Wednesday, July 17

🚨NATION

📌 Nikki Haley gives full endorsement to Trump at RNC, urges GOP to unite around former president (MO NEWS)

📌 California bans schools from telling parents about child’s gender change (NPR)

📌 Downtown Chicago sees tornado, as storms rip through Midwest (NBC NEWS)

📌 Police kill knife-wielding man near Republican National Convention (WISN)

📌 Democratic California Congressman tells donors party loses if President Biden stays in race (FOX NEWS)

📌 Neo-Nazi charged in plot to poison Jewish children in NY (GUARDIAN)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Exiled Chinese billionaire, ally of Steve Bannon convicted on fraud charges (AP NEWS)

📌 Macron accepts French PM’s resignation, with no clear successor in sight (CNN)

📌 Traces of cyanide in cups of six people found dead in Bangkok luxury hotel (AP NEWS)

📌 Police dogs sniff out over 6 tons of cocaine hidden in banana shipment headed for Europe (CBS NEWS)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Elon Musk says SpaceX and X headquarters moving to Texas, blames California trans student law (CNBC)

📌 Trump considering JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon for Treasury Secretary (REUTERS)

📌 Treasury Department sanctions companies allegedly linked to timeshare fraud by Mexican cartel (ABC NEWS)

📌 Amazon's Prime Day a 'major' cause of worker injuries, Senate probe finds (NBC NEWS)

📌 Former TV host Carlos Watson convicted in trial over collapse of Ozy Media startup (THE WRAP)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Country singer Ingrid Andress says she’s checking into rehab after viral national anthem performance: ‘I was drunk’ (CNN)

📌 Jack Black ends Tenacious D tour after bandmate’s Trump shooting comment (AP NEWS)

📌 HGTV star Christina Hall and third husband Josh file for divorce after nearly 3 years of marriage (NY POST)

📌 Richard Simmons' death is under investigation, pending cause of death, LAPD says (NBC NEWS)