News for July 20, 2026
Three US Service Members Killed, One Missing as Iran War Ramps Up
A U.S. service member was killed in action in Iraq on Saturday during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Sunday in an X post. A second service member sustained minor injuries in the incident and remains under medical care. This marks the third U.S. military fatality in recent days, following a Friday attack in Jordan that claimed the lives of two service members and injured four others.
Paul Pelosi charged with misdemeanor hit-and-run after Napa County crash over Fourth of July weekend Paul Pelosi, the 86-year-old husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, faces a misdemeanor hit-and-run charge after his convertible struck a parked car in Yountville, California, on July 3 and he drove away from the scene. Napa County District Attorney Allison Haley filed the charge along with an infraction for an unlawful turning movement.
The crash marks Pelosi’s second criminal driving case in Napa County in four years. He pleaded guilty to misdemeanor DUI causing injury in August 2022 after striking another vehicle while driving home from dinner. His driving record stretches back further still, to a 1957 joyride that killed his older brother.
For any other 86-year-old repeat offender, the pattern would speak for itself. But the Pelosi name comes with a built-in cushion of media indifference and institutional courtesy that ordinary Americans never receive
ICE officers to wear body cameras during vehicle stops, border czar says
July 19 (Reuters) – In the wake of multiple fatal shootings involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, the agency will require its officers to record vehicle stops with at least one body camera, Trump administration border czar Tom Homan said Sunday.
“They exonerate more law enforcement than they convict, and I want officers to wear body cameras because I want the American people to see what the officers saw when they took that action,” Homan said on the “Fox & Friends Weekend” program.
Homan’s comments come after federal immigration agents fatally shot two men six days apart during traffic stops in Texas and Maine earlier this month. There is no body-camera footage from ICE agents involved in those incidents.
In a separate interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” show, Homan said money for the cameras was held up during the partial government shutdown earlier this year.
“The cameras have been purchased right now,” Homan said. “They’re training the trainer in deploying the cameras nationwide.”
TRAFFIC STOPS RESUME
The agency’s tactics came under renewed public scrutiny in recent days after an ICE officer on July 13 killed a driver from Colombia in the coastal Maine town of Biddeford, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Portland. Six days earlier, another ICE officer in Houston fatally shot a Mexican national.
Homan said last week the agency would temporarily suspend most vehicle stops around the country to review procedures. Within 24 hours of Homan’s comments, U.S. President Donald Trump directed federal immigration agents to resume them.
The back-to-back shootings sparked protests in Maine, Houston and Boston and raised questions over ICE agents’ lack of body cameras.
ICE launched a body-camera pilot program in 2024 and deployed cameras to officers in five cities: Baltimore, Buffalo, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.
The Trump administration moved last year to slow-walk the program, urging Congress to cut funding by 75%, Reuters reported in January.
In February, after the killing of two U.S. citizens during an immigration crackdown in Minnesota, then U.S. Department of Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem said the body camera program would be rolled out to ICE agents nationwide “as funding is available.”
At least seven people have been shot dead during federal immigration enforcement operations since January 2025, when Trump launched mass deportations after returning to office following campaign promises of an immigration crackdown.
