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Ben Stansall/AFP via GettyNigel Farage’s surprise campaign for the upcoming British general election got off to a sticky start Tuesday when someone chucked a milkshake in his face.The right-wing populist, who announced a day earlier that he’d changed his mind after originally saying he wouldn’t seek a parliamentary seat in the July election, was making his first campaign appearance in the seaside town he’s hoping to represent when he was drenched by the drink. Video footage of the incident appears to show a young woman throwing the beverage at Farage outside a pub before running away.The woman allegedly behind the attack told the BBC after the incident that she’d lobbed the drink at Farage because she “just felt like it.” “He doesn’t stand for me, he doesn’t represent anything I believe in, or any of the people around here,” the woman, who gave her name only as Victoria, said, according to The Times. “He doesn’t represent us, he’s not from here.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

William Campbell/Getty ImagesAn 83-year-old woman was left with serious injuries after she was gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park, officials said.The victim from Greenville, South Carolina, was attacked near the Storm Point Trail at Yellowstone Lake in Wyoming over the weekend. Park officials say the bison was “defending its space” when it “came within a few feet of the woman and lifted her about a foot off the ground with its horns.”Park emergency responders rushed the seriously injured visitor to a clinic from which she was then flown by helicopter to the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, the park said in a news release Monday. It said an investigation into the incident is ongoing and gave no further information as to the victim’s condition.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty ImagesDonald Trump and the Republican National Committee claim they raked in $141 million in May thanks to a massive influx of donations around the former president’s criminal conviction.Trump’s campaign on Monday announced the figures—which can’t be confirmed until federal filings are made public later in June—describing May as their most successful month of the year. The campaign said the tsunami of donations reflected the “support for President Trump while facing the sham Biden trial and verdict that outraged and motivated Americans from every walk of life.”The news release detailing the haul said it comprised two million donations over the course of May worth an average of $70.27. It added that a quarter of the donors were new to the campaign last month, and that over a third—$53 million—flooded in during the 24 hours after Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts in New York.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Adam Davy/PA Images via GettyAuthorities in France suspect Russia may be responsible for the appearance of five coffins at the Eiffel Tower over the weekend that were covered with French flags bearing the words: “French soldiers in Ukraine.”The plaster-filled caskets were discovered at the foot of the Paris landmark on Saturday morning, with three men arrested in connection with the incident later in the day, according to Le Monde. The coffins appeared after the Kremlin’s warnings to President Emmanuel Macron, who has refused to rule out sending ground troops to support Kyiv in its war against Moscow.According to The Guardian, a white van with Bulgarian plates was seen stopping near the Eiffel Tower on Saturday, with two men spotted taking the coffins out of the vehicle. Following his arrest, the van’s driver—a 34-year-old Bulgarian—reportedly told police he’d been paid to take the caskets to Paris and met up with the two other suspects when he arrived.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Toby Melville/ReutersNigel Farage on Monday announced that he would return to frontline British politics as leader of the Reform party and run for a seat in the election next month, scrapping his previously stated position of skipping the race in order to focus on supporting Donald Trump.“I’ve changed my mind, it is allowed, you know!” Farage told a hastily arranged press conference. He said he will remain leader for the next five years in order to hold the expected Labour government to account. “I genuinely believe we can get more votes in this election than the Conservative Party. They are on the verge of total collapse and it couldn’t happen—frankly—to nicer people,” he said. Read more at The Daily Beast.

Ryan Collered/AFP via Getty ImagesFirst Lady Jill Biden attended the Delaware courtroom Monday where jury selection began in the trial of her stepson, Hunter Biden, on federal gun charges.Hunter’s father, President Joe Biden, was not expected to attend the proceedings in Wilmington, though he did release a statement about his “boundless love for my son, confidence in him, and respect for his strength.” “I am the president, but I am also a Dad,” he said. “Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Yonhap News Agency via ReutersSouth Korea on Monday announced it will suspend a military deal signed with North Korea in order to punish Kim Jong Un’s regime for sending waves of balloons carrying garbage and excrement over the border.Almost 1,000 balloons floated southward across the fortified border dividing the Korean peninsula since Thursday, according to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, prompting a furious response from Seoul, which vowed to take “unbearable” retaliatory measures on Sunday. North Korea announced it would stop sending the balloons hours after the threat over the weekend, but the South is now poised to take punitive action regardless.South Korea’s National Security Council said it would suspend a 2018 inter-Korean agreement that had aimed to reduce tensions along the border. The presidential council said it would seek cabinet approval to suspend the agreement Tuesday and noted that the suspension would allow South Korea’s military to conduct drills close to the border.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Raquel Cunha/ReutersClaudia Sheinbaum secured a landslide victory and will become the first female president of Mexico, according to official projections Monday.The 61-year-old climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City took at least 58.3 percent of the vote, according to early results, a lead of almost 30 points over her main competitor, businesswoman Xóchitl Gálvez. Sheinbaum, a leftist, will also become the first person with Jewish heritage to lead the predominantly Catholic country when she takes over from her mentor and Mexico’s incumbent President Andres Manuel López Obrador in October.Mexico’s ruling coalition was also on course to potentially seal a two-thirds supermajority in both houses of Congress which would allow it to pass constitutional reforms without requiring the support of the opposition.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Spencer Platt/GettyDonald Trump gave a bizarre press conference Friday on the morning after he became the first former American president to be criminally convicted, variously wheeling out his favorite gripes about his prosecution and bragging about how much money he’s raised in the wake of the verdict.Speaking at a news conference at Trump Tower in New York City, the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee renewed his bogus claims that Joe Biden was responsible for his trial and insisted that he did nothing wrong. With his hair mussed, Trump nevertheless strangely claimed to have been “honored” to have been involved in the case and said he’d raised a “record $39 million in about a 10-hour period” following the verdict.“It’s a very sad thing that’s happening in our country,” Trump said. “And it’s a thing that I’m honored—in a way I’m honored—it’s not that it’s pleasant, it’s very bad for family, it’s very bad for friends and businesses, but I’m honored to be involved in it because somebody has to do it.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Eduardo Munoz/ReutersDonald Trump appears to be under the impression that many Americans could, like him, find themselves being convicted of felonies for attempting to hide a hush-money payment to a porn star to stop her going public with salacious claims of an extramarital one-night stand ultimately as a means of protecting their presidential campaigns.At least, that’s the implication of a furious Truth Social post from Trump on Friday morning following his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records relating to his scheme to silence Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election. “IF THIS CAN HAPPEN TO ME,” Trump wrote, “IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE!”His claim of having been convicted in a prosecution which anybody could face was actually the bizarre conclusion of a rant in which the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee continued to deflect responsibility for his actions—despite a jury finding him guilty.Read more at The Daily Beast.