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Joe Sommerlad and Gustaf Kilander

Trump administration will pay immigrants in U.S. illegally $1,000 to self-deport

Donald Trump Alcatraz (Location) Prison Al Capone San Francisco

The Department of Homeland Security revealed on Monday that it would pay $1,000 to immigrants who choose to leave the country.

Referring to it as “travel assistance,” the effort is part of a larger push to make immigrants leave the country of their own accord instead of waiting for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to begin deportation proceedings.

The department argued that the policy would be a good deal for U.S. taxpayers, as the average cost of the detention and deportation of an immigrant is more than $17,000.

“If you are here illegally, self-deportation is the best, safest, and most cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a press release.

The system uses the app CBP Home, where migrants can register their upcoming travel out of the country.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has said he will impose “100 percent tariffs” on foreign films in order to boost the Hollywood film industry, which he argued is “dying” while insisting that movies made overseas pose a “national security threat.”

“The movie industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” he wrote on Truth Social on Sunday.

Key Points

  • Donald Trump threatens 100% tariffs on foreign films: ‘The movie industry in America is dying’
  • Trump orders reopening and expansion of notorious Alcatraz prison
  • President's Alcatraz proposal is ‘not a serious one,’ says Nancy Pelosi
  • Trump bemoans ‘radicalized judges’ holding up deportation push
  • President says he will not pursue a third term and plans to lower tariffs on China ‘at some point’

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22:50 , Gustaf Kilander

Please come back tomorrow for more breaking news.

Hello and welcome!

09:05 , Joe Sommerlad

Good morning and welcome to The Independent’s live coverage of Donald Trump’s administration.

Trump orders reopening and expansion of notorious Alcatraz prison

09:20 , Joe Sommerlad

President Donald Trump has ordered the reopening of the infamous Alcatraz island prison offshore from San Francisco, California, which once housed the Chicago mobster Al Capone but closed in 1963.

“For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat criminal offenders, the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than misery and suffering,” the Republican wrote.

“When we were a more serious nation, in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals, and keep them far away from anyone they could harm. That’s the way it’s supposed to be.”

The president insisted the step was necessary in order to ensure Americans “will no longer be held hostage to criminals, thugs, and judges that are afraid to do their job and allow us to remove criminals, who came into our country illegally.”

Kelly Rissman reports.

Trump orders reopening and expansion of notorious Alcatraz prison

Trump’s Alcatraz proposal is ‘not a serious one’, says Nancy Pelosi

09:35 , Joe Sommerlad

The former House speaker, a San Francisco resident, has dismissed the president’s plan to reopen the storied federal penitentiary turned local tourist hot spot as fundamentally unserious.

Watch: Trump bemoans ‘radicalized judges’ holding up deportation push

09:50 , Joe Sommerlad

On his return to the White House last night, after another weekend on the links in Palm Beach, Florida, the president had this to say about his frustrations with America’s legal system holding up his efforts to remove suspected illegal immigrants by insisting on pesky due process.

In pictures: Alcatraz, the historic island jail Trump is planning to reopen

10:05 , Joe Sommerlad

Here’s a look at the San Francisco penitentiary the president hopes to make great again.

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Trump threatens 100% tariffs on foreign films: ‘The movie industry in America is dying’

10:20 , Joe Sommerlad

The president, who was famously critical of the dark South Korean satire Parasite winning Best Picture win at the Oscars in 2020, is now saying that foreign cinema poses an existential threat to Hollywood and will be heavily tariffed in retaliation.

“The movie industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” he wrote on Truth Social on Sunday.

“Other countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated.

“This is a concerted effort by other nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda!

“Therefore, I am authorizing the Department of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% tariff on any and all movies coming into our country that are produced in foreign lands.”

Here’s more from Kevin EG Perry.

Trump threatens 100% tariffs on foreign films: ‘The movie industry is dying’

Trump attacks ‘total loser’ Karl Rove and demands Fox anchor retire

10:40 , Joe Sommerlad

Back on Truth Social last night, the president lashed out at the former White House deputy chief of staff to George W Bush after seeing his interview with Trey Gowdy on Fox News in which the adviser noted the high cost of gasoline and consumers' concerns about Trump’s tariff war.

“He's got to be focused on those two things, I think, that people wanted, which was a strong and prosperous economy and inflation being wiped up,” Rove said of the president, drawing the following angry rebuttal from Trump:

Before that, the president had gone after the same network’s veteran anchor Howard Kurtz, 71, for offering only a “weak” defense of his administration.

In the segment in question, Kurtz had hosted Trump supporter Ben Domenech and Democrat strategist Leslie Marshall for a discussion on the sacking of national security adviser Mike Waltz and the president’s slumping approval ratings.

Trump says he doesn’t ‘know’ if he must uphold the Constitution

11:00 , Joe Sommerlad

Giving a rare interview to a more liberal news outlet yesterday, the president told Kristen Welker on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday that he does not know whether it is his duty to uphold the U.S. Constitution, despite swearing a solemn oath pledging precisely that at his inauguration at the Capitol in January.

Here’s John Bowden on a startling exchange, even by Trump’s standards.

Trump says he doesn’t ‘know’ if he must uphold the Constitution

Watch: Trump says he will not pursue a third term and plans to lower tariffs on China ‘at some point’

11:20 , Joe Sommerlad

Here’s two more key exchanges from the president’s interview with NBC yesterday:

This was also not quite the winning spin he appeared to think it was:

The president otherwise spent time reiterating his opinion that America’s children have too many dolls anyway (so inflation pricing their parents out of toys is fine), which is also not a great look.

‘Clown’ Trump slammed for AI-generated pope post

11:40 , Joe Sommerlad

The other big controversy the president invited over the weekend was his bizarre decision to post an AI image of himself in papal costume as Catholics around the world mourn the loss of Pope Francis.

Here’s Andrea Shalal on the reaction.

‘Clown’ Donald Trump slammed for AI-generated pope post

JD Vance responds to Trump’s pope meme

12:00 , Joe Sommerlad

The vice president, a Catholic, was one of the last world leaders to meet with Pope Francis before his death on Easter Monday but said that he was “fine with people telling jokes” in response to his boss’s questionable posting over the weekend.

Here’s more from Mike Bedgian.

JD Vance breaks silence on Trump’s infamous AI Pope photo

SNL mocks Trump’s use of executive orders: ‘Reduce the number of interracial couples in TV commercials’

12:20 , Joe Sommerlad

James Austin Johnson returned as the president on Saturday Night Live (SNL) over the weekend and was joined by Mikey Day as Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff.

“I understand Elmo has now been apprehended by ICE,” Johnson quipped in their latest skit.

“Brought to you by the letter L for El Salvador. He's not coming back.”

Michelle Del Rey has more.

SNL mocks Trump’s use of executive orders

Democrats react with quiet shock to damning John Fetterman profile

12:40 , Joe Sommerlad

When Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman was hospitalized for depression in 2023, many on Capitol Hill celebrated it as a moment of courage and a willingness to be open about mental health struggles.

Now, a startling picture of relapse and its associated cost is being associated with him after a deeply sourced profile on Fetterman was published Friday in New York Magazine’s Intelligencer by reporter Ben Terris.

Democrats on Capitol Hill have yet to comment.

But the shock from the profile’s reporting has been evident across social media and on political talk programs over the weekend.

John Bowden has the story.

‘He needs to resign’: Democrats react with quiet shock to damning Fetterman profile

Trump attacks Rove after Republican strategist delivers 100-day verdict

13:00 , Joe Sommerlad

If you missed this earlier, here’s Madeline Sherratt with more on the president’s attack on the Bush adviser after being angered by his appearance on Fox yesterday.

Trump attacks ‘loser’ Karl Rove after Republican strategist delivers 100-day verdict

Trump is desperate to brand his opponents as communists. But why?

13:20 , Joe Sommerlad

For years, President Donald Trump has blamed “communists” for his legal and political troubles.

Now, the second Trump administration is deploying that same historically loaded label to cast his opponents – from judges to educators – as threats to American identity, culture and values.

Why? Trump himself explained the strategy last year when he described how he planned to defeat his Democratic opponent, then-vice president Kamala Harris, in the White House election.

“All we have to do is define our opponent as being a communist or a socialist or somebody who is going to destroy our country,” he told reporters at his New Jersey golf club in August.

Here’s more.

Trump is desperate to brand his opponents as communists. But why?

Truth Social: Trump promotes $Trump meme coin gala dinner

13:35 , Joe Sommerlad

Make of this what you will.

Tech site says Signal-like app used by Trump adviser was hacked

13:40 , Joe Sommerlad

A security breach in an unofficial version of the encrypted messaging app Signal has raised concerns about the vulnerability of communications within the highest levels of the U.S. government, according to a report by tech site 404 Media.

The app, TeleMessage, which mimics Signal’s functionality, was reportedly used by former national security adviser Mike Waltz, as indicated by a Reuters photograph showing him using the app during a cabinet meeting last week.

The vulnerability exploited by the hacker highlights potential security risks associated with using unofficial communication platforms for sensitive government discussions.

Tech site says Signal-like app used by Trump adviser was hacked

Trump offered to send U.S. troops to Mexico to help tackle ‘horrible’ drug cartels

14:00 , Joe Sommerlad

President Donald Trump confirmed on Sunday that he offered to deploy American troops to Mexico to assist in combating drug trafficking, an offer that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum revealed she declined.

Here’s Andrea Shalal with the story of what would have been a highly consequential escalation of the conflict with the cartels had Sheinbaum accepted.

Trump offers to send US troops to Mexico to help tackle ‘horrible’ drug cartels

Trump targets housing policies in latest battle against transgender rights

14:20 , Joe Sommerlad

In the months since President Donald Trump took back the White House and installed a loyalist to lead the department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Secretary Scott Turner and his team have moved swiftly and strategically to undo, uproot and remake the agency’s decades of work and priorities.

In the crosshairs is an intense focus on transgender people, as HUD retreats from long-established fair-housing protections by closing their discrimination complaints and, more broadly, moving to undo the Obama-era Equal Access Rule that cemented transgender people’s rights to discrimination protection in housing.

Trump is swiftly undoing transgender protections in HUD’s housing policies

MTG signals the one thing that will cost Republicans ‘bigly’

14:40 , Joe Sommerlad

Republicans are at odds on whether to pass Trump’s tax cuts, which could introduce $4.6 trillion to the national debt over the next decade

Here’s Katie Hawkinson on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s warning to the GOP.

MTG signals the one thing that will cost Republicans ‘bigly’ in midterms

Premium: How Trump fast-tracked Project 2025 and why it’s worse than you think

15:00 , Joe Sommerlad

America is having to face up to the consequences of a new dictator class, Alex Hannaford warns.

How Trump fast-tracked Project 2025 and why it’s worse than you think

What’s on Trump’s schedule today?

15:20 , Joe Sommerlad

The president has a slightly mysterious “sports announcement” listed at the White House today at 1pm local time.

After that, he is signing more executive orders in the Oval Office at 3pm before heading off for a “MAGA Inc Dinner” at the Trump National Golf Club Washington, D.C., at 7.30pm.

He’s currently on Truth Social posting clips of Markwayne Mullin and Kelly Loeffler talking up his economic policies:

Warren Buffett says it is not ‘wise’ to use tariffs as a weapon

15:40 , Joe Sommerlad

The “Sage of Omaha,” who announced last week that he is stepping down from Berkshire Hathaway at the age of 94, did not explicitly name Trump during his remarks to his company’s investor conference on Saturday but his intentions were clear.

“Trade should not be a weapon,” Buffett said. “And the United States… we’ve won. I mean, we have become an incredibly important country, starting from nothing 250 years ago.

“There’s nothing like it. And it’s a big mistake, in my view, when you have seven and a half billion people that don’t like you very well, and you’ve got 300 million that are crowing in some way about how well they’ve done, and I don’t think it’s right and I don’t think it’s wise.”

Mike Bedigan has more.

Warren Buffett reveals his thoughts on tariffs at Berkshire Hathaway conference

Trump admin to pay immigrants $1,000 to leave U.S.

15:59 , Gustaf Kilander

The Department of Homeland Security revealed on Monday that it would pay $1,000 to immigrants who choose to leave the country.

Referring to it as “travel assistance,” the effort is part of a larger push to make immigrants leave the country of their own accord instead of waiting for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to begin deportation proceedings.

The department argued that the policy would be a good deal for U.S. taxpayers, as the average cost of the detention and deportation of an immigrant is more than $17,000.

“If you are here illegally, self-deportation is the best, safest, and most cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest,” said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in a press release.

The system uses the app CBP Home, where migrants can register their upcoming travel out of the country.

Trump recounts call with Erdoğan: 'Good and productive'

16:20 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump took to Truth Social on Monday to announce the results of his call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

I just had a very good and productive telephone conversation with the President of Turkey, Recep Erdoğan, concerning many subjects, including the War with Russia/Ukraine, all things Syria, Gaza, and more.

The President invited me to go to Turkey at a future date and, likewise, he will be coming to Washington, D.C.

During my four years as President, my relationship with President Erdoğan was excellent.

We worked together closely on numerous things, including the fact that he helped return Pastor Andrew Brunson, who was imprisoned, back to the United States — Immediately upon my request.

In any event, I look forward to working with President Erdoğan on getting the ridiculous, but deadly, War between Russia and Ukraine ended — NOW!

Donald Trump on Truth Social

Trump plans $100m tariffs on movies and TV shows made overseas - here are the shows that could be impacted

16:40 , Gustaf Kilander

President Donald Trump revealed on Sunday that he’s starting the process of putting in place 100 percent tariffs on any movie made outside of the U.S.

The Trump trade war is now moving on from industry to intellectual property, which could have a massive impact on an industry that often produces work across several countries.

“The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” Trump claimed on Truth Social on Sunday night. “Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated.”

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Trump plans $100m tariffs on movies and TV shows made overseas

Democratic senators press Trump administration on how it will protect endangered species

17:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Tammy Webber writes:

Three Democratic U.S. senators are asking the Trump administration to explain how it analyzed a proposed rule to eliminate habitat protections for endangered and threatened species and whether industry had a hand in drafting it.

Senators Adam Schiff, Sheldon Whitehouse and Cory Booker sent a letter Monday to the departments of Interior and Commerce that also asks how the administration plans to protect species if the rule is changed.

At issue is a long-standing definition of “harm” in the Endangered Species Act, which has included altering or destroying the places those species live — the No. 1 cause of extinction.

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Democratic senators press Trump administration on how it will protect endangered species

Europe launches drive for scientists in swipe at Trump’s funding freeze

17:20 , Gustaf Kilander

Catherine Gaschka and Lorne Cook write:

The European Union launched a drive on Monday to attract scientists and researchers to Europe with offers of grants and new policy plans, after the Trump administration froze U.S. government funding linked to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

“A few years ago, no one would have imagined that one of the biggest democracies in the world would cancel research programs under the pretext that the word diversity was in this program," French President Emmanuel Macron said at the “Choose Europe for Science” event in Paris.

“No one would have thought that one of the biggest democracies in the world would delete with a stroke the ability of one researcher or another to obtain visas,” Macron said. “But here we are."

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Europe launches drive for scientists in swipe at Trump’s funding freeze

Albanese holds ‘warm’ talks with Trump on Aukus and tariffs after election win

17:40 , Gustaf Kilander

Shweta Sharma writes:

Anthony Albanese said he had a “very warm” conversation with American President Donald Trump after becoming the first Australian prime minister to win a second consecutive term in over two decades.

Mr Albanese said he discussed the Aukus military pact and the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs in a congratulatory phone call following his stunning comeback.

Mr Albanese of the Labor Party won against the conservative Liberal-National coalition led by Peter Dutton, as Mr Trump’s global tariff war and the fear of centre-right leaders mirroring Trump-style politics shaped the election in his favour.

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Albanese holds ‘warm’ talks with Trump on Aukus and tariffs after election win

WATCH: Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy attacked by bird again

18:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Live: President Trump announces NFL draft is coming to Washington DC in 2027

18:07 , Gustaf Kilander

Guatemalan mom detained by ICE moments after giving birth is reunited with her U.S. citizen newborn

18:20 , Gustaf Kilander

Alex Woodward writes:

A pregnant Guatemalan woman wandered the Arizona desert alone for two days before she was detained by immigration authorities. She was immediately taken to the hospital, where she gave birth, and federal authorities waited outside her room to detain her.

The woman, identified by her attorney as Erika, gave birth to a six-pound girl on April 30. She named her Emily.

She gave birth “under supervision,” according to a spokesperson with the Department of Homeland Security, and she was swiftly transferred to the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, separated from her newborn, drawing outrage from immigrants’ advocacy groups and state and local officials.

Read more:

Guatemalan mom detained by ICE is reunited with her newborn

Producer: Freelancers could be jobless if Trump applies non-US films tariff

18:40 , Gustaf Kilander

Hannah Roberts writes:

Freelancers in the UK film industry could end up jobless if Donald Trump applies a 100% tariff to non-US movies, a producer has warned.

The US president announced on Sunday that he has authorised government departments to impose the tariff “on any and all movies coming into our country that are produced in foreign lands”.

Industry figures have warned the plans “could deal a knock-out blow” to the UK film sector.

Kirsty Bell, chief executive of production company Goldfinch, said the entertainment industry is in decline “across the whole of the Western world” but said tariffs are not the answer.

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Producer: Freelancers could be jobless if Trump applies non-US films tariff

Trump announces that 2027 NFL draft is coming to D.C.

18:49 , Gustaf Kilander

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser are attending a White House event with Trump to announce that the 2027 NFL draft is coming to the nation’s capital.

Trump asked about Nord Stream sabotage

19:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Trump was asked about who sabotaged the Nord Stream pipeline in September 2022.

“I think a lot of people know who blew it up,” said Trump, without being specific.

Trump wants states to take over control of National Park system as he proposed $1 billion cut to its budget

19:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Julia Musto writes:

The Trump administration wants states to take over the management of America’s national parks – something never before proposed by a U.S. president.

In its budget request for the fiscal year 2026, which is also proposing billions in crippling cuts to space, health, education, and other areas, the White House argued that the The National Park Service’s responsibilities “include a large number of sites that are not ‘national parks,’ in the traditionally understood sense, many of which receive small numbers of mostly local visitors, and are better categorized and managed as state-level parks.”

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Trump wants states to take over control of National Park Service

Trump blames 'fake news' when asked about outrage surrounding image showing president as pope

19:04 , Gustaf Kilander

A reporter told Trump that some Catholics aren’t happy about the AI-generated image showing Trump as the pope.

“You mean they can’t take a joke? You mean the fake news. The Catholics loved it,” Trump claimed.

The New York State Catholic Conference responded to the image on May 3, saying, “There is nothing clever or funny about this image, Mr. President. We just buried our beloved Pope Francis and the cardinals are about to enter a solemn conclave to elect a new successor of St. Peter. Do not mock us.”

How Alcatraz became America's most notorious prison

19:20 , Gustaf Kilander

Ed White writes:

President Donald Trump wants to turn Alcatraz, a popular U.S. tourist destination, into a federal prison again, more than 60 years after the California island fortress was shut down as too costly.

Trump says Alcatraz, now part of the National Park Service, suddenly is needed to house America’s “most ruthless and violent” criminals. It's where the government sent notorious gangsters Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly as well as lesser-known men who were considered too dangerous to lock up elsewhere.

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How Alcatraz became America's most notorious prison

Is Trump trying to force Fox News to replace its top media host with a MAGA sycophant?

19:40 , Gustaf Kilander

Justin Baragona writes:

Over the course of his first few months back in the White House, Donald Trump has made no secret of his irritation with Fox News personalities and other key cogs of Rupert Murdoch’s conservative media empire that he believes aren’t showing him the proper amount of loyalty and obsequiousness.

With the president’s poll numbers cratering amid a spate of self-imposed crises and accusations of authoritarianism, Trump has increasingly lashed out at Murdoch world for allowing some form of criticism against him to seep through Fox and News Corp’s pages and airwaves.

And in one specific case this week, it appears that the president is urging one Fox News host to “retire” so he can be replaced with a more servile and sycophantic commentator who recently wrote a book about how Trump had the “greatest comeback ever.” Notably, that same MAGA pundit has been pushed by Trump confidant Sean Hannity to take over the network’s weekly media show for years now.

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Is Trump trying to force Fox News to replace its media host with a MAGA sycophant?

Coalition of 19 states ask federal judge to reverse deep cuts to US Health and Human Services

20:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Rebecca Boone and Amanda Seitz write:

Attorneys general in 19 states and Washington, D.C., are challenging cuts to the U.S. Health and Human Services agency, saying the Trump administration's massive restructuring has destroyed life-saving programs and left states to pick up the bill for mounting health crises.

The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Washington D.C. on Monday, New York Attorney General Letitia James said. The attorneys general from Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia signed onto the complaint.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. restructured the agency in March, eliminating more than 10,000 employees and collapsing 28 agencies under the sprawling HHS umbrella into 15, the attorneys general said. An additional 10,000 employees had already been let go by President Donald Trump's administration, according to the lawsuit, and combined the cuts stripped 25% of the HHS workforce.

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Coalition of 19 states ask federal judge to reverse deep cuts to US Health and Human Services

Fox News’ Peter Doocy once again the victim of fowl play as another rogue bird attacks him

20:20 , Gustaf Kilander

Justin Baragona writes:

For the second time in a month, Fox News’ Peter Doocy found himself the target of an angry bird that decided it’d had enough of the reporter’s live on-air report from the White House lawn.

Standing in the same spot where a feathered friend dive-bombed him during a Fox & Friends dispatch last month, the network’s senior White House correspondent appeared on America’s Newsroom to discuss the president’s recent demand that the notorious prison at Alcatraz be reopened.

Towards the end of Doocy’s segment, anchor Dana Perino noticed that the reporter was hunching over at times, prompting her to wonder if he was once again the victim of a Hitchcockian plot come to life.

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Peter Doocy once again the victim of fowl play as another rogue bird attacks him

Trump could be shipping deported migrants to Rwanda under newest proposal

20:40 , Gustaf Kilander

John Bowden writes:

Donald Trump’s administration is in the “early stages” of diplomatic talks with Rwanda aimed at using the country as an offshore site to house migrants deported from the US, the country’s foreign minister said.

Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe made the news during an interview on Rwandan state television, and his remarks were first reported by The New York Times. The US over time has used a number of countries, including most recently El Salvador, as stopover locations to house deportees who are later transferred to their home countries or apply for asylum elsewhere.

Rwanda’s acceptance of US deportees would be of note especially given that the UK abandoned plans to do the same after a massive outcry over the humanitarian conditions under which migrants would be housed.

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Trump could be shipping deported migrants to Rwanda under newest proposal

Trump celebrates with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to announce the 2027 NFL draft in DC

21:00 , Gustaf Kilander

Andrew Feinberg writes:

President Donald Trump hosted National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell and Washington Commanders owner Josh Harris in the Oval Office on Monday to announce that the nation’s capital will host the 2027 NFL draft on the National Mall.

Trump appeared with Goodell, Harris and Washington, D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser to reveal the location for the annual event, during which the league’s 32 teams select from the nation’s top collegiate players to augment their rosters for the coming year.

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Trump and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announce the 2027 NFL draft in DC

Alcatraz, Sith lords and movie tariffs: Trump’s ravings get louder as his approval rating goes lower

21:10 , Gustaf Kilander

Eric Garcia writes:

President Donald Trump made a series of increasingly erratic posts throughout his weekend at his Palm Beach estate. The first one came late Friday evening when he posted an AI image of himself as the Pope after he had previously joked that he would like to replace the late Pope Francis.

Then on Sunday, Trump threatened to impose 100 percent tariffs on foreign films, supposedly to save the American film industry and address an unexpected “security threat.”

“This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda,” Trump said on Truth Social.

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Trump’s ravings get louder as his approval rating goes lower

WATCH: Trump claims Catholics 'loved' AI image of him as the Pope

21:20 , Gustaf Kilander

Elon Musk gets approval for his new Texas city ‘Starbase’

21:40 , Gustaf Kilander

Valerie Gonzalez writes:

Elon Musk's SpaceX facility in South Texas has officially become a city, christened with the fittingly cosmic name, Starbase.

Residents, primarily SpaceX employees, voted overwhelmingly in favor of the incorporation on Saturday.

The final tally, published by the Cameron County Elections Department, showed a landslide victory of 212 votes to 6. Musk himself celebrated the news on X, proclaiming Starbase "now a real city!"

Starbase is the facility and launch site for the SpaceX rocket program that is under contract with the Department of Defense and NASA that hopes to send astronauts back to the moon and someday to Mars.

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Elon Musk gets approval for his new Texas city ‘Starbase’

WATCH: Trump says Carney wants to 'make a deal' ahead of meeting

22:00 , Gustaf Kilander

How Trump fast-tracked Project 2025 and why it’s worse than you think

22:45 , Gustaf Kilander

Alex Hannaford writes:

No one can accuse Donald Trump of easing his way slowly into the job the second time around; of slouching back in his chair in the Oval Office, Fox News on the big screen, remote in hand. In 100 days he’s managed to lay off 12,000 federal workers in the name of government efficiency, alienate countless allies, threatened to invade Greenland and take over the Panama Canal, humiliated Volodymyr Zelensky, told Canada he wants to see it become the 51st state (prompting a historic win for Mark Carney) and imposed tariffs on Europe and elsewhere that signal an end to free trade.

But perhaps most notable in terms of his policy agenda is that he has essentially governed by executive order – more than 140 of which have bypassed Congress entirely. And these orders have targeted everything from immigration to education to the detention of 6 January defendants. All in under four months.

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How Trump fast-tracked Project 2025 and why it’s worse than you think

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