Trump says Boeing should ‘default China’ as claims of tariff trade talks denied: Live

The U.S. Justice Department is terminating grants totaling $811 million for a wide range of services to crime victims, including trauma recovery centers and sign language interpretation, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The grants were worth $811 million at the time they were awarded, which is being reported for the first time, but it was not clear what percentage remained unspent at the time of the cuts.

So many workers at the Department of Transportation accepted a second deferred resignation offer that officials have been forced to ask some of them to reconsider.

Ariana Baio has the details.

The U.S. Constitution states that Trump can only be elected to two terms as president. However, this isn’t stopping his family from promoting a third campaign.

Eric Trump shared a photo on Instagram of himself wearing a red “Trump 2028″ hat, now sold by the Trump Store.

Trump, who would turn 82 in 2028, has mentioned he is considering how to breach the constitutional prohibition. He had previously joked about it before telling NBC News that he’s serious and that “there are methods which you could do it.”

The 22nd Amendment was adopted after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected four times. He died at 63, before the 100th day of his fourth term, on April 12, 1945.

Donald Trump’s administration moved a Venezuelan immigrant living in Philadelphia to a Texas detention facility for possible removal from the United States despite a court order blocking his removal from Pennsylvania and the country.

On April 15, Trump-appointed District Judge Stephanie Haines blocked the government from moving a man named in court documents as A.S.R. from her western Pennsylvania judicial district.

But roughly 30 minutes after her order, a plane carrying the man took off for Texas, according to filings from the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents him.

On Tuesday, Kimmel laid into Hegseth over reports he had again disclosed sensitive information about airstrikes in Yemen, this time in a Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and lawyer. In his monologue, the comedian accused Hegseth of being a ‘leaker’ and branded his attempts to deflect criticism as ‘bull****’.

Madeline Sherratt has the story.

Switzerland’s foreign minister, on a visit to China, says the sweeping tariffs imposed by Donald Trump are like an earthquake that has hit “all the other countries on the planet” and thrust them into “a sort of coalition” to reach a deal with the United States.

Ignazio Cassis spoke to reporters in Beijing on Thursday after meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi.

“We have to convince the United States to come back to a multilateral discussion — which for now is not a given,” the Swiss diplomat said.

Trump has imposed 31 percent tariffs on Swiss goods — far higher than the 20 percent faced by its European Union neighbors — but Switzerland is among the many places now subject to a 90-day pause.

Gustaf Kilander looks at the numbers.

President Donald Trump, speaking in the Oval Office, was asked about what concessions Russia is offering in negotiations to end its war on Ukraine: “Stopping the war, stopping taking the whole country — pretty big concession,” he said.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters on Thursday that trade talks with South Korea may be moving faster than the Trump administration expected.

“We will be talking technical terms as early as next week,” he said. “South Koreans came early, they came with their A game. And we will see if they follow through on that.”