News Wrap: Trump announces 30% tariffs on goods from Mexico and EU

John Yang:

In today's other news, President Trump announced 30 percent tariffs beginning August 1st on imports from the European Union and Mexico. Mexican and European officials have been negotiating with the administration in hopes of avoiding steep tariffs.

This week, the president announced a series of tariffs on U.S. allies and adversaries alike, including Canada and Brazil. So far, months of trade negotiations have resulted in only two deals with Great Britain and Vietnam.

In Gaza, there's been another incident of Palestinians being killed while trying to get food aid. Palestinian medics say 24 died near Rafah from Israeli gunfire. Israel says it only fired warning shots at people approaching them and was not aware of any casualties.

The U.N. estimates that 800 people have been killed in the last six weeks at U.S. run food distribution sites. In addition, Gaza hospital officials said Israeli airstrikes killed 28 Palestinians.

And the State Department said it's aware of reports that Israeli settlers beat to death a U.S. citizen, 20-year old Saifullah Musallet, on his family's land. Family in Tampa said he was visiting relatives and called on the U.S. government to investigate.

Russia pounded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and missiles today, killing at least six people. Russia has been stepping up long range attacks on Ukrainian cities while also trying to break through Ukrainian defenses along parts of the 620 mile long front line.

A preliminary report on last month's deadly Air India crash says the fuel supply to both engines was cut off shortly after takeoff. On the cockpit voice recorder, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why he had turned off the switches. The other responded that he hadn't.

The fuel supply was restored 10 seconds later, but it was too late for the plane to recover. 260 people were killed, 19 of them on the ground.