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From a tense emergency summit in Brussels to a record-breaking heatwave scorching southern Europe, July 17th has been anything but quiet. Here’s everything you need to know tonight.
Trump Media is launching a paid, real-time feed pushing ‘market-moving’ Truth Social posts to Wall Street traders before the general public sees them. The move targets hedge funds and algorithmic trading firms willing to pay for a speed advantage on politically sensitive content.
Russia barred opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin from parliamentary elections while remanding blogger Ilya Remeslo in custody. The twin moves signal a sharp escalation in the Kremlin’s campaign to silence anti-war voices.
Soldiers fighting on the front lines are speaking out against the sudden dismissal of Ukraine’s defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov. The backlash from the military adds a serious new dimension to protests that erupted across the country Thursday.
President Trump renewed claims of Chinese interference in the 2020 election during a national address, promising to declassify hundreds of pages of supporting documents. The allegations have been rejected by courts and federal agencies more than 60 times.
Donald Trump described alleged damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as stretching 300 yards — a figure that contradicts his own previous accounts. Photos of the drained pool show no obvious signs of the massive gash he’s claimed.
Hundreds rallied in Kyiv after President Zelenskyy dismissed Defence Minister Fedorov, the architect of Ukraine’s drone warfare programme. The surprise move drew rare public dissent and quiet alarm from Western allies.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered testosterone screening for all US military personnel aged 30 and older, calling the Pentagon the “High-T Department of War.” The announcement raises as many questions as it answers.
President Trump used a primetime Oval Office address to claim China stole 220 million US voter files, vowing to release declassified intelligence within days. The explosive allegation contradicts years of investigations that found no evidence of such interference.
A push to ban children from social media across the EU is colliding with legal questions about fundamental rights and a lack of political consensus among member states. Here’s why the road to any bloc-wide restriction is far longer than proponents are admitting.
