling rationale in dropping the case so the Democratic mayor could help with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Adams for his part celebrated the decision outside the mayoral mansion this afternoon.
Eric Adams (D), Mayor of New York: This case should have never been brought. And I did nothing wrong. I’m now happy that our city can finally close the book on this and focus solely on the future of our great city.
