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Mike Johnson, the speaker of the Home, referred to as for the justice division to make public paperwork associated to the disgraced financier and convicted baby sexual abuse offender Jeffrey Epstein, breaking with Donald Trump over a problem that has sparked discontent among the many president’s rightwing base.
It was a uncommon second of friction between Trump and the speaker, a prime ally on Capitol Hill, and got here because the president confronted rising backlash from conservatives who had anticipated him to make public every part identified about Epstein.
Final week, the justice division introduced that Epstein’s demise was a suicide and that there was no checklist of his shoppers to be made public. Conservative allies of Trump have since criticized the president and the lawyer normal, Pam Bondi, for what they see as opaque dealing with of the case.
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What did Johnson say? “It’s a very delicate subject, but we should put everything out there and let the people decide it,” he informed a rightwing podcaster.
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What has Trump mentioned? He wrote on Fact Social: “One year ago our Country was DEAD, now it’s the ‘HOTTEST’ Country anywhere in the World. Let’s keep it that way, and not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about.”
Household of US citizen crushed to demise by Israeli settlers calls on Trump administration to prosecute killers
Relations of Sayfollah “Saif” Musallet, a 20-year-old US citizen from Florida who was crushed to demise by Israeli settlers within the occupied West Financial institution, are calling for the Trump administration to arrest and prosecute these accountable.
His uncle Hasem Musallet paid tribute to the “loving, respectful” younger man who had simply opened an ice-cream enterprise in Tampa with cousins, and decried what he mentioned the household noticed as indifference from the federal government. “Somebody needs to be held accountable,” he added.
In the meantime in Gaza, the Gaza Humanitarian Basis, a US non-profit organisation, has claimed at the very least 20 folks had been killed in an incident in Khan Younis on Wednesday. The Israeli-backed logistics group claimed that 19 victims had been trampled and one was stabbed throughout what it described as a “chaotic and dangerous surge”. In keeping with the UN, at the very least 875 folks have been killed throughout the previous six weeks attempting to get meals in Gaza, with at the very least 674 of them killed within the neighborhood of web sites run by the GHF.
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What are the small print of the West Financial institution assault? Musallet was crushed with golf equipment and bats whereas visiting his household’s farm in an space close to Ramallah. One other Palestinian man, 23-year-old Razek Hussein al-Shalabi, was fatally shot. A bunch of settlers then prevented ambulances from reaching Musallet for 3 hours, in line with his household.
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What has the Israeli navy mentioned about it? It claimed stones had been thrown at Israelis and that “a violent confrontation developed”.
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What’s the wider context of settler violence? The assaults come amid a wave of accelerating Israeli settler violence focusing on Palestinians within the West Financial institution. At the very least 964 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October 2023 by Israeli forces and settlers within the occupied West Financial institution, in line with a spokesperson for the UN excessive commissioner for human rights.
US sends immigrants to Eswatini after ban lifted on third-country deportations
A flight carrying immigrants deported from the US has landed in Eswatini, previously Swaziland, the homeland safety division introduced, in a transfer that adopted the supreme court docket lifting limits on deporting migrants to 3rd international locations.
A spokesperson for the division mentioned the 5 deportees – from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Cuba and Yemen – had been convicted of crimes starting from baby rape to homicide.
It follows the 4 July deportation of eight others to conflict-torn South Sudan. Tom Homan, the US border tsar, mentioned final Friday he didn’t know what occurred to the boys.
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How can the administration deport folks to international locations they don’t have any connection to? In late June, the supreme court docket cleared the way in which for the Trump administration to renew deporting migrants to international locations apart from their very own with out providing them an opportunity to indicate the harms they might face.
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The protection secretary, Pete Hegseth, ordered the launch of two,000 nationwide guard troops deployed in Los Angeles, considerably decreasing the navy presence within the metropolis.
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At the very least 248 folks have been killed in southern Syria after a number of days of clashes, which triggered the deployment of presidency forces, AFP experiences.
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An Irish vacationer was jailed by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement for months, after overstaying his go to by three days.
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The European Union has given a 29 August deadline for Iran to include its nuclear program, threatening to start out reinstating UN sanctions.
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Donald Trump mentioned Ukraine shouldn’t bomb Moscow, after the Monetary Instances reported he had privately inspired President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to step up deep strikes on Russia.
Stat of the day: Inflation rises to 2.7% as Trump’s tariffs begin to present in costs
Annual inflation rose to 2.7% in June, up from 2.4% in Might, in line with the patron value index. Enterprise leaders have mentioned for months that Trump’s tariffs would trigger rising costs. Nonetheless, inflation is much decrease than three years in the past, when it reached as excessive as 9%.
Don’t miss this: Erotic mosaic stolen by Nazi captain returned to Pompeii
A mosaic panel stolen from Pompeii by a German Nazi captain has been returned to the location of the traditional Roman ruins. The relic, which depicts a pair of lovers, dates from between the center of the primary century BC and the primary century AD. It was dropped at Germany by a Wehrmacht officer throughout the second world struggle.
Local weather verify: Heavy rains kill two in New Jersey
Monday evening’s torrential downpour in New Jersey and New York, which killed two folks, was one of the intense rainstorms recorded in New York Metropolis historical past, the sort of storm that’s now taking place rather more typically due to the local weather disaster. A 2024 research confirmed intense rainstorms had been now between 4 and 52 instances extra possible owing to the local weather disaster.
Final Factor: Why is a Twelfth-century nun the most popular identify in experimental music?
A mystic who turned visions into stunning chants, Hildegard von Bingen, has impressed everybody from Grimes to David Lynch. “We can look back through the centuries and see a woman both prolific and inspirational,” says musician Julia Holter.
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