Trump's 100 Days Sets Up Next Test for His Agenda
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On his 100th day in office, President Donald Trump is taking the stage in Michigan tonight to tell the voters who helped elect him to a second term that he's delivered on many of his campaign promises.
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Associated Press
13 minutes ago
- Associated Press
Kyiv rescuers find more bodies as death toll from latest Russian missile attack climbs to 28
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Emergency workers pulled more bodies Wednesday from the rubble of a nine-story Kyiv apartment building demolished by a Russian missile, raising the death toll from the latest attack on the Ukrainian capital to 28. The building in Kyiv's Solomianskyi district took a direct hit and collapsed during the deadliest Russian attack on Kyiv this year. Authorities said that 23 of those killed were inside the building. The remaining five were killed elsewhere in the city. Workers used cranes, excavators and their hands to clear more debris from the site Wednesday, and sniffer dogs searched for buried victims. The blast also blew out windows and doors in neighboring buildings in a wide radius of damage. The attack overnight on Monday into Tuesday was part of a sweeping barrage — Russia fired more than 440 drones and 32 missiles in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said was one of the biggest bombardments of the war, now in its fourth year. Russia has launched a summer offensive on parts of the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line and has intensified long-range attacks that have struck urban residential areas. At the same time, U.S.-led peace efforts have failed to grain traction. Also, Middle East tensions and U.S. trade tariffs have drawn world attention away from Ukraine's pleas for more diplomatic and economic pressure to be placed on Russia. The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv said the attack clashed with the attempts by the administration of President Donald Trump to reach a settlement that will stop the fighting. 'This senseless attack runs counter to President Trump's call to stop the killing and end the war,' the embassy posted on social platform X. Kyiv authorities declared Wednesday an official day of mourning. Mourners laid flowers on swings and slides at a playground across the street from the collapsed building. On Tuesday, a man had waited hours there for his 31-year-old son's body to be pulled from the rubble. Valentin Hrynkov, a 64-year-old handyman in a local school who lived on the seventh floor of a connected building that did not collapse, said he and his wife woke up to the sound of explosions followed by a pause, and then another blast that rattled their own building. He said his wife had shrapnel injuries in her back and his legs and feet were cut by broken glass. The damage trapped them in their apartment for around 30 minutes before rescue workers could free them, he said. He felt an overwhelming sense of 'helplessness and primal fear' during the attack, he told The Associated Press. ___ Follow AP's coverage of the war in Ukraine at
Newsweek
15 minutes ago
- Newsweek
California Migrants Paid Not to Work in Order to Avoid ICE Raids
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Several groups have begun paying street vendors in California to temporarily stop working in public areas to avoid Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. The effort is being led by local nonprofits and community groups and involves buying inventory of vendors who are considered at risk of being detained during street-level enforcement operations, NBC 4 Los Angeles reported. Newsweek has contacted local groups, the Local Hearts Foundation and K-Town for All, for comment. Why It Matters ICE has become a flashpoint in the national conversation surrounding immigration enforcement as President Donald Trump's administration looks to remove millions of immigrants without legal status. The Republican leader pledged to carry out large-scale mass deportations and recently ordered his immigration enforcers to ramp up arrests in Democratic-run cities. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents guard outside Delaney Hall, a detention facility, while anti-ICE activists demonstrate on June 12, 2025 in Newark, New Jersey. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents guard outside Delaney Hall, a detention facility, while anti-ICE activists demonstrate on June 12, 2025 in Newark, New Jersey. Stephanie Keith/Getty What To Know The Local Hearts Foundation, a nonprofit supporting low-income families in partnership with Singer Reality Group, a Southern California real estate firm, has begun offering payments to street vendors who lack permanent legal status to temporarily stop working in public areas. According to a report by NBC4 Los Angeles, an elderly woman selling flowers on the street said she continued working because she needed money to eat. Community members reportedly gave her $800 to cover her rent and advised her to stay indoors for her safety. K-Town For All, a community organization, is also involved in efforts to support street vendors. The group told NBC4 that it has raised $60,000 to assist 36 families in Koreatown with covering rent, utility bills, and food expenses for 30 days. "We've seen the videos from all over Los Angeles, Bell, Lynwood, Southgate, South Central, of fruit vendors, car washers, flower vendors being taken off the side of the road," Andreina Kniss of K-Town For All told NBC 4 Los Angeles. During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump pledged to carry out the largest mass deportation program in U.S. history. Since returning to office on January 20, the president has overseen widespread ICE detention and deportation operations across the country. Last week saw protests break out against ICE raids in multiple cities, including Los Angeles, where violent clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement occurred. Trump authorized the deployment of National Guard troops in the city. California Governor Gavin Newsom responded by suing the administration. Despite the unrest, data suggests that Trump's messaging on border enforcement and immigration control may be resonating even with segments of the immigrant community. What People Are Saying Kniss told NBC4 Los Angeles: "L.A. is an immigrant town and we're gonna protect them as best as we can." The Local Hearts Foundation wrote in a post on Instagram: "We saw 3 street vendors today—fathers—out on the side of a highway, selling fruit in fear. Not fear of traffic. Fear of ICE. Fear of being snatched away for working. They shouldn't have to choose between eating and getting deported." Trump wrote on Truth Social that ICE "must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America's largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside."
CNN
18 minutes ago
- CNN
The US has toppled an Iranian government before. Here's what happened
Since Israel began its concerted attack on Iran, calls for regime change have grown louder, with US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raising the possibility of targeting Tehran's all-powerful leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Many Iranians have firsthand experience with the United States enforcing a regime change in their country. Oil fields: In 1953, the US helped stage a coup to overthrow Iran's democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh. He had pledged to nationalize the country's oil fields – a move the US and Great Britain saw as a serious blow, given their dependence on oil from the Middle East. Height of the Cold War: The move to nationalize was seen as popular in Iran and a victory for the then-USSR. Strengthen Shah rule: The coup's goal was to support Iran's monarch, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to rule as Shah of Iran, and appoint a new prime minister, Gen. Fazlollah Zahedi. The coup: Before the coup, the CIA, along with the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), helped foment anti-Mossadegh fervor using propaganda. In 1953, the CIA and SIS helped pull pro-Shah forces together and organized large protests against Mossadegh, which were soon joined by the army. US cash: To provide Zahedi, the country's new prime minister, with some stability, the CIA covertly made $5,000,000 available within two days of him taking power, documents showed. US acknowledgement: In 2013, declassified CIA documents were released, confirming the agency's involvement for the first time. But the US role was known: Former President Barack Obama acknowledged involvement in the coup in 2009. It backfired: After toppling Mossadegh, the US strengthened its support for Pahlavi to rule as Shah. Iranians resented the foreign interference, fueling anti-American sentiment in the country for decades. Islamic Revolution: The Shah became a close ally of the US. But in the late 1970s, millions of Iranians took to the streets against his regime, which they viewed as corrupt and illegitimate. Secular protesters opposed his authoritarianism, while Islamist protesters opposed his modernization agenda. The Shah was toppled in the 1979 Islamic revolution, which ended the country's Western-backed monarchy and ushered in the start of the Islamic Republic and clerical rule.
