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It's Monday, July 7, and in today’s edition of Rise & Recap, we look at:

• Israel’s Netanyahu also nominates Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

• Measles cases at all-time-high for first time since elimination.

• Do vaginal probiotics really work?

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SPILL THE NEWS

New Deadline, New Threats — Same Old Tariffs

President Donald Trump on Monday began sending letters to more than a dozen countries, warning they will face 25% tariffs on exports to the U.S. starting August 1 unless they strike new trade deals. The letters mark the revival of Trump’s tariff threats after a self-imposed July 9 deadline was pushed back. The first wave of notifications targeted key U.S. allies including Japan and South Korea, with follow-ups to South Africa, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, and others. Details of the fresh tariff threats.

Trump also announced that deals had been finalized with the United Kingdom and China and that negotiations with India were nearing completion. “We’ve made a deal with United Kingdom, we’ve made a deal with China, we’ve made a deal — we’re close to making a deal with India,” Trump said. “Others we met with, we don’t think we’re going to be able to make a deal. So we just send them a letter.” What does the next phase hold?

Although Trump suggested most tariffs would proceed, he left room for negotiation, calling the August 1 deadline “not 100% firm”. Markets dipped on the renewed trade uncertainty, with the S&P 500 closing down 0.8% amid investor concerns over heightened tensions with U.S. allies and trading partners.

Related Read: How emerging economies are turning to one another.

Now, Netanyahu Wants Trump To Get Nobel Peace Prize

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Donald Trump he has nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize, using a White House dinner on Monday to strengthen ties amid U.S. efforts to broker a Gaza ceasefire. “He’s forging peace as we speak,” Netanyahu told reporters. “In one country and one region after the other. So I want to present to you, Mr. President, the letter I sent to the Nobel Prize Committee. It’s nominating you for the Peace Prize, which is well deserved, and you should get it.” Trump replied, “Coming from you in particular, this is very meaningful.” Watch. 

Netanyahu is not the first foreign leader to nominate Trump for the Nobel Prize — Pakistan also said it would submit his name last month. Trump, long vocal about his desire to win the prize, has often contrasted himself with Barack Obama, who received it in 2009 before escalating the U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan. 

Netanyahu’s visit — his third since Trump took office — comes as both leaders celebrated joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities following a 12-day war between Israel and Iran. Do Israeli officials want a green light on Iran again? This comes amidst the ongoing conflict in Gaza for which indirect talks between Hamas and Israel resumed in Qatar on Monday for the first time in six weeks. Trump, meanwhile, is pressing for a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza and the release of 10 hostages and 18 bodies. Trump said he believes both sides "want to have that ceasefire". Sticking points include Israeli guarantees to end the war and Netanyahu’s demand that Hamas be permanently removed from Gaza. Where things stand currently.

Measles Cases Surge To Highest Since Elimination

The United States has reported nearly 1,300 measles cases so far in 2025 — the highest number in a year since 1992, breaking the previous post-elimination record of 1,274 set in 2019. According to Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Outbreak Response Innovation, at least 1,277 infections have been confirmed across 38 states and the District of Columbia. At least 155 people have been hospitalized, and three deaths have been confirmed, including two unvaccinated children in Texas and an unvaccinated adult in New Mexico. This is a stark rise from the total of just three measles-related deaths reported between 2001 and 2024.

Measles was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, meaning it was no longer spreading continuously for over a year. But that status is now under threat. Vaccination rates have dropped sharply amid growing anti-vaccine sentiment fueled by COVID-era distrust in public health institutions and a broader, increasingly organized anti-vaccine movement. The CDC reports that 92% of this year’s cases were in individuals who were unvaccinated or whose vaccination status was unknown.

Adding to the alarm, six leading medical organizations — including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Infectious Diseases Society of America — filed a federal lawsuit against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Department of Health and Human Services. The suit challenges recent decisions to remove COVID vaccines from the list of recommended immunizations for healthy children and pregnant women. “Mr. Kennedy has been on a decades-long mission to undermine vaccines,” said Richard H. Hughes IV, a vaccine law expert at George Washington University leading the legal effort. “The secretary’s intentions are clear. He aims to destroy vaccines.”

CLICK-WORTHY

🧾 DOJ denies Jeffrey Epstein client list, sparks conservatives anger.

👦 What happens to boys when most adults in their lives are women?

🌊 As toll crosses 100 in Texas floods, White House pushes back on criticism. 

✈️ Could moving cities (or continents) after breakup be the ultimate moving on trick?

🕊️ U.S. eases sanctions on Syria, lifts terrorist label.

🧊 Melting glaciers, ice caps likely to unleash wave volcanic eruption.

🇺🇸 Trump reverses pause on U.S. military aid to Ukraine after brief freeze.

🔫 Philadelphia shooting caps a deadly fourth of July weekend. 

🤖 Thought AI’s coming for your job? It’s first coming for your job interviewer.

🏥 Trump’s Medicaid cuts delayed, real impact won’t hit before midterms.

IN GOOD HEALTH

⌚ RFK Jr. wants everyone to have wearables but does that have risks?

🦠 Do vaginal probiotics really work?

🏋️‍♂️ Want better workouts? Your breath is part of the plan.

⚰️ US kids dying more than peer nations — study finds crisis is preventable.

IN STYLE, IN BEAUTY

🧴 Chemical or mineral? The sunscreen aisle just got trickier.

👙 Style-approved bras that stay put under your daring fits.

💉 Injectable hydration? Skin boosters are beauty world’s backstage secret.

💅 Playful jelly nails bring translucent shine to every outfit.

THE FAME FRAME

👠 Couture Week’s front row? Stars, sparkle, and major fashion.

🎤 Anne Hathaway channels edgy disco-pop diva for Vogue’s August issue.

🌅 Justin Bieber calls wife Hailey his “forever n always” in IG sunset post.

🍿 ‘F1’ is Apple’s highest grossing theatrical film ever!

🎤 Shakira donates concert proceeds to aid Texas flood victims’ recovery.

WEIGH IN

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”

— General George S. Patton