Today in News History

On July 13, several notable moments in the history of News stand out. In 1922, Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2006) was born. In 1961, Khalid Mahmood, Pakistani-English engineer and politician was born. In 1973, Watergate scandal: Alexander Butterfield reveals the existence of a secret Oval Office taping system to investigators for the Senate Watergate Committee. In 1976, Sheldon Souray, Canadian ice hockey player was born. In 1977, New York City: Amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting. In 1988, DJ LeMahieu, American baseball player was born. In 1996, Pandro S. Berman, American director, producer, and production manager (born 1905) passed away. In 2003, French DGSE personnel abort an operation to rescue Íngrid Betancourt from FARC rebels in Colombia, causing a political scandal when details are leaked to the press. In 2011, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1999 is adopted, which admits South Sudan to member status of United Nations. In 2024, Thomas Matthew Crooks, American student, known for attempting to assassinate former US President Donald Trump (born 2003) passed away. Together, these milestones provide historical context for today's news news and ongoing narratives.

DHS Is Spending $1.5 Billion to Block ICE Oversight

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The Department of Homeland Security has purchased two privately-run detention facilities from the for-profit prison company CoreCivic, the company announced Monday, in a move that may serve to shield the facilities from state oversight. DHS bought the two Southern California prisons, Otay Mesa Detention Center and California City Detention Center, for about 1.5 billion on []

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Institute for Policy Studies

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· Jun 29, 2026

Our Federal Budget is Showing Us That Congress is Putting ICE First and Families Last. It Should Be the Other Way Around.

We can’t allow ICE and Border Patrol continue to harm our communities while we struggle to pay our bills. The post Our Federal Budget is Showing Us That Congress is Putting ICE First and Families Last. It Should Be the Other Way Around. appeared first on Institute for Policy Studies.

RedState

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· Jun 24, 2026

The Problem With Suing Oil Companies for the Weather

The Problem With Suing Oil Companies for the Weather

Vanguard News

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· Jul 13, 2026

Oil cartels, tanker operators, enforcement agencies blamed for Apapa, Kirikiri gridlock

Oil cartels, independent petroleum marketers, tanker owners, drivers, transport unions and enforcement agencies have been blamed for Apapa traffic The post Oil cartels, tanker operators, enforcement agencies blamed for Apapa, Kirikiri gridlock appeared first on Vanguard News.

Fox News

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· Jul 3, 2026

Judge blocks Philadelphia law targeting masked federal officers

A federal judge blocked Philadelphia's mask ban on ICE agents, ruling the city cannot regulate how federal officers conduct enforcement operations.

Off The Press

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· Jul 12, 2026

Keystone Pipeline Operator Agrees to Pay a $27 Million Penalty Over Kansas Oil Spill

A proposed legal settlement with the U.S. government would require the Keystone Pipeline system’s operator to pay a 26.9 million civil penalty over a major oil spill in Kansas in December 2022 and spend about 40 million more to prevent future accidents. The agreement would resolve allegations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Kansas []...Click to read more

Utusan Malaysia

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· Jul 7, 2026

Kerajaan teliti dakwaan stesen minyak tanggung kerugian

KUALA LUMPUR: Kerajaan akan mengadakan perbincangan dengan syarikat minyak bagi mendapatkan maklumat berhubung dakwaan pengusaha stesen minyak menanggung kerugian semasa peralihan pelaksanaan penambahbaikan subsidi bahan api sebelum ini. Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim berkata, kerajaan menghargai kerjasama syarikat dan stesen minyak dalam menjayakan pelaksanaan penyasaran subsidi petrol RON95 dan diesel. “Merujuk kepada permasalahan yang ... Read more The post Kerajaan teliti dakwaan stesen minyak tanggung kerugian appeared first on Utusan Malaysia.

DNyuz

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· Jul 12, 2026

Keystone pipeline system’s operator agrees to pay $27-million penalty over a major Kansas oil spill

TOPEKA, Kan. — A proposed legal settlement with the U.S. government would require the Keystone pipeline system’s operator to pay a 26.9-million civil penalty over a major oil spill in Kansas in December 2022 and spend about 40 million more to prevent future accidents. The agreement would resolve allegations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Kansas []

The Daily Signal

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· Jun 23, 2026

Supreme Court Determines ExxonMobil Can Sue Communist Cuba for Confiscated Property

In a case involving oil giant ExxonMobil, the Supreme Court held that a federal law granting the right to sue a foreign country over confiscated property overrides sovereign immunity. The court ruled 6-3, splitting along ideological lines. Justice Neil Gorsuch authored the majority opinion. ExxonMobil is seeking more than 1 billion in compensation for oil...

The Hindu BusinessLine

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· Jun 29, 2026

The Hormuz Crisis and India’s 100-Day Test

The real success of the Union Ggovernment’s handling of the crisis, however, is its decision not to pass on the spike in crude oil prices to the ordinary consumer

Jezebel

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· Jul 7, 2026

Taylor Swift’s Dream MSG Wedding Had a Nightmare Guest: An ICE Contractor

Steven J. Demetriou is the executive chair of Amentum, which runs an ICE detention facility in the midst of a humanitarian scandal.

Metro

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· Jul 5, 2026

Taylor Swift fans ‘sickened’ after ICE contractor attends wedding

The contractor's company is responsible for running ICE's largest detention centre.

Quartz

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· Jun 25, 2026

A Chevron exec says gas prices will come down — but not as fast as Trump wants

The executive's remarks came in response to Trump's accusation that major oil companies were failing to pass on lower crude costs to consumers

Egypt Oil & Gas

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· Jun 25, 2026

Trump Issues Oil Firms Investigation into Pump Price Gouging

US President Donald Trump has instructed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate oil companies for failing to lower gasoline prices in line with falling crude costs, accusing the companies of “gouging” customers, Reuters reported. The Trump administration posted a video clip on X later on June 24 ​in which Trump named US oil producers Exxon [] The post Trump Issues Oil Firms Investigation into Pump Price Gouging first appeared on Egypt Oil Gas.

Seeking Alpha

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· Jun 26, 2026

2026 2H Oil Dividend Roundup: Chevron Outshines Enterprise Products Partners

2026 2H Oil Dividend Roundup: Chevron Outshines Enterprise Products Partners

Climate Justice Alliance

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· Jun 26, 2026

Climate Justice Alliance Condemns Supreme Court Decision Shielding Monsanto from Accountability

Contact: olivia@climatejusticealliance.org Says Ruling Puts Corporate Interests Over Public Health In reaction to today’s Supreme Court ruling, shielding Monsanto from liability over harms caused by its popular weed killer Roundup, and effectively ending thousands of lawsuits from people who claim that RoundUp ingredients gave them cancer, Climate Justice Alliance legislative director Mar Zepeda issued the [] The post Climate Justice Alliance Condemns Supreme Court Decision Shielding Monsanto from Accountability appeared first on Climate Justice Alliance.

The korea Herald News

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· Jul 6, 2026

Four refiners indicted over alleged W14.2tr fuel collusion after US-Iran war

South Korean prosecutors indicted the country’s four major oil refiners Monday on fair trade charges, including allegations that two of them colluded to raise fuel prices after the outbreak of war between the United States and Iran in March. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office estimated that the alleged collusion by HD Hyundai Oilbank and SK Energy caused 14.2 trillion won (9.27 billion) in direct anticompetitive impact. Including the ripple effect from GS Caltex and S-Oil following

Daily Post Nigeria

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· Jul 6, 2026

FG insists on fuel price slash at meeting with Dangote Refinery, marketers

The Federal Government has called on marketers to reduce the pump price of petrol to reflect falling crude costs in the international market. The Minister of state for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Heineken Lokpobiri, made the call on Monday at a stakeholders’ meeting with the marketers and other downstream petroleum sector operators. The minister demanded that the sharp [] FG insists on fuel price slash at meeting with Dangote Refinery, marketers

The Independent

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· Jun 22, 2026

Trump appointee argued the US could take Greenland and its seafood to save endless shrimp at Red Lobster: report

It’s one of the stranger justifications US officials have offered up in their quest to control the Arctic island

Salon

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· Jul 11, 2026

ICE says agent faced danger in Houston. Witnesses say that’s not what happened

A fatal ICE encounter in Houston is continues questions about transparency, use of force and accountability

Tampa Free Press

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· Jul 10, 2026

Keystone’s $70 Million Reckoning: Owners Hit With Massive Penalties Over Historic Kansas Oil Spill

The federal government and the state of Kansas have reached a major settlement agreement with the owner and operator of the Keystone Pipeline, forcing the company to pay tens of millions of dollars after a 2022 pipe rupture triggered one of the largest inland oil spills in recent U.S. history. Under the terms of the [] Keystone’s 70 Million Reckoning: Owners Hit With Massive Penalties Over Historic Kansas Oil Spill

WyoFile

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· Jun 25, 2026

After pushback, Wyoming delays repeal of wildlife monitoring rules at coal mines

State officials say monitoring requirements wouldn’t end altogether — Game and Fish would issue recommendations instead — but the proposal has been temporarily halted. The post After pushback, Wyoming delays repeal of wildlife monitoring rules at coal mines appeared first on WyoFile .

GovCon Wire

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· Jul 2, 2026

ICE Plans Over $100M Follow-On Contract for Enterprise IT Support Services

ICE is planning a follow-on contract worth more than 100 million for enterprise-wide IT support services The solicitation is expected around Sept. 16, with award slated for the second quarter of fiscal 2027 and work running through February 2028 ICE intends to compete the work through NITAAC’s CIO-SP3 Small Business vehicle, where Insero is the

Mother Jones

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· Jul 1, 2026

ICE Finds a New Way to Dodge Congress About a Secret Protester Database

In response to lawmakers’ ongoing questions about ICE’s surveillance practices, a previously unpublicized letter to Congress reveals Homeland Security officials are taking an increasingly evasive approach when asked if the Trump administration created a database of protesters labeled as “domestic terrorists.” The administration has repeatedly denied that DHS maintains a specific database of US citizens []

NDTV

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· Jun 30, 2026

Abu Dhabi Proposes New Oil-Pricing System To Mirror Wider Market

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co.'s crude-marketing team has spoken with refiners and traders about the changes.

The Next Web

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· Jun 23, 2026

UN urges AI firms to come clean on their environmental costs

The United Nations wants artificial-intelligence companies to stop treating the environmental bill as somebody else’s problem. In a call amplified this week by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the organisation is pressing the firms behind the AI boom to disclose the carbon, water, and land their systems consume, and to switch their data centres and supply chains [] This story continues at The Next Web

Canada's National Observer

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· Jun 26, 2026

Weakened pesticide protections will threaten food security, public and environmental health

Bill C-30's authorization of the use of banned pesticides allows political and economic interests to override health and environmental evidence.

The Epoch Times

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· Jun 23, 2026

New York, Federal Government File Dueling Lawsuits Over State’s Ban on Masked Officers

Both sides sued over a new law that bars local, state, and federal officers from concealing their identities and also ends local cooperation with ICE.

Politizoom

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· Jul 6, 2026

ICE Arrested Who?!

We are now firmly into the ridiculous for ICE, their brutality, and their escapades. This ranks up with Renee Good and Alex Pretti. You may disagree. This bird thinks it’s up there. This is almost unbelievable. Yep, they’ve certainly added a bunch of moronic thugs. It gets confirmed over and over again. And they aren’t

Anadolu Agency

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· Jul 7, 2026

Toyota moving production from Mexico to US, says Trump

'Tariffs at work,' says US president, touting the effects of his policy of higher tariffs on imports to US

ArcaMax

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· Jun 23, 2026

Los Angeles tries again to phase out urban oil production

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday unanimously advanced an ordinance to halt new oil and gas drilling and phase out all existing production over the next 20 years. L.A. is home to more than 2,000 active oil wells. The measure...

Wired

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· Jul 6, 2026

ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics

The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees.

Iran Herald

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· Jun 24, 2026

High pump prices of gasoline angers Trump as he instructs Justice Department to probe oil companies

Washington D.C. [US], June 24, (ANI): US President Donald Trump expressed his anger over US oil companies not bringing down the pump prices of gasoline despite paying a lower price for the oil.In a Truth Social post, Trump said that customers are being 'gouged' and that prices should start going down a lot faster than what he is seeing. Trump added that he has given instructions to the Department of Justice (DoJ

Investing.com

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· Jun 26, 2026

UN rights chief calls for investigations into deaths in US ICE custody

UN rights chief calls for investigations into deaths in US ICE custody

Right Wing Watch

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· Jul 10, 2026

Another ICE Killing

Killer Child For Governor Gutting The EAC A Costly Convention

KSAT San Antonio

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· Jul 12, 2026

Keystone Pipeline system's operator agrees to pay a $26.9M penalty over a major Kansas oil spill

A proposed legal settlement with the U.S. government would require the Keystone Pipeline system’s operator to pay a civil penalty of nearly 27 million over a major oil spill in Kansas in December 2022.

MS NOW

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· Jun 29, 2026

U.N. official calls for investigation into ICE deaths under Trump’s regime

The United Nations’ high commissioner for human rights expressed concern about the raft of deaths that have occurred during Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown. The post U.N. official calls for investigation into ICE deaths under Trump’s regime appeared first on MS NOW.

The Hill

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· Jul 3, 2026

Justice Department urges states to probe possible gas price gouging

The Justice Department on Friday called on states to “use all tools available” to investigate whether oil companies and individuals are intentionally inflating gas prices amid complaints from President Trump that they are falling too slowly. Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward Jr. and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Andrew Ferguson also informed state attorneys general...

Breakthrough News

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· Jul 9, 2026

Houston father killed by ICE amid surge in arrests

The Houston killing comes amid a sharp surge in ICE operations across the United States. A reported 10,000 people have been arrested by ICE in just 5 days. Zoe. , July 9, 2026

Washington Examiner

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· Jun 26, 2026

The business of suing the federal government

Recent headlines about the Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding” and the challenges it faces could be confusing to many a reader because of all the parties involved. Attorneys general of 25 states filed suit, requesting intervenor status, to uphold the current EPA’s move to scrap what is called the “endangerment finding” by former President Barack []

ScheerPost

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· Jun 27, 2026

New Report: Growing Partnership Between Surveillance Tech And ICE

Shireen Akram-Boshar, Truthout. DHS doesn’t just buy surveillance tech, but also helps create it through a billion-dollar research incubator. A new report has outlined the massive expansion in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s use of surveillance technologies and partnerships with technology companies during President Donald Trump’s second term. The report, released this week by Mijente, Just Futures []

Foreign Policy Journal

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· Jul 8, 2026

Trump Administration Reimposes Iran Oil Sanctions After Strait of Hormuz Ship Attacks

The Trump administration has reimposed sanctions on Iranian oil sales following a series of attacks on commercial vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, escalating tensions under a fragile ceasefire. U.S. Central Command announced in a statement posted on X that its forces had “begun launching a series of powerful strikes against Iran to impose heavy [] The post Trump Administration Reimposes Iran Oil Sanctions After Strait of Hormuz Ship Attacks appeared first on Foreign Policy Journal.

Jacobin

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· Jun 26, 2026

Congress Uses Cargo Theft to Justify More ICE Surveillance

A bill now in Congress, written ostensibly to address large-scale cargo theft, contains a provision granting ICE broad exemptions to collect federally protected commercial data. The loophole would expand ICE’s already vast surveillance apparatus.

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