USA - While parental consent is typically required when a student goes on a field trip or is subjected to a vision test in school, students as young 13 years old are being prescribed birth control pills at a public school in Washington DC and they could leave school with a prescription for pills or a newly inserted IUD, without their parents ever being notified. The program is currently happening at Anacostia High School, a public school in DC that has around 450 students, 98.9 percent of whom are African American. Only 1 percent of the students are proficient in Math, and only 4 percent are proficient in English, according to the school’s website. Midwife Loral Patchen runs the program at the school and is responsible for administering pregnancy and STD tests, and prescribing various forms of birth control to underage girls…

USA - In the Western World truth, justice, and liberty are in total collapse. They cannot be resurrected and restored without information. Few people have that information. The young are born into what exists, and as the tyranny increases year by year, tyranny becomes the natural order to them. Indeed, they do not recognize tyranny. Their cell phones, social media, and the Internet give them the illusion of freedom.

SWEDEN - A Swedish city is battling a merciless enemy, rats 'the size of cats', prompting authorities to call on residents to keep doors and windows closed and pre-schoolchildren inside during breaks. "There aren't the normal rats you see in the forest. They're as big as cats," Benny Sagmo from the planning office of Sundsvall city in northern Sweden, explained to the national TT news agency. The rats have already spread out towards a residential area, according to Sagmo. "If we don't put a stop to it, they can get bigger and bigger… Those who live there can't even have their front doors or balcony doors open. I've told pest control that we're going all in!” he added. Residents were told to keep doors and windows closed to prevent rats from getting access to food. They were also told to avoid having food for pets outdoors.

USA - For every one child border crosser separated from border crossing parents, there are 1,400 American children who are separated from their parents due to incarceration, data reveals. To date, President Trump’s administration “zero tolerance” policy at the southern border — strengthened by his recent executive order — has led to about 2,000 child border crossers being separated from the adults with whom they crossed.

USA - Navarro outlined four tactics China uses to dominate these industries. “In the technology space, China has this thing called China 2025. It’s basically a blueprint to take over and dominate the emerging technology industries of the future – things like artificial intelligence, robotics, high-tech shipping, aerospace,” he explained. “The president has said, correctly, these are the industries of the future. If we don’t have them, America doesn’t have a future,” he warned.

USA - Countries that allow immigrants to infiltrate America will no longer be eligible for US aid, President Trump claimed Tuesday. Speaking at the National Federation of Independent Businesses 75th Anniversary Celebration, the president touched on a few of his upcoming plans to put pressure on nations sending illegal immigrants.

ITALY - Hard-line eurosceptics have swept all the key posts in the budget and finance committees of the Italian parliament, shattering the brief calm in the bond markets and guaranteeing a showdown with Brussels over spending rules. The cohort of anti-euro legislators from the Five Star Movement and the ‘Italy First’ Lega party will have a powerful say over fiscal policy and may make it almost impossible for technocrat ministers in the new Italian government to enforce the EU’s draconian ‘bail-in’ rules for banks.

UK - The number of vessels the Royal Navy can draw on has halved in 25 years, according to official figures. As of April 2013 there were 11 submarines and 66 ships in the Royal Navy. This is five fewer ships than in 2010, with the number of aircraft carriers reducing from two to zero. In 1990, the Royal Navy had 138 ships and 33 submarines. This marks a 60 per cent decrease in the number of submarines, frigates and destroyers the navy has, according to Ministry of Defence figures.  The gradual shrinking of the defence budget has meant that, far from the days when over 2,000 vessels were needed in the effort of World War Two, the Royal Navy's capacity has declined...

GERMANY - German authorities have now confirmed what many feared: The 29-year-old Tunisian man arrested last week in Cologne was creating a deadly biological weapon he intended to use for a terrorist attack somewhere in the country. “There were very concrete preparations for such an act using, if you will, a biological bomb,” Holger Münch, president of Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office, the BKA, told public broadcaster RBB. “This is a first in Germany.” Various Islamist groups, Mr Münch noted, have published instructions on the internet on how to make biological weapons from the deadly toxin ricin. “Obviously, this person was following these (instructions),” he said. Potential targets still unclear.

USA - Days after I discussed rumours of an imminent Trump-Putin summit, seeming confirmation that such a summit is indeed in the works has been provided with the Kremlin’s confirmation that President Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton is travelling to Moscow next week apparently to discuss preparations for the summit. The Kremlin’s confirmation of John Bolton’s visit was given today by President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Further suggestions that some sort of easing of tensions between Washington and Moscow may be in the works has been provided by confirmation that a group of US Republican Senators will shortly be visiting Moscow. “It’s unclear if this meeting is after or before NATO and the UK visit,” a Whitehall official said. “Everyone is perturbed by what is going on and is fearing for the future of the alliance,” a Whitehall source said.

GERMANY - Angela Merkel’s hold on power in Germany is hanging by a thread after coalition party Christian Social Union (CSU) rejected a eurozone budget claiming that the country should not send money to Brussels to tackle the crisis. German broadcaster Bayerische Rundfunk said on its website that the CSU - one half of Angela Merkel’s waning coalition government who are strictly opposed to open migration policies in Europe - rejected a eurozone budget agreed by Mrs Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron. It is thought the CSU’s rejection of the budget is because the party are fundamentally opposed to giving more money and more responsibility to Europe. On Tuesday she announced a mini-summit on Sunday (June 24) to talk spending on the crisis. But Italy, who are pushing to shut its borders to refugees, has since threatened to boycott the meeting.

USA - Worried about gaming-addicted boys? What about phone distracted parents? Young children may be missing out on language and emotional development. The World Health Organisation’s decision to add “gaming disorder” to its International Classification of Diseases has generated a few headlines this week. Not everyone is happy about it, least of all the gaming industry, but many mental health professionals and parents are concerned about the addictive character of videogames.

USA - For a long time I have observed the rancor in modern American political discourse, and I have become concerned about where all of this anger and frustration is taking us.  In order for any society to function, there must be some form of government.  And in order for government to function, a certain percentage of the population has to be willing to submit to the authority of that government.

EUROPE - If it’s a big, controversial issue in Europe, it’s probably on the agenda for the June leaders’ gathering. Migration and asylum. Eurozone. Brexit. Poland and the rule of law. A trade war with Washington. The EU’s long-term budget. After a year-long reprieve, in which election results in the Netherlands and France and solid economic growth gave the European political mainstream a boost, EU leaders will face a gathering storm at their June Council summit next week. “It’s a huge summit; let’s see how long it will take,” an Austrian diplomat said. “There are a lot of very divisive things to deal with.”

GERMANY - Horst Seehofer may be Germany’s interior minister but he’s doing Bavaria’s bidding.  The 68-year-old’s career looked to be on the slide when he was ousted as premier of the southern state at the end of last year. Yet he is center stage once again after pushing Angela Merkel’s government into crisis with his plan to toughen Germany’s asylum policies.