NEWS SUMMARY AT THIS HOUR

President Trump says he wants to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin again and discussions are underway for Putin to visit Washington this fall.

Trump tweeted today that he looks forward to continuing discussion started at this week's summit meeting with Putin in Helsinki.  The President tweeted a host of issues involved with Putin including Ukraine, North Korea and security for Israel.

Russian officials have arrived in Israel for security talks, that according to the "Instant News Alerts" Twitter feed from Jersualem.   Russian forces are playing a role in Syria as Syrian government forces re-establish control along the Golan Heights border.  

Large groups of opposition forces including Al-Qaeda jihadists surrendered to the Syrian government in the Quneitra region along the Golan border today.   Russian military police will help implement the surrender process.

Late word tonight from near Branson, Missouri that eight people are confirmed dead when a duck boat capsized on Table Rock Lake after a line of severe thunderstorms passed through the area.

Search and rescue operations are underway with the Stone County, Missouri Sheriff saying that 31 were on board the boat and seven have been taken to hospital.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suddenly withdrew President Trump's judicial nomination of Oregon federal prosecutor Ryan Bounds to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this afternoon.

Oregon's two Democrat senators vehemently opposed his nomination and refused any support, even procedural, for his nomination, but it was a lack of Republican support in the end that sunk the Bounds nomination.

Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina objected to Ryan Bounds college writings about race issues, writing that Bounds apologized for.as part of his nomination process.  However, even after a meeting today with him, Scott said that he could not support the nomination.

In Las Vegas today, Todd Engel was sentenced to 14 years in prison in connection with the April 2014 standoff near Bundy Ranch in Nevada.   Engel was convicted in the first trial but by the third trial the prosecutors were told by US District Judge Gloria Navarro that they had engaged in "flagrant misconduct" by withholding evidence proving the defendants innocence.   Navarro dismissed charges against rancher Cliven Bundy, his sons and other defendants earlier this year.

But today she heard arguments of the same prosecutors to punish Engel who was convicted in his trial in April 2017 with the same evidence proving his innocence out of that trial.  Then she sentenced him to 14 years in prison.

Citing a source close to the investigation into the exposure of four people to the nerve agent Novichok in the UK, the British Press Association say police think they have two suspects they sure are Russians. 

Video camera footage was used to ID the suspects.   One person has died as a result of exposure that came from a bottle of perfume.  It is said that Dawn Sturgess's lethal dose came when she sprayed her wrists with the contents of the bottle.

A security aide to France's president Emmanuel Macron is suspended without pay for 15 days following release of video showing Alexandre Benalla attacking protesters during a May Day demonstration earlier this year.    

Benalla was at the demonstration as an "observer" but was seen on the video wearing a police helmet dragging a female protester with his arm around her neck and striking a male protester on his head and stamping on him as he fell to the ground pleading for the assault to stop.

Opponents of Macron say the punishment is too little and too late.

The head of Italy's state pensions agency lashed out at the leaders of Italy's new governing parties, the Five Star Movement and the League today.   Tito Boeri said he was threatened by the League leader Matteo Salvini and he accused Five Star leader Luigi DiMaio of being out of touch with reality.  

Boeri claimed mass immigration is needed to sustain Italy's pension system which caused Salvini to call for his resignation while Boeri, who was appointed by the previous mainstream center-left party government, has attacked the Five Star labor reform plan claiming it will increase unemployment.

For the second time in a row, a Swedish political poll shows the anti-mass immigration Sweden Democrats leading.   The latest You Gov poll taken July 13-15 shows the Sweden Democrats at 25.7 percent with 21.2 percent supporting the party that won the 2014 general election, the Social Democrats.

Swedes will go to the polls September 9th in a general election.

Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is dismissing mass withdrawals from an electronic records system called "My Health Record"   Australians have until October 15th to opt out of the system that would maintain their health records online.    Many are citing security concerns,

Turnbull told an Australian radio station it doesn't matter how many people are in the online heath records system, assuring listeners the system is safe.   But on the first day they were able to, 20-thousand people opted out.

If you to McDonald's tomorrow it will be Fryday.  For the remainder of the year customers who spend a dollar and use the McDonald's app will get a free medium order of fries every Friday.

McDonalds sees the promotion as a way to attract the next generation of customers who like to use smartphones.

Another sign of technological change is coming to Mickey D's as well, as of 2020 new digital ordering kiosks will be rolled out at all McDonald's locations in the United States.