Wednesday, July 16th

⏳ THE SPEED READ

🚨NATION

• US deports immigrants from Jamaica, Cuba, and other countries to the African kingdom of Eswatini (AP)

• NYPD run like a 'criminal enterprise,' ex-commissioner says in bombshell lawsuit (ABC)

• Pete Hegseth orders the removal of 2,000 National Guard troops from Los Angeles (NBC)

• Zohran Mamdani reportedly tells business leaders he will ‘discourage’ the phrase ‘globalize the intifada’ (CNN)

• Trump says trade deal reached with Indonesia, trimming proposed tariff (AXIOS)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

• Captured live: Israel strikes targets in Syria as it vows to protect Druze community (MO NEWS)

• Russia launches attack on Ukraine after Trump threatens sanctions (THE HILL)

• Japan calls axis of China, Russia, North Korea the 'gravest threat' to global order since WWII (FOX)

• Cuban minister resigns after saying country has no beggars (BBC)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

• Trump says he’s “highly unlikely” to fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell, signals change is coming (MO NEWS)

• Profits soar for Chinese maker of viral Labubu dolls (SEMAFOR)

• World’s biggest Mars rock sells for $4.3 million at auction (CNN)

• Cosmic first: astronomers capture the birth of planets around a baby sun outside our solar system (AP)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

• American Idol executive Robin Kaye and her husband shot and killed at Encino home, suspect arrested, police say (CBS)

• Pete Davidson is expecting his first child with girlfriend Elsie Hewitt (NY POST)

• Caitlin Clark injures groin late in Indiana Fever's win over the Connecticut Sun (ESPN)

• Legend of Zelda live-action movie casts Bo Bragason and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Zelda and Link (VARIETY)