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Senator Mark Warner, who is the vice-chair of the Senate intel committee, called the Trump administration’s choice to fire leading FBI authorities ” deeply disconcerting”.

“At a time when we are dealing with a plethora of hazards to the homeland– from terrorism and espionage to drug trafficking and Salt Typhoon– it is deeply disconcerting that the Trump administration seems purging lots of the most knowledgeable representatives who are our country’s very first line of defense,”Warren stated in a declaration.

A minimum of 6 senior FBI authorities were informed to retire, resign or be That’s it from us after a very busy Friday. Here’s what happened:

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    Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, has said reports of tariffs starting 1 March are false before announcing new tariffs Donald Trump plans to impose on countries starting tomorrow, including: “25% tariffs on Mexico, 25% tariffs on Canada, and a 10% tariff on China for the illegal fentanyl that they have sent to our country, which has killed tens of millions of Americans.”

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    Trump said he expected tariffs on oil and gas to be announced on 18 February and then said he would decrease the tariffs on Canadian oil to 10%. He also said he planned “substantial” tariffs on the European Union.

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    A government memo sent on Wednesday directed agencies to strip “gender ideology” from websites, contracts and email signatures by Friday at 5pm ET. Some federal websites were taken down as government employees scrambled to meet the deadline. FAA.gov remained dark by Friday evening. The CDC took down a variety of health resources including a fact sheet about HIV and trans people; lessons on how to create a supportive environment in schools for trans and non-binary students; and information about National Transgender HIV Testing Day as well as contraception.

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    Mexico is awaiting any potential US tariffs with a “cool head”, its president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said on Friday. “We will always defend the dignity of our people, respect for our sovereignty and a dialogue as equals without subordination,” she said.

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    Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis. The landing pages on the United States Forest Service website for key resources, research and adaptation tools – including those that provide vital context and vulnerability assessments for wildfires – had gone dark, leaving behind an error message or just a single line: “You are not authorized to access this page.”

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    Senator Mark Warner, who is the vice-chair of the Senate intelligence committee, called the Trump administration’s decision to fire top FBI officials “deeply alarming”.

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    CBS News is expected to comply with the Federal Communications Commission’s request for the unedited transcript from the 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, the former vice-president, according to several reports. The interview took place in October of 2024 and was the subject of Trump’s $10bn lawsuit against CBS that accused the network of editing the interview in a way that benefitted Harris’s campaign.

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    The FBI has been directed by the DOJ to compile and hand over a list of current and former employees who worked on cases related to the 6 January riots, several publications are reporting. The DOJ said it needs to receive the list by noon ET on Tuesday to commence a review to determine whether they need to make any other personnel moves.

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    The US hopes to start moving immigrants to Guantánamo Bay in 30 days.

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    A large number of federal employees have taken the Trump administration’s offer of a financial buyout to resign. Deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said he didn’t have an exact number of federal employees who had taken the financial payout to resign from their posts, but that initial briefings indicate it’s a significant number of workers, according to Reuters.

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    The Senate confirmed the former North Dakota governor Doug Burgum as interior secretary late on Thursday. The vote was 79-18, with the majority of Senate Democrats joining every Republican in voting for Burgum.

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    Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro will meet with Richard Grenell, Donald Trump’s envoy for special missions, the country’s communications ministry has confirmed. As we reported earlier, Grenell is expected to discuss deportation flights among other things during his trip to Venezuela.

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    Canada will respond immediately with a series of forceful countermeasures if Donald Trump goes ahead with a threat to impose tariffs, Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau said. On Thursday, Trump repeated his threat to impose tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico that would begin at 25% and “may or may not rise with time”.

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    Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, has urged undocumented Colombians in the US to quit their jobs “immediately” and return to Colombia as soon as possible. “Wealth is only produced by the working people,” Petro said on X. “Let’s build social wealth in Colombia.”

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    David Lebryk, the top-ranking career official in the treasury department, is departing after a clash with allies of Elon Musk over access to sensitive payment systems, the Washington Post reports. The report, citing sources, said Lebryk and Musk’s surrogates clashed over access to a sensitive system used to pay out more than $6tn a year in social security and Medicare benefits as well as federal salaries, government contract payments and tax refunds.

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Communities in central California rushed to prepare for potential flooding on Friday, due to the layers of chaos Trump has inflicted on the state’s water distributions.

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Responding to an order from Trump to “maximize” water supplies, the Army Corps of Engineers abruptly began releasing flows out of Sierra Nevada reservoirs at levels local officials said would inundate areas downriver, Politico reported. Local water managers were given just an hour to alert nearby farms and neighborhoods.

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“I’ve been here 25 years, and I’ve never been given notice that quick,” Victor Hernandez, who oversees water management on one of the rivers, told Politico, adding that it had been “alarming and scary”.

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The issue is the latest example of how Trump’s inflammatory remarks – which incorrectly tied the devastating Los Angeles wildfires to California’s water policy – have created more headaches in the state.

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Hernandez and other local officials were reportedly able to convince the corps to slow their releases to a third of what had been planned, preventing what could have been an incredibly dangerous situation, but there are still concerns that the releases will do more harm than good.

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The water won’t be diverted to Los Angeles to support wildfire efforts, especially because the flames are already largely extinguished. Meanwhile, releases will mean there’s less water available for irrigating during drier times.

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Trump didn’t seem to get the message. Posting on X on Friday, he said: “Everybody should be happy about this long fought Victory![sic]” sharing a photo of rushing water that he claimed he “just opened in California”. He added a bit more misinformation for good measure: “I only wish they listened to me six years ago – There would have been no fire!”

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The FBI has been directed by the DOJ to compile and hand over a list of current and former employees who worked on cases related to the 6 January riots, several publications are reporting. The DOJ said it needs to receive the list by noon ET on Tuesday and then will commence a review to determine whether they need to make any other personnel moves.

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CBS News is expected to comply with the Federal Communications Commission’s request for the unedited transcript from the 60 minutes interview with Kamala Harris, the former vice-president, according to several reports. The interview took place in October of 2024 and was the subject of Trump’s $10bn lawsuit against CBS that accused the network of editing the interview in a way that benefitted Harris’s campaign.

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“We are working to comply with that inquiry as we are legally compelled to do,” a CBS News spokesperson told the New York Times on Friday.

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Anna Gomez, a Democratic FCC commissioner, said this was a “retaliatory move” that was part of a “concerning pattern of implementing the will of the Administration”.

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“This latest action to weaponize our broadcast licensing authority is no different,” Gomez wrote. “It revives a complaint that had been previously dismissed by FCC experts due to lack of evidence and because it fell far short of the high standard needed for agency action. Let’s be clear. This is a retaliatory move by the government against broadcasters whose content or coverage is perceived to be unfavorable. It is designed to instill fear in broadcast stations and influence a network’s editorial decisions.”

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House border czar Tom Homan told the Washington Post that they will “hopefully” start moving migrants to Guantánamo in 30 days.

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“Hopefully within 30 days we’ll start moving people there,” Homan said.

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Trump initially said Guantánamo would hold 30,000 migrants but Homan said they would start with a small number at first.

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Senator Mark Warner, who is the vice-chair of the Senate intel committee, called the Trump administration’s decision to fire top FBI officials “deeply alarming”.

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“At a time when we are facing a multitude of threats to the homeland – from terrorism and espionage to drug trafficking and Salt Typhoon – it is deeply alarming that the Trump administration appears to be purging dozens of the most experienced agents who are our nation’s first line of defense,” Warren said in a statement.

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At least six senior FBI officials were told to to retire, resign or be fired by Monday. Agents who worked on the investigation of the 6 January Capitol riot could also be fired as soon as today, CBS reported citing sources.

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As of 5.27pm ET, the FAA website was not accessible. The link, FAA.gov, directed to a blank page that said: “This site can’t be reached.” The site went dark after the Trump administration said they would put a pause on most government websites by 5pm today.

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On Thursday, the Trump administration ordered the US agriculture department to remove its websites documenting or referencing the climate crisis.

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By Friday, the landing pages on the United States Forest Service website for key resources, research and adaptation tools – including those that provide vital context and vulnerability assessments for wildfires – had gone dark, leaving behind an error message or just a single line: “You are not authorized to access this page.”

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In a directive issued by the United States Department of Agriculture’s office of communications, officials instructed website managers across the agency to “identify and archive or unpublish any landing pages focused on climate change”, according to Politico. It also included a Friday deadline to list the mentions in a spreadsheet for further review. As of publication, the USDA’s Climate Hubs – helpful sites that connect producers to local programs and research – are still live.

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The move is just one in a dizzying flurry of orders issued in the first two weeks of the Trump administration as it attempts to drastically reshape the federal government and halt key investments made to blunt the effects of global heating.

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Trump repealed environmental protections put in place by Joe Biden, declared a misguided energy emergency to hasten already-booming fossil fuel extraction, and withdrew from the Paris climate agreement.

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The administration also added confusion and chaos within federal agencies by halting hiring and pausing projects, along with issuing a widespread buyout offer that would guarantee federal workers pay and benefits through September 2025 if they resign within the next week.

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It’s unclear what the agencies will do with the websites or the policies and studies once detailed on them; links to the landing pages are still live, even if the information on each page has been blocked.

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Read more:

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CBS News is reporting that most federal government websites are expected to go dark at 5pm ET.

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We’ll update as we get more details.

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A large number of federal employees have taken the Trump administration’s offer of a financial buyout to resign.

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Deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said he didn’t have an exact number of federal employees who had taken the financial payout to resign from their posts, but that initial briefings indicate it’s a significant number of workers, according to Reuters.

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Trump offered about 2 million federal employees buyouts in an effort to drastically reduce the size of the federal government.

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Hi there, Johana Bhuiyan taking over.

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We have a few more details from Donald Trump on the tariffs he plans to impose on Canada, Mexico and China. The US president told reporters that he plans to place tariff on products like chips, oil and gas and that the tariffs on oil and gas should be expected by 18 February.

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Earlier, he said he planned to impose a 25% tariff on Mexico, 25% tariff on Canada, and 10% tariff on China. Now, he has said he will decrease the tariffs on Canadian oil to 10%, according to Reuters.

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He also said he plans on “doing something substantial” with tariffs on the European Union.

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His earlier announcement of tariffs sparked a stock market sell-off, as Wall Street fears a coming trade war. Trump said he wasn’t worried about the stock market disruptions and acknowledged that tariffs may result in “short-term” disruptions and that the costs are sometimes passed down to consumers, according to Reuters.

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US state department employees must scrub gender pronouns from their email signatures by Friday evening, according to an internal email obtained by the Guardian.

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The directive came from former ambassador Tibor P Nagy, now the acting under-secretary for management, writing to staff that the department was also launching a comprehensive review to eliminate what he called “gender ideology” from government communications and programs.

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“The Department of State is reviewing all agency programs, contracts and grants that promote or incubate gender ideology,” Nagy wrote in the email. “All employees are required to remove any gender identifying pronouns from email signature blocks by 5pm today.”

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The Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officials by firing FBI agents who had been engaged in investigations into Donald Trump, according to multiple reports.

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Officials acting at the direction of the administration have spent the last week working to identify individual employees who participated in politically sensitive investigations for possible termination, Associated Press reports.

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It is not yet clear how many agents will be affected. At least six senior FBI agents have been ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday, CNN reports. According to Reuters, the senior FBI officials are based in major cities including Miami, Philadelphia, Washington, New Orleans and Las Vegas.

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The FBI Agents Association has called the reported planned firings “outrageous actions by acting officials [that] are fundamentally at odds with the law enforcement objectives outlined by President Trump and his support for FBI Agents”.

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Here’s a look at where things stand:

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    White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has said reports of tariffs from 1 March are false before announcing new tariffs Donald Trump plans to impose on countries from tomorrow, including: “25% tariffs on Mexico, 25% tariffs on Canada, and a 10% tariff on China for the illegal fentanyl that they have sent to our country, which has killed 10s of millions of Americans.”

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    Mexico is awaiting any potential US tariffs with a “cool head”, its president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said on Friday. “We will always defend the dignity of our people, respect for our sovereignty and a dialogue as equals without subordination,” she said.

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    Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro will meet with Richard Grenell, Donald Trump’s envoy for special missions, the country’s communications ministry has confirmed. As we reported earlier, Grenell is expected to discuss deportation flights among other things during his trip to Venezuela.

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    Canada will respond immediately with a series of forceful countermeasures if Donald Trump goes ahead with a threat to impose tariffs, Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau said. On Thursday, Trump repeated his threat to impose tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico that would begin at 25% and “may or may not rise with time”.

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    Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, has urged undocumented Colombians in the US to quit their jobs “immediately” and return to Colombia as soon as possible. “Wealth is only produced by the working people,” Petro said on X. “Let’s build social wealth in Colombia.”

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    David Lebryk, the top-ranking career official in the treasury department, is departing after a clash with allies of Elon Musk over access to sensitive payment systems, the Washington Post reports. The report, citing sources, said Lebryk and Musk’s surrogates clashed over access to a sensitive system used to pay out more than $6tn a year in social security and Medicare benefits as well as federal salaries, government contract payments and tax refunds.

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has said reports of tariffs taking effect on 1 March are false before announcing new tariffs Donald Trump plans to impose on countries from Saturday, including:

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“25% tariffs on Mexico, 25% tariffs on Canada, and a 10% tariff on China for the illegal fentanyl that they have sent to our country, which has killed 10s of millions of Americans.”

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Leavitt’s claim that tens of millions of Americans has died is false. The National Institute on Drug Abuse believes fatalities are in the tens of thousands in recent years.

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Reuters had earlier reported a new tariff regime would begin on 1 March.

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Leavitt also said Trump had not made up his mind about a timeline for implementing tariffs against the European Union.

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She declined to say whether any future tariff would be one-size fits all or different for each EU member state.

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Mexico is awaiting any potential US tariffs with a “cool head”, its president, Claudia Sheinbaum, said on Friday.

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“We will always defend the dignity of our people, respect for our sovereignty and a dialogue as equals without subordination,” she said.

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We will wait, as I have always said, with a cool head, when taking decisions. We are prepared and we maintain this dialogue.

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Sheinbaum added that the Mexican government is in ongoing dialogue with the Trump administration, where they have “discussed various topics”.

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Sources told the news agency that they did not have details on a final tariff rate, but noted Trump has consistently said that he plans to impose a 25% tariff on imports from the two countries.

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Separately, an administration official said Trump was reviewing tariff plans, which may allow for some specific exemptions for certain imports, Reuters reports.

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Any exemptions would be “few and far between”, the official said.

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The Senate confirmed the former North Dakota governor Doug Burgum as interior secretary late on Thursday.

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The vote was 79-18, with the majority of Senate Democrats joining every Republican in voting for Burgum.

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Burgum, a billionaire former businessman, was governor of North Dakota, the third largest oil and natural gas producer in the country, between 2016 and 2024.

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As interior secretary, he will manage US federal lands including national parks and wildlife refuges, as well as oversee relations with 574 federally recognized Native American tribes.

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Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro will meet with Richard Grenell, Donald Trump’s envoy for special missions, the country’s communications ministry has confirmed.

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As we reported earlier, Grenell is expected to discuss deportation flights among other things during his trip to Venezuela.

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He added that the department of social prosperity would offer credits to returnees who enroll in its programs.

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It was unclear why the team tied to Musk sought access to the payment system.

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The tariffs, tensions and fears of retaliation and a trade war will likely cause many businesses to reduce their planned investments, and that, economists say, will hurt economies worldwide.

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A US national is among three hostages set to be released by Hamas under the terms of the ceasefire deal with Israel.

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Siegal, 65, was taken hostage with his wife, Aviva, and was seen in a video released by Hamas last year.

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His wife was released in the first hostage-for-prisoner exchange in November 2023.

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Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of the latest from US politics and Donald Trump’s second week in office.

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First up, the US president has repeated his threat to impose tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, saying they will be introduced on Saturday.

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Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, he said the tariffs would begin at 25% and “may or may not rise with time”.

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He also repeated threats to impose new tariffs on goods from China, citing its role in the fentanyl trade, and on the Brics countries.

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Stay with us for more on that and all the day’s developments.

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That’s it from us after a really hectic Friday. Here’s what took place:

  • Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, has actually stated reports of tariffs beginning 1 March are incorrect before revealing brand-new tariffs Donald Trump prepares to trouble nations beginning tomorrow, consisting of: “25 %tariffs on Mexico, 25% tariffs on Canada, and a 10%tariff on China for the prohibited fentanyl that they have actually sent out to our nation, which has actually eliminated 10s of countless Americans.”

  • Trump stated he anticipated tariffs on oil and gas to be revealed on 18 February and after that stated he would reduce the tariffs on Canadian oil to 10%. He likewise stated he prepared “significant” tariffs on the European Union.

  • A federal government memo sent out on Wednesday directed firms to strip”gender ideology “ from sites, agreements and e-mail signatures by Friday at 5pm ET. Some federal sites were removed as civil servant rushed to fulfill the due date. FAA.gov stayed dark by Friday night. The CDC removed a range of health resources consisting of a truth sheet about HIV and trans individuals; lessons on how to develop a helpful environment in schools for trans and non-binary trainees; and details about National Transgender HIV Testing Day in addition to birth control.

  • Mexico is waiting for any possible United States tariffs with a “cool head”, its president, Claudia Sheinbaum, stated on Friday. “We will constantly protect the self-respect of our individuals, regard for our sovereignty and a discussion as equates to without subordination,” she stated.

  • Trump orders USDA to remove sites referencing environment crisis. The landing pages on the United States Forest Service site for crucial resources, research study and adjustment tools– consisting of those that supply essential context and vulnerability evaluations for wildfires– had actually gone dark, leaving a mistake message or simply a single line: “You are not licensed to gain access to this page.”

  • Senator Mark Warner, who is the vice-chair of the Senate intelligence committee, called the Trump administration’s choice to fire leading FBI authorities “deeply disconcerting”.

  • CBS News is anticipated to abide by the Federal Communications Commission’s demand for the unedited records from the 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, the previous vice-president, according to numerous reports. The interview occurred in October of 2024 and was the topic of Trump’s $10bn claim versus CBS that implicated the network of modifying the interview in a manner that benefitted Harris’s project.

  • The FBI has actually been directed by the DOJ to put together and turn over a list of existing and previous staff members who dealt with cases connected to the 6 January riots, a number of publications are reporting. The DOJ stated it requires to get the list by midday ET on Tuesday to begin an evaluation to figure out whether they require to make any other workers relocations.

  • The United States wants to begin moving immigrants to Guantánamo Bay in 30 days.

  • A a great deal of federal staff members have actually taken the Trump administration’s deal of a monetary buyout to resign. Deputy chief of personnel Stephen Miller stated he didn’t have a specific variety of federal workers who had actually taken the monetary payment to resign from their posts, however that preliminary instructions show it’s a substantial variety of employees, according to Reuters.

  • The Senate verified the previous North Dakota guv Doug Burgum as interior secretary late on Thursday. The vote was 79-18, with most of Senate Democrats signing up with every Republican in choosing Burgum.

  • Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro will meet Richard Grenell, Donald Trump’s envoy for unique objectives, the nation’s interactions ministry has actually validated. As we reported previously, Grenell is anticipated to talk about deportation flights to name a few things throughout his journey to Venezuela.

  • Canada will react instantly with a series of strong countermeasures if Donald Trump proceeds with a risk to enforce tariffs, Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau stated. On Thursday, Trump duplicated his danger to enforce tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico that would start at 25% and “might or might not increase with time”.

  • Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, has actually prompted undocumented Colombians in the United States to stop their tasks “instantly” and go back to Colombia as quickly as possible. “Wealth is just produced by the working individuals,” Petro stated on X. “Let’s construct social wealth in Colombia.”

  • David Lebryk, the top-level profession authorities in the treasury department, is leaving after a clash with allies of Elon Musk over access to delicate payment systems, the Washington Post reports. The report, mentioning sources, stated Lebryk and Musk’s surrogates clashed over access to a delicate system utilized to pay more than $6tn a year in social security and Medicare advantages in addition to federal wages, federal government agreement payments and tax refunds.

Traveling Central California neighborhoods get ready for prospective flooding after Trump order to ‘make the most of’ water materials

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Neighborhoods in main California hurried to get ready for possible flooding on Friday, due to the layers of turmoil Trump has actually caused on the state’s water circulations.

Reacting to an order from Trump to “take full advantage of” water materials, the Army Corps of Engineers suddenly started launching drains of Sierra Nevada tanks at levels regional authorities stated would flood locations downriver, Politico reported. Regional water supervisors were provided simply an hour to alert close-by farms and areas.

“I’ve been here 25 years, and I’ve never ever been notified that fast,” Victor Hernandez, who manages water management on among the rivers, informed Politico, including that it had actually been “worrying and frightening”.

The concern is the current example of how Trump’s inflammatory remarks– which improperly connected the destructive Los Angeles wildfires to California’s water policy– have actually developed more headaches in the state.

Hernandez and other regional authorities were supposedly able to persuade the corps to slow their releases to a 3rd of what had actually been prepared, avoiding what might have been an extremely hazardous scenario, however there are still issues that the releases will do more damage than great.

The water will not be diverted to Los Angeles to support wildfire efforts, particularly since the flames are currently mainly snuffed out. Releases will indicate there’s less water readily available for watering throughout drier times.

Trump didn’t appear to get the message. Publishing on X on Friday, he stated: “Everybody ought to enjoy about this long battled Victory![sic]sharing a picture of hurrying water that he declared he “simply opened in California”. He included a bit more false information for excellent step: “I just want they listened to me 6 years back– There would have been no fire!”

Traveling FBI directed to turn over names of existing and previous personnel who dealt with 6 January cases

The FBI has actually been directed by the DOJ to assemble and turn over a list of present and previous staff members who dealt with cases associated with the 6 January riotsa number of publications are reporting. The DOJ stated it requires to get the list by midday ET on Tuesday and after that will begin an evaluation to figure out whether they require to make any other workers relocations.

Traveling CBS News prepares to turn over unedited Kamala Harris interview to FCC

CBS News is anticipated to adhere to the Federal Communications Commission’s ask for the unedited records from the 60 minutes interview with Kamala Harristhe previous vice-president, according to a number of reports. The interview occurred in October of 2024 and was the topic of Trump’s $10bn suit versus CBS that implicated the network of modifying the interview in such a way that benefitted Harris’s project.

“We are working to adhere to that questions as we are lawfully obliged to do,” a CBS News representative informed the New York Times on Friday.

Anna Gomez, a Democratic FCC commissioner, stated this was a “vindictive relocation” that belonged to a “worrying pattern of carrying out the will of the Administration”.

“This most current action to weaponize our broadcast licensing authority is no various,” Gomez composed. “It restores a problem that had actually been formerly dismissed by FCC specialists due to absence of proof and since it fell far except the high basic required for company action. Let’s be clear. This is a vindictive relocation by the federal government versus broadcasters whose material or protection is viewed to be undesirable. It is created to impart worry in broadcast stations and affect a network’s editorial choices.”

The Illinois guv JB Pritzker has actually directed the state’s employing authority, the department of main management services, to turn down any 6 January rioters who make an application for state federal government tasks, NBC News initially reported.

In a memo to the authority, Pritzker composed that the state’s workers code “needs the rejection of prospects for State work who have actually participated in notorious or disgraceful conduct” which “any involvement in the January 6 insurrection” need to certify as such conduct.

“These rioters were implicated or founded guilty of a mix of felonies and misdemeanors, consisting of however not restricted to: violence versus police officers, hazards versus Members of Congress, damage of federal residential or commercial property, and numerous other criminal offenses,” the memo checks out. “These criminal offenses attacks threatened public security as Members of Congress, personnel, and other employees who were required to conceal from the violence for hours. I am dedicated to developing a State labor force that supports our shared worths and provides outcomes for individuals of Illinois. Our State labor force need to show the worths of Illinois and show sincerity, stability, and commitment to serving the taxpayers. Nobody who tries to topple a federal government ought to serve in federal government.”

Ed Martininterim United States lawyer, has actually fired more than 2 lots federal district attorneys who dealt with 6 January riot cases, the Washington Post reported, pointing out sources.

The district attorneys got an e-mail alerting them they were being ended at 5pm on Friday, according to the Post. The memo likewise directed them to maintain all files connected to “workers choices concerning lawyers worked with to support” 6 January casework.

Traveling The United States will supposedly begin moving migrants to Guantánamo Bay in 30 days

Home border czar Tom Homan informed the Washington Post that they will “ideally” begin moving migrants to Guantánamo in 30 days.

“Hopefully within 30 days we’ll begin moving individuals there,” Homan stated.

Trump at first stated Guantánamo would hold 30,000 migrants however Homan stated they would begin with a little number at.

Traveling Leading Democrat calls shooting of FBI authorities ‘deeply worrying’

Senator Mark Warner, who is the vice-chair of the Senate intel committee, called the Trump administration’s choice to fire leading FBI authorities “deeply disconcerting”.

“At a time when we are dealing with a wide range of risks to the homeland– from terrorism and espionage to drug trafficking and Salt Typhoon– it is deeply disconcerting that the Trump administration seems purging lots of the most knowledgeable representatives who are our country’s very first line of defense,” Warren stated in a declaration.

A minimum of 6 senior FBI authorities were informed to retire, resign or be fired by Monday. Representatives who dealt with the examination of the 6 January Capitol riot might likewise be fired as quickly as today, CBS reported pointing out sources.

The United States Census Bureau site is likewise down since 5.31 pm ET.

Traveling Federal Aviation Administration site goes dark

Since 5.27 pm ET, the FAA site was not available. The link, FAA.gov, directed to a blank page that stated: “This website can’t be reached.” The website went dark after the Trump administration stated they would put a time out on the majority of federal government sites by 5pm today.

< svg width ="18" height="13" viewBox ="0 0 18 13">The site for the Federal Aviation Administration was down the night of 31 January 2025. Picture: FAA

We have not seen any federal sites that have actually gone dark since yet, though Reuters is reporting the United States Census site is down for some. We are still able to gain access to it for the minute.

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