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Good evening. It’s Tuesday, July 1.

Senate Republicans passed President Trump’s ā€œbig, beautiful billā€ Tuesday, with help from Vice President Vance as a tie-breaker.

It’s a colossal achievement for Senate leadership and the White House. But the taxes, border and defense package still has to clear the House — where discontent has been building for days.

The bill passed 51-50 after a grueling, multi-day process that kicked off Saturday evening and ended with a 24-hour vote-a-rama.

 
 

President Trump revealed on Tuesday that Israel has agreed to the conditions of a 60-day cease-fire with Hamas as the proposal now heads to the terrorist group.

ā€œMy Representatives had a long and productive meeting with the Israelis today on Gaza. Israel has agreed to the necessary conditions to finalize the 60 Day CEASEFIRE, during which time we will work with all parties to end the War,ā€ Trump wrote on Truth Social.

ā€œThe Qataris and Egyptians, who have worked very hard to help bring Peace, will deliver this final proposal. I hope, for the good of the Middle East, that Hamas takes this Deal, because it will not get better — IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE,ā€ the president concluded.

Jurors at the trial against Sean ā€œDiddyā€ Combs’ reached a partial verdict Tuesday — but won’t be allowed to deliver their decision yet.

The panel of eight men and four women was ordered to keep deliberating by Manhattan federal court Judge Arun Subramanian after reporting it had reached a verdict on four out of five counts — but couldn’t agree on the top charge of racketeering conspiracy.

The announcement came after just some 12 hours of deliberations, which will continue on Wednesday.

USAID will no longer send foreign assistance across the globe, with the State Department taking over any such programs that President Donald Trump’s administration wishes to continue, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Tuesday.

Rubio made the announcement in a Tuesday statement, saying USAID had for decades failed to ensure the programs it funded actually supported America’s interests. The State Department will take over foreign assistance programs beginning July 1, he said.

ā€œBeyond creating a globe-spanning NGO industrial complex at taxpayer expense, USAID has little to show since the end of the Cold War. Development objectives have rarely been met, instability has often worsened, and anti-American sentiment has only grown,ā€ Rubio wrote.

Three Republican senators voted against President Donald Trump’s ā€œbig, beautifulā€ bill Tuesday morning, citing concerns with reforms to Medicaid and the deficit impact of the bill.

Republican Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine joined Senate Democrats in opposing the president’s sweeping tax relief and immigration-focused legislation. Their ā€œnoā€ votes follow Trump urging all Republican senators to back his landmark bill and the White House arguing that failure to get behind the package would constitute ā€œthe ultimate betrayal.ā€

Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote to send the legislation to the House for consideration following Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski — a holdout throughout the marathon voting session — deciding to support the president’s bill. Thune could afford to lose just three votes, making Murkowski’s support critical for the budget package to clear the upper chamber.

The first photos of ā€œAlligator Alcatrazā€ give a bleak inside look at the new migrant center deep in the Florida Everglades — as authorities prepare to stash up to 5,000 detainees in wire cages there.

Video taken during a tour by President Trump on Tuesday revealed rows upon rows of empty industrial metal bunk beds enclosed in hastily constructed cages made up of chain fences.

ā€œ[President] Biden wanted me in here, that son of a b—h,ā€ President Trump said jokingly Tuesday as he was shown around the vast secure facility hidden within the subtropical wetlands of South Florida teeming with alligators, crocodiles and pythons.

The White House has struck a deal with the University of Pennsylvania that requires the school to strip trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas of the titles he won on the women’s team, The Daily Wire has reported.

The University of Pennsylvania will restore all titles to female athletes that were ā€œmisappropriatedā€ by male athletes, according to a landmark agreement between the Trump administration and the University of Pennsylvania, a White House official shared with The Daily Wire.

Thomas competed as a female swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, infamously tying with University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines in 2022 at the NCAAs and taking her trophy — prompting Gaines to take a stand against men in women’s sports.

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