The Secret Service’s acting director admitted failures and promised changes. Senators pressed him and the FBI deputy director at a hearing to examine the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump.
The Israeli military said it killed a senior commander of the Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon’s capital city Beirut. The military said this was a retaliatory airstrike targeting the man responsible for the killing of 12 Israeli children in Golan Heights over the weekend.
President Joe Biden called Brazil’s president, Lula da Silva, to talk about the election results in Venezuela. The United States says possible fraud might have taken place, as protests challenging the country’s socialist regime grow.
The Senate passed two major online child safety bills in a nearly unanimous vote. The Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act would ban targeted advertising to minors and data collection without their consent. And the Kids Online Safety Act would make explicit a “duty of care” that social media companies have when it comes to minors using their products.
