President Donald Trump introduced on Monday that he plans to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the best civilian honor — to his former personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani was hospitalized over the weekend after sustaining a number of accidents in a automotive accident.
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The Taliban are asking for international help after an earthquake destroyed total villages in Afghanistan. At least 1,100 folks have been killed and greater than 3,200 have been injured when the 6.0-magnitude temblor struck close to the Pakistan border on Sunday. Search and rescue efforts within the distant mountainous areas have been hindered by broken roads, heavy rain and landslides. The war-ravaged nation was already within the throes of a humanitarian disaster when the Taliban seized energy in 2021 and the scenario has solely gotten worse — particularly for girls and ladies, whose rights have been stripped away by the militant group. In response, many humanitarian organizations withdrew from Afghanistan, and support declined to $767 million in 2025, down from $3.8 billion in 2022. Now, the UK plans to give $1.3 million in new emergency funding to households affected by the earthquake. India has already delivered 1,000 tents to Kabul and 15 metric tons of meals support to Kunar. So far, the US State Department has despatched “heartfelt condolences to the Afghan people.”
At least 1,000 people were killed when a landslide destroyed a village in western Sudan over the weekend. According to the Sudan Liberation Movement-Army, just one particular person from the village survived. The motion is now interesting for worldwide assist to get well the our bodies of victims within the Marra Mountains space. The scenario in Sudan was already dire earlier than this newest catastrophe. The two-year civil warfare, which the UN has described because the world’s “most devastating humanitarian and displacement crisis,” has left greater than 28,000 folks useless. Men and boys have been focused and slain on ethnic grounds. Women and ladies have been raped, kidnapped and compelled into marriage. Infrastructure has been obliterated. More than 14 million folks have fled their properties and now suffer from a lack of shelter, food, operating water, medical provides and electrical energy. Many of the displaced settled within the mountains the place the landslide occurred.
President Trump appeared to raise fresh questions about the Covid-19 vaccines that have been developed throughout his first administration. “Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree! With CDC being ripped apart over this question, I want the answer, and I want it NOW,” he wrote on his social media website Monday. The publish was Trump’s first public feedback concerning the CDC for the reason that company’s director, Dr. Susan Monarez, was fired amid a dispute over vaccines. Following her departure, a number of different high-level veteran company officers resigned. Trump’s feedback additionally got here after the FDA accepted the up to date Covid-19 vaccine, however solely for adults 65 and older and youthful folks with sure medical circumstances that put them at the next threat of a extreme COVID-19 an infection. Those who fall exterior the parameters and nonetheless need entry to the vaccine should get it prescribed “off-label.” It’s additionally unclear if insurance coverage corporations pays for it.
Chicago is bracing for the Trump administration’s deliberate enhance in federal immigration enforcement that may begin as soon as this week. According to a number of sources, the operation may contain ICE and Customs and Border Protection brokers in addition to National Guard troops. Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker referred to as the deliberate operation disruptive and dangerous. “No one in the administration — the president or anybody under him — has called anyone in my administration, or me. So, it’s clear that in secret they’re planning this — well, it’s an invasion with US troops, if they in fact do that,” Pritzker stated. In an effort to resist “escalating threats from the federal government,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an government order demanding that President Trump “stand down” from deploying army forces within the metropolis. The order additionally directs metropolis departments to “resist coordinated efforts from the federal government” that violate the rights of Chicagoans.
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One month earlier than the mass shooting at the Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis that killed two kids and injured 21 others, the Trump administration minimize funding for packages aimed toward figuring out potential mass shooters. The grants, which have been a part of $18.5 million in cuts at Homeland Security, funded packages on the Minnesota Department of Public Safety and Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office to assess and handle mass violence threats. In a letter shared with NCS, DHS alleged the cash went to “openly partisan and political organizations.” But some politicians say the funding cuts left the state much less outfitted to forestall such assaults. Before the mass capturing on the church and faculty, the lawmakers had despatched a letter to DHS asking for the grants to be reinstated. The letter referenced the capturing of state lawmakers in June and cited violence directed at non secular teams and threats to colleges. “Never in our worst nightmares could we have imagined another tragedy occurring so soon,” Democratic Rep. Betty McCollum stated.
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