Egypt: ISIS claimed responsibility for two bomb blasts that killed at least 45 Coptic Christians at St. George’s Coptic Church in the city of Tanta and at St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria. [...]
Stockholm, Sweden: A 39-year old man from Uzbekistan, Rakhmat Akilov, is the key suspect in an attack involving a stolen beer delivery truck that mowed down pedestrians, killing two Swedes, a British man, and a Belgian woman, and also left 15 more injured. [...]
War drums continue. The Pentagon ordered a navy strike group, headed by an aircraft carrier, to head towards the western Pacific Ocean near the Korean Peninsula. [...]
The Senate confirmed Neil Gorsuch, considered to be a conservative, as the 113th Justice of the Supreme Court. This set a precedence of confirming a justice by breaking a filibuster against him with a simple majority vote. [...]