ICE Halts Most Vehicle Stops After Fatal Shootings

Energy Drop Pulls Inflation Down to 3.5%

Trump Plans Election Security Address Ahead of Midterms

Hochul Pauses New Hyperscale Data Centers Statewide

Trump Threatens Iran’s Power Grid as U.S. Strikes Expand

ICE Halts Most Vehicle Stops After Fatal Shootings

Immigration and Customs Enforcement temporarily suspended most vehicle stops nationwide Tuesday while officers receive additional training. The order followed fatal shootings by federal agents of two immigrants in vehicles within a week. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican national, was killed July 7 in Houston after agents stopped his vehicle during an operation targeting a different man. Federal agents then killed a 26-year-old Colombian man in his vehicle July 13 in Biddeford, Maine. The temporary policy exempts stops involving serious criminal targets. White House border czar Tom Homan called the move a short pause, while the Department of Homeland Security had not responded to questions about the policy. Because ICE regularly uses vehicle stops that can be conducted without a judicial warrant, even a temporary nationwide halt represents a significant change in the agency’s enforcement operations.

Texas Tribune

Energy Drop Pulls Inflation Down to 3.5%

Consumer prices fell a seasonally adjusted 0.4% in June, lowering the annual inflation rate to 3.5% from 4.2% in May and beating economists’ expectations, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. The energy index dropped 5.7%, its steepest monthly decline since April 2020, as prices retreated after rising during the U.S.-Iran war. Gasoline prices fell 9.7% during June but remained 26.7% higher than a year earlier. Core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy costs, was unchanged for the month and slowed to 2.6% over 12 months. Any energy-price increases tied to renewed hostilities would appear in future inflation reports, not the June data. The report offers households some near-term relief and gives the Federal Reserve a cooler reading to weigh as it considers future interest-rate decisions.

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Trump Plans Election Security Address Ahead of Midterms

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will deliver a prime-time address at 9 p.m. Thursday focused in part on U.S. election security and voting machines. Trump said he had “really big news” but declined to provide details. People briefed on the plan said the address would draw on reexamined government files to argue that election infrastructure has vulnerabilities.

CNN / Houston Public Media / U.S. News & World Report

Hochul Pauses New Hyperscale Data Centers Statewide

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Tuesday creating what the state called the country’s first statewide moratorium on new hyperscale data centers. For up to one year, the state Department of Environmental Conservation will withhold discretionary permits for projects whose applications have not already been deemed complete while regulators develop a generic environmental impact statement. The review will assess effects on energy demand, water use and quality, air quality and other environmental concerns. The pause will end once the state finalizes its standards, allowing projects to proceed if they comply with state rules, zoning codes and other local approvals. Hochul also directed Empire State Development to issue a community-investment framework within 60 days to guide negotiations over local benefits such as infrastructure improvements, child care investments and direct financial support. The order responds to rapid growth in data center proposals tied to artificial intelligence and other computing operations, which the state says could place substantial demands on energy and water supplies.

Empire State Development

Trump Threatens Iran’s Power Grid as U.S. Strikes Expand

President Donald Trump threatened Tuesday to order U.S. strikes on Iran’s power plants and bridges next week unless Tehran resumes negotiations, potentially widening the campaign to infrastructure that supports daily life. The warning came as the United States restarted its naval blockade of Iranian ports after a June ceasefire agreement and negotiating period broke down. U.S. forces also conducted additional strikes, while the Treasury Department froze more than $130 million in digital assets it said were controlled by Iran’s central bank and sanctioned more than 50 targets tied to an alleged sanctions-evasion network. U.S. Central Command said Iran had attacked seven commercial ships in the previous week, leaving nearly a dozen crew members dead, injured or missing. With about a fifth of the world’s oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz, attacks on power generation and continued fighting around shipping lanes could disrupt civilian services and global energy markets. The renewed combat also revives debate over the War Powers Resolution and whether Congress must authorize continuing U.S. operations.

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JULY 15, 2006: TWITTER LAUNCHES AS A DIGITAL PRINTING PRESS FOR THE MASSES

Twitter’s launch turned any mobile phone into a pocket-sized publishing press, letting ordinary people broadcast short messages to the world in real time. Like the printing press shattered the monopoly of scribes and elites over written communication, Twitter weakened gatekeepers in media and politics by enabling direct, unfiltered speech. Its legacy is a new information ecosystem in which news, social movements and cultural moments can ignite and spread globally in seconds, for better and for worse.

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1. Texas Tribune
2. CNBC / CBS News / BLS / Fox Business
3. CNN / Houston Public Media / U.S. News & World Report
4. Empire State Development
5. CNN / Al Jazeera / CBS News / The Week / Japan Times