Sunday, July 26, 2026
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency plans to ramp up operations to arrest Haitian immigrants whose Temporary Protected Status is expected to end soon, Fox News reports citing federal sources. In Berlin, at least one person was killed and several others injured Saturday when a car plowed into a crowd during the city's LGBTQ+ parade; police shot and killed a suspect after an hours-long manhunt on Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani of "hate speech" after Mamdani released a video calling for the federal government to arrest Netanyahu for war crimes; Netanyahu also said Mamdani is "fomenting hate" and dismissed the ICC's war-crimes charges as "bogus." Meanwhile, President Donald Trump remains trapped in a stalemate over the war in Iran, leaving him "genuinely shocked" by an enemy he cannot simply pay off, while his team is "too scared" to tell him a massive escalation won't work.
The Trump administration wants to hold the world's first deep-sea mining lease sale in federal waters near American Samoa, directly adjacent to a national wildlife refuge. Climate disruption is already rewriting the calendar of global sport: wildfires forced last-minute course changes at the Tour de France before Tadej Pogačar claimed his fifth victory on a shortened final stage as security and police were reassigned to battle blazes in southwest France, where 55,000 people were evacuated overnight and almost 400,000 have fled across Europe in what France's interior minister called probably the largest peacetime civilian evacuation ever.
Russia is suffering "narrative collapse" in its war against Ukraine as Kyiv turns the tide on the front lines and in American right-wing media, where MAGA influencer Laura Loomer traveled to Ukraine to interview President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In San Francisco's Marina District, residents are resisting a waterfront development that would bring hundreds of new homes. House Republicans, facing daunting public polling, are fanning out for August recess hunting silver linings in a midterm environment that keeps darkening for the incumbent party, while an appeals court kept the block on Trump's executive order targeting mail-in voting and courts continue siding with states' rights and the Constitution.