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“Big, beautiful” tax bill would add $2.4 trillion to US debts, CBO says. Senators are still debating possible changes to the megabill on taxes and spending championed by President Trump, but an analysis released yesterday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found it would substantially add to the deficit over the next decade while cutting taxes by $3.75 trillion. The bill would also leave an additional 10.9 million people without health insurance, the CBO said. Though Republicans united to pass the bill in the House, some GOP senators remain wary, and high-profile Trump supporter Elon Musk also recently spoke out against it. The CBO analysis doesn’t take into account other possible economic changes—including a separate CBO estimate that Trump’s tariffs could shrink budget deficits by $2.8 trillion over ten years if they remain in place.
Trump bans 12 countries’ citizens from entering the US. President Trump signed a proclamation yesterday barring people from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen from entering the US as of Monday. The order will also impose new restrictions on the entry of citizens from another seven countries, including Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela. The move echoes the controversial so-called Muslim Ban restricting entry to people from several countries that Trump issued during his first term in office.
Putin vowed retaliation for Ukraine’s drone attack, Trump says. After speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone for over an hour yesterday, President Trump said Russia was determined to respond to Ukraine’s recent drone attack, which severely damaged Russia’s strategic bomber fleet. Trump described the phone call on social media as “a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate peace” between Russia and Ukraine, something the US has been trying to broker. The two leaders also discussed Iran, with Trump saying they agreed that “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.”—AR
Robert Reich
While America’s Front Doors are Closing to China, Back Doors are Opening
The hypocrisy of Trump’s techno-nationalism
Friends,
When it comes to non-Americans, Trump and his regime are clear: Foreigners — especially if they’re Chinese — are no longer wanted here. Nor are their products. Nor are we prepared to sell them our advanced technologies.
But foreign bribes? Hell, they’re welcome at the highest levels, even if they result in some critical technologies reaching China.
First, consider all the front doors now closing to China.
The State Department is revoking the visas of Chinese students who are “studying in critical fields.” This could be a big deal. Some 277,000 students from China attended school in the United States last year, second only to the number of students from India.
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In The NEWS
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
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> President Donald Trump threatens hefty fines against California after state allowed a transgender female athlete to compete in track and field championships (More) | New York Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau fired after five seasons despite team reaching Eastern Conference Finals for first time in 25 years (More)
Science & Technology
> China's DeepSeek may have trained its latest AI chatbot in part on Google's Gemini, new research suggests; the company made waves earlier this year for its low-cost model (More)
> Scientists make most precise measurement to date of the magnetic properties of the muon, a subatomic particle created by cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere; results confirm anomalous properties not explained by theory (More)
> New simulation reveals second-by-second details of what happens when a black hole consumes a neutron star; results let astrophysicists know what signals to look for to identify the events (More) | 1440 Topics: Black Holes (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.6%, Dow +0.5%, Nasdaq +0.8%); Nvidia overtakes Microsoft as world's most valuable company (More) | US tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to double starting today (More) | Ford reports 16% year-over-year US sales increase in May amid tariffs (More)
> US job openings rose to 7.4 million in April, up 191,000 from March and higher than expected, per Labor Department data (More) | Dollar General sets quarterly sales record of over $10B as Americans spend more at bargain stores (More)
> Walmart, Amazon, and UnitedHealth top Fortune 500 annual list of largest US companies by revenue (More) | Number of women CEOs leading Fortune 500 companies hits new record of 55 (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> White House proposes package to Congress to reclaim $9.4B in approved spending, mostly targeting foreign aid (More) | US immigration authorities detain family of suspect in Colorado attack (More) | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders removal of gay rights activist Harvey Milk's name from a Navy oil ship (More)
> Liberal Lee Jae-myung wins South Korean presidency, ending months of political instability after the ousting of former conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol (More) | Mexico's ruling Morena party appears likely to control the Supreme Court in the country's first judicial election (More)
> Crimea bridge reopens after Ukraine carried out underwater explosion; bridge connects the Russian-occupied peninsula to Russia (More) | Gunfire near Gaza aid site kills at least 27 people; Israeli military says it fired near people who strayed from a designated route to the site and who did not respond to warning shots (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
Wars and Rumors of Wars
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Is war good for the USA?
Yes and no...
Not straddling the fence, that answer is accurate.
Yes, because of all the business it will create making items for war.
No, because supply chains will be disrupted and Americans will have to do without and/or pay higher prices.
However, I believe the Yeses outweigh the no's.
Why?
Money...
With this said, if there is a WORLD WAR like WWIII, then I believe the cons will outweigh the pros.
This is especially true, if the war is brought into our borders which it is hard to believe that this will ever happen again, but if it does, Americans are not mentally or physically equipped or prepared to fight a war inside our borders.
However, if something like that were to happen, it would be the wealthy who more than likely will survive the crisis as if there had been no crisis at all.
The average American and those who are poor who suffer the most, along with the elderly who by default would be more needy of things.
On the whole, WAR IS NOT GOOD... yet, Americans are constantly being sent overseas to fight wars. The countries they are sent to, don't want them there either... Our leaders send Americans there to try and convince those countries to become democracies, like us.
Very few countries and ethnic groups want to be like AMERICANS.
Scientists find a way to fit diamond quantum sensors inside living cells
What do luxury diamonds, quantum physics, and your flat-screen QLED TV have in common? Well, if you combine their characteristics, you could have quantum sensors that could fit inside your cell and detect diseases like diabetes, cancer, etc., at their earliest stages.
This isn’t some far-fetched idea, but the latest achievement from researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa.
Using a special shell, which is also used in QLED screens, they transformed ordinary diamond nanoparticles into advanced quantum sensors that can work inside living cells. This innovation could revolutionize how we monitor cellular health and detect diseases early.
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