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WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Trump’s claim that
NATO will boost defense
spending disputed
BRUSSELS — In a chaotic 28 hours
at NATO, President Donald Trump dis-
paraged longtime allies, cast doubt on his
commitment to the mutual-defense organiza-
tion and sent the 29-member pact into frenzied
emergency session. Then, in a head-snapping
pivot at the end, today he declared the alli-
ance a “fine-tuned machine” that had acceded
to his demands to speed up increases in mili-
tary spending.
Trump claimed member nations had agreed
to significantly boost their defense budgets
and reaffirmed — after days of griping that the
U.S. was being taken advantage of by its allies
— that the U.S. remains faithful to the accord.
“The United States’ commitment to NATO
remains very strong,” Trump told reporters
at a surprise news conference following an
emergency session of NATO members held to
address his threats.
There were no immediate specifics on
what Trump said he had achieved, and
French President Emmanuel Macron quickly
disputed Trump’s claim that NATO allies had
agreed to boost defense spending beyond their
existing goal of 2 percent of gross domestic
product.
Trump had spent his time in Brussels berat-
ing members of the military alliance for fail-
ing to spend enough of their money on defense,
accusing Europe of freeloading off the U.S. and
raising doubts about whether he would come to
members’ defense if they were attacked.
With that, Trump moved on to the United
Kingdom, where significant protests against
him were expected. Although Trump adminis-
tration officials point to the longstanding alli-
ance between the United States and the United
Kingdom, Trump’s itinerary in England will
largely keep him out of central London, the
center of the protests.
Government probing
‘new information’ in
1955 Till slaying
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The federal gov-
ernment has reopened its investigation into
the slaying of Emmett Till, the black teenager
whose brutal killing in Mississippi shocked the
world and helped inspire the civil rights move-
ment more than 60 years ago.
The Justice Department told Congress in a
report in March that it is reinvestigating Till’s
slaying in Money, Mississippi, in 1955 after
receiving “new information.” The case was
closed in 2007 with authorities saying the sus-
pects were dead; a state grand jury didn’t file
any new charges.
The federal report, sent annually to law-
makers under a law that bears Till’s name, does
not indicate what the new information might
be.
But it was issued after the publication last
year of “The Blood of Emmett Till,” a book
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FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok testifies before two House committees.
FBI agent angrily rejects charges
of partisan bias at chaotic hearing
WASHINGTON — An FBI agent whose anti-Trump text messages fueled suspicions of
partisan bias said at a bitterly contentious and occasionally chaotic hearing in Congress today
that his work has never been tainted by politics, angrily rejecting Republican allegations that
he set out to stop Donald Trump from becoming president.
Peter Strzok testified publicly for the first time since being removed from special counsel
Robert Mueller’s team, telling lawmakers that texts he traded with an FBI lawyer in the run-up
to the 2016 presidential election reflected personal views that he never once acted on.
“At no time, in any of those texts, did those personal beliefs ever enter into the realm of any
action I took,” Strzok said.
He insisted under aggressive questioning that an August 2016 text in which he said “We’ll
stop” a Trump presidency followed Trump’s denigration of the family of a dead U.S. service
member. He said it was his personal view, written late at night and off-the-cuff, of “horrible,
disgusting behavior” by the Republican presidential candidate.
Republican members of the House judiciary and oversight committees grilled Strzok as
they argued that the text messages exchanged with FBI lawyer Lisa Page color the outcome
of the Hillary Clinton email investigation and undercut the ongoing investigation into Russian
election interference. Strzok, a seasoned counterintelligence agent, helped lead both investiga-
tions but has since been reassigned to human resources.
The hearing briefly devolved into chaos and open yelling as Judiciary Committee Chair-
man Robert Goodlatte said Strzok needed to answer Republicans’ questions and suggested
they might recess the hearing and hold him in contempt. Democrats objected to Goodlatte’s
repeated attempts to get Strzok to answer. Goodlatte eventually let the hearing proceed with-
out calling the panel into recess.
that says a key figure in the case acknowledged
lying about events preceding the slaying of the
14-year-old youth from Chicago.
The book, by Timothy B. Tyson, quotes a
white woman, Carolyn Donham, as acknowl-
edging during a 2008 interview that she wasn’t
truthful when she testified that Till grabbed
her, whistled and made sexual advances at a
store in 1955.
Two white men — Donham’s then-husband,
Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam
— were charged with murder but acquitted in
the slaying of Till, who had been staying with
relatives in northern Mississippi at the time.
The men later confessed to the crime in a mag-
azine interview but weren’t retried. Both are
now dead.
Donham, who turns 84 this month, lives in
Raleigh, North Carolina.
Syrian government
raises its flag over
cradle of 2011 revolt
BEIRUT — For the first time in more than
seven years, the Syrian government raised its
flag today over Daraa, the first city to revolt
against President Bashar Assad in 2011 and
plunge the country into its calamitous civil
war.
The display is laden with symbolism as the
government moves to stamp out the last of the
uprising against the 52-year-old Assad, who
has ruled with an iron fist over Syria for 18
years. His father, Hafez Assad, was president
for three decades before him.
Officials accompanied by state media crews
hoisted the two-star flag over the rubble of
the city’s main square, allowing it to wave in
sight of the shell of the Omari Mosque where
protesters first gathered in demonstrations
demanding reforms then Assad’s ouster in the
spring of 2011.
The mosque has since been destroyed in
the government’s brutal crackdown against the
city, which ranged from alleged torturing of
dissidents to shelling the city with tanks and
planes.
With control over Daraa, government forces
can now focus on clearing the last pockets of
the opposition and, separately, the Islamic State
group from the frontier at the Golan Heights,
which Israel seized from Syria in a 1967 war.
The corner of southwest Syria is an import-
ant corridor for trade between Syria and Jor-
dan, and onward to the oil-rich Gulf states.
But most of the important fighting against the
revolt has already been concluded in shattering
battles farther to the north for the main cities
of Damascus, Aleppo, and Homs, and territo-
ries in between.
Some 400,000 people have been killed in
seven years of war.
‘Game of Thrones’ earns
a leading 22 Emmy
Award nominations
LOS ANGELES — “Game of Thrones”
roared back onto the Emmy battlefield, topping
today’s nominations with 22 bids but facing
a formidable opponent in “The Handmaid’s
Tale,” last year’s top drama series.
The nominations for the 70th Prime-
time Emmys held a clear sign of how much
the ground is shifting under the TV industry:
streaming service Netflix captured the most
nominations overall, 112, taking away a title
that HBO held since 2001 and giving broad-
cast TV more reason to fear its future in awards
and viewers.
Donald Glover’s “Atlanta” was the top
comedy nominee with 16 bids, poised to take
advantage of this year’s absence of three-time
winner “Veep.” “Atlanta” will face newcom-
ers including “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,”
‘’Glow” and “Barry.”
The revival of “Roseanne,” canceled
because of star Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet,
drew only one major nomination, a support-
ing actress nod for Laurie Metcalf. “Will &
Grace,” another revival, got Emmy love for
nominees Megan Mullally and Molly Shan-
non but the main stars and series itself were
snubbed. “Saturday Night Live,” riding high
in the ratings with its relentless pillorying of
the Trump administration, was rewarded with
21 nods.
HBO’s fantasy dragons-and-swords saga
is a two-time best drama winner that sat out
the last year’s Emmys because of its produc-
tion schedule. Although it’s up for top series
honors, it drew only three supporting acting
bids for cast members Lena Headey, Nikolaj
Coster-Waldau and Peter Dinklage.
“The Handmaid’s Tale,” the dystopian sci-fi
series that claimed top drama honors last year,
drew 20 bids, including one for last year’s best
actress winner, Elisabeth Moss, and support-
ing bids for Alexis Bledel, Ann Dowd, Yvonne
Strahovski and Joseph Fiennes.
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