A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. It feels odd that President Donald Trump tapped a housing expert to oversee the American intelligence community. But Trump is dug in on his temporary appointment of Bill Pulte, the housing official he wants to start next week and shake things up and clean house during a temporary assignment overseeing the intelligence community. Democrats, to protest the hiring move, could let a key foreign surveillance law lapse and Republicans on Capitol Hill are scrambling, according to CNN’s most recent report.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/11/politics/pulte-dni-trump-administration-acting-officials-analysis
A Thai court handed out death sentences on Thursday to two ethnic Uyghur men from the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang for a 2015 bombing in the centre of Bangkok that killed 20 people, according to a court statement. The explosion occurred at the Erawan Shrine in the centre of Bangkok, an area popular with foreign tourists. As well as the 20 people killed, another 120 were injured. Five of the dead were from mainland China and two from Hong Kong. “The actions of both defendants constitute multiple separate offenses,” the court statement said, adding that the sentence included punishment for the charge of premeditated murder, which resulted in the death penalty.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/11/asia/thailand-uyghur-bangkok-bombing-death-sentence-intl-hnk
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Police in Northern Ireland deployed water cannons as anti-immigrant protests entered their second night on Wednesday after a Sudanese man was charged with attempted murder following a brutal knife attack. Video showed a crowd of protesters hurling objects toward police vehicles, and officers responding by firing water cannons at them in Newtownabbey, eight miles north of Belfast city center. At least 16 people were arrested and two were later charged, police said. Twelve officers were injured, some by Molotov cocktails. The unrest followed a night of more widespread rioting when masked protesters torched homes and vehicles in a wave of anti-immigrant violence that spread after video of the knife attack circulated on social media.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/09/europe/northern-ireland-knife-attack-belfast-intl