In the United States, President Donald Trump is reorganizing foreign and domestic politics. All developments in the news blog.
Shortly before the expiry of a deadline for avoiding trade tariffs, Mexico sends a signal of good will to US President Donald Trump: 29 criminals imprisoned for drug transactions were delivered to the USA, as the Mexican authorities said. According to the US Ministry of Justice, the former antitrust chief Rafael Caro Quintero is among them. He was as powerful in Mexico in the 1980s as the notorious gangster Pablo Escobar in Colombia. Read more on the topic here.
A California federal judge prevents the US government under President Donald Trump from the planned mass layoffs in authorities. The US district judge William Alsup in San Francisco said during a hearing that the US HR office was not authorized to instruct federal authorities to dismiss employees, including employees on a trial, who usually have fewer than a year of experience. Among other things, the US government wanted to instruct the Ministry of Defense to make mass layoffs of thousands of recently hired employees. Read more about this here.
The publication of files for the fall of the human retailer and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019, is announced by US Justice Minister Pam Bondi. From a letter to Bondis to FBI director Kash Patel, which circulates on social networks and which the broadcaster Fox News reported, among other things, shows that the US Federal Police FBI apparently appeared further material for the Epstein files. Bondi instructed Patel to provide everything material without exception until Friday morning (local time).
Bondi had said the day before she wanted to publish the entire Epstein file. “What you will hopefully see on Thursday are a lot of flight connections, a lot of names, a lot of information,” said the minister. In fact, part of the material was also made public. However, what is included does not go beyond the facts known so far. The files had been released by a court, but have so far been kept under closure. Finally, the pressure of politicians from both parties in Washington grew to make the material public.
The Gaza Strip, who was devastated by the war as a modern seaside resort, is overwhelmed by a golden Trump statue: On the official social media accounts by the US President Donald Trump, an obviously created video was obviously created with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), which quickly spread and caused sharp criticism on Wednesday. In the online service Instagram, the 33 second video clip was viewed more than 10.5 million times by Wednesday morning (local time). Read the background here.
US President Donald Trump held the first cabinet meeting of his second term in the White House on Wednesday – and assigned a leading role to his consultant Elon Musk. The multi-billionaire called the ministerial round to “act quickly” to reduce the deficit of the US federal budget. Media previously reported on tensions in the government about Musk’s drastic measures – which Trump tried.
