July 13, 2017 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Crime in Mexico
- Crime in London
- Five men in London are attacked with acid in five linked attacks. Two teenaged suspects are taken into custody. (CNN)
Law and crime
- July 2017 Pennsylvania murders
- A suspect in a disappearances case in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, reportedly confesses to killing and burying four men. (Reuters)
- Another "person of interest" in the case is taken into custody. (Fox News)
- Health care in the United States
- The U.S. Department of Justice charges 412 individuals with health care fraud. Collectively, these individuals are accused of collectively defrauding $1.3 billion from the U.S. government. (The New York Times)
- The U.S. Senate releases a revised version of the American Health Care Act, the Better Care Reconciliation Act. (NPR)
- Executive Order 13780, Hawaii v. Trump
- Hawaii District Judge Derrick Watson extends the definition of "close family members" to include grandparents, aunts, and uncles, thereby exempting them from President Donald Trump's travel ban on six Muslim-majority nations. (The Washington Post) (NPR)
Politics and elections
- Human rights in China
- Prominent Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo dies. (BBC)
- United States federal budget
- The Congressional Budget Office estimates that in ten years the federal budget of U.S. President Donald Trump will produce a $720 billion deficit rather than a $16 billion surplus as claimed by the Trump administration. (Bloomberg)