Cyberattack, Emmanuel Macron, Germany: Your Monday Briefing
[The New York Times] • Austria is headed for early elections in the fall, Chancellor Christian Kern
said, after a leadership reshuffle in the conservative party, his junior coalition partner.
_____ • In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party won in elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state, in a vote
that was seen as a bellwether for national elections in the fall.
_____ • Salvador Sobral broke one of Eurovision’s longest-running losing streaks by scooping up Portugal’s first victory with an uncharacteristically somber ballad, "Amar Pelos Dois." "I think this could be a victory for music, for the people
that make music that actually means something," he said.
_____ • President Trump said a new F.B.I.
[The New York Times] • Hundreds of thousands of Catholics gathered in Fátima, Portugal,
for the canonization of two children who 100 years ago had a vision of the Virgin Mary.
" the governor said, "let’s get it over with." That was Ronald Reagan, who as governor of California took a hard line against the growing protests against the Vietnam War, which coincided with a strengthening conservative movement in the state.
that If it takes a blood bath to silence the demonstrators,
