--- title: Morning Must Reads: July 25 description: In the news: Secretary of State John Kerry proposes plan to halt the fighting in the Gaza Strip; Obama Administration considers refugee status for Honduras; Veteran Affairs reform efforts break up; New Jersey Governor Chris Christie battered by fellow Republican governors canonical: https://time.com/3033680/morning-must-reads-july-25-john-kerry-gaza-obama-honduras-veteran-affairs/ author: Alex Rogers article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-25T12:28:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:20:43.802Z article:section: Politics og:title: Morning Must Reads: July 25 og:description: In the news: Secretary of State John Kerry proposes plan to halt the fighting in the Gaza Strip; Obama Administration considers refugee status for Honduras; Veteran Affairs reform efforts break up; New Jersey Governor Chris Christie battered by fellow Republican governors og:url: https://time.com/3033680/morning-must-reads-july-25-john-kerry-gaza-obama-honduras-veteran-affairs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Morning Must Reads og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Morning Must Reads: July 25 twitter:description: In the news: Secretary of State John Kerry proposes plan to halt the fighting in the Gaza Strip; Obama Administration considers refugee status for Honduras; Veteran Affairs reform efforts break up; New Jersey Governor Chris Christie battered by fellow Republican governors twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Morning Must Reads: July 25 > Sponsored content. 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Mark Wilson—Getty Images by [Alex Rogers](https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/) ## Alex Rogers Jul 25, 2014 12:28 PM UTC * “Secretary of State John Kerry has proposed a two-stage plan to halt the fighting in the Gaza Strip that would first impose a weeklong truce starting Sunday…” \[[NYT](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/25/world/middleeast/kerry-proposes-weeklong-halt-to-fighting-in-gaza-strip.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSum&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news)\] * “Gaza officials said Israeli strikes killed 27 people on Friday, including the head of media operations for Hamas ally Islamic Jihad and his son. They put the number of Palestinian deaths in 18 days of conflict at 819, most of them civilians.” \[[Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/25/us-mideast-gaza-idUSKBN0FT06I20140725)\] * “U.S. defense and diplomatic officials said Thursday that Russia is firing artillery across its border at Ukrainian military positions, an assertion that Moscow now is directly engaging in hostilities against Ukrainian government forces.” \[[WSJ](http://online.wsj.com/articles/u-s-says-russia-firing-across-border-into-ukraine-1406231618)\] * “When President Obama issues executive orders on immigration in coming weeks, pro-reform activists are expecting something dramatic: temporary relief from deportation and work authorization for perhaps several million undocumented immigrants. If the activists are right, the sweeping move would upend a contentious policy fight and carry broad political consequences.” \[[TIME](http://time.com/3028637/obama-eyes-major-immigration-move/)\] * “Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus plan to meet with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and White House counsel Neil Eggleston at the White House on Friday morning.” \[[TIME](http://time.com/3028562/congress-immigration-deportation-obama/)\] * “Hoping to stem the recent surge of migrants at the Southwest border, the Obama administration is considering whether to allow hundreds of minors and young adults from Honduras into the United States without making the dangerous trek through Mexico…” \[[NYT](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/25/world/americas/administration-weighs-plan-to-move-processing-of-youths-seeking-entry-to-honduras-.html?%5Fr=0)\] * How VA Reform Fell Apart In Less Than 4 Days \[[HuffPost](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/24/va-reform-congress%5Fn%5F5619025.html)\] * “Boehner told reporters that the House will pass a short-term continuing resolution to keep the government open sometime in September, avoiding a government shutdown that would otherwise occur on the last day of the month. The legislation would likely expire in early December…” \[[National Journal](http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/boehner-house-will-vote-to-avoid-shutdown-in-september-20140724)\] * Chris Christie Battered By His GOP Rivals on Governors’ Circuit \[[TIME](http://time.com/3026026/chris-christie-republican-governors-rob-astorino/)\] * The drug that’s forcing America’s most importatant—and uncomfortable—health-care debate \[[WashPost](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/24/the-drug-thats-forcing-americas-most-important-and-uncomfortable-health-care-debate/?hpid=z1)\] * “Gaza officials said Israeli strikes killed 27 people on Friday, including the head of media operations for Hamas ally Islamic Jihad and his son. They put the number of Palestinian deaths in 18 days of conflict at 819, most of them civilians.” \[[Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/25/us-mideast-gaza-idUSKBN0FT06I20140725)\] * “Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus plan to meet with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and White House counsel Neil Eggleston at the White House on Friday morning.” \[[TIME](http://time.com/3028562/congress-immigration-deportation-obama/)\] A brief message from Michael Scherer, TIME Washington D.C. bureau chief: --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3033680/morning-must-reads-july-25-john-kerry-gaza-obama-honduras-veteran-affairs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3033680/morning-must-reads-july-25-john-kerry-gaza-obama-honduras-veteran-affairs/"},"headline":"Morning Must Reads: July 25","datePublished":"2014-07-25T12:28:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:20:43.802Z","description":"In the news: Secretary of State John Kerry proposes plan to halt the fighting in the Gaza Strip; Obama Administration considers refugee status for Honduras; Veteran Affairs reform efforts break up; New Jersey Governor Chris Christie battered by fellow Republican governors","url":"https://time.com/3033680/morning-must-reads-july-25-john-kerry-gaza-obama-honduras-veteran-affairs/","keywords":["Morning Must Reads","Chris Christie","Israel","President Obama","Gaza"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Rogers","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alex-rogers/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24c27fcf0ec0da8/6986837dcd6848a30809364f/morning-must-reads1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Morning Must Reads","caption":"Capitol","creditText":"Mark Wilson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/morning-must-reads/","name":"Morning Must Reads"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3033680/morning-must-reads-july-25-john-kerry-gaza-obama-honduras-veteran-affairs/","name":"Morning Must Reads: July 25"}}]}] ```