Mueller's investigation is separate from the congressional inquiries into Russian interference and the Trump campaign. The Senate Intelligence Committee also focused its attention on Flynn in recent weeks, issuing a rare subpoena last month for Russia-related documents in his possession. Flynn initially refused to comply, invoking his Fifth Amendment right against compelled testimony that could be used to prosecute him. The committee then subpoenaed his businesses instead to bypass the Fifth Amendment.

But on the other hand, how much faith can one have in the ability of the administration to follow through on any of its promises? This administration-despite hailing from the same party that controls both houses of Congress-has somehow failed to score any major legislative victories in the first six months of the year and faces an uphill battle to do so before the August recess.

In the absence of funding, the World Food Program this month had to abandon its plans to feed about 500,000 of the nearly 2 million in need, instead focusing on the most urgent cases.

Maybe it was President Trump. Much was surely because of the market, after a colder winter led to increases in coal use and production. But in times when corporate profits are mixed with politics, it was difficult for people here to see the difference. "I'm back to work," Gorton said. "It's real. Did Trump do it all? I don't think so. But America voted in a man who was for our jobs."

"The real drivers for clean energy in China are much closer to home than Paris," said Lauri Myllyvirta, a Beijing-based analyst of Chinese energy policy for Greenpeace. "The air pollution and the need to reinvent the economy are much bigger drivers."

Labour is suffering from a deep division between well-educated, globalized urbanites like Mr. Corbyn and its traditional white working-class constituents. Those voters supported Britain's withdrawal from the European Union, known as "Brexit," and could be tempted for the first time in generations to support a Tory on Thursday.

How did we let this happen? The economy question seems to have dropped out of the debate because it has been so debased by Brexit evangelists, backed by their cheerleaders in the press, treating any expressions of concern like sabotage. We have gone from "there will be no impact, don't talk Britain down" to "if there is, it's worth it", making a martyr's virtue of absorbing economic shocks for some greater ultimate good.

So why the outcry when McCain described Russia as a bigger threat than Isis? The indignation, I suspect, has little to do with any friendly feelings towards Russia - though some may reject McCain's cold war-era assumptions (as I do). It reflects far more the way in which the power of Isis has been exaggerated in our western minds. Isis's combination of 21st-century PR savvy with the barbaric methods of the distant past have given its "brand" an intimidating significance far beyond anything it should have had.

Yet it is the Democratic party who continues to assume that power shall simply be given to it by dint of their being "not Trump". It is why Nancy Pelosi suddenly cares little about reproductive justice. It is why the poor are being caricatured by party grandees as "emotional beings" who do not care about the policies that are having such an impact on their lives.

Macron's brisk three-minute intervention on Thursday night won him praise on social media both abroad - where he was compared favourably to Trump - and at home, where it was widely and only half-jokingly suggested he should change his title to "leader of the free world".

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia suggested on Thursday that "patriotically minded" private Russian hackers could have been involved in cyberattacks last year that meddled in the United States presidential election.

The investigators are examining whether Mr. Farage was a link between Mr. Assange and Trump advisers including Roger Stone, who has acknowledged being in contact with Guccifer 2.0, a hacker who is thought to be an agent of Russian military intelligence.

It is also the protest that, by extension, most divides current Turkish discourse. In pro-government circles, many believe the crackdown is a necessary means of stabilizing a country roiled by treasonous plots, two militant campaigns, an economic slowdown and a refugee crisis. In such circles, the hunger-striking educators are simply leftist militants.

"I can assure you, France will not give up the fight," Mr. Macron said. With a twist on Mr. Trump's campaign slogan, he added: "Make our planet great again."

"It is time to put Youngstown, Ohio; Detroit, Mich.; and Pittsburgh, Pa., along with many, many other locations within our great country, before Paris, France," he said. "It is time to make America great again." The mayor of Pittsburgh, Bill Peduto, responded on Twitter, "I can assure you that we will follow the guidelines of the Paris Agreement for our people, our economy & future."

The White House issued an almost identical statement, calling it "a joint statement." But it differed in one key respect: It did not include any mention of an agreement to refrain from speaking publicly about the wall or its financing. The standoff with Mexico's president was the first full-blown foreign policy clash with a foreign leader of the Trump administration, and was the culmination of months of tension between the two men surrounding Mr. Trump's pledge to build the wall and renegotiate Nafta, the trade accord.

Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni said: "We have a message of confidence and hope regarding what we are and what the European Union has achieved over the past 30 years. It is not necessary that 2017 will be a year of crisis for the EU."

A seemingly obscure intra-Catholic squabble had erupted into an unexpected shock to the church with ideological fault lines running to the top of the Vatican. "The Vatican is a thing built of tradition," said John Thavis, the author of "The Vatican Diaries" and a veteran church analyst, "and once those traditional parts start feuding with each other, that is a dangerous sign."

President Trump's executive order on immigration quickly reverberated through the United States and across the globe on Saturday, slamming the border shut for an Iranian scientist headed to a lab in Boston, an Iraqi who had worked for a decade as an interpreter for the United States Army, and a Syrian refugee family headed to a new life in Ohio, among countless others.