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Jul 24, 2026 - World

The Trump administration is using WNBA star Sophie Cunningham's statement that transgender athletes should not play in women's sports to boost their own policy agenda, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed to reporters during a press briefing that President Donald Trump was "following" the coverage around the Indiana Fever player's comments from an ESPN interview this week, according to The Post. Trump has made his stance on the issue clear and "moved swiftly last year to roll back transgender policies implemented by the Biden administration, including issuing an executive order that aimed to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s sports teams," The Post reported.“We want to protect women and girls,” Leavitt said during the White House press conference Thursday. She added that Cunningham's remarks were "speaking the 'truth' about transgender female athletes," according to The Post."And the backlash she is receiving from Democrats and left-wing figures across the country is astonishing," Leavitt added.Cunningham's interview has drawn backlash from other WNBA players. She has stood by her statements."I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men," Cunningham told ESPN.Republican lawmakers and tennis legend Martina Navratilova have sided with Cunningham.The Department of Education shared a photo of Cunningham wearing a crown, captioned with a message declaring that common sense prevails.Common sense prevails ???? https://t.co/hJJhKZ0CcB pic.twitter.com/4WPOgHfttM— U.S. Department of Education (@usedgov) July 22, 2026

Jul 23, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump is moving ahead with yet another plan to impose enormous tariffs around the world.According to The New York Times, the new tariffs are imposed on 60 countries deemed by the administration to allow products made with forced labor into their markets. "The tariffs will range from 10 percent to 12.5 percent and take effect at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, replacing a global 10 percent duty set to lapse at the same time."The United States, noted the report, "has prohibited the importation of goods made with slave labor for nearly a century, though it still allows prison labor under conditions that labor organizations consider coercive. In 2021, the United States passed a law banning imports from a region of China where it had found forced labor to be rampant." However, experts believe this is a pretextual argument for Trump's new tariffs.Georgetown Law School visiting scholar Peter Harrell argued this ruling “just brings home that [the U.S. Trade Representative] is using this forced labor investigation as a pretext to impose tariffs that Trump wants to impose for his own economic theories and preferences.”Among the affected entities are Canada and the European Union, which already have bans either in place or set to take effect, but which the Trump administration accuses of not properly enforcing.Trump initially tried to enact global "reciprocal tariffs" based on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). A string of federal courts, and ultimately the Supreme Court, struck down this policy, ruling IEEPA doesn't grant the president unilateral tariff powers.Since this defeat, Trump has been searching for other ways to enact similar taxes on imports, even as economists have warned his tariff policies are causing a slowdown of growth and worsening inflation.

Jul 23, 2026 - World

IRGC claims base in south-west England was used by US to launch bombing missions, making it ‘legitimate target’The government has said the UK is “ready to defend itself” after Iran’s military warned that any bases being used by the US were “legitimate targets”.The UK has allowed the US to launch “defensive” operations from British bases hosting American planes since the start of its war on Iran but has refused to help in offensive operations. Continue reading...

Jul 23, 2026 - World

Ezra Jin Mingri was inside a detention center in southern China on the morning of July 3, worrying that he would likely spend at least 15 years behind bars. The 57-year-old Chinese Christian pastor had even previously wondered whether he would live to see freedom again.

Jul 23, 2026 - World

A MAGA lawmaker got testy with a reporter on Thursday after he was pressed over President Donald Trump's behavior during the dignified transfer of four military service members killed in the Iran war.MeidasTouch reporter Pablo Manríquez asked Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) to comment on Trump not bowing his head while the dead troops were brought to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, as other leaders were showing reverence to the men and women who had made the ultimate sacrifice.Van Orden appeared annoyed and seethed over the question."You people need to quit politicizing our war dead," he said. "It’s absolutely disgusting. And you're trying to get clicks by it, and that’s shameful. We’re done," Van Orden said, walking off from the reporter on Capitol Hill.PabloReports: Trump is getting criticism for not bowing his head for the fallen at the arrival ceremony. Did you see that?Van Orden: You people need to quit politicizing our war dead. It’s absolutely disgusting. That’s shameful. We’re done. pic.twitter.com/uGSRRLZDD5— Acyn (@Acyn) July 23, 2026