Politics

After 2.5 years since its original FOIA request was filed in March 2015, Judicial Watch will finally get its day in court tomorrow to argue for the release of draft indictments of Hillary Clinton from the Whitewater scandal in the 1990s.  As McClatchy points out, since March 2015 Judicial Watch has been engaged in a back and forth battle with the National Archives which argues that "the documents should be kept secret [to preserve] grand jury secrecy and Clinton’s personal privacy.”

Authored by Zainab Calcuttawala via OilPrice.com,

Taiwan will no longer offer its fossil fuels to North Korea, the island announced on Tuesday in a bid to emerge as a responsible member of the international community.

Earlier, when we discussed Trump's latest executive order launching new sanctions on North Korea, we got a big picture of the crackdown but not the details. Moments ago, however, the White House unveiled the full breakdown of what Trump's latest crackdown on North Korea will involve.

Efforts by Madrid to stop a Catalonia independence vote, currently slated for October 1st, seem to be growing more hostile by the day.  Earlier this week Spanish police seized control of Catalonia’s finances, seeking to ensure that separatist politicians could not spend further public funds on the referendum, and conducted raids across Catalonia to confiscate ballots and campaign materials from printing shops and delivery companies.

Update: According to Bloomberg, Trump won't be declaring war (yet), and instead the announcement is sanctions related.

• TRUMP'S N. KOREA ANNOUNCEMENT TO BE SANCTIONS-RELATED: OFFICIAL
• TRUMP SAYS `WE WILL BE PUTTING MORE SANCTIONS ON NORTH KOREA"

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