Start your week smart: Golan Heights attack, 100 days until election, cartel bust, Sonya Massey case, Alzheimer’s blood test
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First-time homebuyers in the US are in for a shock: The number of cities where the price tag of an average entry-level home is $1 million or more has nearly tripled in the past five years. Click here to learn what’s driving home prices through the roof. Here’s what else you need to know to Start Your Week Smart. • Israel vowed Hezbollah will “pay the price” after blaming the Lebanese militant group for a rocket attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 12 children, touching off fears once again that an all-out war would envelop the region.• Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are entering the last 100 days of one of the fastest-moving and least predictable campaign seasons in memory, after a historic month upended the 2024 presidential race. Follow live updates.• Details are still emerging about what led to one of the most significant and stunning cartel busts in recent memory. Authorities said the arrests of two leaders of the Sinaloa cartel started with an act of betrayal.• Years before sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson gunned down Sonya Massey in her own home, he had been discharged from the Army for serious misconduct and had a history of driving under the influence, records show. He also was told he needed “high stress decision making classes.”• A combined blood test for cognitive decline has a 90% accuracy rate in determining whether memory loss is due to Alzheimer’s disease, a new study found. MondayPresident Joe Biden heads to Austin, Texas, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act during a visit to the LBJ Presidential Library. Biden was originally scheduled to travel to Texas’ capital city on July 15, but that trip was postponed following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Iowa’s strict abortion law goes into effect, preventing most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, or before many women know they are pregnant. The law passed last year, but a judge had blocked it from being enforced. The Iowa Supreme Court reiterated in late June that there is no constitutional right to an abortion in the state and ordered the hold to be lifted. Last week, a district court judge ordered the law to go into effect on July 29 at 8 a.m. local time. TuesdayThe Senate’s Judiciary and Homeland and Government Affairs committees are scheduled to hold a joint hearing on the attempted assassination of Trump. Witnesses will include FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate and acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe, who was tapped to lead the agency following the resignation of Kimberly Cheatle last week. The House also voted last week to create a bipartisan task force to investigate the shooting. The task force will be made up of seven Republicans and six Democrats and will have subpoena authority, House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said.
FBI says it has disrupted major Chinese hacking operation that threatened US critical infrastructure
The FBI has used a court order to seize control of a network of hundreds of thousands of hacked internet routers and other devices that Chinese government-linked hackers were using to threaten critical infrastructure in the US and overseas, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday.
The Federal Reserve is preparing to cut interest rates for the first time in the Biden era after the White House spent the last three years grappling with Americans’ dissatisfaction with the cost of living, raising new questions about the health of the economy and the impact on voters at the ballot box.
Israeli officials notified the US that the country was going to carry out an operation in Lebanon on Tuesday but did not give any details about what they were planning, according to three sources familiar with the matter, including in a call between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant early Tuesday morning.