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#10 Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump’s Order Suspending Asylum Access at the Southern Border - Jasmine Garsd for NPR, New York Post, Captain Jack Moss/Charlie Kirk, itsme, Republicans Against Trump, and John Norris on X
A federal judge in Washington, D.C. ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration cannot deny entry to people crossing the southern border to apply for asylum. The court found that neither the Constitution nor federal immigration law allows the president to make that decision. The proclamation to deny entry to asylum seekers at the southern border was issued by President Trump on his first day in office. Asylum has been part of U.S. law since 1980, allowing those who fear for their safety to seek refuge in the U.S. as long as they can show a credible fear of persecution in their home country. In the past, other U.S. presidents had attempted to make asylum seeking more difficult, but the scope of Trump's order was unprecedented...
#9 Rep. Jayapal Defends Comment Calling ICE ‘A Terrorist Force,’ Says White House ‘Owes an Apology’ to Americans - Rachel del Guidice for Fox News, Libs of TikTok, New York Post, and Just Regular Rob on X
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., defended a recent social media post calling ICE a "terrorist force" on Wednesday. During an interview with Brianna Keilar on "CNN News Central," the host spoke to Jayapal about her Tuesday Instagram post, where she wrote that "ICE is acting like a terrorist force. People across the country of all legal statuses — including U.S. citizens — are being kidnapped and disappeared off the street by masked men. No oversight, no accountability. Completely lawless."Keilar asked Jayapal to respond to a statement from White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson, which was obtained by Fox News Digital...
#8 App That Allows People to Share Ice Sightings Gets Boost in Downloads After White House Backlash - Kalhan Rosenblatt for NBC News, Manuel Lecaros, KCAU9 News, Right Angle News Network, Wesley Hunt, Sippi Cup, and Shasta Rayne on X
A new platform that encourages users to share information about sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents nearby rose to the top of the Apple App Store this week, amid criticism from Trump administration officials who say the app could put agents at risk. ICEBlock, which launched in April, made headlines after a CNN article about it was called out by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and ICE acting Director Todd M. Lyons on Monday. Both cited concerns over agent safety in their statements about the app, stating that “agents are facing a 500% increase in assaults.”
#7 Scorching European Heatwave Turns Deadly in Spain, Italy, and France - Malu Cursino for BBC, Pietro Ghezzi, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, World Travel Index, Melissa Sweet, Brad L/Seth Boreman, and Newsivl on X
A brutal heat wave is gripping many parts of Europe, leaving millions of people struggling to adapt to punishing, record-breaking temperatures. Heat persists even at night, with temperatures in some places not dipping much below 90 degrees. There is little respite. Air conditioning is very rare in European homes. Many residents are being forced to ride out the searing heat with the help of electric fans, ice packs, and cold showers. However, Europe hasn’t approached heat in the same way as the historically hotter United States. While nearly 90% of US homes have air conditioning, in Europe it’s around 20%, and some countries have much lower rates. In the United Kingdom, only around 5% of homes have cooling systems — many of which are portable AC units. In Germany, the figure is 3%...
#6 House Nearing Final Vote on Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” - Kaia Hubbard and Caitlin Yilek for CBS News, Nick Sortor, Stephen Miller, Karoline Leavitt, MAGA Voice,
Washington — The House voted 219-213 overnight Thursday, after hours of delay, to advance President Trump's "big, beautiful bill" for debate before a final vote. GOP leaders had to overcome pushback over changes the Senate made to the legislation. That final vote is expected soon. The key procedural vote began at about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and wrapped up at about 3:20 a.m. as GOP holdouts were pressured to vote "yes." The debate following that vote lasted roughly an hour, after which House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was addressing the chamber. Speaker Mike Johnson is expected to do the same, followed by the final vote. Jeffries was spending much of his time telling of people who would be severely hurt by huge cuts in Medicaid spending in the bill...
#5 Iconic Grocery Brand Del Monte Foods Files for Bankruptcy - Mary Walrath-Holdridge for USA TODAY, Pitaya, Zoe Clark, Robyn, ikonix360/Grok, and Independently Independent! on X
A canned food company that has been a grocery store staple for over 100 years is filing for bankruptcy in a bid to stay on shelves. Del Monte Foods, recognizable by its iconic green cans, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week in what President and CEO Greg Longstreet said was a "strategic move" for the 138-year-old company. It will enter into a restructuring agreement, Longstreet said in a July 1 press release, with hopes of shedding its debts and securing a buyer for its remaining assets...
#4 President Trump Announces Trade Deal With Vietnam as Major Tariff Deadline Looms - Joey Garrison for USA TODAY, Andrew Tan, EJW, john macker, Losing2Winning Trades, and Transcend Consulting Inc. on X
President Donald Trump said he's secured a trade deal with Vietnam in what would be just the second agreement Trump has made with another country ahead of a critical July 9 deadline when U.S. tariffs could skyrocket. Full details of the deal were not immediately clear, though Trump said the U.S. will levy 20% tariffs on imports from communist-controlled Vietnam and a 40% tariff on any transshipping of goods. "In return, Vietnam will do something that they have never done before, give the United States of America TOTAL ACCESS to their Markets for Trade," Trump said in a July 2 post on Truth Social announcing the deal...
#3 US Dollar Is off to Its Worst Start in 50 Years - Max Zahn for ABC News, Uplifted, WBAL NewsRadio 1090 and 101.5, and Paid Soros Employee on X
The United States dollar is suffering its worst start to a year in more than five decades, likely triggering a price hike for some everyday items and a jump in expenses faced by travelers abroad, some analysts told ABC News. The greenback has fallen more than 10% in value this year relative to a group of foreign currencies that belong to top U.S. trading partners. Investors have fled U.S. dollars out of fear inflation could devalue the currency, especially as Congress has moved forward with a large spending bill set to worsen a decades-long trend of ballooning U.S. debt, analysts said. Even more, they added, President Donald Trump’s fluctuating trade policy and sharp criticism of the Federal Reserve have prompted uncertainty about the nation’s economic stewardship, eroding trust in the dollar as the world’s preeminent “safe haven” asset...
#2 The Last Time Gold Moved Like This Was 1929 - Tyler Durden ZeroHedge/Peter Reagan for BirchGold.com, Tyler, SHORTorLONG, Jelle, and Amanuel Abraham on X
Speaking on the Money Sense podcast, Alasdair Macleod chimed in on why he believes we are in an environment similar to 1929, or the start of the Great Depression. In recent times, we have seen things compared often to infamous economic downturns, like the inflation and recession of the 1970s. We have also seen invocations of the Great Depression when the lockdowns happened, and gold accordingly leapt in massive bounds back then. But these days, the price of gold is nearly doubled since the start of the lockdowns, so there might very well be something to MacLeod's idea. Rather than buying into the narrative that reopenings prevented a 1929-style economic environment, Macleod thinks we are merely in the opening acts of a new global economic depression.
