U.S. and world news daily morning update for July 5th, 2025. Today's U.S. news covers the flood in Texas, President Trump signing the Big Beautiful bill, the Discovery Space Shuttle may be moved due to the Big Beautiful bill, a Republican representative is putting pressure for Trump's face to be on Mount Rushmore and another Republican representaitve deletes an offensive tweet from X.
In world news Russia recognizes the Taliban as a government in Afghanistan, Hamas the and U.S. are working through a possible 60-day ceasefire, Israel has provided more displacement orders in Gaza, and they admitted to doing an assassination earlier this week in Beirut.
And we end it with some good news, Oasis has performed for the first time in 16 years.
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