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Tim Walz Law Frees Ax Murderer • A man who axed his parents, brother, and sister to death in Minnesota when he was 16 was released from prison under a juvenile sentencing law signed by Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. David Brom, now 53,


moved to a halfway house for a work-release program on July 29. He had received four


murder convictions and three life sentences for the 1988 killings in Rochester. Walz, the Democratic


Party’s candidate for vice president last year, abolished life sentences without the possibility of early release for juvenile offenders in 2023. The move was opposed by Republican legislators.


U.S. Boosts Rare Earth Mine • MP Materials, which runs the only American rare earth mine, announced a new $500 million agreement with tech giant Apple to produce more of the powerful magnets used in iPhones, as well as other high-tech products like electric vehicles. The Defense Department agreed to invest $400 million in shares of the Las Vegas- based company, establish a floor for the price of key elements, and ensure that all of the magnets made at a new plant in the first 10 years are purchased. That unusual direct investment in the company makes the government the largest shareholder in MP


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agreement will allow MP Materials to expand its new factory in Texas to use recycled materials to produce magnets that make iPhones vibrate. The company also expects to start producing magnets for GM’s electric vehicles later this year.


Security Probe at University of Michigan • The University of Michigan is under federal scrutiny after two Chinese scientists linked to the school were separately charged with smuggling biological materials into the United States. The Education Department opened an investigation into the university’s foreign funding, saying the “highly disturbing criminal charges” raise concerns about Michigan’s vulnerability to national security threats from China.


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Trump has made it a priority to increase transparency around foreign gifts and contracts to U.S. universities, especially those tied to China. Similar investigations have been opened at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California, Berkeley. Federal authorities


brought charges in June against a Chinese scientist and his girlfriend after the FBI said it halted their effort to bring a


‘Preemie’ Celebrates Joyous 1st Birthday


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baby born at only 21 weeks of gestation in Iowa City, Iowa, celebrated his first birthday, and among his gifts


is a Guinness world record for most premature baby. Nash Keen was born on July 5, 2024 — 133 days earlier


than the expected due date and weighing only 10 ounces — about the size of a bar of soap.


He spent six months in the neonatal intensive care unit


at the University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital before he was allowed in January to go home to Ankeny, Iowa, with parents Mollie and Randall Keen. Nash is among the growing number of extremely


premature infants who are getting lifesaving treatment and surviving. Upon reaching his first birthday, Guinness World Records declared Nash the world’s most premature baby, beating out by a single day the organization’s previous record holder, born in 2020 in Alabama.


toxic fungus into the United States. Days later, they arrested a Chinese scientist who was accused of shipping biological material to a laboratory at the University of Michigan.


Migrants Flown Out of Florida Prison • Deportation flights from the remote Everglades immigration lockup known as “Alligator Alcatraz” have begun, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced. The flights operated


by the Department of Homeland Security are transferring hundreds of detainees from the immigration detention


center to other countries, DeSantis said. Critics condemned the


South Florida facility as cruel and inhumane. But the White House


has delighted in the area’s remoteness — about 50 miles west of Miami — and the fact that it is teeming with pythons and alligators. It hopes to send a message that repercussions will be severe if U.S. immigration laws are broken. Trump is also considering reopening Alcatraz, the notorious island prison in San Francisco Bay, to house illegal immigrants.


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