U.S. news and world news daily update for July 10th, 2025. Today's new stories are:

Number one. Yesterday, Trump met with several African leaders. What will be remembered of this meeting is Trump telling the Liberian president that he was impressed how well he spoke English. English is the official language of Liberia. He also asked them to speed up their introductions, and he got overly excited again for his favorite woman journalist from Africa, so it didn't go too well.

Number two, Elon Musk's AI tool grok is getting a lot of attention this week and not for good reasons. On Tuesday, X users shared screenshots of Groks response to questions about posts regarding the Texas floods, which appeared to celebrate the deaths of children. Another user asked which 20th central historical figure would be best suited to deal with such posts. Grok replied to deal with such vile anti-white hate, Adolf Hitler. No question. Other users posted on grok using an answering questions about the phrase every damn time in Replies to Jewish Surnames, which has been seen as an anti-Semitic meme. On Wednesday's X, chief executive Linda Yaccarino paused. On Wednesday, X chief executive Linda Yaccarino announced that she was leaving the company two years after joining Musk's social media platform.

Number three, now that Trump's big, beautiful bill has passed, he wants to hire 10,000 more Ice agents, which would be a massive undertaking the administration is currently employing roughly half that now. When Trump tried to hire 10,000 Ice officers during his first administration, more than 500,000 people would have needed to apply, according to a Homeland Security inspector general report at the time. It was even more challenging for the Customs and Border Protection. In the report, it said to hire another 5000 agents, the government would have to have screened 750,000 people when the Border Patrol doubled in size, from roughly 9200 officers to 18,000 within a few years, a remarkable spike in corruption and misconduct happened. one way the Trump administration could get around the hiring issues for Ice is by expanding the 287 G program, which effectively deputizes local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws. The federal government currently has more than 800 such agreements in place, but the program requires local buy in. Democrat led cities are unlikely to participate in that. A Homeland Security hiring expo last month, more than 1000 people were tentatively offered job offers out of roughly 3000 candidates.

Number four earlier this year, Doge under the Trump administration, cut roughly 600 positions from the National Weather Service in the name of combating government waste. Neil Jacobs, Trump's pick to run the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees the National Weather Service, made this statement in his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday. He said he would make staffing the weather service office a top priority. He also said it's really important for the people to be there because they have relationships with the people in the local community. the Trump administration, laid off or offered buyouts to hundreds of NWS staff in the part of Texas where floods recently hit. The San Antonio Austin NWS office was short six employees from its standard staffing of 26 people. The San Angelo office, which provided alerts to parts of central Texas, was also short four people from its standard staffing of 23.

Number five, at least 31 workers were safely rescued after a tunnel collapse in a large industrial complex in Los Angeles Wednesday evening. The collapse took place at the 18 foot diameter tunnel being constructed for municipal wastewater management. More than 100 LA fire departments responded to the scene, including the LA Fire Department, urban Search and rescue team members. workers were brought out of the tunnel area in a caged hoisted up by a crane. Now let's move on to world news.

Number one. This one is a bit of a mix of world and US news. Francesca Albanese an UN Special rapporteur has been sanctioned by the United States over her work as an independent investigator scrutinizing human rights abuses in Gaza. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the statement, saying that she has spewed unabashed antisemitism, expressed support for terrorism and open contempt for the United States, Israel and the West. Francesca believes the sanctions were calculated to weaken her mission. She says she'll continue to do what she has to do. I've been reporting on her for over a year, and nothing Marco Rubio says is accurate, in my opinion. She's holding countries accountable based on the proof provided. And much of that proof comes from the Israeli soldiers documenting their war crimes and putting it on social media for views.

number two. Let's do an update on the ongoing cease fire attempts between Hamas, the United States and Israel. today. Hamas said it opposes any ceasefire deal that includes a large Israeli military presence in Gaza, after offering to release some hostages. Late Wednesday, they said they agreed to release ten people. sticking points for Hamas? Are the disagreements over the free flow of aid into Gaza and Israel's military withdrawal. The negotiations continue in Doha for a 60 day ceasefire. All right, that's it for this episode. Have a great day.