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Citizen Frank
August 01, 2025
Good evening. It’s Thursday, July 31.
The Trump administration released a revised list of tariff rates against nearly 70 countries set to take effect next week.
The announcement follows a four-month negotiating sprint with dozens of US trading partners to lock in one-for-one agreements — some of which are reflected in the new list.
Among the notable rates which will take effect at 12:01 a.m. Aug. 7 — rather than the Friday deadline initially announced by the White House — are 15% for Iceland and Israel, 30% for South Africa, 39% for Switzerland and 20% for Taiwan and Vietnam.
Torrential summer storms battered the Big Apple on Thursday, trapping a LIRR train filled with passengers and submerging cars on a Queens highway in a travel nightmare that hampered the evening rush.
Floodwater soaked the iconic Grand Central Station’s platform, cascaded in dramatic waterfalls inside Brooklyn’s Jay Street-MetroTech and burst from the walls in the Seventh Avenue station in Park Slope, wild video showed.
A LIRR train got stuck on the tracks for several hours near Bayside station in Queens, forcing firefighters to use ladders to help travel-weary commuters evacuate, according to separate footage.
One of Donald Trump’s most visible and potentially enduring legacies as president could be the 90,000-square-foot ballroom that he is planning to build, replacing the East Wing edifice traditionally used for the first lady’s offices.
The project, set to begin in September, looms as the biggest transformation of the White House complex since Harry Truman’s day. Perhaps fitting for the onetime New York real estate developer who branded buildings worldwide with his name, Trump has taken to remaking the White House in accord with his tastes since beginning his second term.
The president told NBC News in an interview that the new ballroom will forgo the need to shuttle guests to tents pitched on the South Lawn for events that are too large for the White House to accommodate.
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren took an accidental tumble while on the Senate floor.
Moseying around atop the Senate chamber’s blue carpet floors Warren, 76, can be seen on video deep in thought.
She then halts and attempts to lean back on a desk at the front of the chamber.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Thursday her memoir about her time on the campaign trail after former President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race.
Harris said her forthcoming book will give readers a behind-the-scenes look at her experience “leading the shortest presidential campaign in modern history.”
The book, titled “107 Days,” is set for release on September 23.
The former Hollywood producer—who was found guilty of one of the three sex crimes charges in his New York retrial in June—spoke out in an on-camera interview about his current relationship with his five children, saying that if he got out of prison, he would choose to spend more time with them.
“I’d move as close to my kids as humanely possible,” Weinstein told Candace Owens in an interview posted to YouTube July 30. “My kids is number one now, my family is number one, because they’re the important thing.”
The 73-year-old—who was also sentenced to 16 years in prison in a Los Angeles rape case—explained that he will no longer take for granted the family he has: namely, his children Remy, Emma and Ruth with his first wife Eve Chilton and kids India, 14 and Dashiell, 12, with ex-wife Georgina Chapman.
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