Today’s edition of quick hits.
* The United Kingdom will soon have its fifth prime minister in four years: “British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday he will resign, forced out by his own party after missteps and mistakes soured voters’ goodwill following a landslide election victory two years ago on a promise of steady leadership and economic growth.”
* A significant economic boost for Tehran: “The U.S. Treasury has suspended restrictions on the sale, production and delivery of Iranian oil for 60 days, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a short time ago.”
* Adding to the list of deadly boat strikes: “The U.S. military attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, killing three people, as the Trump administration wages a monthslong campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America.”
* No one benefits from regressive steps like these: “The Trump administration has decided to start phasing out HIV funding for South Africa following the country’s ‘failure to make demonstrable progress on policy requests by the administration,’ a State Department official told Politico on Thursday.”
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Steve Benen is a producer for “The Rachel Maddow Show,” the editor of MaddowBlog and an MS NOW political contributor. He’s also the bestselling author of “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past.”
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