News for July 31, 2025

The US Energy Department said a radioactive wasp nest was found at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina, but there was no sign of a leak or risk to the public.

The US, under Marco Rubio’s State Department, said it will sanction the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organisation over their handling of the conflict with Israel.

A Colorado sheriff’s deputy was disciplined after sharing a college student’s traffic stop details with federal immigration agents, which led to her detention.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh defended the Supreme Court’s handling of emergency Trump cases, saying the court takes them seriously and gives them enough process.

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department told recipients of federal funds to stop using diversity, equity and inclusion programs and to avoid using money in ways that support them.

Cutbacks in humanitarian aid in north-east Nigeria are leaving many people short of food and medicine, and aid workers warn this could help Boko Haram recruit more fighters.

Trump’s global tariffs face a major court challenge as judges weigh whether he had the legal power to impose them without Congress.

Russia said it captured the Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar while also launching a deadly drone and missile attack on Kyiv, but Ukraine denied the town had fully fallen and said fighting was still underway.