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News Wrap: Federal judge blocks Trump order to end birthright citizenship
In our news wrap Thursday, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from enforcing an executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, an overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine lasted nearly ten hours and the Secret Service reportedly suspended six agents over failures related to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania last July.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:
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Measles cases surge to highest levels in over 30 years, CDC data shows
CDC data shows 2025 is now the worst year for measles cases in this country in more than three decades. More than 150 people have been hospitalized due to the growing outbreak and three have died, including two unvaccinated children in Texas. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Dr. Adam Ratner, author of "Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health."
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:HIV program a potential hurdle in recissions process
Presented by Express Scripts Pharmacy Benefit Services {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Global HIV program a potential speedbump in recissions process President Trumpโs request to claw back billions in federal funding thatโs already been apportioned by Congress could run into some hurdles as lawmakers waffle over a decades-old, bipartisan HIV program. ...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Federal workers union says it will continue to fight firings after Supreme Court ruling
The Supreme Court gave the Trump administration the green light to reorganize agencies and begin the process of mass firings of federal workers. The reductions in force had been on hold for months, but tens of thousands of employees at nearly 20 agencies could soon be out of work. Lisa Desjardins discussed where things stand with Everett Kelley of the American Federation of Government Employees.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Trump shows support for Bolsonaro
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Trump, Bolsonaro bromance persists President Trump is seeking to intervene in a political fight roiling Brazil, demanding the country drop its prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro or face a 50 percent tariff on imports to...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Agencies accused of rushing adoptions before mothers can change their minds
As more states limit or ban access to abortion, some are beginning to push adoption as an alternative for women facing unplanned pregnancies. But when do laws go from accommodating to exploitative? From the Center for Investigative Reporting, Julia Lurie examines the consequences in one of the most adoption-friendly states in the country.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Duffy takes reins at NASA
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Duffy takes the reins at NASA President Trump has tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to lead the space agency on an interim basis after Trump yanked his original nominee for the post. Greg Nash โSean is doing a TREMENDOUS job in handling our Countryโs Transportation Affairs, including...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Jan. 6 prosecutor says firing of investigators, Trump’s pardons send ‘dangerous message’
The Justice Department has fired several officials involved in the Jan. 6 criminal prosecution and others have been demoted to low-level positions. They are the latest moves that some say are part of a retribution campaign against anyone who worked on the investigation. White House correspondent Laura Barrรณn-Lรณpez spoke with Greg Rosen, one of the prosecutors who led that case.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Dershowitz says he knows Epstein client list names: 'But Iโm bound by confidentiality'
Lawyer Alan Dershowitz on Thursday said he knows the list of names in the Jeffrey Epstein files regarding alleged clients in his international sex trafficking ring. โI know the names of the individuals. I know why they're being suppressed. I know who's suppressing them,โ Dershowitz said during an appearance on โThe Sean Spicer Show.โ โBut...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Brazil vows retaliatory tariffs if Trump follows through on 50% tariff threat
Brazilian President Luiz Inรกcio Lula da Silva said Thursday that he will impose retaliatory tariffs on the United States ifPresident Donald Trumpfollows through on apledge to boost import taxes by 50%over the South American country's criminal trial against his predecessor,Jair Bolsonaro.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Opera uses AI to give people with non-verbal disabilities a voice
At an Omaha, Nebraska, festival this summer, new work explores the intersection of art, disability and technology, asking questions like "who has a voice?" and "who gets to be heard?" Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown reports on this unusual undertaking for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Australian report on curbing antisemitism suggests slashing university funding
A major priority of the report was to ensure public institutions, particularly universities, were held accountable for addressing antisemitism.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:‘I didn’t make an effort to live this long’: Malaysia’s former leader Mahathir Mohamad turns 100
Mahathir has been the countryโs longest-serving and oldest-serving prime minister.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:FDA gives full approval to Moderna COVID shot for at-risk kids
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted full approval on Thursday to Modernaโs COVID-19 vaccine for children, making it the first COVID shot for kids aged 6 months to 11 years old that is no longer administered under an emergency authorization. Infants younger than 6 months old are too young to be vaccinated. But the...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Fetterman: Any calls to abolish ICE are 'inappropriate and outrageous'
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) defended ICE on social media, opposing the calls to abolish it and supporting immigration reform to protect undocumented workers.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:UK intelligence report finds ‘persistent and unpredictable threat’ from Iran to the country
Iran's embassy in London denied the findings of the report, describing them as โunfounded, politically motivated and hostile allegations.โ
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Democratic leader Jeffries heads to Speaker Johnson’s home state to decry cuts in Trump’s megabill
The top Democrat in the U.S. House is holding a town hall Thursday in Louisiana, home to Republican SpeakerMike Johnsonand his deputy, to rally against the health care cuts in theGOP billthat PresidentDonald Trumpsigned into law.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:ICE official says no plan yet on Abrego Garcia deportationย ย
A senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official on Thursday testified under oath that the agency has not yet decided where Kilmar Abrego Garcia would be deported if he is released from criminal custody next week. "We donโt work cases not in ICE custody preemptively because our docket officers are worried about the cases they have...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Trump to survey floods as he flaunts ties to deep-red Texas
President Trump is flaunting his bond with deep-red Texas ahead of a Friday trip to the state, where he will assess deadly flooding that took the lives of more than 120 people. Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has heaped praise on the administration this week for the federal response to the disaster, even as the Trump...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:EPA takes on 'chemtrails' conspiracy
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story EPA defends questioners while debunking conspiracy Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin said Thursday that Americans have โlegitimate questionsโ about airplane contrails as his agency launches webpages aimed at combatting misinformation on the topic Getty Contrails, the vapor trails that follow high-flying airplanes,...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Senators hit funding snag over Trump FBI headquarters move
The Senate Appropriations Committee sputtered Thursday as its consideration of the annual Justice Department funding bill was cut short due to a dispute over the Trump administrationโs plans to relocate the FBIโs headquarters in Washington, D.C. The Senate committee met Thursday morning for its first markup of the fiscal 2026 funding season to consider three...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Man charged with attempting to assassinate Trump wants to represent himself in Florida case
Routh is scheduled to stand trial in September, a year after prosecutors say a Secret Service agent thwarted his attempt to shoot Trump as he played golf.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Trump's praise of Liberian leader's 'good English' prompts eye rolls and frustration
Liberians reacted with a mix of anger and weary resignation on Thursday after discovering that Donald Trump, the leader of their country's closest bilateral partner, does not appear to know what language they speak.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:IN PHOTOS | The last 2 children in a Ukrainian village scarred by war
Reuters photographer Violeta Santos Moura documents the life of brothers Andrii, 8, and Maksym, 6, who live with their mother in a small village near the frontlines of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:RFK Jr. bans Head Start, health clinic access for people in US illegally
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Thursday it was rescinding a nearly 30-year interpretation of legislation that allowed immigrants without legal status to access certain federal public benefits. HHS said it was officially rescinding a 1998 interpretation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), which allowed immigrants without legal...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:UN migration chief warns tighter borders and foreign aid cuts could risk greater instability
The head of theUnited Nationsโmigration agency warned Thursday that Western nations risk creating greater instability by simultaneously tightening borders and reducing development aid to countries experiencing mass migration.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Senate Republican says Comey and Brennan 'are as popular as male pattern baldness'
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Thursday slammed former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan for being disliked among Washingtonโs political elite. โI know people who have worked with them closely, and maybe talk to people closely, those people will tell you that they're about as popular as male pattern baldness,โ Kennedy...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:ICE agents arrest 2 migrants with MS-13 ties in Nebraska
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Wednesday arrested two alleged members of the MS-13 gang in Omaha, Neb. Rene Saul Escobar Ochoa, 30, is described by ICE in a news release as "a criminal alien, known MS-13 gang member and foreign terrorist also wanted in El Salvador." โEscobar Ochoa is accused of giving orders to fellow gang...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Israel concludes some Iran enriched uranium survived US strikes: NYT
Israel has concluded that some of Iran's enriched uranium survived the U.S.โs recent strikes on the country, The New York Times reported. A senior Israeli official told the Times that the country found American and Israeli attacks did not destroy a portion of an Iranian underground stockpile of enriched uranium, with Iranian nuclear engineers still...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:UN spokesperson calls US sanctions on Palestinian envoy 'dangerous precedent'
The United Nations is pushing back against the United States after President Trumpโs administration on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories. The spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General Antรณnio Guterres, Stรฉphane Dujarric, said during a Thursday briefing that the Trump administration's move to slap sanctions on Albanese, who...
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Security forces kill 30 gunmen after armed attacks in northwest Nigeria
In recent months, the northwestern and north-central regions of Nigeria haverecorded an uptick in attacksby armed gangs on communities in these regions. Hundreds have been killed and injured in the attacks.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:EU chief Ursula von der Leyen comfortably survives confidence vote after censure motion
The motion contained a mix of allegations against von der Leyen, including text messaging privately with the chief executive of vaccine maker Pfizer during the COVID-19 pandemic, misuse of EU funds and interference in elections in Germany and Romania.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister indicted over deaths of protesters
A tribunal indicted Bangladeshโs ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in connection with a mass uprising in which hundreds of students were killed last year.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Greece moves hundreds of migrants to mainland as Crete struggles with Libyan arrivals
Greek authorities have transported more than 500 migrants to a port on the mainland in an effort to relieve strain on the island of Crete after a surge in arrivals from Libya.
Published on: July 10, 2025 | Source:Canadian travel to the U.S. plummets โ but Americans are staying home, too
Itโs not just Canadians who are holding back on cross-border travel amid a U.S. trade war that has soured bilateral relations. The number of Americans coming to Canada is also dropping off.
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