🔵 Chicago Mass Shooting

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Citizen Frank
July 03, 2025

Good evening. It’s Thursday, July 3.

The upbeat mood in a busy Chicago neighborhood known for its restaurants and nightlife quickly turned into horror late Wednesday as shots were fired at a crowd from a fast-moving vehicle, killing four people.

After the shots rang out, some people fell to the ground or screamed, witnesses said.

“I can only describe it as a war zone,” Chicago pastor Donovan Price, who responds to communities and people in crisis, told The Associated Press. ”Just mayhem and blood and screaming and confusion as people tried to find their friends and phones. It was a horrendous, tragic, dramatic scene.”

 
 

House Republicans advanced their megabill full of President Trump’s legislative priorities early Thursday morning, overcoming a key procedural hurdle after a dramatic vote that GOP leaders left open for hours to quell an internal revolt.

The chamber voted 219-213 to adopt a rule governing debate on Trump’s domestic agenda, opening up discussion on the “big, beautiful bill” and teeing up a final vote on the package.

The vote was something of a gamble for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who has faced opposition to the legislation from various corners of his ideologically diverse conference. Heading into the rule vote, conservatives had warned they would sink the procedural measure unless it was delayed beyond Wednesday.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia said he suffered physical and psychological abuse in the Salvadoran prison where he was detained.

The Trump administration deported Abrego Garcia to El Salvador on March 15, and he was held in the country’s maximum security CECOT facility.

Abrego Garcia said he endured severe beatings, sleep deprivation, and psychological torture during his time at the prison, saying he was kicked and hit so often right after arrival that by the following day, he had visible bruises and lumps all over his body.

After yesterday’s shockingly bad ADP print of negative 33K, the market was braced for the worse, with the whisper number for today’s payrolls sliding to 96K, the first sub 100K print and far below the consensus of 106K, and many even contemplating how to trade a stagflationary recession print. In the end, it turned out to be just another headfake by ADP which now has the same credibility as UMich, because moments ago the BLS published a blowout job report: in June, the US added 147K payrolls, blowing away the median estimate of 106K, and higher than the upward revised May print of 144K.

There was just one economist who predicted a higher number among the 79 polled by Bloomberg who expected a higher print: that was Derek Holt at Scotiabank with 160K. Everyone else was below 147K.

Remarkably, and in a dramatic change from the Biden tradition, previous months were revised higher: April was revised up by 11,000, from +147,000 to +158,000, and the change for May was revised up by 5,000, from +139,000 to +144,000.

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear two cases revolving around state laws keeping transgender-identifying males out of women’s sports.

The court is set to consider cases out of Idaho and West Virginia, where laws banning males who identify as women from participating in women’s and girls’ sports were blocked by lower courts. The news comes just weeks after the high court ruled 6-3 in favor of a Tennessee law that banned transgender medical procedures on minors.

At issue in the cases are West Virginia’s “Save Women’s Sports Act” and Idaho’s “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act.”

Dr. Phil McGraw’s Merit Street Media has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection — and the TV talk-show host’s company is suing former partner Trinity Broadcasting Network, alleging breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty.

Merit Street filed for bankruptcy and the related lawsuit naming TBN as a defendant with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Northern District of Texas on Wednesday (July 2). The complaint alleges that TBN, which was Merit Street’s broadcast partner, reneged on its obligations and instead “abused its position as the controlling shareholder.” As a result, Merit Street claims in the lawsuit, it was forced to “pay or incur obligations to third parties in excess of $100 million.”

“These failures by TBN were neither unintended nor inadvertent,” Merit Street says in the lawsuit. “They were a conscious, intentional pattern of choices made with full awareness that the consequence of which was to sabotage and seal the fate of a new but already nationally acclaimed network.”

A man believed to be armed with an axe has left four people injured after allegedly attacking passengers onboard a high speed train carrying 500 people in Germany.

Officers said the incident took place on the ICE 91 train heading towards Vienna, Austria at around 1.55pm local time.

Emergency services including police and the fire service have been deployed to the scene.

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