Netanyahu arrives at White Home
Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived on the White Home for his scheduled talks with Donald Trump this night.
The Israeli prime minister met with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Center East envoy Steve Witkoff earlier this afternoon, the Related Press stories, citing the prime minister’s workplace.
The go to comes as oblique talks between Israel and Hamas over a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza continued for a second day on Monday.
Trump has elevated strain for a deal in Gaza in latest weeks and raised the chance {that a} ceasefire may very well be declared in a matter of hours or days.
Hamas calls for an Israeli withdrawal, whereas Netanyahu insists on Hamas disarming. The assembly between Trump and Netanyahu may give new urgency to the US ceasefire proposal, however whether or not it results in a deal that ends the struggle is unclear.
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A choose has ordered the Trump administration to proceed disbursing Medicaid funds to Deliberate Parenthood, regardless of a provision within the president’s lately signed tax and spending invoice.
US District Decide Indira Talwani issued a short lived restraining order in response to a lawsuit filed earlier immediately by the Deliberate Parenthood Federation of America. The lawsuit argues that the ban on Medicaid funding, which targets Deliberate Parenthood for offering abortion care, will see elevated charges of untreated sexually transmitted ailments and most cancers, in addition to unplanned pregnancies, nationwide.
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The Division of Veterans Affairs will now not want to chop 80,000 jobs, as ordered by the Trump administration’s Division of Authorities Effectivity, as a result of it has already reduce workers by 30,000 via retirements, buyouts and hiring freezes, the company mentioned immediately.
In a information launch, veterans affairs secretary Doug Collins mentioned: “Since March, we’ve been conducting a holistic evaluate of the division centered on lowering forms and bettering providers to Veterans.”
“A department-wide RIF” or, discount in pressure, “is off the desk, however that doesn’t imply we’re accomplished bettering VA. Our evaluate has resulted in a number of latest concepts for higher serving Veterans that we are going to proceed to pursue,” he added.
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Forward of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrival in Washington DC immediately, demonstrators gathered outdoors of the US Embassy in Tel Aviv to name for the discharge of the 7 October assault hostages and urge a ceasefire.
Listed below are photographs from the rally:
Activists maintain portraits of Israeli hostages held within the Gaza Strip because the 7 October 2023 assaults, in Tel Aviv, on Monday. {Photograph}: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty PhotographsIndividuals attend a rally calling for the discharge of hostages, in entrance of the US embassy department workplace in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Monday. {Photograph}: Oded Balilty/APActivists maintain portraits of Israeli hostages held within the Gaza Strip, throughout a protest calling for his or her launch and an finish to the struggle, in Tel Aviv on Monday. {Photograph}: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty ImagesShare
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Donald Trump mentioned he lifted america’s sanctions on Syria on the request of Center Jap leaders, together with Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli prime minister added that Syria’s new management offers Israel an opportunity at a brand new relationship with Syria.
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Donald Trump says america will resume weapons shipments to Ukraine.
“They’ve to have the ability to defend themselves. They’re getting hit very laborious now,” he mentioned.
The president didn’t add any extra particulars.
Final wee, the Pentagon halted shipments of US Patriot air defence techniques and different precision weapons to Ukraine after concern that US stockpiles had been working too low.
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Trump and Netanyahu are answering questions on Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist who gained New York Metropolis’s Democratic mayoral major.
In response to a query about Mamdani, who has mentioned he would implement the Worldwide Prison Court docket’s arrest order if Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited NY city, Netanyahu mentioned “I’m not involved about that”.
Trump, who has threatened to deport Mamdani, who’s a US citizen, mentioned “I’ll get him out.”
Later Trump known as Mamdani a “communist and mentioned “he’s mentioned some actually dangerous issues about Jewish individuals.”
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Donald Trump handed on a query a couple of two-state answer to the Israeli-Palestinian battle, asking Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reply as a substitute.
“I feel Palestinians ought to have all the energy to control themselves, however not one of the energy to threaten us,” he mentioned.
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Trump says Iran has approached the White Home for talks following the United State’s strike on the nation’s nuclear amenities. He additionally in contrast the US’s strikes to the nation’s resolution to drop atomic bombs on Japan throughout World Conflict II.
“I don’t need to say what it jogged my memory of however for those who return a very long time in the past, it reminded individuals of a sure different occasion. And Harry Truman’s image is now within the foyer, in a pleasant location, not within the foyer the place it ought to have been, however that stopped a whole lot of preventing, and this stopped a whole lot of preventing,” he mentioned.
“I hope we’re not going to must” strike Iran once more, he added.
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Donald Trump says Russia’s struggle in Ukraine is a “horrible factor” and that he’s “not comfortable” with Russian president Vladimir Putin.
He added that it doesn’t matter that it’s not People who’re being killed. “I’m disillusioned frankly that President Putin hasn’t stopped,” he mentioned.
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In response to a query about the way forward for Gaza, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned: “It’s known as free selection: if individuals need to keep, they will keep, but when they need to go away, they need to have the ability to go away.”
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Additionally on the Trump-Netanyahu dinner, Trump confirmed his plans to go to victims of the floods in Texas on Friday.
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Talking at his dinner with Donald Trump, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned he has despatched a letter to the Nobel committee nominating Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Benjamin Netanyahu fingers over a doc to Donald Trump throughout a bilateral dinner, on the White Home in Washington DC, on Monday. {Photograph}: Kevin Lamarque/ReutersShare
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Demonstrators gathered in Washington DC immediately to protest the arrival of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who’s at present assembly with Donald Trump for talks many hope will result in a ceasefire settlement in Israel’s struggle with Gaza.
Listed below are just a few photographs from the scenes outdoors the White Home and Blair Home, the place Netanyahu met Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Center East envoy Steve Witkoff earlier.
Protestors collect close to Blair Home as they rally in opposition to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayhu forward of his assembly with US President Donald Trump on July 7, 2025, in Washington, DC. Prime Minister Netanyahu is assembly President Trump, who expressed hope for a “deal this week” between Israel and Hamas that sees hostages launched from the Gaza Strip.(Photograph by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photograph by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP through Getty Photographs) {Photograph}: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty PhotographsDemonstrators collect outdoors of the White Home to protest Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu’s go to to Washington, D.C., U.S. July 7, 2025. REUTERS/Umit Bektas {Photograph}: Ümit Bektaş/ReutersProtesters collect in Washington DC, the capital of america, to name for an finish to the struggle in Gaza throughout a gathering between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump. The daddy Yehuda Cohen (seen) of an Israeli soldier held hostage in Gaza, joined a bunch of protesters outdoors the White Home Monday to plead for an finish to the struggle in Gaza, the discharge of hostages, and humanitarian support entry to the besieged enclave on July 7, 2025 in Washington DC. (Photograph by Celal Gunes/Anadolu through Getty Photographs) {Photograph}: Anadolu/Getty PhotographsDemonstrators collect outdoors the White Home to protest Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu’s go to to Washington, D.C., U.S., July 7, 2025. REUTERS/Umit Bektas {Photograph}: Ümit Bektaş/ReutersShare
Donald Trump signed two different govt orders immediately, amid his tariff bulletins.
One directs his administration to “strictly implement the termination of the clear electrical energy manufacturing and funding tax credit”, Biden-era subsidies for wind and photo voltaic initiatives.
The opposite extends a federal hiring freeze via October 15. That order, which states “no Federal civilian place that’s presently vacant could also be stuffed, and no new place could also be created,” doesn’t apply to navy personnel, immigration enforcement, nationwide safety, public security or the Government Workplace of the President.
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Netanyahu arrives at White Home
Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived on the White Home for his scheduled talks with Donald Trump this night.
The Israeli prime minister met with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Center East envoy Steve Witkoff earlier this afternoon, the Related Press stories, citing the prime minister’s workplace.
The go to comes as oblique talks between Israel and Hamas over a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza continued for a second day on Monday.
Trump has elevated strain for a deal in Gaza in latest weeks and raised the chance {that a} ceasefire may very well be declared in a matter of hours or days.
Hamas calls for an Israeli withdrawal, whereas Netanyahu insists on Hamas disarming. The assembly between Trump and Netanyahu may give new urgency to the US ceasefire proposal, however whether or not it results in a deal that ends the struggle is unclear.
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Trump indicators govt order pushing tariff deadline to 1 August
Donald Trump has set new 25% tariffs on Japan and South Korea, in addition to new tariff charges on a dozen different nations, together with Bangladesh and South Africa. The announcement was made through a publish on Fact social that included letters despatched to the nations’ leaders.
He additionally signed an govt order on Monday extending a 90-day pause for a slate of so-called “reciprocal” tariffs first launched in April – in impact pushing again the deadline of commerce talks again to 1 August.
Learn the small print of Trump’s most up-to-date strikes right here.
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The Trump administration will deport Kilmar Ábrego García if he’s launched from custody, a Justice Division legal professional mentioned in courtroom this morning, in accordance with the New York Instances.
The Maryland father, who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March, is at present detained on smuggling expenses the Trump administration filed after he was returned to america.
Ábrego García’s attorneys have requested the Federal District Court docket listening to the smuggling case to maintain him in custody in order that the federal authorities doesn’t deport Ábrego García earlier than the felony case is concluded.
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California has rejected the Trump administration’s tips on transgender athletes, schooling secretary Linda McMahon mentioned in a social media publish.
Since taking workplace in January, Donald Trump has directed his Training Division to implement Title IX, a civil rights legislation stopping intercourse discrimination, to forestall transgender athletes from competing on groups that align with their gender id. In June, the Training Division discovered that California had violated civil rights legislation by permitting transgender ladies to compete on ladies sports activities groups.
In her publish, McMahon included electronic mail screenshots displaying that the California Division of Training and Interscholastic Federation had opted to not adjust to the Trump administration proposal, which might have required the state to apologize to athletes who had misplaced competitions to trans athletes.
In a screenshot of an electronic mail, California Training Division basic counsel Len Garfinkel wrote that the state “respectfully disagrees” with the Trump Administration’s evaluation.
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