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UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the new Israeli ground offensive in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood forced the displacement of “at least 60,000” residents, while Israel’s military operations in the al-Mawasi area of southern Gaza resulted in 5,000 people displaced and many casualties.

Six people, including four children, have been killed and at least 15 others wounded in Israeli military strikes on residential homes in Gaza City overnight. Casualties were also reported in an attack on central Gaza’s Maghazi refugee camp, Palestinian Wafa news reports.

A poll conducted by Israel’s Channel 12 shows that about two-thirds of Israelis believe that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should not seek reelection and leave politics.

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Norway’s largest pension fund has cut ties with Caterpillar due to the US bulldozer company’s alleged contribution to the construction of illegal settlements and other human rights violations by Israel’s armed forces in the West Bank and Gaza.

KLP took the decision to divest its $69m stake in the Texas-based industrial manufacturing group earlier this month after Caterpillar failed to provide satisfactory assurances that it was taking action to reduce the risk of its equipment being used by the Israeli military against Palestinians in violation of international law.

“For a long time, Caterpillar has supplied bulldozers and other equipment that has been used to demolish Palestinian homes and infrastructure to clear the way for Israeli settlements,” said Kiran Aziz, head of responsible investments at KLP.

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The supreme court has rejected Steve Bannon’s attempt to avoid prison time following his contempt of Congress convictions.

In a brief ruling issued on Friday, the supreme court ordered Donald Trump’s former adviser, who has been challenging convictions over his defiance of subpoenas surrounding the House’s January 6 insurrection investigation, to report to prison by Monday.

“The application for release pending appeal presented to the chief justice and by him referred to the court is denied,” the order said.

In July 2022, Bannon was convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress and was later sentenced to four months in prison in October 2022.

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The Biden administration, on Friday, announced an 18 months extension —and redesignation- to temporary protected status for up to 309,000 unauthorized migrants from Haiti living in the country.

A temporary protected status, also known as TPS, is not a permanent legal status but protects against deportation, allows migrants to get a work permit, and sometimes travel authorization.

The TPS will apply for Haitians already under temporary protected status. And the redesignation will allow Haitians who have been in the U.S. since the beginning of the month to apply for an initial TPS.

The extension period starts on Aug. 4 and runs until Feb. 3, 2026. The Federal Register notice published Friday provides information about registering for the TPS.

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The Supreme Court ruled Friday that cities can ticket homeless people for camping in public even when there is no alternative shelter available, a decision that could drastically alter the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans without a permanent place to live.

The justices sided 6-3 with the Oregon city of Grants Pass, which had asked the high court to review a lower court’s decision blocking the enforcement of a public camping ordinance after determining that banning camping where shelter beds were limited amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.

Grants Pass officials argued that the restrictions imposed by the decision from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals prevented them from implementing “common sense” laws against camping in certain public places. The justices agreed.

American retailer Tractor Supply Co. has eliminated its diversity, equity and inclusion roles and goals following weeks of conservative criticism online.

The home improvement and agriculture chain released a statement Thursday addressing the criticism and announcing the change.

“We have heard from customers that we have disappointed them,” read the statement posted on X. “We have taken this feedback to heart.”

When Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch voted Friday to decisively end the deference courts have given federal regulators of environmental, labor and other laws, he helped overturn a 40-year-old doctrine his own mom helped create.

Anne Gorsuch, the justice’s mother, had a rocky ride as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.

The Denver corporate lawyer’s nearly two years at the EPA were marked by high-level resignations, a shoot-from-the-hip style and accusations the nation’s top environmental official was a willing patsy for polluters.

"Nobody can be that wrong, all that much, all the time," Anne Gorsuch told a 1983 Senate hearing as senators from both parties attacked her leadership. "Personally, I have to finally judge that a great deal of it is political harassment…The thing that makes me very upset is that this type of harassment will probably impede our progress in our goal of cleaning up America."

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The Supreme Court ordered a new review of the law behind obstruction charges filed against hundreds of defendants in the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021 − including former President Donald Trump.

The 6-3 decision in Fischer v United States was highly anticipated because one-fourth of the defendants – 350 of the first 1,350 people prosecuted in the riot – were charged with obstruction. Two of four charges against Trump in his federal election interference case are based on the law.

The high court sent the case back to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which had ruled that the obstruction law did apply to Jan. 6, to review it again.

"Prosecutors have to prove that the defendant impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of records, documents, objects or other things used in an office proceeding, or attempted to do so,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

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