Canada drops tech tax to restart US trade talks
Canada will rescind a tax on big US technology firms, just hours before first payments were due, to allow trade talks between the two countries to restart, BBC reported.
On Friday, US President Donald Trump called off negotiations over a trade deal, describing the tax as a "blatant attack", and threatened higher tariffs on imports from Canada.
In response, Canada has said it will introduce legislation to remove the tax and would halt the collection of payments, which were due on Monday.
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told Fox News on Monday that negotiations between the North American neighbours would "absolutely" restart as a result, according to BBC.
Israeli military investigates 'reports of harm to civilians' after hundreds killed near Gaza aid sites
The Israeli military has said it is examining reports of civilians being "harmed" while approaching aid distribution centres in Gaza run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, BBC reported.
Since GHF operations began in late May, following a three-month Israeli blockade on Gaza, there have been almost daily reports from medics, eyewitnesses and the Hamas-run health ministry of Israeli fire killing people seeking aid at these sites.
The UN says more than 400 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid.
The Israeli military said on Monday instructions had been issued to forces after "lessons learned", but did not specify what these lessons were, according to BBC
White House says Harvard violated civil rights of Jewish students
The Trump administration says that Harvard University violated civil-rights laws over its treatment of Israeli and Jewish students, potentially further endangering its federal funding, BBC reported.
In a letter sent to Harvard, the administration accused the university of deliberate indifference towards the concerns of Jewish students who felt threatened on campus.
The move is the latest in a series of legal and financial battles between Harvard and the White House - the stakes of which have dramatically escalated over the last few months.
Harvard says it has made "significant strides" to combat discrimination and "strongly disagrees" with the government's findings, according to BBC
US Senate begins voting on Trump's 'big beautiful bill'
The US Senate has begun a marathon vote on a sprawling budget that is critical to President Donald Trump's agenda, but the spending plan is hanging in the balance after weeks of fraught negotiations, BBC reported.
Republicans - who control both chambers of Congress - are divided over how much to cut welfare programmes in order to extend tax breaks in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The president's party is sprinting to pass the legislation by this week's self-imposed deadline of the Fourth of July public holiday.
If the measure does clear the Senate, it will have to go back for another vote to the House of Representatives, which passed its own version of the bill last month by a single vote, according to BBC.
