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US President Donald Trump recently warned a Jewish campaign donor that his MAGA base was beginning to turn on Israel, the Financial Times reports.

“My people are starting to hate Israel,” Trump is quoted as having told the unnamed donor recently, citing a Mideast expert, also unnamed, with contacts inside the Trump administration.

For years, the Democratic Party has litmus-tested candidates by asking if they disavow Hamas. Now, could the opposite become the norm?

Disgust over his political antics has cast a pall over the EV industry.

Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT

“Although I have retired, I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a “special lecturer” but I cannot do so under the conditions Columbia has accepted by capitulating to the Trump administration in June,” Khalidi wrote.

Columbia announced last week that it would pay more than $200m in a settlement with the federal government after the White House claimed the university failed to adequately address alleged antisemitism on campus amid protests over the Israel-Gaza war, and threatened to pull significant funding.

A state of emergency has been declared in New York City and New Jersey as a powerful storm system hits the US east coast from New York to Washington DC, with dangerous torrential rainfall and flash flooding under way in the region.

Forecasters had predicted intense rainfall, with rates possibly reaching up to 3 inches an hour and some isolated locations could see as much as 5 to 8 inches.

New York City officials warned that heavy rain could flood some streets, parts of the subway and basements. They urged people living in basements to move to higher floors and issued an advisory asking New Yorkers to avoid travel from Thursday afternoon through Friday afternoon.

Employment growth across America has been much weaker than previously thought over the last three months – a sign that the US labor market may be cooling.

The latest non-farm payroll, just released, shows that US employment rose by just 73,000 in July, rather weaker than the 110,000 new jobs expected.

But the big shock comes in the latest revisions to payrolls, with previous estimates for both May and June being revised sharply lower.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics now estimates that just 19,000 new jobs were created in May, 125,000 fewer than the 144,000 previously estimated.

A Liberian-born double amputee was thrown into solitary confinement at a Georgia immigration detention center after refusing to enter his flooded cell — a move that could have destroyed his battery-powered prosthetic legs and left him unable to walk, according to a report.

Rodney Taylor spent three days in a "restrictive housing unit" at Stewart detention center after guards tried to force him into a cell with an inch of standing water. For Taylor, whose microprocessor-controlled prosthetic legs cannot get wet, entering that cell would have been catastrophic, The Guardian reported.

The 46-year-old barber has lived in the U.S. nearly his entire life after arriving from Liberia as a child on a medical visa. He underwent 16 operations and has only two fingers on his right hand.

The sustained attention around the Epstein files lets us shine a light on the bipartisan architecture of impunity.

Donald Trump has extended the deadline for a tariff deal with Mexico by another 90 days, fuelling speculation he could announce pauses for dozens of other countries that face punitive higher import duties from Friday.

As the countdown continues to his deadline for a trade deal – already extended by four weeks from the original 90 days – the US president said he had made the decision to offer more time to Mexico because of the complexities of the trading relationship.

He wrote on social media: “We will be talking to Mexico over the next 90 Days with the goal of signing a Trade Deal somewhere within the 90 Day period of time, or longer.”

A little more than two weeks ago Trump threatened the EU and Mexico with tariffs of 30% on most exports to the US, but last Sunday he concluded a deal with Brussels with a 15% baseline rate from 1 August.

Minnah Arshad
July 30 2025 2:40pm

The U.N. agency tasked with distributing aid in Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, has maintained for months that it has received no specific evidence that Hamas or other armed groups were diverting its humanitarian aid in Gaza.

“These claims are used as a pretext to justify the aid distribution system supported by the Israeli authorities and the United States of America (so called GHF), which falls far from abiding to the humanitarian principles and international humanitarian law,” an UNRWA spokesperson told The Intercept in a statement.

Parts of Fateh and Mamdani’s platforms would be difficult to execute without cooperation from their city councils.

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