NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 7/2/2025*NEWSDUMP WEEK*HOUSE MEMBERS ARM TWISTED ON 'BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL'*US MILITARY CONTRACTORS FIRING ON GAZA RESIDENTS SEEKING FOOD*RETIRED GENERAL QUESTIONED IN ISRAEL'S 'QATARGATE' SCANDAL*TRUMP DEMANDS THAT FED CHAIR 'RESIGN IMMEDIATELY'*CBS OWNER PAYOUT TO TRUMP IN '60 MINUTES' SUIT*
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LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
Voting in the US House tonight on the "Big Beautiful Bill" spending plan.
Arm twisting from House Speaker Mike Johnson and Vice-President JD Vance to get Republicans to support it.
The vote dragging on into the night...
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTING THAT US MILITARY CONTRACTORS IN GAZA ARE USING LIVE AMMUNITION AND STUN GRENADES ON RESIDENTS SEEKING FOOD.
ISRAEL CUT OFF FOOD SUPPLIES TO GAZA IN MARCH THEN IN LATE MAY BEGAN ALLOWING THE US-ISRAELI 'GAZA HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION' TO OPERATE IN GAZA IN MAY.
US MILITARY CONTRACTORS A PART OF THE 'GHF' OPERATION.
TWO CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE OPERATION IN GAZA SPEAKING TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANONYMOUSLY SAYING THEY WERE DISTURBED BY WHAT THEY SAW.
CONTRACTORS IN GAZA SAID TO HAVE RECEIVED LIMITED TRAINING AND TO BE FIRING WILDLY INCLUDING THE USE OF LIVE AMMUNITION THAT HAS HURT GAZA RESIDENTS.
WITHIN THE LAST WEEK ISRAELI MEDIA OUTLET 'HAARETZ' REPORTED ON ISRAELI SOLDIERS USING LIVE AMMUNITION ON PALESTINIAN GAZA RESIDENTS SEEKING FOOD AT THE AID DISTRIBUTION CENTERS...ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS STORY
In Israel a retired Major General questioned under caution by a special police unit probing the flow to money from Qatar into Israel.
Reserve Major General Yoav Mordechai suspected of taking a bribe from a foreign agent.
Mordechai's business partner former Mossad spy agency official Shaun Bouter also questioned.
Their company "Novard" suspected of sending large amounts of money to Jonatan Urich a former aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Urich alleged to have received the money to launch an online campaign to improve the image of Qatar inside Israel...Times Of Israel
15 people hurt when a skydiving plane crashed in southern New Jersey.
The accident at an airport in Williamstown near Camden. The Federal Aviation Administration investigating the accident...6 ABC Philadelphia (Video Embed)
US President Donald Trump demanding that Federal Reserve Board chairman Jerome Powell 'resign immediately'.
Trump citing an accusation from Federal Housing Finance Agency Bill Pulte about Mr. Powell lying.
Mr. Pulte appointed by President Trump to his position.
Mr. Trump critical of Powell for failing to lower interest rates...The Hill USA
SEVEN PEOPLE ARE MISSING, TWO OTHERS INJURED AFTER YESTERDAY'S FIREWORKS EXPLOSIONS IN ESPARTO, CALIFORNIA.
THE EXPLOSIONS AT FIREWORKS FACILITY.
FIREFIGHTERS KEEPING THEIR DISTANCE OVER THE POSSIBILITY OF UNEXPLODED FIREWORKS...KCRA SACRAMENTO (VIDEO EMBEDS)
(Updated) The protests against Serbia's government continued this evening demonstrators blocking a bridge in the center of Belgrade. The Serbian government accuses foreign forces of the Western nations of using protests to stage a coup.
(Updated) A jury found music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs found not guilty of most of the federal charges against him.
They included the most serious charges of sex trafficking and racketeering.
Combs convicted on two charges of transporting for purposes of prostitution.
The judge in the case denying him bail while awaiting sentencing...BBC News Blog
FOUR DEAD, FOUR OTHERS MISSING AFTER AN OIL DRILLING BARGE SANK IN THE GULF OF SUEZ.
EGYPTIAN AUTHORITIES SAY 22 OTHERS WERE INJURED.
THE BARGE WAS BEING TOWED TO A NEW LOCATION WHEN IT SANK...AL JAZEERA QATAR
The markets today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 10.52 points.
The NASDAQ rose 190.24 points or .94 percent.
At 428 pm New York Time the price of oil at 67 dollars 36 cents a barrel up one dollar 91 cents or 2.92 percent...Marketwatch
9,000 CITY WORKERS ON STRIKE IN PHILADELPHIA. THEY INCLUDE TRASH COLLECTORS AND 911 CALL OPERATORS.
THEIR UNION SEEKING A FOUR-YEAR CONTRACT WITH EIGHT PERCENT PAY RAISES EACH YEAR.
THE UNION SAYING THE CITY'S OFFER COMES NOWWHERE NEAR THAT.
A 16-million-dollar settlement of President Donald Trump's lawsuit against CBS owner Paramount Global.
The suit stemmed from last year's "60 Minutes" interview of Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Mr. Trump saying the interview was edited to favor her over him.
The 16-million dollars will not be paid directly to Trump, but will be allocated to his presidential library...BBC News
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IRANIAN PRESIDENT MASOUD PEZESHKIAN SAYS IRAN HAS SUSPENDED COOPERATION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY.
UNDERLYING THE DECISION THE PERCEPTION THAT THE IAEA AND ITS DIRECTOR RAFAEL GROSSI ACT AS AN INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ON BEHALF OF ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES AND NOT AS A NEUTRAL OBSERVER AND ARBITER OF ITS NUCLEAR ACTIVITES...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
In another sign of the rising tensions between Russia and Azerbaijan the leader of the Azerbaijani community in Russia has been detained.
Shahin Shikhlinski taken into custody after two officials of Russia's "Sputnik" media outlet were detained in Azerbaijan.
Their detention followed the deaths in detention of Azerbaijanis arrested in a murder investigation in Russia...RIA Novosti Russia (Translation Prompt)
JIHADIST ATTACKS ON ARMY BASES IN THE AFRICAN NATION OF MALI.
THE JIHADISTS CLAIMED CONTROL OF SEVERAL OF THE BASES.
MEANWHILE MALI'S MILITARY GOVERNMENT SAYS THE JIHADISTS WERE REPELLED WITH 80 OF THEM KILLED.
GRAPHIC VIDEO POSTED ONLINE SAID TO BE OF THE AFTERMATH OF INTERVENTION TO STOP THE ATTACKS BY RUSSIAN MERCENARIES...BBC NEWS STORY...DD GEOPOLITICS "X" (VIDEO EMBEDS)
THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
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In other news...
THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI) DECIDING TO KEEP ITS HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON DC.
A PLAN CRAFTED DURING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TO MOVE FBI HEADQUARTERS TO MARYLAND SCRAPPED.
THE FBI MOVING ITS HEADQUARTERS SEVERAL BLOCKS FROM THE J. EDGAR HOOVER BUILDING TO THE RONALD REAGAN BUILDING WHICH CURRENTLY HOUSES US CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION...POLITICO USA
Contact has been lost with a New Zealand government financed climate satellite.
The MethaneSAT project was designed to detect methane emissions in New Zealand from orbit.
The sources of the emissions were to be 'named and shamed'.
It is being said that reestablishing contact with the satellite is unlikely...One News New Zealand
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