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President Donald Trump reiterated his demand that Congress pass Republicans’ agenda-defining megabill before July 4th, despite softening on that deadline as recently as Tuesday morning. Trump urged House Republicans in a social media post on Tuesday afternoon to quickly pass the Senate-approved version of the sweeping domestic policy bill so he can sign before the holiday on Friday. “We are on schedule — Let’s keep it going, and be done before you and your family go on a July 4thvacation,” Trump wrote. Trump also called on House GOP leadership to ignore the “grandstanders” and unite the caucus, even as a…

The bloc’s members have recently pledged to meet a defense spending target of 5% of GDP The results of NATO countries hiking military budgets will be “catastrophic” and lead to the bloc’s collapse, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday. His remarks mirrored Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski’s earlier suggestion that a boost in Moscow’s defense spending could trigger the fall of the government. At NATO’s most recent summit last month in the Hague, member states committed to spending 5% of GDP on the military – a significant rise from the previous 2% target. Poland backed the hike, arguing that…

On Tuesday, President Trump visited ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ – a migrant detention center next to Everglades Park in Florida. DHS Chief Kristi Noem and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis joined President Trump for the tour of the Alligator Alcatraz. .@POTUS joins @Sec_Noem and @GovRonDeSantis for a tour of the “Alligator Alcatraz” illegal immigrant detention facility in the Everglades pic.twitter.com/u8f5izSjtw — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 1, 2025 Trump chatted with reporters during his tour of the migrant facility. At one point President Trump took a swipe at Joe Biden. “Biden wanted me in here … Didn’t work out that way. He wanted…

A London startup called Mozart AI is launching today with $730,000 in pre-seed funding and a challenge to the current wave of generative music platforms. While companies like Suno and Udio promise to turn text prompts into finished pop songs in seconds, Mozart takes a very different approach: it wants to speed up the way artists already work, without taking the artist out of the process. Mozart AI founders (L to R) Pascual Merita Torres, Immanuel Rajadurai, Arjun Khanna, Sundar ArvindMozart AI Mozart AI’s founding team sees this as an opening. “We’re trying to eliminate friction, not creativity,” said co-founder…

The U.S. Senate passed landmark legislation that would make major changes to federal student loan … Moregetty Senate Republicans on Tuesday passed landmark legislation that would make the most significant changes to federal student loan programs in decades. Nearly every student loan borrower currently in repayment, as well as current and prospective students, will feel the impacts. Critics have argued that the massive reforms will raise costs for millions of people. “Lawmakers have chosen to plunge their constituents into economic uncertainty by removing a majority of the remaining protections and programs that exist for Americans with student loan debt,” said…

President Donald Trump’s White House will reportedly announce an AI education initiative next week that seeks to partner with more than 60 companies to provide AI education materials to K-12 students the next four years. The Trump administration’s “AI Education Pledge” will involve tech companies providing resources like funding, education materials, technology, curriculum, and professional development, according to a report by Axios. The initiative is meant to “spark curiosity in the [AI] technology and prepare the next generation for an AI-enabled economy,” the White House reportedly said in its Monday announcement, obtained by the outlet. “Fostering young people’s interest and expertise in…

The Lebanon-based Iranian proxy terrorist organization Hezbollah held multiple events on Monday in solidarity with Tehran, declaring that it would continue in the “just and divinely inspired battle” against Israel and America. “Israel is criminal, and America is tyrannical. We have the right to say ‘No’ to both,” Sheikh Naim Qassem, the head of the terrorist organization, declared, according to the Iranian propaganda website PressTV. Hezbollah operates in Lebanon with the veneer of a political party, but in reality serves as a proxy terrorist organization for Iran that threatens Israel and functions as a bridge between Tehran and rogue state allies…

A mother’s lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and China’s TikTok over her teenage son’s death while attempting a viral “subway surfing” challenge will proceed, as a judge largely denied the social media giants’ motions to dismiss the case. Ars Technica reports that a New York State Supreme Court judge has allowed a wrongful death lawsuit against Meta and TikTok to move forward. The suit, brought by Norma Nazario, alleges that the platforms’ algorithms intentionally targeted her teenage son Zackery with dangerous “subway surfing” videos, ultimately leading to his tragic death. Judge Paul Goetz denied most of the social media companies’…

A Gallup poll shows that Democrats feel less proud of being American than they did over 20 years ago. The report showed that a record number of adults feel “extremely” or “very” proud to be an American — just 41 percent describing themselves as extremely proud, while 17 percent feel very proud. Democrats strongly contributed to the significant drop in pride, per Fox News: The data indicate a plummeting sense of pride in America over the past decade. Furthermore, the report explained further that there is a 56-point gap between Republicans (92 percent extremely or very proud) and Democrats (36 percent).…

Senate Republicans intend to remove a controversial tax on solar and wind energy projects as part of their budget megabill, according to three people familiar with the plans. Republicans’ final amendment to wrap in last-minute changes to the budget reconciliation bill will include a compromise for Senate hold-outs by removing the tax, as well as providing a carve-out from the tax credit phase-out for solar and wind projects that begin construction less than one year after the bill’s enactment, according to the three people, who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The amendment would still…