President Donald Trump met on Monday with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. Trump publicly sided with Putin against US intelligence agencies refusing to condemn Moscow for its interference in the 2016 election. Trump said that he sees no reason to believe that Russia was behind the hacking of the DNC servers.

President Donald Trump referred to Germany as a “captive of Russia” during the NATO summit in Brussels. The president also requested from NATO allies to double up defense spending as part of their commitment to the military alliance.

Facebook got hit with the maximum possible fine in the UK after the Cambridge Analytica scandal that harvested user data without their consent. This is the first financial penalty for Facebook since the breach was first revealed. The fine is expected to amount to somewhere around 500,000 pounds or about $660,000

President Donald Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh for the United States Supreme Court. The nomination is the beginning of a seemingly acrimonious political battle in the Senate ahead of Kavanaugh’s confirmation.

Starbucks has announced that it’s going “strawless.” The company said that it will begin a process of phasing out plastic straws from all its stores by the year 2020. The strategy will help the Starbucks ditch the over 1 billion straws used in its stores each year.

Trump’s long-time lawyer Michael Cohen, who’s at the center of multiple legal battles, told ABC News that he will “put his family and country” first before his loyalty to President Trump.