News Wrap: Senate votes to block Saudi arms sales - PBS NewsHour

News Wrap: Senate votes to block Saudi arms sales - PBS NewsHour


News Wrap: Senate votes to block Saudi arms sales - PBS NewsHour

Posted: 20 Jun 2019 03:45 PM PDT

Judy Woodruff:

Smaller outbreaks are reported in five other countries. The virus doesn't affect humans. But pork supplies are down, and prices are up as much as 40 percent globally.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has rejected findings that Russians shot down a Malaysian jetliner over Ukraine in 2014. The attack killed 298 people. International prosecutors charged three Russians and a Ukrainian on Wednesday, citing intercepted communications.

But in Moscow today, Putin said — quote — "There is no proof whatsoever." And he blamed Ukraine for not closing its airspace.

In San Diego today, a surprise in the court-martial of Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher. A prosecution witness claimed that he, not Gallagher, killed an Islamic State fighter in Iraq. Fellow SEAL Corey Scott testified that Gallagher stabbed the teen, but not fatally. Scott said that he then suffocated the boy, so that Iraqi forces could not torture him.

Prosecutors accused him of lying. Scott said that no one had ever asked for his whole story.

Former Vice President Joe Biden has dismissed calls to apologize for saying that the U.S. Senate was more civil and got more done even when it included old-line segregationists. Several rivals sharply attacked Biden today, but the former Delaware senator stood by his statements.

And at the U.S. Capitol today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned the dispute is a distraction in the Democratic race.

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