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The Trump administration reached a cope with Ukraine to provide U.S. traders preferential entry to Ukraine’s provide of uncommon earth minerals on Wednesday, weeks after an Oval Office blow-up between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky put it on maintain.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent introduced the information in a press launch later that described the settlement as a recognition of the “significant financial and material support that the people of the United States have provided to the defense of Ukraine.”

“As the president has said, the United States is committed to helping facilitate the end of this cruel and senseless war,” mentioned Bessent.

“This agreement signals clearly to Russia that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process centered on a free, sovereign, and prosperous Ukraine over the long term.”

John Bowden and Sam Kiley report.

Here’s the previous VP and Democratic presidential candidate taking the Republican to process as he celebrated his first 100 days again in workplace.

She additionally tried to encourage these against the administration’s insurance policies, telling them that “courage is contagious.”

Former vice chairman Kamala Harris has mercilessly rebuked President Donald Trump in her first intensive remarks since leaving Washington, D.C., in January, calling his tariff-based commerce conflict the “greatest man-made economic crisis in modern presidential history.”

Harris, the defeated Democratic nominee in final yr’s presidential election, spoke in San Francisco on the twentieth anniversary gala for Emerge America, a company that helps left-leaning girls for public workplace.

“I know tonight’s event happens to coincide with the 100 days after the inauguration and I’ll leave it to others to give a full accounting of what has happened so far,” Harris mentioned on the Palace Hotel gala.

“But I will say this, instead of an administration working to advance America’s highest ideals, we are witnessing the wholesale abandonment of those ideals.”

Harris took intention at Trump’s shrinking of the federal workforce and his tariffs, which, “as I predicted, are clearly inviting a recession.”

She additionally championed protesters who’ve stood as much as the administration’s actions, “saying it is not okay to detain and disappear American citizens or anyone without due process.”

Here’s a full report from Michelle del Rey.

“I love the double hat,” says President Trump.

“Let us say I wear a lot of hats. Even my hat has a hat,” replies Musk.

Trump says, “You’re invited to stay as long as you want,” earlier than including to the Cabinet, “He probably wants to get back to his cars.”

Tesla inventory is down greater than 5 % in the present day.

…that started beneath Biden.

The Defense Department’s armed providers branches recruited 12.5% extra folks in fiscal yr 2024 than within the yr prior regardless of a difficult and disinterested recruiting market.

While talking at a multiservice panel on 2025 recruiting points on the Pentagon earlier this week, Director of Military Accession Policy Katie Helland mentioned that the providers elevated the variety of recruits from 200,000 in FY 2023 to 225,000 in FY 2024, which ended September 30.

Additionally, she mentioned, the providers had a 35% enhance in written contracts, and the energetic elements’ delayed entry program began FY 2025 with a ten% bigger pool.

In Judge Geoffrey Crawford’s order to launch Mohsen Mahdawi, he compares the arrests of pupil activists to McCarthyism and the Red Scare.

The Obama-appointed decide additionally dismissed the federal government’s introduction of decade-old allegations that Mahdawi visited a gun store and talked about killing Jews. In 2019, the FBI had adopted up on these allegations, discovered them unfounded, and closed the investigation.

His continued detention “would likely have a chilling effect on protected speech” and “would not benefit the public in any way,” the decide wrote.

His launch would “benefit the community, which appears to deeply cherish and value him.”

Here’s Mahdawi exterior the courtroom earlier:

Attorney General Pam Bondi says the Trump administration’s efforts to grab fentanyl have saved 258 million lives.

The whole inhabitants of the U.S. is roughly 340 million.

Bondi additionally gave, most likely by far, probably the most fawning remarks directed on the president about his first 100 days.

At the Cabinet assembly, Vice President JD Vance tells President Donald Trump: “You sit in the oval office and see portraits of presidents past and most of them have been place holders, people who allowed their staff to sign executive orders with an auto pen instead of men of action.”

Attacking the media, Vance claimed that “the most under-reported fact of the first 100 days” is that enlistment numbers are up.

“We now have people breaking down the doors to join our military,” he mentioned.

Continuing to scold the press, the vice chairman assaults protection of the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

When it involves his flip to talk on the Cabinet assembly, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the primary 100 days of the Trump administration have been “setting the table” for peace, commerce, and tax offers.

“The next 100 days will be harvesting,” he says.

The New York Times has responded to this morning’s authorized risk from President Donald Trump relating to its reporting that described his swimsuit towards 60 Minutes as baseless.

A spokesperson for the outlet mentioned: “President Trump’s post today follows a long list of legal threats aimed at discouraging or penalizing independent reporting about the administration. The law is clear and protects a strong free press and favors an informed American public. The New York Times will not be deterred by the administration’s intimidation tactics. We will continue to pursue the facts without fear or favor and stand up for journalists’ First Amendment right to ask questions on behalf of the American people.”