John Bolton arrived at a federal courthouse Friday to surrender to authorities on charges accusing the former Trump administration national security adviser of emailing classified information to family members and keeping top secret documents at his Maryland home.
Bolton did not comment to reporters as he entered the courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, where he is expected to make an initial appearance before a judge on the 18-count indictment brought against him on Thursday.
An army colonel who seized power in a military coup was sworn in as Madagascar’s new leader Friday in a lightning-fast power grab that ousted the president and sent him fleeing the country and into hiding.
Col. Michael Randrianirina, the commander of an elite army unit, took the oath of office to become the new president just three days after he announced that the armed forces were taking power in the Indian Ocean island of around 30 million people off Africa’s east coast.
The U.S. has succeeded in blocking a global fee on shipping emissions as an international maritime meeting adjourned Friday without adopting regulations.
The world’s largest maritime nations had been deliberating on regulations to move the shipping industry away from fossil fuels. But U.S. President Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia and other countries vowed to fight any global tax on shipping emissions.
Kevin Lynch can be reached at lync1832@stthomas.edu.
