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Top News Stories for Thursday, July 3rd 2025
Wednesday, Jul 2nd, 2025 -
Vance casts decisive tie-breaking vote as Senate narrowly advances $4.5T tax cut plan despite budget hawks' warnings With the help of JD Vance and his tie-breaking vote, Senate Republicans narrowly passed their version of the so-called " One Big Beautiful Bill Act " on Tuesday. It is projected to increase budget deficits by roughly $4 trillion over the next decade. An analysis by the Committee for a Responsible ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, Jul 2nd, 2025 -
Jurors in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial will continue their deliberations on Wednesday on the racketeering conspiracy charge against the hip-hop mogul after reaching a partial verdict on four out of the five charges . The panel of eight men and four women enters the third day of deliberations at U.S. District Court in lower Manhattan, having come to a decision Tuesday on two counts of sex trafficking and ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Jul 2nd, 2025 -
President Donald Trump has made it clear what he wants: lower interest rates, and ASAP. That's the thrust behind his yearslong feud with Jerome Powell , the Fed Chair who's stood pat on interest rates, even amid pointed criticisms and threats from the president that his position is in jeopardy. Trump — who has, among other things, called Powell " too late ," a " major loser ," and "very stupid" — ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Wednesday, Jul 2nd, 2025 -
United States media giant Paramount has agreed to pay $16m to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump over the editing of a 2024 interview aired by CBS, its subsidiary. The payout announced on Wednesday will go towards Trump's planned presidential library, with Paramount stating the funds would not be given to him "directly or indirectly". The case stems from a broadcast of 60 Minutes featuring then-Vice ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Jul 2nd, 2025 -
Muted reaction in Israel to statement, as US president urges Hamas to accept deal 'because it will not get better' Donald Trump has claimed that Israel is ready to agree to a peace deal with Hamas as he seeks to broker a ceasefire to the war in Gaza that has claimed almost 60,000 lives. In a post on Truth Social, the US president wrote: "Israel has agreed to the necessary conditions to finalize the 60 Day ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Jul 2nd, 2025 -
July 2 (UPI) -- California and 19 other states have filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Department of Health and Human Services permitting the Department of Homeland Security "unfettered access" to individual Medicaid health data, raising fears it could be used as part of President Donald Trump 's mass deportation plans. According to the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Jul 1st, 2025 -
Happy Tuesday! Hope you slept more than your senators did last night. Send news tips and coffee to: will.oremus@washpost.com In dramatic reversal, Senate votes to kill AI-law moratorium. In the predawn hours Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted 99-1 to strip from the sprawling tax and immigration bill a provision that would have blocked states from regulating artificial intelligence for the next decade. The provision's ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, Jul 1st, 2025 -
By A new state-run immigration detention center nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" is set to open Tuesday in the Everglades. President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are expected to visit the new facility, which was constructed within days. The facility has sparked a wave of criticism, with two environmentalists groups suing to halt the project . Planned protests are also expected to occur near the site. ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Tuesday, Jul 1st, 2025 -
The U.S. Supreme Court concluded its 2024–25 term on Friday with a high-profile ruling that leaves President Donald Trump with more power to impose his second-term agenda. But the Court's decision on nationwide injunctions also contained several exceptions that may render Trump's victory short-lived. The big question now is exactly how long the president's new judicially sanctioned boost will last. But before ...
Source: reason.com
Tuesday, Jul 1st, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Trump's Justice Department wants to denaturalize citizens. Can he do that? More than 25 million Americans are naturalized citizens who immigrated to the United States A recently unveiled memo from the Department of Justice indicates Donald Trump's administration plans to "maximally pursue" ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Jul 1st, 2025 -
In the end, President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill," which is beautiful in the same way that North Korea is a Democratic people's republic, came down to a 50-50 tie in the Senate, broken by Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday. Republican Senators Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Susan Collins of Maine sided with Democrats in voting against a bill that will gut Medicaid, Medicare, and ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Jul 1st, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. A book reveals new details from the attack in Butler, Pennsylvania, almost a year on Now-President Donald Trump said that he was bleeding so much on the hospital bed after the assassination attempt on his life in July last year that top aides thought he had been shot "four or five" times, according to a ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Jul 1st, 2025 -
The Justice Department announced criminal charges Monday in a scheme by North Korea to fund its weapons program through the salaries of remote information technology workers employed unwittingly by U.S. companies. The charges arose from what law enforcement officials described as a nationwide operation that also resulted in the seizure of financial accounts, websites and laptops that were used to carry out the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Jul 1st, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ending many U.S. economic sanctions on Syria , following through on a promise he made to the country's new interim leader. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the move was designed to "promote and support the country's path to stability and peace." The executive order is meant to "end the country's isolation from the ...
Source: military.com
Tuesday, Jul 1st, 2025 -
Over 500 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid since the GHF started operating in late May, following Israel's three-month blockade of Gaza, the organisations said. Almost 4,000 have been injured. The organisations, including Oxfam, Save the Children and Amnesty, say Israeli forces and armed groups "routinely" open fire on Palestinians seeking aid. Israel denies its soldiers deliberately shoot at aid ...
Source: bbc.co.uk
Tuesday, Jul 1st, 2025 -
US President Donald Trump has criticized AT&T on Truth Social , claiming its network failed during a major conference call with faith leaders. "I'm doing a major Conference Call with Faith Leaders from all over the Country, and AT&T is totally unable to make their equipment work properly," the leader wrote in an online post. Trump added this was the second time AT&T had caused disruptions to a video conference , ...
Source: techradar.com
Tuesday, Jul 1st, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. The ranked-choice voting results released on Tuesday showed Mamdani, who started his campaign as little-known New York state assembly member, clinched 56% of votes in the third round of the voting Zohran Mamdani, a relatively unknown New York state assembly member, has secured a stunning victory in the ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Jul 1st, 2025 -
Lawyers for President Donald Trump on Monday filed a motion to drop his federal lawsuit against longtime Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register newspaper, and refiled the suit in an Iowa state court. Attorneys for Trump sued Selzer and the Des Moines Register in December over a poll that showed him trailing Vice President Kamala Harris (D) in the state just days before the 2024 presidential ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, Jul 1st, 2025 -
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's Constitutional Court suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra on Tuesday, pending an ethics investigation over accusations that she was too deferential to a senior Cambodian leader when the two discussed a recent border dispute in a phone call that was leaked. Paetongtarn has faced growing dissatisfaction over her handling of the dispute, which involved an armed confrontation ...
Source: pbs.org
Tuesday, Jul 1st, 2025 -
Zohran Mamdani has secured a blowout win over disgraced Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as the count of votes from New York City's ranked-choice primary released Tuesday confirmed, with the left-wing upstart politician defying all odds to win by double digits. Mamdani formally secured a majority on just the third round of ranked-choice voting, garnering 56 percent of the vote, with over 545,000 votes, according to tabulation ...
Source: truthout.org