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- The U.S. has “identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime” in Syria.
- The Senate Republican health care bill would leave 22 million more Americans uninsured in 2026 than under President Barack Obama’s health care law while giving the wealthy the biggest tax breaks in living memory, the Congressional Budget Office estimated.
- President Donald Trump and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi heralded an increasingly close strategic partnership as the U.S. branded a top militant from neighboring Pakistan as a “global terrorist.”
- The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to forge ahead with a limited version of his ban on travel from six mostly Muslim countries to the U.S. Trump hailed the decision as a “victory for national security,” but it’s likely to set off a new round of court disputes over anti-terror efforts and religious discrimination.
- Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) ripped the GOP proposal to repeal and replace ObamaCare on Monday night. “I know this is a very sensitive issue, but I’m going to raise it, and that is that the horrible and unspeakable truth is that if this legislation were to pass … many thousands of our fellow Americans every single year will die, and many more will suffer and become much sicker than they should,” Sanders said from the Senate floor. Sanders added that it is, “barbaric and immoral.”
- The image of the United States has deteriorated sharply across the globe under President Donald Trump and an overwhelming majority of people in other countries have no confidence in his ability to lead, a survey from the Pew Research Center showed. Five months into Trump’s presidency, the survey spanning 37 nations showed U.S. favorability ratings in the rest of the world slumping to 49 percent from 64 percent at the end of Barack Obama’s eight years in the White House.
- The United States plans to place China on its global list of worst offenders in human trafficking and forced labor. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has decided to drop China to “Tier 3,” the lowest grade, putting it alongside Iran, North Korea and Syria.
- Brazil’s top federal prosecutor charged President Michel Temer with taking multimillion-dollar bribes in a stinging blow to the unpopular leader and to political stability in Latin America’s largest country.
- Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto Co’s popular Roundup weed killer, will be added to California’s list of chemicals known to cause cancer effective July 7. Monsanto vowed to continue its legal fight against the designation.
- Former pharmaceutical chief executive Martin Shkreli will begin his trial in New York next week and is charged with fraud.
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