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July 22 0400 UTC Brief
In Washington
The House passed a stopgap funding bill to keep federal agencies running through Dec. 4, an early move aimed at lowering the odds of a shutdown fight before the midterms. It passed mostly along party lines, and the Senate still has to clear the 60-vote hurdle. Separately, the House overwhelmingly rejected an amendment that would have blocked Pentagon funding from being used for Ukraine security assistance.
On Iran
The U.S. renewed strikes on Iran as the conflict entered its 11th straight night of attacks. President Trump also threatened to hit a key underground Iranian nuclear site, pushing the confrontation deeper into territory nobody should describe as stabilizing.
In business
Trump said generic drug manufacturers will get two years to move production to the U.S. or face a 100 percent import duty starting in August 2028, rising to 200 percent a year later. The policy is meant to force supply chains home, which is a nice way of saying the medication aisle is now part of industrial policy.
In India
Police briefly detained opposition leader Rahul Gandhi during a protest in Delhi calling for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resign. Gandhi joined a sit-in outside Modi’s residence and backed a youth-led protest movement that says the government has failed India’s younger generation.
In Mali
A deadly attack near Anefis is highlighting how armed group alliances keep shifting the conflict in Mali and across the wider Sahel, leaving the military with a moving target and a shrinking margin for error.
In Russia
A former Moscow airport executive connected to the terminal that serviced Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private jet before its fatal 2023 crash has been found dead at home. The death adds another unsettled thread to one of Russia’s most closely watched aviation investigations.
At sea
Search teams have found the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 202, the Clipper Endeavor, on the Atlantic seabed off Puerto Rico more than 74 years after it crashed. The Douglas DC-4 was found largely intact, with its Pan Am logo still visible, a grim artifact from a disaster that helped reshape flight safety rules.
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