NBC News Special Report Summaries for July 2021

 

Short summaries for special reports that NBC News aired in July 2021 after the page break below: ⬇

July 1:

1. Prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney's office unveiled tax-related charges against the Trump Organization and its Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg.

2. President Joe Biden delivered remarks from The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort in Bal Harbour, Florida after meeting with local government officials, search-and-rescuers, and families of victims who died in the Surfside, Florida Champlain Towers South condominium collapse on June 24, 2021.

July 4:

President Biden delivered remarks to celebrate Independence Day and the decline of COVID-19 in the United States from the South Lawn of the White House.

July 8:

President Biden delivered remarks on the continued military drawdown efforts in Afghanistan from the East Room of the White House.

July 11:

The Virgin Galactic Unity 22 sub-orbital spaceflight with pilots David William Donald Mackay and Michael Masucci and passengers Sirisha Bandla, Colin Bennett, Beth Moses, and Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson, succeeded in reaching suborbital space aboard the VSS Unity from Spaceport America Runway 34 in New Mexico.

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July 20:

1. The Blue Origin NS-16 sub-orbital spaceflight with Jeffrey "Jeff" Preston Bezos, Mark Bezos, Mary Wallace "Wally" Funk, and Oliver Daemon succeeded in reaching suborbital space aboard the RSS First Step spacecraft from Corn Ranch, Texas. Funk became the old person to travel to space at 82, while Daemon became the youngest person at 18.

2. Thomas Barrack, chairman of former President Donald Trump's 2017 inaugural committee, was arrested in Los Angeles, California on federal charges for conspiring to act as a foreign agent for the United Arab Emirates.

July 27:

The January 6 House Select Committee's first hearing to investigate the January 6, 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol. The hearing featured testimony from Officers Harry Dunn, Aquilino Gonell, Michael Fanone, and Daniel Hodges, who recounted their personal experiences defending the Capitol.