July 28 2026 News

President Donald Trump is expected to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday in a high-stakes sit-down that comes at a politically fraught moment for the Israeli prime minister. The two leaders will discuss the war with Iran, the framework agreement for peace in Lebanon and efforts to expand the Abraham Accords, a White House official said. Trump will also meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the Russia-Ukraine war, the official said.

A series of violent attacks on Egyptian Christians, including the incarceration of a man who converted from Islam to Christianity, prompted the U.S. State Department to urge that religious freedom be respected in the Muslim-majority country of Egypt.

The Zionist Organization of America on Monday accused New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani of promoting an “anti-American, pro-Hamas, Jew-hating agenda” through recent actions that the group said have endangered the area’s Jewish community. ZOA President Morton Klein released a statement condemning Mamdani for appointing an 18-member mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary without any Jewish members, despite New York City having the nation’s largest Jewish population.

An Iranian state-affiliated media outlet has reportedly aired a chilling video outlining assassination scenarios targeting First Lady Melania Trump and her son Barron, ending with the direct threat: “Barron Trump, wait for us.” The broadcast reportedly analyzes Melania Trump’s movements and security arrangements in New York, suggesting potential attack methods and locations. The threats come as tensions with Tehran remain at a boiling point following joint US-Israeli strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader and other top regime figures, triggering an escalating campaign of threats against the Trump family.

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads and leaving some trapped and others presumed dead inside a partially collapsed shopping mall.

Nepal Rastra Bank has made National ID verification mandatory when licensed payment service providers open digital wallets for Nepali citizens. Providers must check the applicant’s National ID details against the government’s electronic record under an amended payment systems directive.

Hong Kong’s eMPF Platform will require real-time facial identification for most online Mandatory Provident Fund withdrawal applications from the end of July. The new step combines facial verification with enhanced authentication through iAM Smart, the territory’s government digital identity app. The requirement covers withdrawals after a member reaches age 65 as well as most early-withdrawal applications. Claims based on a small balance of HK$5,000 or less and claims following a member’s death are exempt from the new biometric step.

Actor Alan Ritchson, star of Amazon Prime Video’s hit action series Reacher, seemingly justified those who hate President Donald Trump committing political violence. Ritchson appeared on the Armchair Expert podcast with Dax Shepard and went on to say that people should be angry enough at abusive Catholic priests, Republicans, and President Donald Trump to beat them to a pulp.

Newly released diary entries from Dr. Anthony Fauci suggest that the former White House COVID adviser became increasingly preoccupied with his growing celebrity status even as the coronavirus pandemic claimed tens of thousands of American lives. The journals, released Sunday by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., chronicle Fauci’s private thoughts during the early months of the pandemic, when he served as the nation’s top infectious disease expert and a leading member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.