Some military members think of a double standard
The White House has said that a US reporter was “added to a Signal group chat” of top Trump administration officials earlier this month, adding that it’s unclear how the journalist got there. Earlier, the New York Times reported that a senior official in the White House had added its reporter to the chat earlier this month.
Venezuela expects to resume accepting deportation flights from the United States
The US has agreed to return to El Salvador a Venezuelan citizen who was deported from the country last month. The deportees’ families had argued that they were not criminal gang members and were instead sent there on humanitarian grounds. US President Donald Trump had ordered the deportation of the migrants after they were found vandalising a US-Mexico border fence.
Venezuela plans to resume accepting U.S. deportation flights
The family of an 18-year-old Venezuelan national who was deported from the US said that they thought Trump was after someone who killed people in the US. “I thought he was after someone who had killed people in the US,” said Carlos Daniel Tern’s mother. She said that she imagined Trump was after someone who had killed people in the US.
The prime minister of Australia said that they wouldn’t retaliate against the US tariffs
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said that his government will not retaliate against the US tariffs on Australian steel and aluminum. This comes after US President Donald Trump’s administration imposed a 25% tariff on imports of steel and aluminum. The UK has opted to not retaliate against Trump’s tariff because they were “pragmatic”, British PM Keir Starmer said.
The president bought a car with Musk at the White House
US President Donald Trump said that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been treated unfairly by a “very small group of people”. “He can’t be penalized for being a patriot, and he’s a great patriot, and he’s also done an incredible job with Tesla,” Trump added. Protesters on Monday protested against the takeover of the federal government by Musk.
The DOJ still believes that the company should be broken up
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is proposing to require Google to give up its Chrome web search engine. The proposal would also require Apple to stop paying partners for preferential treatment of Google’s search engine. It further requires Google to notIFY federal and state officials before proceeding with investments in artificial intelligence (AI).
The editor of the Washington Post quit because of the new opinions of Jeff Bezos
World’s richest person Jeff Bezos, in a memo to Post staff, asked them to not write about personal liberty or free markets for now. He added that the newspaper will be “a place of freedom of the press”. This comes after Bezos ordered Post journalists not to write on topics related to his personal life, including Amazon and his wife MacKenzie Bezos.
5 minerals inUkraine may be part of a deal with the U.S
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to visit the US next week to sign a framework agreement with the US that will allow the country to share in its mineral wealth, the White House said. Zelenskyy was expected to sign the agreement during his visit to the US on Wednesday. The US reportedly holds about 5% of global rare earth metal reserves.