'Are you justifying their behaviour?': Noem blasts Dems over illegal migrants at Senate hearing
At a fiery Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem slammed Democratic senators over the surge in illegal migration. She accused them of failing to protect American borders and putting politics over national security, demanding urgent federal action to stop the influx.
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- The Hindu
Elon Musk renews criticism of Trump's ‘big beautiful bill' as it faces key Senate vote
Elon Musk on Saturday (June 28, 2025) doubled down on his distaste for U.S. President Donald Trump's sprawling tax and spending cuts bill, arguing the legislation that Republican senators are scrambling to pass would kill jobs and bog down burgeoning industries. 'The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country,' Mr. Musk wrote on X on Saturday as the Senate was scheduled to call a vote to open debate on the nearly 1,000-page bill. 'It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future.' The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, whose birthday is also Saturday, later posted that the bill would be 'political suicide for the Republican Party". The criticisms reopen a recent fiery conflict between the former head of the Department of Government Efficiency and the administration he recently left. They also represent yet another headache for Republican Senate leaders who have spent the weekend working overtime to get the legislation through their chamber so it can pass by Mr. Trump's Fourth of July deadline. Mr. Musk previously made his opinions about Mr. Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' clear. Days after he left the federal government last month with a laudatory celebration in the Oval Office, he blasted the bill as 'pork-filled' and a 'disgusting abomination". 'Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it,' he wrote on X earlier this month. In another post, the wealthy GOP donor who recently forecasted that he'd step back from political donations threatened to fire lawmakers who 'betrayed the American people". When Mr. Trump clapped back to say he was disappointed with Mr. Musk, back-and-forth fighting erupted and quickly escalated. Mr. Musk suggested without evidence that Mr. Trump, who spent the first part of the year as one of his closest allies, was mentioned in files related to sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein. Mr. Musk ultimately tried to make nice with the administration, saying he regretted some of his posts that 'went too far". Mr. Trump responded in kind in an interview with The New York Post, saying, 'Things like that happen. I don't blame him for anything.' It's unclear how Mr. Musk's latest broadsides will influence the fragile peace he and the president had enjoyed in recent weeks. The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Mr. Musk has spent recent weeks focused on his businesses, and his political influence has waned since he left the administration. Still, the wealthy businessman poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Mr. Trump's campaign in 2024, demonstrating the impact his money can have if he's passionate enough about an issue or candidate to restart his political spending.
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First Post
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- First Post
IAEA chief warns Iran will likely go back to producing enriched uranium ‘in a matter of months'
Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog, warned that Iran is likely to go back to producing enriched uranium needed for making bombs in a 'matter of months,' despite strikes from Israel and the US read more The United Nations nuclear watchdog boss, Rafael Grossi, warned that Iran will likely be able to begin producing enriched uranium 'in a matter of months", despite damage it suffered due to Israeli and American strikes. West Asia was rattled after Israel launched Operation Rising Lion , targeting Iran's nuclear and military facilities on June 13. At that time, the Israeli authorities argued that the strikes were necessary since Iran was just a few weeks away from developing nuclear weapons, an ambition the Islamic Republic has consistently denied. The US government subsequently bombed three key facilities used for Tehran's atomic program, with the country's President Donald Trump assuring that the sites were completely 'obliterated'. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Meanwhile, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that the extent of the damage to the nuclear sites is 'serious'. However, Iran has kept the details of destruction hidden. When asked how far Iran's nuclear ambitions have been pushed back, Trump said that Tehran's nuclear program had been set back 'decades'. Grossi issues a serious warning On Saturday, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned that some of Iran's nuclear infrastructure 'is still standing'. 'They can have, you know, in a matter of months, I would say, a few cascades of centrifuges spinning and producing enriched uranium, or less than that,' Grossi said in an interview with CBS News. Grossi maintained that another key question that emerges in the aftermath of the conflict is whether Iran was able to relocate some or all of its estimated 408.6kg (900lbs) stockpile of highly enriched uranium before the attacks. Before the strikes, it was found that Iran's uranium is enriched to 60 per cent above levels for civilian usage but still below weapons grade. If it is further refined, it would theoretically be sufficient to produce more than nine nuclear bombs. 'We don't know where this material could be,' Grossi admitted. 'So some could have been destroyed as part of the attack, but some could have been moved. So there has to be, at some point, a clarification," he furthered. Trump administration thinks otherwise In the midst of all this, Iranian lawmakers have voted to suspend cooperation with the IAEA, rejecting Grossi's request for a visit to the damaged sites. 'We need to be in a position to ascertain, to confirm what is there, and where it is, and what happened,' Grossi said. In a separate interview with Fox News, US President Donald Trump said he did not think the stockpile had been moved from the nuclear facilities. 'It's a very hard thing to do, plus we didn't give much notice,' the US president said, according to excerpts of the interview. 'They didn't move anything.' STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD On Saturday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio reiterated Washington's support for 'the IAEA's critical verification and monitoring efforts in Iran,' commending Grossi and his agency for their 'dedication and professionalism.'
India Today
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- India Today
G7 strikes deal to spare US, UK firms from higher global taxes
The United States and its G7 partners have endorsed a new proposal that would exempt American companies from parts of a global tax deal, the Group of Seven said in a statement on proposal introduces a 'side-by-side' approach, recognising the US minimum tax system, and was made possible after the Biden administration agreed to withdraw Section 899, a contentious retaliatory tax provision included in President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill. The statement was released by Canada, which currently holds the G7's rotating G7 said the plan recognises existing US minimum tax laws and aims to bring more stability to the international tax system. The US Treasury Department said that following the removal of Section 899 from the US Senate version of the tax and spending bill, there is a shared understanding that a side-by-side system could preserve important gains made by jurisdictions inside the Inclusive Framework in tackling base erosion and profit shifting."We look forward to discussing and developing this understanding within the Inclusive Framework," the Department said in a post on X on businesses are also spared higher taxes after the removal of Section 899 from President Donald Trump's tax and spending said businesses would benefit from greater certainty and stability following the agreement. Some British businesses had in recent weeks said they were worried about paying substantial additional tax due to the inclusion of Section 899, which has now been agreement provides much-needed certainty and stability for those businesses after they had raised their concerns," finance minister Rachel Reeves said in a statement, adding that more work was needed to tackle aggressive tax planning and avoidance.G7 officials said that they look forward to discussing a solution that is "acceptable and implementable to all".In January, through an executive order, Trump declared that the global corporate minimum tax deal was not applicable in the US, effectively pulling out of the landmark 2021 arrangement negotiated by the Biden administration with nearly 140 also vowed to impose a retaliatory tax against countries that impose taxes on US firms under the 2021 global tax agreement. This tax was considered detrimental to many foreign companies operating in the US.- EndsTune InMust Watch
