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President Trump delivered remarks today from the White House on American nuclear energy innovation before departing for the White House Correspondents' Dinner tonight. The announcement builds on recent milestones including three advanced small reactors reaching criticality ahead of his July 4 deadline and a $17.5 billion federal loan commitment for ten new large nuclear reactors.
The U.S. Trade Representative announced sweeping new tariffs on 60 trading partners — including the EU, UK, Canada, and Mexico — for failing to prohibit goods produced with forced labor. The action targets nations that import slave-labor goods without enforcing effective bans, as part of a broader effort to protect American manufacturers from unfair competition.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune is delaying the SAVE America Act — Trump's voter ID bill — to first pass a continuing resolution and avoid a government shutdown. The White House fired a warning shot through press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who said Trump's patience with the Senate is "running out," though Republican senators quickly rallied around Thune.
The Trump administration confirmed a "decades-long, multi-billion-dollar" civil nuclear partnership with Saudi Arabia, allowing American companies to share expertise on clean nuclear power. Trump then publicly conditioned the deal on Riyadh joining the Abraham Accords and normalizing relations with Israel — raising the diplomatic stakes considerably.
After 13 consecutive nights of U.S. strikes on Iranian targets, President Trump told Axios he is "close to a decision" on what he called a "massive attack — bigger than ever before." Senate Democrats are preparing another War Powers vote to limit U.S. involvement, but the White House shows no sign of pulling back from Operation Epic Fury.
Houthi forces struck two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea overnight, creating a dangerous second front alongside the already-disrupted Strait of Hormuz. Crude oil surged past $100 per barrel as markets reacted to the prospect of two of the world's most critical shipping corridors being threatened simultaneously.
President Trump announced that both Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed not to sell weapons to Iran during the ongoing U.S. military campaign. If the pledge holds, it would significantly limit Tehran's ability to replenish its depleted arsenal and could reshape the conflict's trajectory.
UC San Diego researchers published results in Nature showing teleoperated humanoid robots — five-foot-tall modified Unitree G1 machines dubbed "Surgie" — successfully completed two live laparoscopic gallbladder surgeries on pigs. In one operation a robot worked alongside a human surgeon; in the second, two robots operated as a team — a world first for general-purpose humanoid machines in an actual operating room.
SpaceX retargeted its 13th Starship test flight for Thursday, July 23, after a July 16 abort caused by four of 33 Raptor 3 engines failing to ignite. The upgraded Version 3 Starship aims to demonstrate a successful booster landing burn offshore — a key step toward reusable Super Heavy boosters and the company's long-term Mars ambitions.
About ten passengers aboard an easyJet flight from Tenerife to Liverpool got into an in-flight brawl shortly after takeoff, forcing the aircraft to return to the departure airport with police waiting at the gate. After order was restored, the plane eventually continued to Liverpool — presumably with a much quieter cabin for the remainder of the trip.
