Britain, James Comey, Iran: Your Thursday Briefing
But it enjoys an afterlife: in the Russian dialect spoken in the village of Ninilchik; in the name ("Alaska" is a Russian adaptation of an Aleut word meaning "the object toward which the action of the sea is directed"); in the thousands of adherents to the Russian Orthodox faith
and an onion-domed church in Unalaska, above; and in the expansionist imaginations of some Russians who still grumble about the sale.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump said he had selected Christopher Wray, a former federal prosecutor, to be his new F.B.I.
[The New York Times Magazine] • Kurdish officials in Iraq said
that they planned to hold an independence referendum in the country’s northern region in the fall.
director, plans to testify today that he told President Trump he was not under investigation in connection with Russian election meddling.
_____ • Germany said its troops participating in the NATO operation against the Islamic
State would leave Turkey, deepening a rift between the two military allies.
[The New York Times] • A top U.N. prosecutor warned
that there is widespread denial in the former Yugoslavia of the war crimes committed there in the 1990s.
