Trump To Ring Wall Street Opening Bells From The White HousePresident Donald Trump will be ringing the opening bells for the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq from the Oval Office on Monday morning.The ceremony is meant to mark the launch of Trump accounts, a proposal that was included in the GOP tax and spending bill. The Trump administration has framed it as an investment in the future of America's children.The event comes as Trump's handling of the economy has been scrutinized over the high cost of living ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.Latest Live UpdatesBipartisan Group Of U.S. Lawmakers To Join NATO Summit: ReportA bipartisan congressional delegation has already arrived in Turkey ahead of the NATO summit scheduled to get underway on Tuesday, Punchbowl News reported. The summit will be closely watched, in part, due to President Donald Trump's expected attendance.The five U.S. lawmakers are set to meet with NATO heads of state and other officials, the outlet noted. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), and Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) are also planning to visit Hungary as part of their overseas trip to meet the country's new prime minister, Péter Magyar, and his team, the report said.Delta Pilot Reports Close Encounter With A July Fourth FireworkA Delta Air Lines flight and a high-flying firework reportedly came into contact in the sky above Chicago as the city celebrated the Fourth of July holiday.The pilot of Delta flight 1076 notified air traffic controllers just before landing at Chicago Midway International Airport on Saturday night that a firework hit the commercial airliner during its descent. In an audio recording published online by LiveATC.net, the pilot described feeling "a big bang" on the plane.Read more at The Associated Press:Top U.S. Universities Shrink Ph.D. Programs: ReportTop U.S. research universities accepted significantly fewer Ph.D. students this fall, The New York Times reported on Monday, citing data garnered by the Association of American Universities Data Exchange.University leaders and research advocates have attributed the drop in new doctoral students, in part, to the chaotic nature of federal funding under President Donald Trump, and the uncertainty that creates.Experts warn this reality means there will be fewer researchers to power the country's ability to produce new science.Read more at The New York Times:U.S. Faces Belgium In World Cup Showdown As Trump-Balogun Controversy SwirlsThe U.S. faces Belgium in the round of 16 at the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Monday at 8 p.m. ET at Lumen Field, which has been renamed Seattle Stadium for the tournament.At stake is a place in the quarterfinals — and a high-profile clash with either Spain or Portugal.While preparations continue on the pitch, controversy has swirled off it following reports that President Donald Trump controversially intervened to urge FIFA to suspend U.S. striker Folarin Balogun's red-card ban, clearing him to play against Belgium.Check out the weather forecast for the game.And follow HuffPost’s live World Cup updates.Racist Commentary About Black Players Comes Under Fresh Scrutiny At World CupBelgium coach Rudi Garcia's description of Senegal as one of "those teams" that "tend to lose their tactical structure towards the end of the match" has reignited scrutiny of racially coded language at the World Cup.Garcia made the remarks after Belgium’s last-gasp comeback against Senegal on Wednesday. In a statement posted on social media two days later, Garcia said he had been "referring to teams unaccustomed to managing a lead in high-level World Cup matches" and that his comments could apply to teams from any region.But critics said Garcia's remarks drew on a deeper history of racial stereotypes that have long cast Black players and African teams as naturally powerful and instinctive, yet tactically naive, emotionally fragile or unable to withstand pressure.Read more at Reuters:Burgum Says Trump Admin Won't Seek New Bids To Repair Reflecting PoolInterior Secretary Doug Burgum said the Trump administration will not be seeking new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, noting that it plans to use the same company that carried out the failed renovation work to fix the landmark's ongoing issues."We'll use the same company ’cause they did a fantastic job," Burgum told CNN's Dana Bash on Sunday.Burgum attributed the issues the landmark has faced to vandalism as he continued to defend the original work carried out."The job that was done to fix the Reflecting Pool was done extremely well," he added.The Trump administration has drawn scrutiny over the renovation and its price tag as the "industrial-grade swimming pool topping" that the president chose has been peeling off, among other things.BASH: How much is it gonna cost to fix? And are you gonna use the same company you did in the no bid contract, or will you open it up to new bids?BURGUM: We'll use the same company, because they did a fantastic job pic.twitter.com/nfQWFTq2co— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 5, 2026Russian Missile And Drone Attack On Ukraine's Capital Kills At Least 11Russia launched waves of missiles and drones at Kyiv early Monday, killing at least 11 people in an attack that exposed widening gaps in Ukraine’s air defenses, local authorities said.All of the ballistic missiles launched by Russia struck their targets, underscoring Kyiv's worsening shortage of Patriot interceptor missiles. The attack came hours after Ukraine’s president warned that a large-scale attack was imminent.Read more at The Associated Press:Deadly Clashes Break Out At Prison In Sri LankaDeadly clashes broke out inside a prison in the outskirts of Sri Lanka's capital, officials said on Monday.Unrest broke out at the prison in Negombo, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) north of the capital Colombo, on Sunday and continued on Monday, according to the local media and police.Local television station Hiru reported that 25 people have been killed in the clashes and more than 100 others were injured. Victims include both inmates and prison officials, the channel reported.Police spokesman Chandana Herath confirmed that there was a clash inside the prison and that people had been killed, but did not give any other details.The reason for the clash was not immediately known.An official at the area's main state-run hospital said more than 100 people have been admitted with injuries from the prison clash. He spoke on condition of anonymity as he is not authorized to speak to the media. He did not specify the injuries.Sri Lankan prisons are highly congested, with more than 39,000 inmates crowded into a system with a total capacity of just 10,000.U.K. Says Aircraft Carrier Approached By Russian Plane In Norwegian SeaBritain said its aircraft carrier in the Norwegian Sea was repeatedly approached by a Russian patrol aircraft, before being escorted away by U.K. fighter jets, in the latest incident risking a potential escalation between NATO and Russia.The incident, which Britain called "unsafe and unprofessional," comes ahead of a NATO meeting in Ankara on Tuesday, where NATO members are set to pledge €70 billion in military assistance to Ukraine for 2026.Britain said the Russian "Bear-F" maritime patrol aircraft passed at low altitude and "unnecessarily close" to HMS Prince of Wales, the aircraft carrier at the centre of a naval formation known as a carrier strike group, on July 2."The Bear-F ... dropped a large number of sonobuoys in close proximity to the carrier," the Ministry of Defence said in a statement, referring to devices that are used to detect and track submarines.Two F-35 fighter jets from the HMS Prince of Wales were sent to intercept the Russian aircraft until it left the area.Britain's carrier strike group is currently deployed under NATO's command in the High North, as part of efforts to boost North Atlantic security given concern over Russian aggression in the region.Earlier this year, Britain deployed military vessels to prevent attacks on cables and pipelines by Russian submarines that spent more than a month in and around U.K. waters.Britain said in a separate statement on Monday that defense minister Dan Jarvis had recently visited U.K. forces onboard the aircraft carrier in waters near Iceland.Mourners Throng Funeral Procession In Tehran For Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali KhameneiMourners dressed in black flooded into Iran's capital Monday for a procession as part of the funeral of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with throngs of people calling for the death of U.S. President Donald Trump.Khamenei's flag-draped coffin, and those of members of his family killed Feb. 28 in an airstrike at the start of the war launched by Israel and the United States, sat on board a truck decorated to resemble the ornamental grating that surrounds the shrine of an imam. The massive turnout, encouraged by Iran's theocracy as a sign of strength, came as it negotiates with the U.S. over a permanent end to the war that killed the 86-year-old cleric.Read more at The Associated Press:See All Updates