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The United States will make several trade announcements in the next 48 hours, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday, ahead of a U.S. deadline on Wednesday to finalize trade pacts. “We’ve had a lot of people change their tune in terms of negotiations. So my mailbox was full last night with a lot of new offers, a lot of new proposals,” Bessent said in an interview with CNBC. “So it’s going to be a busy couple of days.” President Donald Trump said the United States would start delivering tariff letters from 12:00 pm ET (1600 GMT) on Monday. The letters would not necessarily provide an ultimatum, according to Bessent. “It’s just ‘thank you for wanting to trade with the United States of America. We welcome you as a trading partner, and here’s the rate, unless you want to come back and try to negotiate,'” he said. Bessent declined to comment on whether negotiations on new ownership of the TikTok short video app, which President Donald Trump said would start this week, would be linked to trade talks. He said he would meet with his Chinese counterpart in the next couple of weeks. “I think there are things for us to do together if the Chinese want to do it, so we will discuss whether we are able to move beyond trade into other areas,” he told CNBC.

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Authorities say a 27-year-old man was killed after opening fire at a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas. McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez identified the suspect as Ryan Louis Mosqueda and told reporters Monday morning that federal agents returned fire at Mosqueda, who had an assault rifle and was carrying a utility vest. Rodriguez said the man’s motive was currently unknown. One officer was injured in the shooting after being hit in the knee, but Rodriguez said it was unclear if the injury was from shrapnel or a bullet. The shooting took place at a facility across the street from McAllen International Airport.

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President Trump is being pushed toward amnesty instead of deportation of illegals.

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Nothing like making America haters start to cry heading into a holiday weekend. And we at Assignment Desk Weekend did not miss the chance!

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Crews trudged through debris and waded into swollen rivers in the search for victims of catastrophic flooding that has killed close to 90 people in Texas, including more than two dozen campers and counselors from an all-girls Christian camp. With additional rain on the way, the risk of more flooding was still high Monday in saturated parts of central Texas. Authorities said the death toll was sure to rise as crews looked for the many people who were still missing. Operators of Camp Mystic, a century-old summer camp in the Texas Hill Country, said they lost 27 campers and counselors.

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AG Pam Bondi is in hot water with some of the MAGA faithful after the DOJ publicly said there is no Epstein client list and his death was a suicide.

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Elon Musk's fallout from the Trump White House continues to get messier. 

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A July Fourth weekend deluge in Texas caused catastrophic flash flooding that has killed at least 85 people. Camp Mystic in Kerr County says Monday morning that it is “grieving the loss” of 27 campers and counselors as the search continues for victims of the disaster. The flooding sent a wall of water through the century-old summer camp Friday. The risk of life-threatening flooding is still high in central Texas with more rain on the way. The Texas Hill Country is home to several summer camps. Searchers there have found the bodies of 75 people, including 27 children. Ten other deaths have been reported in other parts of Texas.

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Prayers for Texas And The Left's Awful Reaction

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Mondays with Maguire (Erin Maguire) - At The White House on the 4th; Mike Johnson - the most significant Speaker in modern history; Framing the Medicare conversation properly

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Texas & The Epstein Letdown From Pam Bondi With Bonchie from RedState.

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The Failing Great American Cities Under Democrats Now Look To Islam & Socialism

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Speaker Johnson Confronts Godlessness In America

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China said that BRICS was not seeking "confrontation" after US President Donald Trump vowed to impose an extra 10 percent tariff on countries aligning with the bloc. In a joint statement the leaders of the BRICS grouping of nations that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa voiced concerns about the rise of unilateral tariff measures. Donald Trump accused the bloc of "anti-Americanism."

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The United States, which has disengaged from the council under President Donald Trump, citing an alleged antisemitic bias, was previously a supporter of the mandate under the Biden administration.

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Groups representing U.S. university professors seeking to protect international students and faculty who engage in pro-Palestinian advocacy from being deported are set to do what no other litigants challenging the Trump administration’s hardline immigration agenda have done so far: Take it to trial.

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Trump said on Sunday there was a good chance such a deal could be reached this week.

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The clock is ticking down on a deadline for countries around the world to conclude deals with the U.S.

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The risk of life-threatening flooding is still high in central Texas with more rain on the way. The urgent search for the missing continues following a holiday weekend deluge that killed at least 82 people including children at summer camps. Officials say the death toll is sure to rise. Gov. Greg Abbott says more than 40 people are unaccounted for. Searchers now have found 68 bodies in Kerr County, where a wall of water came down the Guadalupe River. Sheriff Larry Leitha says the dead include 28 children. Abbott warned Sunday that additional rounds of heavy rains lasting into Tuesday could produce more flash flooding.

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Hamas gives 'positive' response to latest Gaza ceasefire proposal Hamas says it has given a “positive” response to the latest proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza but says further talks are needed on implementation. It was not clear if Hamas’ statement meant it had accepted the proposal from U.S. President Donald Trump for a 60-day ceasefire. Hamas has been seeking guarantees that the initial truce would lead to a total end to the war, now nearly 21 months old. largest Russian attack on Kyiv since war in Ukraine began Russia launched 550 drones and missiles across Ukraine overnight in the largest aerial assault since the war began. The capital Kyiv was the primary target. Authorities said one person was killed and at least 26 people, including a child, were injured. Hours after the barrage, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had a “very important and productive” phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump told reporters it was “a very good call.” When asked about finding a way to end the fighting, Trump said: “I don’t know. I can’t tell you whether or not that’s going to happen.” The Kyiv attack came hours after Trump held a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin that the U.S. president said was disappointing.

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