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Senate Passes Trump’s Big Tax And Spending Cuts Bill As Vance Breaks A 50-50 Tie
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Republicans “got the job done” in passing President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts. Vice President JD Vance broke a 50-50 tie for Republicans on Tuesday after a tense overnight session. The bill goes back to the House, where Speaker Mike Johnson had against big revisions from his chamber’s version. But senators did make changes, particularly to Medicaid health care. Still, Johnson vows to send it to Trump’s desk by his July Fourth deadline. Three Republican senators joined all Democrats in voting against the bill, which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says would increase the deficit by nearly $3.3 trillion over the decade.
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Trump Says Israel Has Agreed On Terms For A 60-Day Ceasefire In Gaza And Urges Hamas To Accept Deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says Israel has agreed on terms for a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza and warned Hamas to accept the deal before conditions worsen. Trump announced the development Tuesday as he prepares to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks at the White House on Monday. The U.S. leader has been increasing pressure on the Israeli government and Hamas to broker a ceasefire and hostage agreement and bring about an end to the war in Gaza. Trump says, “I hope, for the good of the Middle East, that Hamas takes this Deal, because it will not get better — IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE.”
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US Won’t Send Some Weapons Pledged To Ukraine Following A Pentagon Review Of Military Aid
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is halting some shipments of weapons to Ukraine amid concerns that its own stockpiles have declined too much. The munitions were previously promised to Ukraine under the Biden administration to aid its defenses during the more than three-year-old war. The pause reflects a new set of priorities under President Donald Trump. A U.S. official says a Pentagon review determined that stocks were too low on some weapons previously pledged, so pending shipments of some items won’t be sent. A White House spokesperson said the decision was made “following a review of our nation’s military support and assistance to other countries across the globe.” The Pentagon’s top policy adviser stressed the need to keep “preserving U.S. forces’ readiness.”
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Trump Tours Florida Immigration Lockup And Jokes About Escapees Having To Run From Alligators
OCHOPEE, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump toured an isolated new immigration detention surrounded by alligator-filled swamps in Florida’s Everglades. He suggested during Tuesday’s tour that the site could be a model for future lockups nationwide, as his administration races to expand the infrastructure necessary for increasing deportations. Trump called the lockup “Alligator Alcatraz.” That’s a moniker that has alarmed immigrant activists but appeals to the White House’s aggressive approach to deportations. Trump delighted in the area’s allegators. He even said of migrants that will soon be held at the center, “We’re going to teach them how to run away from an alligator if they escape prison.”
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Jury Reaches Verdict On 4 Of 5 Counts In Diddy Trial But Is Told To Keep Deliberating
NEW YORK (AP) — The jury in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial says it has reached a verdict on four of five counts against the hip-hop mogul. The jury was stuck on the top charge, racketeering conspiracy. Tuesday’s partial decision remains under wraps. Jurors are due to continue deliberating about the racketeering conspiracy charge Wednesday. Prosecutors, Combs’ defense team and Judge Arun Subramanian reasoned that after just two days of deliberations, it was too soon to give up on reaching a verdict on all counts. So rather than taking a partial verdict, Subramanian told the jury to continue weighing the remaining charge.
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Bryan Kohberger’s Decision To Accept Plea Deal Came After Efforts To Strike Death Penalty Failed
MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty. A change of plea hearing is set for Wednesday. The 30-year-old Kohberger is accused in the stabbing deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen at a rental home near campus in Moscow, Idaho, in November 2022. Kohberger was arrested in Pennsylvania weeks after the killings. He had been a criminal justice graduate student at Washington State University.
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Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, Whose Ministry Was Toppled By Prostitution Scandals, Dies At 90
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Jimmy Swaggart, the televangelist whose multimillion-dollar ministry was crippled by his encounters with prostitutes, has died. He was 90. His death was announced Tuesday. The Louisiana native was best known for being a captivating Pentecostal preacher with a massive following before being caught on camera with a prostitute in New Orleans in 1988, one of several TV preachers brought down in the 1980s and 1990s by sex scandals. He continued preaching for decades, but with a reduced audience. In a tearful 1988 sermon, he wept and apologized, telling parishioners across the nation, “I have sinned against you.”
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Stars Hire Oilers Assistant Glen Gulutzan As Head Coach, His Second Stint With Dallas
FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Stars have hired Glen Gulutzan as their head coach 12 years after he was fired from his first stint with them by the general manager who is still there. Gulutzan returns to Dallas after spending the past seven seasons as an assistant with the Edmonton Oilers, including the past two that ended with trips to the Stanley Cup Final. This is his third job in charge of an NHL team after the Stars from 2011-13 and the Calgary Flames from 2016-18. The Stars will formally reintroduce him Wednesday at their home arena.
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Democrat Colin Allred Is Running Again For US Senate In Texas
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrat Colin Allred is once again running for the U.S. Senate. The former congressman from Dallas announced his candidacy on Tuesday. His entry into the race comes just months after Allred lost by nearly 9 percentage points to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in 2024. Allred this time is seeking the seat of Republican Sen. John Cornyn, who’s facing a primary challenge from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Allred is a former NFL linebacker who tried to position himself as a moderate in last year’s race.
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Senate Strikes AI Regulatory Ban From GOP Bill After Uproar From The States
WASHINGTON (AP) — A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, thwarting attempts to insert the measure into President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts. The Senate voted 99-1 to strike the AI provision after weeks of criticism from both Republican and Democratic governors and state officials. Originally proposed as a 10-year ban on states doing anything to regulate AI, lawmakers later tied it to federal funding so that only states that backed off on AI regulations would be able to get subsidies for broadband internet or AI infrastructure.
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