A group of high-profile CEOs joined President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday to showcase a proposed investment account program for newborn children, named after the president, as part of the Trump-backed budget bill, an initiative which would automatically grant a $1,000 investment account to newborn Americans. Trump officially announced the “Trump savings accounts” at a Monday afternoon roundtable alongside Dell CEO Michael Dell, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon and Uber CEO Dara...

Donald Trump unveiled a federal program Monday providing $1,000 government-funded investment accounts for American babies, getting big time backing from top business leaders who plan to contribute billions more to an initiative tied to “the big beautiful bill”. At a White House roundtable with over a dozen CEOs, including from Uber, Goldman Sachs and Dell Technologies, Trump relayed the details of “Trump accounts” – tax-deferred investment accounts tracking stock market performance...

A British news photographer has undergone emergency surgery after being hit by a non-lethal bullet while documenting the stand-off between police and protesters in the US city of Los Angeles. Nick Stern was covering the protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Sunday when he said a three-inch "plastic bullet" tore into his thigh. "There was something hard sticking out of the back of my leg and my leg was getting wet from blood," he told the BBC. Demonstrations against...

Members of Texas’ Republican congressional delegation met on Monday to discuss the prospect of redistricting to try and tilt the state further in the GOP’s favor before the 2026 midterm elections. The lawmakers left the meeting not enthused about the prospect, according to a person familiar with their thinking. The New York Times reported earlier that the White House’s political team had encouraged the delegation to consider such a measure.

At least nine people are believed to have been killed in a school shooting in the southern Austrian city of Graz. Police have so far confirmed that several people were shot dead at the secondary school in Dreierschützengasse, including the suspect. The city’s mayor, Elke Kahr, reported that nine had been killed in what she called a “terrible tragedy”, revising an earlier reported death toll of ten.

Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg was deported from Israel on Tuesday, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said, the day after the Israeli navy prevented her and a group of fellow pro-Palestinian activists from sailing to Gaza. Thunberg, 22, was put on a flight to France, the ministry said, adding that she would travel on to Sweden from there.

A former employee of the Department of Government Efficiency says that he found that the federal waste, fraud and abuse that his agency was supposed to uncover were "relatively nonexistent" during his short time embedded within the Department of Veterans Affairs. "I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was," Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

A vaccinated Army pilot, who was reprimanded after his initial hesitation to receive the COVID-19 shot, is still being denied promotion and could be separated from the military in September.

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