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Trump Signs Signature Policy Bill at Independence Day Event

President Trump triumphantly highlighted tax cuts in the legislation while downplaying cuts to Medicaid and other assistance for poor Americans.

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President Trump signing his large domestic policy bill into law during a ceremony on Friday afternoon at the White House, a day after the House narrowly passed it.

Rescuers Search for Texas Flood Victims by Air, Water and Land

Hundreds of emergency personnel were searching for stranded people, using 14 helicopters, though crews were struggling to navigate flooded roads, officials said.

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Officials said they were using 14 helicopters and several boats to search for people who survived the flooding along the Guadalupe River in Texas, and to guide ground teams.

Camp Mystic in Texas, Where 20 Children Are Missing, Is Nearly a Century Old

Camp Mystic, on the banks of the Guadalupe River in Hunt, Texas, has been operated by generations of the same family since the 1930s.

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The flooded Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas, on Friday. At least 20 girls were missing from Camp Mystic, a nearly century-old girls camp in nearby Hunt, Texas.

Pro-Palestinian Activists Lose Appeal Against U.K. Government Ban

The decision means that the group called Palestine Action will be banned as a terrorist organization in Britain while its full legal challenge to the ban plays out.

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A Palestine Action activist, Lisa Luxx, outside the High Court in London on Friday.

Joseph Giordano, Surgeon Who Helped Save Reagan’s Life, Dies at 84

He had built one of the country’s leading trauma centers in Washington, which made it possible for his team to respond quickly after the president was shot.

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Dr. Joseph Giordano (seated at the table at far left) appeared with other surgeons at a news conference at George Washington University Hospital on April 3, 1981, four days after President Ronald Reagan had been admitted there for gunshot wounds.

Court Rejects Effort to Keep Migrants From Being Sent to South Sudan

After the Supreme Court ruled that the deportations could move forward, a last-ditch attempt to block them with a new lawsuit faltered.

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Camp Lemonnier, the U.S. military base in Djibouti, last year. The eight men the government hopes to deport to South Sudan have been held at the base for several weeks.

Jewish Leaders Denounce Trump’s Use of Centuries-Old Trope

President Trump said he did not realize that the term “Shylock” was viewed as antisemitic.

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President Trump made the reference at a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday evening.

Hamas Says It’s Ready to ‘Immediately” Return to Truce Negotiations

It was not immediately clear whether the group was demanding any significant changes to the plan for a 60-day truce, hostage-for-prisoner swaps and talks on a permanent end to the Gaza war.

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Palestinians in the wreckage of a building after Israeli aircraft bombed a building in Gaza City.

Some Americans Are Protesting the Trump Administration on July 4

While demonstrations from Washington to Los Angeles were largely festive, with food trucks and live music, protesters were determined to speak for their cause.

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Demonstrators gathered in Los Angeles to protest the Trump administration, one of hundreds of protests around the country on Friday.
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