The United States and Ukraine signed a long-awaited mineral agreement. Donald Trump accuses Joe Biden of the U.S. economy. A viral issue about humans and gorillas sparked a light-hearted debate.
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The United States and Ukraine reached an agreement. The White House said it had signed an "economic partnership" with Kiev, which would give Washington an opportunity to key minerals and natural resources in some war-torn countries after weeks of turmoil.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the deal was formed as the U.S.-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund and would allow the U.S. to “invest with Ukraine” to free up the country’s profitable assets, accelerate its economic recovery, and provide repayments from President Donald Trump for U.S. military aid.
Ukraine’s Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko said that Ukraine and the United States will jointly manage and maintain joint ownership of the investment fund. It will be funded by new Ukrainian oil, gas and critical mineral licensing, with 50% of revenue coming from the fund's license.
Trump said yesterday that the deal would be a way for the United States to recover funds to Ukraine throughout the war with Russia, with the State Department funding $66.5 billion in military aid.
Trump's confidence that Zelenskyy "want to reach a deal" to end the war after Trump and Zelensky's meeting last weekend in the Vatican. He also criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin for conducting a widespread strike on Kyiv, despite efforts by U.S. officials to obtain a ceasefire agreement.
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The U.S. economy contracted in the first three months of this year. GDP fell by 0.3% as the first negative reading since 2022, with consumer spending climbing 1.8%, the weakest rate since mid-2023. The Ministry of Commerce report also shows that inflation remains firm. After the announcement, the stock fell, even though they completed a higher day.
President Donald Trump It's quickly blamed On former President Joe Biden. "We came in on January 20, so this is Biden," Trump said at the end of his meeting with the cabinet yesterday. "And you could even say the next quarter is biden because it's not only happening every day or hourly, but we're turning things around. It's a big ship, to turn around."
Trump has predicted that his global tariffs will prompt companies to produce goods in the United States, and the economy appears to be entering a period of instability. Shipping to the West Coast ports is declining, while price increases are expected to start consuming sales data and revenue. Even fireworks show is in dangerAs American wholesalers and distributors say, they have been canceling shipments from China during their fourth holiday in July. Read the full story here.
Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi was detained in Vermont naturalization interview Free bail After the judge ordered release from federal custody yesterday. Mahdawi, who owns a green card, was the main organizer of the pro-Palestinian protests on her New York campus last year and was one of several foreign students arrested by the Trump administration in recent months. Furthermore, thousands of international students suddenly lost their legal status.
This week, the Department of Homeland Security provided some insights on how to determine how student visas will be terminated. The department said at a court hearing that it used 10 to 20 employees to run the names of 1.3 million foreign-born students through the FBI-RUN database, including criminal history information. The process fills 6,400 "hits". Eventually, about 3,000 students were revoked.
For immigration and policy experts, the implications of strengthening immigration work from teams through extensive records to the use of government databases - Causes of concern.
A Florida Christian organization has been litigated for the history of child sexual abuse allegations, claiming one of its missionaries sexually assaulted a small overseas 15 years ago.
Ethnos360 is a nonprofit organization formerly known as the New Tribal Mission, which sent missionaries and their families. In 2019, several women said that decades ago, their "dormitory dads" were sexually abused - preachers were supposed to care for children in missionary boarding schools while their parents served abroad. The team settled several lawsuits related to the allegations after the NBC News report and apologized to the public.
But this week's lawsuit claimed the group "failed to provide any care or professional assistance to a family of American children," which reported improper sexual behavior in 2012, two years after the release of the recommendations. Girl Kayla McClain, now 24, lives in Michigan and recently graduated from nursing school - she is ready to speak out. Read the full story here.
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This is the question many people have after X user Michael Sherrills accidentally raised the words in a post last week. "Everyone must give," he wrote. Since then, the debate has jumped to Tiktok, Facebook and Reddit. Discussed on the podcast; and received reactions from brands such as supermarket chain Aldi.
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