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From 2h ago 19.07 EDT Federal grand jury indicts Wisconsin judge on charges that she helped immigrant avoid agents A federal grand jury indicted Wisconsin judge Hannah C Dugan of the Milwaukee county circuit court, who was arrested last month on allegations that she helped an undocumented immigrant avoid federal authorities. Dugan faces charges of concealing a person from arrest and obstructing official proceedings, The New York Times reports. “Judge Hannah C Dugan has committed herself to the rule of law and the principles of due process for her entire career as a lawyer and a judge,” reads a statement from Dugan’s attorney after she was arrested. Read more here: Federal grand jury indicts Wisconsin judge over alleged Ice obstruction Read more Share Updated at 20.33 EDT 2m ago 20.58 EDT Sean Hannity interviewed President Donald Trump on board Air Force 1 en route to Saudi Arabia, and his interview is set to air in a few minutes. We’ll be live blogging all the updates. Share 25m ago 20.34 EDT Shaun Walker Trump must realise Putin is obstacle to peace, Zelenskyy says Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he hopes the current period of frantic diplomacy and high-stakes gambits between Russia and Ukraine will end with Donald Trump understanding that Vladimir Putin is the real obstacle to a peace deal. “Trump needs to believe that Putin actually lies. And we should do our part. Sensibly approach this issue, to show that it’s not us that is slowing down the process,” said Zelenskyy, speaking to a small group of journalists, including the Guardian, in his office at the presidential administration in Kyiv. Zelenskyy said he would travel to Turkey on Thursday whether or not Putin flew in for talks. Zelenskyy said he had arranged to meet with the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in Ankara, but would be ready to fly to Istanbul at a moment’s notice if the Russian leader showed up. “If Putin does not arrive and plays games, it is the final point that he does not want to end the war,” he said on Tuesday. Previously, after Putin used an unexpected late-night Kremlin address to call for direct Russia-Ukraine negotiations in Istanbul, Zelenskyy responded by saying he would be waiting for Putin personally in Turkey on Thursday. Trump, who is on a visit to Saudi Arabia, appeared to float the idea of a three-way meeting with Putin and Zelenskyy, saying on Monday: “I believe the two leaders are going to be there. I was thinking about flying over.” Read the full story here: Trump must realise Putin is obstacle to peace, Zelenskyy says Read more Share 46m ago 20.13 EDT Mexico’s security chief confirmed that 17 family members of cartel leaders crossed into the US last week as part of a deal between a son of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Donald Trump administration, the AP reports. Mexican security secretary Omar García Harfuch confirmed a report by independent journalist Luis Chaparro that family members of Ovidio Guzman Lopez, who was extradited to the United States in 2023, had entered the US. Guzmán Lopez is one of the brothers left running a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel after notorious capo Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was imprisoned in the US. Video showed the family members walking across the border from Tijuana with their suitcases to waiting US agents. Here’s more context about the plea deal: El Chapo’s family enters US as part of negotiating plea deal of drug lord’s son Read more Share 1h ago 19.48 EDT In just over an hour, Fox News will air an interview between host Sean Hannity and President Donald Trump on board Air Force One during his trip through the Middle East. The interview is scheduled to air at 9pm ET/6pm PT. We’ll have all the details. Share 2h ago 19.27 EDT Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. is slated to face lawmakers on Wednesday for the first time since his confirmation hearings, the Hill reports. Since taking charge of Health and Human Services, Kennedy has led a sweeping overhaul of the department. Thousands of employees have been dismissed across its agencies, and some offices have been dismantled entirely. The department has also canceled billions in federal grants previously awarded to universities and public health departments. Kennedy will officially be testifying in support of the Trump administration’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2026, which includes even steeper cuts, including slashing a quarter of HHS funding. According to prepared remarks released by the House Appropriations Committee, Kennedy will defend the administration’s moves to “cut government bloat.” He will argue the restructuring allows the agency to “act more nimbly and focus on the core mission of improving the nation’s health,” while promising further reductions. Share Updated at 19.46 EDT 2h ago 18.37 EDT Sharp debates are underway as House Republicans grind through marathon hearings on their “big, beautiful bill”, with sizable reductions in Medicaid health care, food stamps for older Americans and tax breaks tallying more than $5 trillion up for heated discussion. Republicans are working to push President Donald Trump’s signature legislative package through a gauntlet of committees over mounting opposition from Democrats, advocacy groups and even some wary Republicans themselves. One meeting was immediately disrupted by protesters shouting down what the panel’s top Democrat called “cruel” cuts to Medicaid. View image in fullscreen Demonstrators hold signs during a press conference to discuss cuts to Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Child Tax Credit, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 13, 2025. (REUTERS/Nathan Howard) Share 3h ago 18.15 EDT Pete Buttigieg suggested he would “assess” a potential presidential campaign in 2028, Politico reports. His remarks on Tuesday came as the former Biden Transportation secretary returned to Iowa for a live interview with a Substack author, marking an appearance that seemed like a campaign before the launch. View image in fullscreen Pete Buttigieg speaks during a television interview at the White House in Washington, DC, July 23, 2024. Photograph: ABACA/REX/Shutterstock “What Pete is doing right now is exactly what he did in 2019 and 2020,” Lis Smith, the Democratic strategist who served as his senior adviser in 2020, told Politico. “The strategy then was simple: go everywhere, talk to everyone, meet voters where they are — even if it’s in red areas or on more conservative media. A lot of Democrats are finally waking up to the idea that you can’t just campaign in safe, liberal echo chambers and expect to win over swing voters, but Pete has always understood that.” Here’s what Buttigieg had to say to the Substack journalist Anand Giridharadas: “Right now, I live in a 50-50 county in Michigan,” Buttigieg said. “I’m literally, physically, co-located with people who represent a real breadth of ideological difference. And I know … that many of them or some of them are ready to entertain very different ideas or at least think twice when you talk to them on their terms, but you have to actually do it. Which is why I go on Fox News. Which is why I’m spending more time in podcasts and online spaces that have not been really progressive-oriented.” Share 3h ago 17.59 EDT Republicans continued to raise concerns about President Donald Trump’s desire to accept a $400 million airplane from Qatar. Here’s what some of them have to say: “There will be plenty of scrutiny,” Republican senate majority leader John Thune of South Dakota told reporters. “There are lots and lots of issues around that, that I think will attract very serious questions.” “The plane poses significant espionage and surveillance problems, so we’ll see how this issue plays out,” said senate commerce committee chair Ted Cruz of Texas on CNBC. “I think it’s not worth the appearance of impropriety,” Republican senator Rand Paul of Kentucky told Fox News. Share 3h ago 17.42 EDT Palestinian UN ambassador welcomes Trump’s visit to region and hopes for ceasefire deal, AP reports Riyad Mansour said that he hopes Trump’s trip to the Middle East will prove fruitful for the ongoing, devastating war between Israel and Hamas. “We hope that President Trump’s visit to the region will allow to achieve such a ceasefire, and to build a political horizon of freedom for the Palestinian people, security for all and shared prosperity for our region,” Mansour said on Tuesday during a UN Security Council meeting on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Share 4h ago 17.23 EDT A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump is allowed to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport members of Tren de Aragua, but found that his administration failed to provide adequate notice before carrying out the removals. US district judge Stephanie Haines’s decision contrasts from those of several other federal judges who have ruled that Trump’s use of the wartime law was unlawful. Haines argued that the president has the authority to deport individuals affiliated with a foreign terrorist organization, a label Trump has applied to Tren de Aragua. “Having done its job, the Court now leaves it to the Political Branches of the government, and ultimately to the people who elect those individuals, to decide whether the laws and those executing them continue to reflect their will,” Haines wrote in her 43-page ruling. Share 4h ago 17.00 EDT Catherine Shoard Robert De Niro attacks Trump in Cannes speech: ‘This isn’t just America’s problem’ The actor Robert De Niro has – after a brief period of abstention – returned to his robust public critique of Donald Trump, using his Palme d’Or acceptance speech at the Cannes film festival to newly attack the US president. Speaking during the opening ceremony of the 78th film festival in France, De Niro said that the US’s re-elected commander-in-chief posed a global threat. “In my country, we are fighting like hell for the democracy we once took for granted,” he said. “That affects all of us here, because art is the crucible that brings people together, like tonight. Art looks for truth. Art embraces diversity. That’s why art is a threat.” As applause broke out in the Grand Lumiére, Cannes’ largest cinema, De Niro continued: “That’s why we are a threat to autocrats and fascists. America’s philistine president ha[s] had himself appointed head of one of our premier cultural institutions [the Kennedy Center]. He has cut funding and support to the arts, humanities and education.” Read the full story here: Robert De Niro attacks Trump in Cannes speech: ‘This isn’t just America’s problem’ Read more Share 4h ago 16.45 EDT Here are some images of Syrians in Damascus celebrating the announcement by President Trump of plans to ease sanctions, taking a step toward normalizing relations between the US and the country’s new government: View image in fullscreen Syrians celebrate in Umayyad Square. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki) View image in fullscreen Children celebrate in Damascus. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki) View image in fullscreen People celebrate after Trump said he would order the lifting of sanctions on Syria, in Damascus, Syria. (REUTERS/Yamam Al Shaar) Share 4h ago 16.30 EDT Senator Lindsey Graham traveled to Turkey to hold talks with officials and assess the current situation in Syria. “I am very inclined to support sanctions relief for Syria under the right conditions,” Graham said in a statement. “However, we must remember that the current leadership in Syria achieved its position through force of arms, not through the will of its people.” President Trump announced plans to ease sanctions on Syria and pursue normalization of ties with its new government. He is slated to meet Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. Share 5h ago 16.08 EDT Democratic-led states sue over Trump’s attempt to tie grants to immigration policies A coalition of 20 states led by Democratic administrations filed two lawsuits aiming to stop the Trump administration from forcing them to cooperate with immigration enforcement in order to receive billions of dollars in transportation, counterterrorism and emergency preparedness grant funding. Filed in federal court in Rhode Island, the lawsuits contend that the US Departments of Transportation and Homeland Security are unlawfully pressuring states to adopt the Republican president’s strict immigration policies by leveraging federal funding. “He’s treating these funds, which have nothing to do with immigration enforcement and everything to do with the safety of our communities, as a bargaining chip. But this is not a game,” said California attorney general Rob Bonta. “I’ll continue taking the President to court each time he breaks the law and puts Californians’ interests on the line.” View image in fullscreen Rob Bonta speaks at a news conference at the San Francisco public library’s Bernal Heights branch in San Francisco, on 4 December 2024. Share Updated at 16.20 EDT
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