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  Five people, including two sets of parents, died while trying to rescue a struggling swimmer in an Ohio river on Sunday night, July 19.   A group of five adults, two children, and another individual was out on the Scioto River to “enjoy themselves a summer night” of fishing when the tragedy unfolded, Delaware County Sheriff Jeffrey Balzer said at a conference on Monday, July 20.   At some point, one adult went into the water to swim and began struggling, prompting two other adults to dive in to try to save them. After the pair also began to struggle, another two adults went in to help, Balzer explained.   None of them made it out of the river alive.   Authorities rushed to the scene after a motorist noticed a “clearly distraught” young child running along a nearby road around 9 p.m. and called 911.   The terrified child said that his “family was in the river,” cops said.      Two women were then pulled from the river and taken to nearb...

  US President Donald Trump has signed executive orders imposing new 50 percent tariffs on a wide range of Canadian goods, accusing Ottawa of discriminating against American products, including alcohol, automobiles and dairy. The White House said the new tariffs will take effect in 30 days and will apply to products such as wine, hockey sticks and cement. Trump invoked Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 to impose the duties, marking the first known use of the provision. The move comes after several of his previous tariff measures were struck down by the US Supreme Court earlier this year. The latest tariffs will not apply to energy products, potash or goods already subject to sector-specific tariffs. However, products covered under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) will no longer be exempt. Reacting to the decision, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Ottawa was prepared to intensify negotiations with Washington and had already proposed measures to resolve t...

  Sean "Diddy" Combs has asked a federal judge to sanction a woman suing him and her attorneys, arguing that their lawsuit is legally baseless and should never have been refiled. According to court documents obtained by TMZ, Combs is seeking sanctions against Grace O'Marcaigh and her legal team after they filed an amended complaint despite an earlier ruling that California courts lacked personal jurisdiction over him. Diddy's lawyers argue that the amended filing simply repeated the same jurisdictional arguments that had already been rejected by the court instead of addressing the deficiencies identified by the judge. They claim O'Marcaigh and her attorneys ignored the court's ruling, forcing Combs to incur additional legal expenses defending what they describe as a meritless case. Combs is asking the judge to order O'Marcaigh and her lawyers to pay sanctions, including attorney fees and court costs.   O'Marcaigh's attorneys have disputed that requ...

  The Super Eagles have retained their 26th position in the latest FIFA men's world rankings but have slipped to fourth in Africa following the release of the updated standings on Monday, July 20. Nigeria's position in the global rankings remained unchanged after their most recent outing, a 2-1 defeat to Portugal in an international friendly in June. With no competitive matches since then, the result had little effect on their overall ranking.  However, the Super Eagles were overtaken in the African rankings by Egypt, whose run to the Round of 16 at the 2026 FIFA World Cup boosted their continental standing before they were eliminated by eventual runners-up Argentina. Morocco remain Africa's highest-ranked team after reaching the World Cup quarter-finals. The Atlas Lions also climbed one place to sixth in the global rankings. Senegal are ranked second in Africa despite dropping three places worldwide, while Algeria occupy fifth on the continent after slipping one spot in th...

  Yemen's Iran-aligned militant group, the Houthis have announced on  that they are imposing a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia. The move opens a new front against the United States in its ongoing conflict with Iran and expands threats to global energy supplies and trade beyond the Gulf.     The declaration came despite indications that Tehran and Washington were seeking to resume diplomatic efforts to halt an escalating cycle of attacks that has severely damaged a fragile interim agreement signed last month. While oil prices initially spiked following the Houthi announcement, they subsequently receded as traders weighed hopes for a diplomatic breakthrough.     Iran had reportedly been urging the Houthis to shut down the Bab el-Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea should the U.S. continue targeting Iranian power infrastructure.   A total closure of the strait would cut global oil supply by 7 percent, as it would prevent the majority of Saudi oil exports from le...

  The House of Representatives has begun clause-by-clause consideration of President Bola Tinubu’s executive bill seeking the establishment of state police, with lawmakers indicating they may adopt the Senate-approved version with only minor amendments. Speaking during a meeting of the House Committee on Constitution Review, Deputy Speaker and Chairman of the Committee, Benjamin Kalu, said the House would build on the work already done by the Senate to fast-track passage of what he described as a priority constitutional amendment aimed at strengthening Nigeria’s security architecture.  Kalu recalled that the House had earlier passed its own Constitution Alteration Bill on State Police on June 11 before proceeding on recess. However, the decision was rescinded on July 14 following the transmission of President Tinubu’s executive bill to allow lawmakers consider the President’s proposal. He said the President, as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, was best positioned to ini...

  Nicaragua’s long-serving president, Daniel Ortega, has announced that the country will no longer hold elections to prevent the opposition from coming to power.   The 80-year-old authoritarian leader, who has been in office since 2007, also said he would work with the congress he controls to pass new laws that would “build a wall” against the opposition.   Ortega made the announcement on Sunday during the official ceremony marking the 47th anniversary of the 1979 Sandinista revolution, in which he helped overthrow the brutal dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza.   “There won’t be any more elections here for them to try to seize the government and seize power,” Ortega said to his supporters. “The days when parties backed by the Yankees (United States) and the Somocistas would return to power are over – never again,” he added, in the 80-year-old’s first public appearance in two months.   The Trump administration has described the Ortega government as a dictatorship, ...