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Top News Stories for Tuesday, July 8th 2025
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
Emergency responders are using boats, drones, helicopters and horses to search the devastated Hill Country area. President Donald Trump signed a major disaster declaration Sunday for Kerr County. A search and rescue worker looks through debris for any survivors or remains of people swept up in the flash flooding on July 6, 2025 in Hunt, Texas. Heavy rainfall caused flooding along the Guadalupe River in central ...
Source: govtech.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
KEY POINTS President Donald Trump holds a chart as he announces a plan for tariffs on imported goods during an event April 2, 2025, in the Rose Garden at the White House. At least 14 countries' imports are set to face steep blanket tariffs starting Aug. 1, President Donald Trump revealed Monday. The president, in a series of social media posts, shared screenshots of form letters dictating new tariff rates to the ...
Source: cnbc.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
Tesla's stock price slumped Monday after CEO Elon Musk's announced over the weekend that he has formed a new political party following his acrimonious split from President Trump. The electric vehicle company's stock fell 6.8%, to $293.94 per share, by market close. Musk had threatened to form a new political party if the president's massive policy and spending bill passed. The tech billionaire made good ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation exclusively told The Associated Press that Carla Hayden will join the humanities grantmaker Monday as a senior fellow whose duties will include advising on efforts to advance public knowledge through libraries and archives. , the first woman and the first African American to hold the title, after she was accused of promoting "radical" literary material by a conservative advocacy ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
Amazon Prime Day is kicking off on Tuesday , with deals across the board on tech, home goods and more. But you don't have to wait to score incredible savings. Some of the best deals are already live, especially on appliances like refrigerators, washers, dryers and more. Tons of appliances are currently on sale with huge price cuts. Many Americans are also moving quickly to make big purchases now, ahead of expected ...
Source: cnet.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump might look to take a victory lap on Monday after their recent joint strikes on Iran , hailed by both as an unmitigated success. But as they meet for the third time this year, the outwardly triumphant visit will be dogged by Israel's 21-month war against Hamas in Gaza and questions over how hard Trump will push ...
Source: military.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
Amid sensitive talks over a potential Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza, and as Iran considers renewed nuclear talks, violence is flaring in another of the region's interlinked conflicts: between Israel and Yemen's Houthis. Iran-backed Houthi militants said they attacked and sank with missiles and drones a Suez-bound, Liberia-flagged cargo ship in the Red Sea on Sunday, forcing the crew to abandon ship. Later that ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
Speed: 0.5x Speed: 1x Speed: 1.5x Speed: 2x 🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. A coalition of six medical organizations on Monday sued Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Context Kennedy, who launched an independent campaign for president and later backed Donald Trump , has faced harsh blowback from scientists and medical experts for his views on vaccines ...
Source: newsweek.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
A shooter opened fire at a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, on Monday morning, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said. Border Patrol agents and local police helped "neutralize" the shooter, according to the spokesperson. Border Patrol's Rio Grande Valley Sector , which has six stations along the border, reported that the person is dead. The shooter was identified as 27-year-old Ryan ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
Over the past few years, Apple has been involved in a contentious back-and-forth battle with the EU over how it operates its App Store. The crux of the issue is whether or not Apple is properly adhering to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a broad set of regulations designed to make the digital marketplace more competitive. The DMA, if you recall, is why Apple was required to allow third-party app stores and ...
Source: bgr.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. ICE plans to arrest and deport the Salvadoran dad, again, if he's released from pretrial detention in criminal case The federal judge overseeing Kilmar Abrego Garcia's legal challenge over his arrest and removal from the United States is hauling Trump administration officials to court to get to the ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
SYDNEY — An Australian woman has been found guilty of murdering three relatives and attempting to murder another by feeding them a lunch laced with death cap mushrooms, bringing to a close a two-month trial replete with family drama, fungal ingredients and allegations of deception . A jury on Monday found that Erin Patterson, a 50-year-old mother of two, deliberately poisoned four family members — one ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
But inside entertainment companies, it's a whole different story. The biggest studios and filmmakers are using AI technology in various ways — and people in Hollywood are taking note. The AI on the Lot conference in May has doubled its attendance to 1,200 over three years, while AI editing company Runway attracted some 1,000 people to its third film festival. "No matter how you feel about AI tools in the ...
Source: insider.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
Popular video-sharing app TikTok is still available to US users only because President Trump issued an executive order in early 2025 to postpone the ban the Chinese app is facing. Trump has extended the delay two more times since then, with the latest extension coming just a few weeks ago. TikTok still faces a ban under the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, with the new ...
Source: bgr.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Monday it is walking back plans for mass layoffs at the agency but says it will still shed tens of thousands of jobs by the end of fiscal year 2025. VA Secretary Doug Collins previously said the agency had the goal of laying off roughly 80,000 employees from a total staff of about 470,000 that was in place this summer, which would have amounted to about 15% of its ...
Source: cnn.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
July 7 (UPI) -- U.S. President Donald Trump warned early Monday that countries that support BRICS nations -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- would be slapped with an additional 10% tariff when across-the-board import duties on the United States' trading partners take effect August 1. "Any country aligning themselves with the anti-American policies of BRICS, will be charged an ADDITIONAL 10% tariff. There will be ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
The reproductive health giant has estimated that the defunding could force about 200 of their clinics to shutter Planned Parenthood sued the Trump administration on Monday over a provision in Donald Trump 's sweeping domestic policy bill that would strip funding from health centers operated by the reproductive healthcare and abortion provider. In a complaint filed in Boston federal court, Planned Parenthood said ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
– Indonesia's rumbling erupted Monday, sending a column of volcanic materials as high as 18 kilometers (11 miles) into the sky, depositing ash on villages and leading to flight cancellations. The volcano has been at the highest alert level since last month and no casualties were immediately reported. Indonesia's Geology Agency recorded an avalanche of searing gas clouds mixed with rocks and lava traveling up ...
Source: news4jax.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
Woman injured in Sunday incident was 'a much-loved member of the zoo owners' family' and not in animal's enclosure at the time, zoo says A woman has lost her arm after being attacked on Sunday at a Queensland zoo by a lioness, which the zoo insists "was not hungry" or maltreated. Queensland's health minister, Tim Nicholls, confirmed that the woman, who is in her 50s, had "lost her arm" in the attack, which took ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
The Trump administration is rescinding temporary legal status for some 76,000 people from Honduras and Nicaragua living in the US under a special program, federal records show. Entries on the federal register slated for publication Tuesday indicated that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is terminating Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, for the two Central American nations, effective in 60 days. The move ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Sunday, Jul 6th, 2025 -
rolled ashore early Sunday, July 6, along the eastern South Carolina coast with pounding rain that could trigger flash flooding. Chantal, , was likely "to produce heavy rainfall across portions of northeastern South Carolina today and across portions of North Carolina through Monday," the National Hurricane Center said in a 5 a.m. update. Total rainfall of 2 to 4 inches, and local amounts up to 6 inches, were ...
Source: aol.com