July 22, 2025

Good morning.

1. Defense Secretary Hegseth ordered the removal of the 700 Marines deployed to Los Angeles last month during protests over immigration enforcement raids (Hill: nwppr.co/120z).

2. The Trump administration released thousands of documents related to the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., fulfilling an executive order (NPR: nwppr.co/120y).

3. A federal judge sentenced ex-Louisville officer Brett Hankison to 33 months in prison for violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights by using excessive force during the 2020 apartment raid that led to her death (AP: nwppr.co/120x).

4. 28 countries, including the UK, Canada, and Japan, issued a joint statement (source: nwppr.co/120w) calling for an end to the war in Gaza, condemning “the drip feeding of aid” and the deaths of over 800 Palestinians seeking aid. The US and Israel rejected the statement (AP: nwppr.co/120v).

5. Harvard appeared in court to challenge the Trump administration’s freeze of $2.6B in research grants to the school, asking for the funds to be restored. A ruling is pending (AP: nwppr.co/120u).

6. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said that he plans to meet with Epstein conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence, to discuss potential sexual abusers (CNBC: nwppr.co/120t).

7. Microsoft released an emergency fix for and said Chinese hackers are exploiting a vulnerability in its SharePoint software (TC: nwppr.co/120s).

8. China started construction on the world’s largest hydropower dam in Tibet (DW: nwppr.co/120r).

–Editors