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Created: 2025-07-18 10:55:00 UTC

🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP

1.⁠ Trump threatened to sue the Wall Street Journal after they published a letter they claimed he had sent to Epstein: “These are not my words, not the way I talk. Also, I don’t draw pictures. I told Rupert Murdoch it was a Scam, that he shouldn’t print this Fake Story.”

2.⁠ Bending to pressure, Trump said he had instructed AG Pam Bondi to release more Epstein documents: “Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein, I have asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, subject to Court approval.”

3.⁠ After the House passed Trump’s bill to cut $X billion in spending, axing $8B from foreign programs like USAID and $1B from NPR and PBS, it’s now headed to Trump’s desk for signing into law.

4.⁠ The EU unleashed its 18th round of sanctions on Russia, slashing its oil price cap to $XXXX and going straight for the Kremlin’s cash veins. Kaja Kallas called it one of the “strongest” packages yet - because apparently XX wasn’t enough to get the message across.

5.⁠ Iran’s top diplomat, Abbas Araghchi, didn’t hold back, accusing the West of killing nuclear talks, not Tehran: "It was the US that withdrew from a two-year negotiated deal - coordinated by EU in 2015 - not Iran; and it was US that left the negotiation table in June this year and chose a military option instead, not Iran.”

6.⁠ Germany’s Chancellor Merz just said the quiet part out loud: Europe’s been leaning way too hard on the U.S. for defense: “We know we have to do more on our own and we have been free-riders in the past. They're asking us to do more and we are doing more.”

7.⁠ Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor openly floated abolishing private property - echoing Marxist ideologies: “If there is any system that could guarantee each person housing, whether you call it the abolition of private property, it is preferable.”

8.⁠ Stephen Colbert called out CBS’s parent company for its $XX million settlement with Trump, then X days later, his show was canceled. Now Senators Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren are asking if politics played a role. Schiff said the public “deserves to know” if Colbert was dropped for speaking out.  

9.⁠ Daredevil Felix Baumgartner, the man who broke the sound barrier as he parachuted from the edge of space, died at XX. The Red Bull legend reportedly suffered a sudden illness while piloting a motorized paraglider over Porto Sant'Elpidio, Italy, crashing into a hotel pool.

10.⁠ A brutal storm tore through Romania, leveling trees, ripping roofs, and flooding streets like a scene out of a disaster movie. Over XX localities ravaged. XXX trees and XX power poles down. Cars crushed. Roads blocked. Flights circling above as chaos reigned below.

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