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Today's Top News Compilation - Friday, July 24, 2020

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No virus bill yet: White House, GOP at odds over jobless aid
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Foreign adversaries seek to 'compromise' campaigns
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Trump admits he 'often' regrets tweets, retweets get him 'into trouble'
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Extra unemployment aid expires as virus threatens new states
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U.S. charges 18 Portland protesters as it sends tactical police to Seattle
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Judge faults Trump administration's response to DACA ruling
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Lawsuit challenges imminent expulsion of migrant children previously held at Texas hotel
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Trump’s new campaign boss predicts ‘knock-down, drag-out fight’
Democrats say Trump election czar isn't telling the whole story about Russian interference
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With no new law to curb drug costs, Trump tries own changes
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‘Make America Normal Again’: Trump backers plead for a virus plan
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Singaporean man pleads guilty to acting as secret agent for Chinese government
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All new DACA applications put in 'pending' bucket, government lawyer says
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Trump reverses on convention, masks, briefings
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Judge denies Oregon's request to stop arrests by federal agents in Portland
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ICE bans new international students enrolled in online-only classes from entering U.S.
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Dozens evacuated in Argentine skyscraper fire

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Forty people were treated for smoke inhalation after the fire broke out in the Argentine capital.
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Trade, tariffs and visas to dominate Trump-Modi talks

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The leaders share a warm relationship, but both will have their own wish list when they meet this week.
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Stripey-faced fish named after warrior princess San

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The newly discovered fish has stripes on its face like the Studio Ghibli warrior princess.
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Germany's once-mighty car industry is in crisis. What will it take to fix it?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The German auto manufacturing sector is struggling. Can it get back on the road to recovery?
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With Elon Musk watching, Trump says he's giving DOGE even more power

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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he was signing an executive order to give tech billionaire Elon Musk more power over the federal workforce, adding to Musk's swift and sweeping consolidation of political influence.

With Musk standing to his right in the Oval Office, Trump praised the work of his office, known as the Department of Government Efficiency Service (DOGE). And Trump said he wanted Musk to now do more, even as DOGE faces multiple lawsuits from labor unions and Democratic state attorneys general over whether it is acting within the law...
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Appeals court rejects Trump administration bid to reinstate funding freeze

  • News source: Daniel Barnes, Chloe Atkins and Dareh Gregorian |
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected the Trump administration's bid to pause a lower court's order that temporarily halted a massive freeze in federal funding.

A judge in Rhode Island on Monday blocked the funding freeze and ordered the government to “immediately restore frozen funding.”

In its ruling Tuesday, a three-judge panel for the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote that the "defendants do not cite any authority in support of their administrative stay request or identify any harm related to a specific funding action or actions...
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Kilauea is shooting lava again. It is the Hawaii volcano's latest activity in an on-and-off eruption

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Musk's son 'Lil X' steals spotlight in the Oval Office

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The billionaire has brought his four-year-old to numerous Washington events.
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AP says White House banned its reporter over Gulf of America name

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The Associated Press pushed back against the Trump administration on Tuesday after one of its reporters was blocked from an event over the news organization's guidance on its continued use of the "Gulf of Mexico" in its coverage, calling the move a violation of the First Amendment.

The White House demanded early Tuesday that the AP alter its style guidance to use the name Gulf of America versus using the Gulf of Mexico, AP executive editor Julie Pace said in a statement. President Trump renamed the body of water to the Gulf of America through an...
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Georgia congressman moves to help Trump acquire Greenland and rename it 'Red, White and Blueland'

  • News source: FOX News
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Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., has thrown his support behind President Donald Trump's quest to acquire Greenland — and has taken a step in Americanizing the country's name.

Carter introduced a bill on Tuesday proposing that Greenland's name be changed to Red, White and Blueland. In a press release, the Georgia congressman wrote that "America is back and will soon be bigger than ever" with the addition of the Nordic country.

"President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national security priority, and we will...
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Trump to sign order instructing DOGE to massively cut federal workforce

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday instructing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to coordinate with federal agencies and execute massive cuts in federal government staffing numbers.

The order will instruct DOGE and federal agencies to work together to "significantly" shrink the size of the federal government and limit hiring new employees, according to a White House fact sheet on the order. Specifically, agencies must not hire more than one employee for every four that leave their federal post...
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'Serious consequences': Ted Cruz delivers strong warning to illegal immigrants fleeing Border Patrol

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FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is launching a new push to target illegal immigrants who flee from law enforcement — named after a Border Patrol agent killed pursuing illegal aliens.

Cruz is reintroducing the Senate version of the Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act.

The bill is named after Border Patrol Agent Raul Gonzalez, who was killed in a vehicle crash in Texas in 2022 while pursuing illegal immigrants. The bill would make failure to yield to a Border Patrol agent a felony punishable by up to two years in prison.

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Tulsi Gabbard confirmation vote set for Wednesday after snowstorm thwarts midnight session

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump is on the cusp of seeing his 14th Cabinet member confirmed in former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.

Gabbard is slated for a final Senate confirmation vote to be Trump's director of national intelligence (DNI) on Wednesday morning, after the planned midnight vote was scrapped due to a snowstorm in Washington, D.C.

The 30 hours of post-cloture debate officially expires on her nomination just after midnight.

Frequently, the debate between the cloture motion and the final vote is minimized in what's referred to as a "time...
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'Ineffective' generic drugs fuel rare public anger in China

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The way medicines are selected for use in public hospitals is under scrutiny after doctors raised concerns.
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The American goods that could rise in price from metal tariffs

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Donald Trump's plans for tariffs risk raising prices for items from cars to canned food.
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