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The town of New York and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority requested a US pass judgement on past due on Monday to dam the Trump management from killing Manhattan’s congestion pricing program.
Lawyers for the town’s shipping division and the MTA sought an order to dam Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s effort to kill this system and his risk to withhold federal govt approvals for different tasks and investment.
New York introduced its first-in-the-nation program in January, charging maximum passenger cars a toll of $9 all the way through height classes to go into Manhattan south of 60th Street, in a bid to chop congestion and lift finances to support mass transit.
President Donald Trump stated Moscow and Kyiv need to settle the warfare in Ukraine and that Russian president Vladimir Putin used to be extra susceptible in opposition to peace after the hot fall in the cost of oil.
“I think Russia with the price of oil right now, oil has gone down, we are in a good position to settle, they want to settle. Ukraine wants to settle,” Trump advised newshounds within the Oval Office on Monday.
The value of oil – which drives the Russian economic system – has fallen about $15 a barrel because the get started of the yr. OPEC+ will boost up oil output hikes, assets advised Reuters.
“We’ve come a long way, and, it could be something will happen, but hopefully it will,” Trump stated.
Mike Pence rebukes Trump over price lists and ‘wavering’ improve for Ukraine
Robert Tait
Donald Trump’s price lists coverage will cause a “price shock” and conceivable shortages, and result in public drive on him to switch his means, the previous vice-president Mike Pence has stated.
In certainly one of his maximum wide-ranging evaluations but at the insurance policies of the president he used to serve, Pence, chatting with CNN, derided the White House’s “wavering” improve for Ukraine and declared – in direct contradiction of repeated assurances from Trump – that President Vladimir Putin of Russia “doesn’t want peace”.
Pence’s feedback got here in an interview after receiving the John F Kennedy Profile in Courage award in reputation of his refusal to bow to drive from Trump to overturn the 2020 presidential election when he presided over Congress’s certification of the effects on 6 January 2021.
The vice-president’s resolution to hold out his constitutional position and certify Joe Biden’s victory presaged an assault on the USA Capitol via a violent mob, who chanted “hang Mike Pence”, because the vice-president used to be spirited to protection via safety group of workers.
Pence advised CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that Trump’s resolution to pardon about 1,600 convicted rioters after he returned to administrative center in January “sent the wrong message”.
“I was deeply disappointed to see President Trump pardon people that engaged in violence against law enforcement officers that day,” he stated.
FDA bargaining consultation cancelled over layoffs, union says
The Trump management final week canceled the primary bargaining consultation scheduled with the USA Food and Drug Administration’s biggest employees’ union since its skill to constitute govt body of workers used to be briefly restored via a federal court docket, in accordance probably the most union’s bosses.
President Donald Trump in March signed an government order that excluded businesses from collective bargaining responsibilities that he stated “have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work.”
The order carried out to the FDA, in addition to businesses beneath the Justice, State, Defense, Treasury and Veterans Affairs departments, Reuters stories.
Senior US district pass judgement on Paul Friedman on 25 April issued an injunction to dam the chief order from being applied, pending the end result of a lawsuit via the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), which represents about 160,000 federal staff together with as many as 9,000 FDA body of workers.

Robert Mackey
The US Department of Education knowledgeable Harvard University on Monday that it used to be finishing billions of greenbacks in analysis grants and different support until the varsity accedes to a listing of calls for from the Trump management that might successfully cede regulate of the country’s oldest and wealthiest college to the federal government.
The information used to be dropped at Dr Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, in a deeply partisan letter from Linda McMahon, the schooling secretary, which she additionally posted on social media.
“This letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek grants from the federal government, since none will be provided,” McMahon wrote.
The major reason why for the crackdown on Harvard is the varsity’s rejection of an extended record of calls for from the Trump management’s antisemitism taskforce, caused via campus protests in opposition to Israel’s brutal army marketing campaign in Gaza following the Hamas-led assaults of 7 October 2023. McMahon additionally accuses the college of “a systematic pattern of violating federal law”.
As Garber defined in a message to the Harvard group final month, the college made up our minds to sue the government simplest after the Trump management iced over $2.2bn in investment, threatened to freeze an extra $1bn in grants, “initiated numerous investigations of Harvard’s operations, threatened the education of international students, and announced that it is considering a revocation of Harvard’s 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status”.
The govt’s “sweeping and intrusive demands would impose unprecedented and improper control over the university”, Garber wrote.
Opening abstract
Good morning and welcome to our US politics weblog as Donald Trump prepares to welcome his newly elected northern counterpart, Canada’s Mark Carney, to the White House.
At 11.30am ET the president is because of welcome Carney and the development may also come with talks and a lunch. This is not likely to be an easy assembly, Trump’s price lists on Canada or even ideas that it would turn out to be the “51st state” created anger over the border that helped propel Carney to energy.
In his victory speech only a week in the past, Carney claimed that Trump sought after to “break us, so that America can own us”, including: “That will never, ever happen.”
The following day they did have what Trump described as an “extremely productive” name and later he stated sought after a “very good relationship” with Canada. Of route, with Trump, issues are by no means predictable, so let’s see how lately performs out.
Amid the talks, more likely to centre at the tariff factor, the pair appear not likely to talk about any other primary topic we’ll be masking lately – Trump’s transfer to dam grant investment for Harvard till it meets his calls for.
The Canadian economist and central banker is a Harvard graduate and served at the Board of Overseers, Harvard’s second-highest governing frame, sooner than resigning previous this yr to take in his position main the Liberal celebration.
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Donald Trump has stated he’s directing the management to reopen and extend Alcatraz, the infamous former jail on an island off San Francisco that has been closed for greater than 60 years. California Democrats known as the theory “absurd on its face” and a part of the USA president’s means of political distraction. Other officers pointed to the closure of the jail complicated in 1963, identified for its brutal prerequisites, because of operational expense and the top choice of (unsuccessful) get away makes an attempt.
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Trump introduced his 100% tariff on motion pictures “coming into our country produced in foreign lands” at some point after assembly with actor Jon Voight to talk about his proposals to deliver movie manufacturing again to the USA – which simplest steered that price lists might be used “in certain limited circumstances”.
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Donald Trump’s price lists coverage will cause a “price shock” and conceivable shortages, and result in public drive on him to switch his means, the previous vice-president Mike Pence has stated. In certainly one of his maximum wide-ranging evaluations but at the insurance policies of the president he used to serve, Pence, chatting with CNN, derided the White House’s “wavering” improve for Ukraine and declared – in direct contradiction of repeated assurances from Trump – that president Vladimir Putin of Russia “doesn’t want peace”.
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Trump stated Moscow and Kyiv need to settle the warfare in Ukraine and that Russian president Vladimir Putin used to be extra susceptible in opposition to peace after the hot fall in the cost of oil. “I think Russia with the price of oil right now, oil has gone down, we are in a good position to settle, they want to settle. Ukraine wants to settle,” Trump advised newshounds within the Oval Office on Monday.
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Mass protests were known as for 14 June, when Donald Trump plans to throw himself an army parade celebration.
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US intelligence officers concluded final month that the federal government of Venezuela is “probably not directing” the actions of Tren de Aragua gang participants within the United States. That undermines Trump’s declare that the Alien Enemies Act empowers him to deport suspected gang participants.
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The US Department of Education knowledgeable Harvard University on Monday that it used to be finishing billions of greenbacks in analysis grants and different support until the varsity concedes to a listing of calls for from the Trump management that might successfully cede regulate of the country’s oldest and wealthiest to the federal government.