A federal judge again refused to move President Donald Trump’s New York hush money case to federal court, rejecting his presidential immunity arguments. Trump’s lawyers said they will appeal the ruling, which leaves his 34 felony convictions in place as his state appeal continues.
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Spain has asked Frontex to help process thousands of migrants still in Ceuta after protests and attacks on camps intensified. The unrest follows a mass crossing from Morocco that left dozens dead and has strained relations between local leaders and Madrid.
Trump said the United States has secured majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven Venezuelan oil reserves through a private-business partnership. The administration has not released details on the fields covered or the companies that would drill them.
Milo Yiannopoulos, a British far-right commentator and former Breitbart editor, was arrested by ICE at the New Orleans airport and faces removal from the United States. DHS said he overstayed after legally entering the country in 2019 and failed to appear for an immigration hearing.
Six months into the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, Tehran’s government remains entrenched, diplomacy is stalled and the Strait of Hormuz remains heavily disrupted. Washington is expanding sanctions as Iran calls the pressure campaign “economic terrorism.”
British right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos is in ICE custody in Louisiana and faces a final removal order, according to U.S. officials and agency records cited by CBS News. The circumstances of his detention remain unclear, and neither ICE nor Yiannopoulos has commented publicly.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin creating a U.S. Space Academy for the Space Force, NASA and the commercial spaceflight industry. The academy’s location has not been chosen, though Trump said a decision would come “very shortly.”
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said inflation remains above the Fed’s 2% target, leading markets to raise expectations for a possible September rate hike. He also signaled a move away from detailed forward guidance and discussed the economic effects of artificial intelligence.