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Houthis have threatened to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to Saudi-linked shipping. UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric called for de-escalation.

Houthi rebels of Yemen say they are imposing an embargo on Saudi oil shipments passing through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. The move threatens to put further pressure on oil exports from the Middle East. President Donald Trump renewed threats against Iran over the recent deaths of U.S. troops. Houthi forces fired missiles and drones on Saudi Arabia in response to Saudi airstrikes on the strategic Red Sea city of Hodeida. On Saturday morning, the rebels responded with another attack on Saudi cities.


More than 200,000 people have fled or been ordered to lock down as huge wildfires swept Spain and France on Friday. The French government has called in the military to help, deploying 1,500 soldiers and has rushed 1.5 million people out of their homes.

More than 267,000 people have been forced to flee parts of Western Europe due to out-of-control wildfires in Spain and France. About 70,000 were evacuated from central Spain, 197,000 fled in France, including tens of thousands from the wine region city of Bordeaux. The French government has called in the military to help, deploying 1,500 soldiers, and has rushed 1.5 million people off the roads. In Spain, two large blazes merged into one outside Madrid and a third was on the verge of joining them.


President Donald Trump attended the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria on Friday night. The original WHCA dinner was disrupted by a gun-wielding attacker outside the Washington Hilton three months ago.

The White House Correspondents' Dinner was rescheduled after a gunman tried to storm the event in April. President Donald Trump returned to the dinner Friday night and gave a rambling, hour-long speech praising some journalists and taking potshots at others. He was widely ridiculed for the comedy routine afterwards. The president lost his audience with his boring stump speech that strayed from the topic at hand into the weeds of his normal stump addresses. It was hard not to hide under the table during the speech.


Troy Jackson won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine on Saturday and will face Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November. Jackson has raised $1 million since he re-launched in the Senate race and was in the top five raisers on ActBlue as of Wednesday, July 22.

Troy Jackson has been chosen as the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine. He will face Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November. Graham Platner withdrew from the race earlier this month following an allegation of sexual assault that Platner denies. The state party held a nominating convention in Bangor, Maine on Saturday. 566 delegates voted for Troy Jackson to replace Platner. It's one of the most closely watched races in this fall's midterm election. President Donald Trump lost the state in 2024.


Trump's latest round of tariffs on 99.4% of U.S. trade partners were imposed at 12.01am on Friday. They are meant to punish countries for failing to do enough to curb forced labor imports.

On Friday, the US government imposed new tariffs of 10% to 12.5% on imports from 60 trading partners. They are meant to be more durable but economists say they are likely to be challenged in court. Trump's second term has been marked by intense economic uncertainty and tensions with countries around the world. The renewed tensions with Iran are threatening to push up gas prices and broader energy costs. Inflation is still a concern after years of high inflation. Gas prices are back above $4 a gallon.


Trump's new $400million Boeing jet was a gift from Qatar. It is not equipped with some of the same missile detection and countermeasure systems as the older jets.

The White House is working to upgrade the Qatari-donated jet that has started serving as Air Force One. The extent of the required upgrades will be made later this fall. Before Trump traveled on the jet to Turkey earlier this month, officials had discussed not traveling on the newly refurbished jet in high-threat areas. Trump flew it to Turkey after an initial assessment by top officials deemed it safe, but later realized it was a mistake. Trump's decision to fly back from a NATO summit in Turkey in a different presidential aircraft set off speculation about why the administration made the switch.


The government accepted key demands of the Gen-Z movement, including resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and compensation for families of NEET aspirants who died by suicide. Government and Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) are set to hold talks on Friday at the Constitution Club of India.

Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned over alleged exam paper leaks and irregularities in the education system. Protests were Modi’s biggest youth challenge since he became PM in 2014. The worst political crisis of Modi's third term in office peaked this week when thousands of protesters marched on parliament, with police using tear gas to control them. A delegation from Cockroach Janta Party sent a petition to the government over the NEET-UGU leak case. They want the immediate release of activist Sonam Wangchuk and compensation for families of deceased students.


Ty Cullen, a former state lawmaker convicted of bribery, was among the first to arrive outside the courthouse early Tuesday accompanied by his attorney Birney Bervar. Ryan Yamane, former director of the Department of Human Services, was indicted on criminal conspiracy to commit bribery and bribery.

Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke and four others were indicted by an Oahu grand jury on bribery and other charges. They are accused of a wide-ranging bribery conspiracy to secure state money for COVID-19 testing during the pandemic. The alleged co-conspirators include the state airports administrator, the ex-director of the Hawaii Department of Human Services, the former Public Utilities Commission chair, and a lobbyist who has fled the country. Governor Josh Green called for her formal resignation.


The New York Times reports that the Trump administration issued third-party subpoenas for journalists' and their relatives' phone records as part of an investigation into the source of reporting that President Donald Trump's Qatari-gifted Air Force One replacement was deemed unsafe to fly him back from the NATO summit in Turkey. On Thursday, the Department of Justice withdrew the subpoenas seeking phone

The Justice Department is dropping the subpoenas it filed demanding grand jury testimony and phone records from New York Times journalists. The government had insisted that it was acting solely in the interest of national security. A federal judge challenged almost every facet of the government's approach. The case highlighted the Trump administration's ongoing assault on press rights and the free flow of information to the public. It involved President Donald Trump’s claims about a Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet, which he flew home from Turkey on.


The Ottawa County Sheriff's Office is investigating the deaths of eight members of the same family after a house fire on Friday morning in Grand Haven Township. The victims include six children between the ages of 5 and 15 and two adults in their 40s.

Six children aged 5 to 15 and two adults in their 40s were found dead inside a burning house in Grand Haven Township, Michigan on Friday morning. Some of the victims suffered gunshot wounds. Autopsies will take place on Saturday. The cause of death for each victim has not been determined yet. Police are investigating if it was a murder-suicide or other means of killing people. Firefighters responded to reports of smoke coming from the house between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m., but couldn't find any fire. At 11:45 they returned to the scene and found all eight people dead inside.


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