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Exclusive: Proposal outlines large-scale 'Humanitarian Transit Areas' for Palestinians in Gaza

A proposal seen by Reuters and bearing the name of a controversial U.S.-backed aid group described a plan to build large-scale camps called “Humanitarian Transit Areas” inside - and possibly outside - Gaza to house the Palestinian population, outlining a vision of "replacing Hamas' control over the population in Gaza." The $2 billion plan, created sometime after February 11 and carrying the name of the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or GHF, was submitted to the Trump admini ...

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Migrants deported from US to Salvadoran prison remain under US control, Salvadoran officials tell UN

Migrants deported from US to Salvadoran prison remain under US control, Salvadoran officials tell UN July 7, 2025 at 1:54 pm By MARK SHERMAN The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government of El Salvador has acknowledged to United Nations investigators that the Trump administration maintains control of the Venezuelan men who were deported from the U.S. to a notorious Salvadoran prison, contradicting public statements by officials in both countries. The revelation was contained in court ...

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Judge calls DOJ's motion to dismiss Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawsuit "meritless"

July 7, 2025 / 2:32 PM EDT A federal judge denied the Justice Department's motions to dismiss Kilmar Abrego Garcia's lawsuit over his mistaken deportation to El Salvador, calling one of the government's motions "meritless." She did not immediately rule on Abrego Garcia's motion to be moved to federal custody in Maryland, pending his criminal trial in Tennessee on human trafficking charges. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said to Justice Department attorney Bridget O'Hickey, "Y ...

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Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza's population 'a blueprint for crimes against humanity'

Israel’s defence minister has laid out plans to force all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp on the ruins of Rafah, in a scheme which legal experts and academics described as a blueprint for crimes against humanity. Israel Katz said he has ordered Israel’s military to prepare for establishing a camp, which he called a “humanitarian city”, on the ruins of the city of Rafah, Haaretz newspaper reported. Palestinians would go through “security screening” before entering, and once inside would not be ...

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Attorney General Pam Bondi fires lead prosecutor in Govoni fraud case

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi fired the lead prosecutor handling the federal fraud case against St. Petersburg businessperson Leo Govoni, ostensibly in retaliation for his role in prosecuting Jan. 6 rioters. A Department of Justice memo dated June 27 and obtained by the Tampa Bay Times informed Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Gordon that he’d been removed from federal service. The memo bore Bondi’s signature. Her action removes Gordon from a high-profile Tampa case involving the embezzlement ...

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Texas lawmakers failed to pass a bill to improve local disaster warning systems this year

(Texas Tribune) For the last three days, state Rep. Wes Virdell has been out with first responders in Kerr County as they searched for victims and survivors from the devastating floods that swept through Central Texas early Friday morning. Virdell’s closeup view of the havoc wreaked on his district has made a lasting impression, he said, and left him reconsidering a vote he made just a few months ago against a bill that would have established a statewide plan to improve Texas’ disaster response, including better alert systems, along with a grant program for counties to buy new emergency communication equipment and build new infrastructure like radio towers. “I can tell you in hindsight, watching what it takes to deal with a disaster like this, my vote would probably be different now,” said Virdell, a freshman GOP lawmaker from Brady.

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'You need fewer bureaucrats': Chip Roy uses TX flood as excuse to cut government

(Raw Story) Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) argued that the government should be cut in response to the deadly flooding in Texas over the weekend. In a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Lisa Boothe asked Roy if there was "blame to be assigned" for the deaths of more than 50 people. "Yeah, I mean, in classic Washington, D.C. fashion, everybody wants to politicize everything," Roy replied. "Look, there's going to be time to go review what can be done differently."

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Trump planning to visit Texas after deadly floods

(WFAA) President Donald Trump said Sunday that he expects to visit Texas this week after deadly floods left at least 82 dead and dozens more missing across the state. Trump told reporters Sunday that he will "probably" visit the Lone Star State on Friday. "We wanted to leave a little time. I wanted to do it today, but we'd just be in their way. Probably Friday," Trump said.

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U.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spread

(Washington Post) The United States has reached its highest annual measles case tally in 33 years, hitting at least 1,277 confirmed cases across 38 states and the District of Columbia. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength. The nation surpassed infections reported in 2019, reaching the largest number of cases since 1992, when officials recorded more than 2,100 infections, according to data published Friday from the Johns Hopkins University Center for Outbreak Response Innovation (CORI).

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Summers: No economist 'without a strong political agenda' says Trump bill good for economy

(The Hill) Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers railed against President Trump’s massive tax and spending bill, saying no objective economist would characterize the legislation as a boon to the economy. “There is no economist anywhere, without a strong political agenda, who is saying that this bill is a positive for the economy. And the overwhelming view is that it is probably going to make the economy worse,” Summers told ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos in a Sunday interview on “This Week.”

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