‘We’re typically heading in the right direction’, Russian state media quote Putin as saying following name with Trump
We’re getting traces now from Russian state media that the decision between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin has concluded.
The decision lasted greater than two hours and was “very informative and useful”, in response to RIA. It cites Putin as saying:
We’re typically heading in the right direction.
TASS stories that Putin mentioned Russia and Ukraine should agree on “compromises that swimsuit each side” earlier than a ceasefire will be reached.
It additionally mentioned the Russian president favors a “peaceable decision of the Ukraine disaster” and is able to work with Kyiv on a memorandum on future peace talks.
In accordance with IFX, Putin additionally mentioned the basis causes of the disaster ought to be eradicated.
Key occasions
Supreme court docket permits Trump to finish deportation safety for Venezuelans
The supreme court docket has allowed the Trump administration to strip about 350,000 Venezuelans residing within the US of a non permanent protected standing given beneath Joe Biden, Reuters stories.
The court docket granted the justice division’s request to carry San Francisco-based US district choose Edward Chen’s order that had halted homeland safety secretary Okayristi Noem’s determination to terminate the deportation safety conferred to Venezuelans beneath the non permanent protected standing, or TPS, program.
Chen acted in a authorized problem by plaintiffs together with a few of the TPS recipients and the Nationwide TPS Alliance advocacy group, who mentioned Venezuela stays an unsafe nation.
The TPS program is a humanitarian designation beneath US regulation for international locations affected by struggle, pure catastrophe or different disaster, giving recipients residing in america deportation safety and entry to work permits. The designation will be renewed by the homeland safety secretary.
The federal authorities beneath Biden twice designated Venezuela for TPS, in 2021 and 2023. In January, days earlier than Trump returned to workplace, the Biden administration introduced an extension of the packages to 2026.
Noem rescinded the extension and moved to finish the TPS designation for a subset of Venezuelans who benefited from the 2023 designation. The Division of Homeland Safety mentioned about 348,202 Venezuelans had been registered beneath that 2023 designation.
Chen dominated that Noem violated a federal regulation that governs the actions of companies. The choose additionally mentioned the revocation of the TPS standing appeared to have been predicated on “destructive stereotypes” by insinuating the Venezuelan migrants had been criminals. He wrote:
Generalization of criminality to the Venezuelan TPS inhabitants as a complete is baseless and smacks of racism predicated on generalized false stereotypes.
The choose added that Venezuelan TPS holders had been extra more likely to maintain bachelor’s levels than Americans and much less more likely to commit crimes than the final US inhabitants.
The San Francisco-based ninth US circuit court docket of appeals on 18 April declined the administration’s request to pause the choose’s order.
Justice division attorneys of their supreme court docket submitting mentioned Chen had “wrested management of the nation’s immigration coverage” away from the federal government’s government department, headed by Trump. They wrote:
The court docket’s order contravenes elementary Government Department prerogatives and indefinitely delays delicate coverage choices in an space of immigration coverage that Congress acknowledged should be versatile, fast-paced, and discretionary.
The plaintiffs instructed the supreme court docket that granting the administration’s request “would strip work authorization from almost 350,000 individuals residing within the US, expose them to deportation to an unsafe nation and price billions in financial losses nationwide”.
The Trump administration in April additionally terminated TPS for hundreds of Afghans and Cameroonians within the US. These actions are usually not half of the present case.
Trump spoke to Zelenskyy ‘for a couple of minutes’ earlier than name with Putin – Reuters
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke briefly by cellphone with Donald Trump earlier right now earlier than the US president’s name with Vladimir Putin, a supply aware of the matter has instructed Reuters.
Trump known as Zelenskyy “for a couple of minutes” earlier than his name with the Kremlin chief, the supply mentioned.
The Ukrainian president’s workplace didn’t instantly remark when requested by Reuters concerning the name.
Legal professionals search to drive Trump to return Guatemalan deportee from Mexico after justice division admits error
Legal professionals for a Guatemalan man who says he was deported to Mexico regardless of his fears he can be persecuted there have requested a choose to order the Trump administration to instantly facilitate his return after immigration officers acknowledged making a mistake in his case.
Reuters stories the attorneys made the request on Sunday after the justice division notified a federal choose in Boston that its declare that the person had expressly acknowledged he was not afraid of being despatched to Mexico was based mostly on misguided info.
The justice division in a submitting on Friday mentioned that upon additional investigation, officers had been unable to determine any officer with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) who really requested the person about fears he had for his security.
Legal professionals for the person, recognized in court docket papers solely as “O.C.G.”, instructed US district choose Brian Murphy that regardless of admitting to that error, the administration is refusing to decide to permitting the person to instantly return to the US.
They urged the choose to order the federal government to take action, on condition that Murphy in a category motion lawsuit O.C.G. and different migrants filed has already blocked the administration from swiftly deporting migrants to international locations apart from their very own with out first listening to their issues about their security.
Legal professionals for O.C.G. say that after he was in Mexico, O.C.G. had to decide on between ready months in detention to use for asylum in Mexico or returning to Guatemala. He in the end opted to return to Guatemala, the place he’s in hiding, his attorneys say.
“Defendants’ admitted failure to supply O.C.G. even an oral alternative to claim his concern is flatly opposite to their very own repeated representations to the supreme court docket concerning what due course of requires in a scenario like this,” the attorneys wrote.
The Division of Homeland Safety, which oversees Ice, and the justice division didn’t reply to Reuters’ requests for remark.
It’s the newest occasion of the federal government acknowledging an error within the case of a migrant swept up in Donald Trump’s efforts to quickly perform mass deportations as a part of his hardline immigration agenda.
Such an error occurred with Maryland resident Kilmar Ábrego García, who was deported to El Salvador in March regardless of an order defending him from removing. He stays there, regardless of the supreme court docket ordering the administration to facilitate his return.
In accordance with his attorneys, O.C.G. is a homosexual man who fled Guatemala in 2024 after dealing with dying threats based mostly on his sexuality. He entered america by Mexico in Could 2024.
An immigration choose in February granted him safety from being deported to Guatemala after an asylum officer discovered he had an inexpensive concern of persecution there. But immigration officers then swiftly deported him to Mexico as an alternative.
His attorneys say immigration officers despatched O.C.G. to Mexico with out giving him a chance to precise his concern of being despatched there, the place he likewise feared persecution after beforehand being kidnapped and raped in Mexico.
President Trump has accused Beyoncé and a handful of different celebrities of “an unlawful election rip-off” for his or her endorsement of Kamala Harris in a social media publish. Trump wrote on Truth Social:
“In accordance with information stories, Beyoncé was paid $11,000,000 to stroll onto a stage, shortly ENDORSE KAMALA, and stroll off to loud booing for by no means having carried out, NOT EVEN ONE SONG! Keep in mind, the Democrats and Kamala illegally paid her hundreds of thousands of {Dollars} for doing nothing apart from giving Kamala a full throated ENDORSEMENT. THIS IS AN ILLEGAL ELECTION SCAM AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL! IT IS AN ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION! BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, OPRAH, BONO AND, PERHAPS, MANY OTHERS, HAVE A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO!!!”
President of CBS Information to step down amid community feud with Trump
Wendy McMahon, the president and CEO of CBS Information, will step down from her place as a result of firm and her have differing views on the trail ahead, Reuters stories.
McMahon, president and CEO of Paramount World-owned CBS Information and Stations and CBS Media Ventures since 2023, mentioned in a memo that the previous few months have been difficult.
“It’s grow to be clear that the corporate and I don’t agree on the trail ahead. It’s time for me to maneuver on and for this group to maneuver ahead with new management,” McMahon mentioned.
McMahon’s determination to step down comes throughout an ongoing legal battle between CBS and Donald Trump after the president filed a lawsuit regarding an interview the present did with Kamala Harris in the course of the presidential marketing campaign.
Trump ally and de facto head of the so-called “division of presidency effectivity” (Doge) Elon Musk appeared to endorse a conspiracy principle about former President Joe Biden’s most cancers analysis in a post on X.
Clint Russell, host of the rightwing podcast Liberty Lockdown, accused the Democrats of planning to get Biden elected into workplace after which have him drop out due to his analysis to be able to have Kamala Harris step in.
“So the plan was to run Biden, lie about his most cancers and dementia, get him again within the WH, after which have him instantly step apart so Kamala’s reign of terror may start. All whereas making an attempt to jail or kill DJT. Simply ensuring we’re all on the identical web page, right here. These individuals are evil,” Russell wrote on X.
Musk posted a “bullseye” emoji in response to somebody reposting the declare, showing to endorse the conspiracy principle.
An appeals court docket has allowed President Trump’s government order geared toward ending collective bargaining rights for lots of of hundreds of federal staff to face whereas a lawsuit performs out, stories the Related Press.
The ruling got here after the Trump administration requested for an emergency pause on a choose’s order blocking enforcement at roughly three dozen companies and departments. The court docket dominated on technical grounds, discovering that the unions don’t have the authorized proper to sue as a result of Trump hasn’t ended any collective bargaining agreements but.
The administration says the president wants the EO so he can reduce the federal workforce to make sure “sturdy nationwide safety”. Union leaders have argued that the order is designed to facilitate mass federal firings and precise “political vengeance” in opposition to unions.
Trump-Putin name beneath approach, White Home says
The decision between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is beneath approach, the White Home has confirmed, because the US president tries as soon as once more to convey Russia’s struggle in Ukraine to an finish.
Trump, who will converse to Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy after his name with Putin, sounded optimistic when posting on social media concerning the name on Saturday, saying: “Hopefully will probably be a really productive day.”
However, Politico writes this morning:
The million-ruble query stays: How will Trump react if there’s no actual progress (once more) right now? There are issues inside Europe he’ll both attempt to drive by a disastrous deal from Ukraine’s perspective, or simply abandon the entire peace thought – plus US assist on the battlefield – altogether.
Certainly, in an indication of rising US frustration, vice-president JD Vance earlier today acknowledged there was an “deadlock” in getting Putin to conform to a ceasefire and finish the struggle, and added that it “takes two to tango. I do know [Trump’s] keen to do this, but when Russia is just not keen to do this, then we’re ultimately simply going to say, this isn’t our struggle”.
We’ll convey you extra on the decision as we get it.
Joe Biden says thanks for ‘love and assist’ after prostate most cancers analysis
Michael Sainato
Joe Biden made his first public remarks on Monday morning about his most cancers analysis, an aggressive type of prostate most cancers that has unfold to his bones.
Biden wrote on social media, his first assertion since his workplace reported the analysis on Sunday:
Most cancers touches us all. Like so lots of you, Jill and I’ve discovered that we’re strongest within the damaged locations. Thanks for lifting us up with love and assist.
“Final week, President Joe Biden was seen for a brand new discovering of a prostate nodule after experiencing growing urinary signs,” Biden’s private workplace mentioned in a press release. “On Friday he was identified with prostate most cancers, characterised by a Gleason rating of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone.”
Biden, 82, and his household are reviewing therapy choices. The most cancers seems to be hormone delicate, permitting for efficient therapy, in response to his workplace.
Vance says Trump to interact Putin amid ‘deadlock’ and provides that if US cannot finish it they might should say ‘this isn’t our struggle’
With lower than an hour to go earlier than the Trump-Putin name at 10am ET, JD Vance instructed reporters that Washington recognised there was an deadlock in ending the struggle – and that if Moscow was not keen to interact then ultimately america must say it was not its struggle.
Including that he had simply spoken to Trump, Vance mentioned as he ready to depart from Italy:
We understand there’s a little bit of an deadlock right here. And I feel the president’s going to say to President Putin: ‘Look, are you critical? Are you actual about this?’”
I feel truthfully that President Putin, he doesn’t fairly know how you can get out of the struggle.
He mentioned it “takes two to tango. I do know the president’s keen to do this, but when Russia is just not keen to do this, then we’re ultimately simply going to say, this isn’t our struggle.”
We’re going to attempt to finish it, however if we are able to’t finish it, we’re ultimately going to say: ‘You recognize what? That was price a attempt, however we’re not doing anymore.’
Putin-Trump assembly not presently being ready, RIA cites Kremlin as saying, as White Home says Trump open to it
A gathering between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump is just not presently being ready, Russian state information company RIA cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Monday.
The White Home has mentioned that Trump is open to assembly with the Russian president. The 2 are going to talk at 10am ET and Trump will name Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy when that decision concludes, the White Home mentioned.
JD Vance determined in opposition to Israel go to in order to not endorse expanded navy operation in Gaza – Axios
JD Vance thought-about touring to Israel tomorrow however determined to not as a result of enlargement of Israel’s navy operation in Gaza, Axios reports citing a senior US official.
Axios writes that, in response to Israeli officers, the Trump administration on Saturday knowledgeable the Israeli authorities that Vance was contemplating stopping in Israel after attending the pope’s inauguration. Further discussions befell yesterday between US and Israeli officers to arrange for the go to, and it was quickly reported within the Israeli press that Vance would possibly arrive tomorrow. A number of hours later, nevertheless, a White Home official denied the stories in a press release and claimed “logistical constraints have precluded an extension of his journey past Rome”.
However a US official with information of what really occurred throughout these a number of hours instructed Axios logistics weren’t the difficulty. The official mentioned that whereas Vance was deliberating, issues had been raised {that a} journey to Israel at the moment can be perceived by Israel and international locations within the area as validation for Israel’s expanded operation in Gaza, at a time when the US is pushing for a ceasefire and hostage deal. At that time, the official mentioned, the vice-president made the choice to not go.
Yesterday, the Israeli military introduced the beginning of a large-scale offensive in Gaza, describing “intensive floor operations” to grab “operational management” of swaths of the devastated Palestinian territory. It got here on a second day of oblique ceasefire talks in Qatar, which ended with none breakthrough.
Axios writes:
This isn’t about publicly pressuring Israel. Vance formally cited “logistical” causes for passing on the go to. However his determination sheds gentle on how the US feels concerning the present Israeli coverage in Gaza.
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