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Today's Top News Compilation - Thursday, July 2, 2020

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Musk used 'What did you get done this week?' tactic at Twitter

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Elon Musk is again using tactics that he has employed at his company X and trying to apply it to the federal government.
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Democrat Rep Ritchie Torres endorses Cuomo for New York City mayor over Eric Adams: report

  • News source: FOX News
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Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., has endorsed Andrew Cuomo to run for mayor of New York City in the latest blow to incumbent Democrat first-termer, Mayor Eric Adams.

"The two most important things we need are competence and courage," Torres, who represents the Bronx, told the New York Post.

"Andrew Cuomo has the competence to govern the city. He has the courage to stand up to extremist politics – both from the far left and far right," Torres said, adding: "We don’t need a Mr. Nice Guy. We need a Mr. Tough Guy."

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Trump deploys SpongeBob meme to troll DOGE critics

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump shared a SpongeBob SquarePants-themed meme after Elon Musk announced that federal workers would receive an email seeking information about what they accomplished last week.

The meme features a list titled, "Got Done Last Week." The five items on the list include, "Cried about Trump," "Cried about Elon," "Made it into the office for once," "Read some emails," and "Cried about Trump and Elon some more."

Trump shared the meme on Truth Social shortly after Musk shared it on X.

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Trump welcomes French President Macron to White House with focus on Ukraine

  • News source: Matthew Lee and Aamer Madhani | The Associated
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President Donald Trump welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron to the White House for talks on Monday at a moment of deep uncertainty about the future of transatlantic relations, with Trump transforming American foreign policy and effectively tuning out European leadership as he looks to quickly end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Trump also has made demands for territory — Greenland, Canada, Gaza and the Panama Canal — as well as precious rare earth minerals from Ukraine. Just over a month into his second term, the “America First” president has cast an...
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WATCH: Rescued baby seal settles in at Connecticut aquarium

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Chappy the seal is around 6 weeks old and has a new home at the Mystic Aquarium.
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Trump's new SBA chief unleashes 'Day One' priorities to transform agency into 'golden era of prosperity'

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX: Newly-confirmed Small Business Administration (SBA) administrator Kelly Loeffler is unveiling the agency's top priorities over the next four years as she aims to work with President Trump to create a "golden era of prosperity and growth."

Loeffler, confirmed in the Senate by a 52–46 margin last week, issued a "Day One" memo on Monday outlining the top priorities for the agency that will be tasked with the directive to "carry out President Trump’s America First agenda and empower small businesses to thrive" and to become an "America...
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Kenyan police officer killed confronting gang members in Haiti

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The officer is the first casualty suffered by the Kenyan-led Multinational Security Support mission.
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Love, loss and duty: Ukraine's photojournalists share stories of war

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Moving accounts of some of the men and women behind the striking images that have encapsulated the war.
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Trump 2nd term live updates: Fired Joint Chiefs chairman posts farewell message

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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President Donald Trump and members of his second administration are continuing their effort to swiftly remake the federal government.
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As federal funding dries up, states turn to opioid settlement money

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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At a recent Nevada legislative committee hearing, lawmakers faced off with members of the governor's administration over how to fill gaping holes in the state's upcoming budget.

At issue: whether opioid settlement money — paid by health care companies that were sued for fueling the opioid crisis and meant to help states abate addiction — should be funneled to two counties for a safety net program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, which is aimed at helping low-income children and families.

Previous funding "will no longer be available after...
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WATCH: A-Rod sinks half-court shot, winning student $10,000

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Former baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez nailed the shot at a Bucknell University basketball game, and the payday went to a lucky student.
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Bureaucracies 'cannibalizing our nation' lawmaker says, expressing empathy for federal workers facing job cuts

  • News source: FOX News
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As the Trump administration moves to slash thousands of government jobs, Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., issued a message to federal workers facing joblessness, expressing empathy for their situation while also asserting that bureaucracies have been "cannibalizing" the country.

Higgins, who has served as a House lawmaker since 2017, also declared that federal workers' jobs were not more important than other Americans' private sector jobs.

"I’m a compassionate man. I know loss and struggle, I understand financial hardship, I know what it is to face...
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'Escape poverty': Millions more food stamp recipients required to work under new House GOP proposal

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans are eyeing reforms to federal benefits that would impose work requirements on a wider swath of Americans.

Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., chair of the right-wing pragmatist Main Street Caucus, is planning to introduce the "America Works Act of 2025," Fox News Digital has learned.

The bill would mandate that single, able-bodied Americans on the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) – colloquially known as food stamps – between the ages of 18 and 65 take on at least 20 hours per week of work or work-related...
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Germany's conservatives celebrate, but far right enjoy record result

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Friedrich Merz will try to form a coalition after his Christian Democrats won less than 30% of the vote.
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Love, loss and duty: Ukraine's photojournalists share stories of war

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Moving accounts of some of the men and women behind the striking images that have encapsulated the war.
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