Here is a quick look at the top global stories of the week:
Gaza is now experiencing famine, the world’s leading authority said Friday. This comes after months of warning by aid groups that Israeli restrictions on the entry of food into the Palestinian territory were causing starvation. Israel rejected the report, calling it a lie. Separately, Israel’s defense minister warned that Gaza’s largest city would be destroyed unless Hamas...
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A quick look back at this week’s biggest stories
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Texas redistricting fight shakes up battle lines for both parties in key US Senate race
HOUSTON (AP) — Just as Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred was holding a town hall near the Mexican border as part of an “unrig Texas” campaign tour, the state’s Democratic fundraising powerhouse Beto O’Rourke rallied support in Austin for lawmakers who left the state to delay a redistricting plan led by President Donald Trump. The next morning, one of those wayward lawmakers, James Talarico, stood in the pulpit at former President... -
Judge blocks Trump from cutting funding from 34 cities and counties over ‘sanctuary’ policies
A judge ruled late Friday the Trump administration cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because of policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts.
U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco extended a preliminary injunction blocking the administration from cutting off or conditioning the use of federal funds for so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions.... -
Judge blocks Trump from withholding funds from Los Angeles, other sanctuary cities
By Dietrich Knauth and Nate Raymond
(Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge on Friday blocked Donald Trump’s administration from withholding federal funding from more than 30 so-called sanctuary jurisdictions including Los Angeles, Baltimore, Boston and Chicago that have declined to cooperate with the Republican president’s hardline immigration crackdown.
U.S. District Judge William Orrick expanded an injunction that he initially... -
Wisconsin judge rejects motions to dismiss charges against Trump aides
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge Friday declined to dismiss felony charges against two attorneys and a former aide to President Donald Trump who advised Trump in 2020 as part of a plan to submit paperwork falsely claiming that the Republican had won the battleground state that year.
Dane County Circuit Judge John Hyland rejected the motions to dismiss the 11 felony charges filed against the three defendants. The charges are for... -
Trump says US is conducting tariff investigation into furniture imports
By David Shepardson and David Lawder
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Friday his administration will conduct a “major” tariff investigation on furniture entering the United States, a step toward imposing higher duties on a sector already seeing tariff-fueled price increases.
“Furniture coming from other Countries into the United States will be Tariffed at a Rate yet to be determined,” Trump said... -
Ghislaine Maxwell told DOJ she is unaware of any Epstein ‘client list’
By Luc Cohen, Andrew Goudsward and Jack Queen
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls, told a top Justice Department official in July that she was not aware of any “client list” belonging to the late financier and never saw President Donald Trump behave inappropriately, according to a transcript of an interview released on Friday.... -
Walz pushes back against federal demand to end ‘sanctuary policies and practices’
Share This StoryIn a letter sent earlier this week, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pushed back against U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s demand that Minnesota abandon sanctuary policies for illegal immigrants. “You are hereby notified that your jurisdiction has been identified as one that engages in sanctuary policies and practices that thwart federal immigration enforcement to […]
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Trump threatens federal intervention in Chicago, government takeover in D.C
By Andrea Shalal and Kanishka Singh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he would expand his crime crackdown to Chicago, using federal powers to intervene in another city governed by Democrats, and threatened to take full control of Washington, D.C., rather than only its policing.
Saying without evidence that violent crime was out of control in the nation’s capital, Trump last week deployed... -
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s national profile soars with latest Trump fight, but there are risks
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gavin Newsom is having a moment.
In the national struggle over U.S. House control, perhaps no politician has more at stake than the California governor, who has emerged as the leading Democratic adversary to President Donald Trump in what many see as a lightly masked trial run for his own future White House bid.
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Trump threatens to remove Washington, DC Mayor Bowser over crime
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday said Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser “better get her act straight” or she won’t continue in her role too far in the future.
“It was unsafe,” Trump told reporters. “It was horrible and Mayor Bowser better get her act straight or she won’t be mayor very long because we take it over with the Federal Government running it like it’s supposed to be run.”
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Head of Pentagon’s intelligence agency fired, lawmaker says
(Reuters) -The head of the Pentagon’s intelligence agency has been fired, a move the top Democratic lawmaker on the Senate intelligence committee on Friday slammed as the latest example of politicizing intelligence under President Donald Trump’s administration.
“The firing of yet another senior national security official underscores the Trump administration’s dangerous habit of treating intelligence as a loyalty test rather than... -
Texas Senate debates redistricting bill, is expected to pass it easily
By Brad Brooks
(Reuters) -The Texas Senate on Friday began debating a bill that redraws the state’s congressional maps at the behest of President Donald Trump in an effort to flip five seats held by Democrats to Republicans.
After the state House passed it on Wednesday, the Senate was anticipated to approve it on Friday. Texas Governor Greg Abbott was expected then to quickly sign it into law amid a contentious nationwide... -
Trump: DC Mayor Bowser must get act together or won’t be mayor anymore
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser “better get her act straight” or she won’t continue in her role too far in the future.
“It was unsafe,” Trump told reporters. “It was horrible and Mayor Bowser better get her act straight or she won’t be mayor very long because we take it over with the Federal Government running it like it’s supposed to be run.”
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Ilhan Omar, prominent Minneapolis Dems slam DFL’s decision to vacate Omar Fateh mayoral endorsement
Share This StoryCongresswoman Ilhan Omar and a slew of left-wing officials slammed the Minnesota DFL’s decision vacate the Minneapolis DFL’s endorsement of Sen. Omar Fateh for mayor of the city. In a lengthy statement, the group said the decision “will be a stain” on the party. “A small group of DFL board members, a majority […]
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