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Trump says surprise rebate checks could be coming thanks to tariff revenue

Published: Jul. 25, 2025, 6:45 p.m. President Donald Trump’s on Friday said that he’s considering issuing rebate checks to Americans that would be paid out of the revenue generated by increased tariffs on other countries, CBS News reported. “We’re thinking about a little rebate. But the big thing we want to do is pay down debt. But we’re thinking about a rebate,” Trump told reporters before leaving for a four-day visit to Scotland. The president said that the rebate could be “for people of a ...

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Trump official says administration will change visa, citizenship tests

07/25/25 5:30 PM ET The new head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said in an interview with The New York Times Thursday that the Trump administration will make changes to the visa system for skilled workers and look to make the test for U.S. citizenship more difficult. “The test as it’s laid out right now, it’s not very difficult,” said Joseph Edlow, who assumed the role in mid-July. “It’s very easy to kind of memorize the answers. I don’t think we’re really comporting with the sp ...

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US states to get $608 million from FEMA to build migrant detention centers

July 25, 2025 4:31 PM EDT Updated 10 hours ago WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - The Federal Emergency Management Agency is preparing to send $608 million to states to construct immigrant detention centers as part of the Trump administration's push to expand capacity to hold migrants. FEMA is starting a “detention support grant program” to cover the cost of states building temporary facilities, according to an agency announcement. States have until August 8 to apply for the funds, according to ...

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Dr. Phil launching new media network of 'citizen journalists' after his first one goes bankrupt

Saturday 26 July 2025 04:56 BST Celebrity psychologist Dr Phil McGraw is launching a new media network that will provide opportunities for “citizen journalists” to share their stories, less than two weeks after a similar venture went bankrupt. Envoy Media Co. will include “live, balanced news, original entertainment programming, and immersive viewer experiences,” according to a press release shared by The Hollywood Reporter. It comes after McGraw’s conservative-leaning cable network, Merit S ...

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Tariffs likely to drive up U.S. prices even with Trump trade deals, experts say

July 25, 2025 / 5:12 PM EDT The new normal for U.S. tariffs on foreign goods starts at 15%. Even as President Trump seeks to forge new terms of trade with Japan, the European Union and other global economic partners, he is raising the floor for tariffs to their highest level in decades. Speaking at an AI summit on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said "we'll have a straight, simple tariff of anywhere between 15% and 50%," conditioning the lower rate on countries opening their economies to the ...

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ABC Reporter Fired After Criticizing Stephen Miller Goes Scorched Earth on 'Vicious' Trump Advisor

Jul 25th, 2025, 1:19 pm Former ABC News senior correspondent Terry Moran laid into White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, calling him a liar who relishes in “cruelty” during an appearance on former MSNBC host Chris Matthews’s Substack podcast during which both made personal digs at Miller. “What do you make of this guy? I don’t want to get you in more trouble, but honesty doesn’t hurt too much. I think honesty does work. Steve Miller, I mean, he strikes me in the same area you des ...

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Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia

July 25, 2025 7:00 AM EDT Updated 8 hours ago KYIV - During a pivotal push by Ukraine to retake territory from Russia in late September 2022, Elon Musk gave an order that disrupted the counteroffensive and dented Kyiv’s trust in Starlink, the satellite internet service the billionaire provided early in the war to help Ukraine’s military maintain battlefield connectivity. According to three people familiar with the command, Musk told a senior engineer at the California offices of SpaceX, the M ...

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Maxwell had limited immunity during meetings with deputy AG: Sources

Ghislaine Maxwell, who sources told ABC News initiated the meetings with the Department of Justice, answered questions for about nine hours over two days after being granted a limited form of immunity, the sources said. The immunity allowed Maxwell to freely answer Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's questions without fear that her responses could later be used against her, the sources said. The so-called proffer immunity is commonly granted to individuals prosecutors are seeking to make co ...

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Almost a third of people in Gaza not eating for days, UN food programme warns

Almost one in three people in Gaza are going days without eating, the UN's food aid programme has warned. "Malnutrition is surging with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of treatment," the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement to news agency AFP. Israel, which controls the entry of all supplies into Gaza, says there is no restriction on aid getting into the territory and blames Hamas for any malnutrition. An Israeli security official said on Friday that airdrops o ...

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Park gift shops could remove books on slavery and the Civil War

Park gift shops could remove books on slavery and the Civil War Among the books flagged for possible removal were "The 1619 Project" and a book about former Interior secretary Deb Haaland. July 25, 2025 at 6:00 a.m. EDT Today at 6:00 a.m. EDT 4 min National Park Service employees were required to report items for review by last week. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) By Jake Spring National parks employees have raised the idea of removing books on slavery, Native Americans and Georg ...

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Mary Trump makes final pitch to judge to compel her uncle to hand over Fred Trump estate 'valuation' docs

15 min ago - Jul 26th, 2025, 7:57 am Mary Trump's lawyers made their final pitch to a judge in the hopes that he'll ultimately compel the discovery of documents on the "valuation" of Fred Trump Sr.'s estate and boost their defense as they try to defeat her uncle ... (Law & Crime)

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Donald Trump Hit By Legal Roadblock

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Gabbard and White House 'lying' about intel on Russian interference in 2016, ex-CIA official says

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Hegseth hit with 'rare intervention' as Pentagon generals grow tired of his act: NYT

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Bowen: Air dropping aid is an act of desperation that won't end hunger in Gaza

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Confusion over prescription transfers as Rite Aid stores begin to close

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Top State Dept. official who once attended conference with White nationalists picked to lead US Institute of Peace

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Fenway Park concession workers go on strike before Red Sox' weekend games

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Demoralized' Little League Team Shut Out of World Series by Trump's Travel Ban

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Israeli gunfire and strikes kill at least 25 in Gaza as many of the dead sought aid

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Newsom calls GOP's push to redraw TX congressional maps an 'existential crisis to democracy'

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Northern Virginia VCU student denied diploma after participating in pro-Palestinian protests

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'Stay out of it': Ex-top Republican lawmaker rips Trump's bid to 'rig' midterms

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Democrats ramp up town hall offensive in GOP districts with focus on Epstein

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Women legislators fight for 'potty parity'

9 hrs ago - July 26, 2025, 12:02 AM For female state lawmakers in Kentucky, choosing when to go to the bathroom has long required careful calculation. There are only two bathroom stalls for women on the third floor of the Kentucky Statehouse, where the House and ... (ABC News/AP)

Exclusive: Trump Cuts to Hit Rural America Like 'a Tsunami,' Democrat Warns

10 hrs ago - Published Jul 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT Representative April McClain Delaney warned that President Donald Trump's cuts to programs like Medicaid, as well as NPR and PBS, are going to hit rural America like a "tsunami" in an interview with Newsweek. Del ... (Newsweek)