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Friday, July 17, 2026
NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT 7/17/2026*NEWSDUMP FRIDAY*US WAR WOUNDED*14 KILLED GAZA*RECALL CYCLOSPORIASIS OUTBREAK*CHINA LANDSLIDE*US BUILDUP ATTACK IRAN REPORTED*US AIR QUALITY ALERTS*IRAN WAR ATTACKS*CHINA, RUSSIA REJECT TRUMP ALLEGATIONS*ICE AGENT FATAL SHOOTING SCRUTINIZED*
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China and Russia rebuff elements of President Trump's speech linking them to interference in American elections, a lettuce recall linked to the outbreak of cyclosporiasis in the US and 14 more deaths in Israeli attacks in Gaza today but first...
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
A contracted employee of a federal immigration detention center in Aurora, Colorado arrested accused of shooting a protester last night.
42-year-old Brandon Booth charged with assault and attempted second-degree murder.
Booth was being prevented from entering the facility where he worked for the "CEO Group" by protesters who engaged in verbal confrontation and took pictures of employees' vehicles.
The unidentified female protester who was shot said to have received a non-life-threatening injury to the lower half of her body...CBS News USA
Seven killed in a Ukrainian drone attack in Russia's Tambov Region with 24 others wounded.
CBS NEWS IS REPORTING US CASUALTIES IN THE WEEKLONG FLAREUP OF THE IRAN WAR.
SEVERAL US SOLDIERS WOUNDED IN IRANIAN ATTACKS LINKED TO BASES IN JORDAN.
EARLIER ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIA REPORTING REVEALED MULTIPLE US MILITARY MEDICAL EVACUATION FLIGHTS OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST TO GERMANY IN THE LAST WEEK.
THERE MAY BE MORE US MILITARY CASUALTIES WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT YET...OSINTdefender "X"
Only one conviction remains out of the original 12 charges in the sex offenses case involving Canadian billionaire businessman Frank Stronach.
A rare post-trial mistrial granted by a judge for a sexual assault conviction involving Mr. Stronach age 93.
He now stands convicted of indecent assault only based on complaints from two women.
Stronach's lawyer Leora Shemesh presenting emails from a woman's lawyer in a civil case showing inconsistencies with the woman's testimony at the criminal trial leading to that mistrial on the sexual assault charge...CBC News Canada
IN NORWAY AN OUT-OF-CONTROL FIRE BURNING MORE THAN 100 HOMES. THE INFERNO RAGING IN THE TOWN OF KROKSTADELVA NEAR OSLO.
HUNDREDS EVACUATED TO SAFETY WITH SIX HELICOPTERS EMPLOYED TO FIGHT THE BLAZE.
A FEW INJURIES REPORTED BUT SO FAR NO KNOWN FATALITIES AND NO ONE REPORTED MISSING.
IRAN'S IRGC (ISLAMIC REVOLUTION GUARD CORPS (IRGC) THREATENING TO ATTACK MORE US LINKED TARGETS IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
THE IRGC SAYS IT WILL GO BEYOND ATTACKING US MILITARY TARGETS TO HIT ANY AND ALL US-LINKED TECHNOLOGICAL-ECONOMIC ASSETS IN NEARBY COUNTRIES.
THERE IS ALSO AN IRANIAN CLAIM OF FIRING AT AND FORCING A US VESSEL TO RETREAT IN THE INDIAN OCEAN...PRESS TV IRAN...
THE IRGC SAYS IT STOPPED FOUR VESSELS MAKING UNAUTHORIZED PASSAGE THROUGH THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ WHILE BEING ASSISTED BY THE UNITED STATES MILITARY...TASS RUSSIA...
Tonight Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claims two oil tankers exploded when they traveled a mined route south of the Strait of Hormuz...Tasnim News Agency Iran (Translation Prompt)
More on the Iran War later in the summary.
14 KILLED IN ISRAELI ATTACKS IN GAZA TODAY.
EIGHT KILLED, 20 WOUNDED AS MOURNERS WAITED FOR A FUNERAL PROCESS OUTSIDE A MOSQUE...AL JAZEERA QATAR
Taylor Farms recalling lettuce produced in central Mexico.
This follows linkage between lettuce at Taco Bell restaurants in five states and a spreading outbreak of cyclosporiasis.
Nearly 7,000 people in 34 states may been sickened by the stomach virus that causes explosive diarrhea.
Health authorities continue to probe and track cases confirming 1,644 of them...NBC News USA
Major US companies cutting business deals with Iraq.
The deals announced following the recent US visit of Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi.
US President Donald Trump touting the energy supplies Iraq has to offer.
The business deals involve both energy related companies non-energy companies including Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Halliburton, Cisco, JP Morgan and Starlink.
Some of the deals are preliminary and non-binding and will likely be impacted by future developments in Iraq divided between Kurdish and Sunni Muslim factions on one side and Pro-Iran Shia Muslim factions on the other.
There have been attacks on Iraqi soil in recent days related to escalation of the Iran War...The Hill USA
AT LEAST EIGHT DEAD AND 34 INJURED IN A LANDSLIDE IN CHINA.
THE DISASTER HAPPENED IN A SUBURB OF THE CITY OF CHONGQING IN CENTRAL CHINA.
NEWS OUTLET 'AXIOS' REPORTS THE US NOTIFIED ISRAEL IT INTENDS TO SEND DOZENS MORE REFUELING PLANES TO ISRAEL.
THE PLANES WOULD SUPPORT AN ESCALATION OF ATTACKS ON IRAN BY US WARPLANES.
ISRAEL'S BEN GURION AIRPORT CURRENTLY HAS 33 US REFUELING PLANS ON SITE AND MORE OF THEM WOULD CAUSE INCREASED CONGESTION AND DISRUPTION OF CIVILIAN AIR TRAFFIC...TIMES OF ISRAEL
In the Ukraine War Russia attacking Ukrainian ports and ships.
An unauthorized boarding of a merchant vessel off the southern coast of Yemen. Information provided by the British Royal Navy's maritime trade operations center says authorities are 'investigating' the incident...UKMTO "X"
IN POLAND CONSERVATIVE PRESIDENT KAROL NAWROCKI VETOING TWO BILLS FACILITATING COHABITATION BY COUPLES OF THE SAME SEX.
THE BILLS SEEN AS A BACKDOOR WAY OF ESTABLISHING MARRIAGE RIGHTS FOR SAME-SEX COUPLES.
LEFT-OF-CENTER PRIME MINISTER DONALD TUSK 'FURIOUS' ABOUT THE VETO CALLING IT 'CONTEMPT FOR PEOPLE AND THEIR RIGHT TO HAPPINESS'...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
Air quality alerts across a major portion of the United States due to smoke from wildfires in Canada.
A smoky haze obscuring the sun here in Central Pennsylvania.
Alerts for poor air quality in effect from Minnesota all the way to the New Jersey coast. Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Washington DC and New York City in the affected areas.
THE PRICE OF GASOLINE AT SAM'S CLUB HERE IN YORK, PENNSYLVANIA NOW 378.9.
THAT'S A 16 CENT INCREASE SINCE THE RESUMPTION OF US ATTACKS ON IRAN.
THE PRE-IRAN WAR PRICE OF GAS WAS 273.9 BACK IN FEBRUARY.
(This Story Updated, Expanded)
THE ESCALATION OF THE IRAN WAR ORDERED BY US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP CONTINUES IRAN URGING ITS CITIZENS TO CONSERVE ELECTRICITY AS US ATTACKS IMPACT ITS POWER GRID.
EIGHT KILLED IN US ATTACKS ON IRAN OVERNIGHT INTO FRIDAY.
IRANIAN AUTHORITIES SAYS 38 HAVE BEEN KILLED AND MORE THAN 400 WOUNDED IN THE US ATTACKS IN RECENT DAYS.
IRAN SAYS ITS COUNTERATTACKS RANGE FAR AND WIDE ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST INCLUDING US MILITARY RELATED SITES IN SYRIA AND OMAN.
IRAN ALSO SAYS US PLANES HAVE BEEN HIT IN QATAR AND JORDAN...(PRESS TV IRAN)
MEANWHILE KUWAIT SAYS A POWER AND WATER PLANT HAS BEEN ATTACKED BY IRAN. THE PUBLIC WARNED TO CONSERVE ELECTRICITY USE...AFP FRANCE-TIMES OF ISRAEL...
"Such statements by the US side are pure fabrication and malicious slander"
CHINA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN LIN JIAN REJECTING ALLEGATIONS MADE BY US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP THAT CHINA IS MEDDLING IN US ELECTIONS.
HE SAID NOTIONS OF CHINESE INTERFERENCE IN AMERICAN ELECTIONS ARE GROUNDLESS.
THE CHINESE SPOKESMAN SAID CHINA DOES NOT INTERFERE IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF OTHER COUNTRIES.
BUT MR. LIN SAID THAT THE UNITED STATES HAD A LONG TRACK RECORD OF INTERFERING IN OTHER COUNTRIES NOTING:
"On the contrary, it is the United States that interferes in the internal affairs of other countries at every opportunity and has long conducted widespread surveillance."...
"We reject all accusations. We reject them resolutely"
KREMLIN SPOKESMAN DMITRY PESKOV REJECTING ANY NOTION THAT RUSSIA INTERFERES IN US ELECTIONS.
MR. PESKOV SAYING RUSSIA DOES NOT INTERFERE IN OTHER COUNTRIES INTERNAL AFFAIRS AND DOES NOT WANT OTHER COUNTRIES INTERFERING IN ITS INTERNAL AFFAIRS.
IN HIS SPEECH LAST NIGHT US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP MADE PASSING REFERENCES TO OTHER NATIONS LIKE IRAN, NORTH KOREA AND RUSSIA AS HE MAINLY CRITICIZED CHINA FOR ACTIONS TO UNDERMINE US ELECTIONS.
TRUMP ALSO SUGGESTING PEOPLE INSIDE THE US GOVERNMENT SYMPATHETIC TO DEMOCRATS WERE HIDING EVIDENCE OF CHINESE INTERFERENCE IN US ELECTIONS...TASS RUSSIA...
MORE ON PRESIDENT TRUMP'S SPEECH LATER IN THIS SUMMARY.
The markets today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 406.55 points or .77 percent.
The NASDAQ declined 361.70 points or 1.4 percent.
The price of oil in New York at the close 82 dollars 47 cents a barrel up three dollars 52 cents or 4.46 percent...Marketwatch
Israel's parliament dissolving early today setting the stage for an election on October 27th.
Many pieces of contentious legislation passed in the hours being dissolution.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will defend his performance in connection with the October 7th attack on Israel and the warfare that has followed it involving Gaza, Lebanon and Iran...Reuters-Al Jazeera Qatar
RUSSIA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY CONDEMNING SOUTH KOREA'S PARTICIPATION IN THE NATO MILITARY BUILDUP.
THE CONDEMNATION CONVEYED AT A MEETING BETWEEN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER ANDREI RUDENKO AND SOUTH KOREAN AMBASSADOR LEE SUK-BAE.
THE USE OF SOUTH KOREAN INDUSTRY TO FUEL THE MASSIVE MILITARY EXPANSION BY CANADA AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES CALLED 'UNACCEPTABLE'.
This week Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announcing a testosterone screening program for members of the military over the age of 30.
Those found to have low levels would be offered hormone treatment to boost testosterone levels.
Hegseth says this will ' guarantee that soldiers have the right testosterone level, so they can function at their best'.
The "Washington Post" found experts critical of the proposal saying levels of testosterone naturally fluctuate and that it is unusual to institute preventive testing...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)
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