Trump live: Waltz in fresh Signal controversy after ousting from national security adviser role

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Vice President JD Vance, Rubio, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff appeared to be among those who Waltz had recently been texting on the app, according to a Reuters photograph. Vance, Rubbio and Gabbard were among senior officials embroiled in the original Signalgate scandal in March.

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung attempted to defuse the incident in a statement on X, writing: “Signal is an approved app that is loaded onto our government phones.”

Just after midnight Friday, the Trump administration eliminated a U.S. tariff exemption that led to the rise of Chinese e-commerce companies such as Shein and Temu, fueling fears that Americans who shop online will face higher prices. The major shipping loophole, known as the de minimis exemption, allowed goods worth under $800 to enter the U.S. duty-free.

Will Trump ruin Christmas?

It may be many months away, but hundreds of toymakers have canceled orders since President Donald Trump imposed hefty tariffs on China, raising the prospect of a nightmare before Christmas.

Kelly Rissman reports.

Oliver O'Connell30 April 2025 14:54

Five bills and 142 executive orders signed in Trump's first 100 days

James Liddell30 April 2025 15:00

With a mediation hearing scheduled for today in Donald Trump’s suit against CBS and Paramount regarding his allegations about the 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, the president now appears to be trying to include The New York Times in the case, alleging “tortious interference” for reporting that the case is baseless.

Here’s what the president wrote on Truth Social:

The case we have against 60 Minutes, CBS, and Paramount is a true WINNER. They cheated and defrauded the American People at levels never seen before in the Political Arena. Kamala Harris, during Early Voting and, immediately before Election Day, was asked a question, and gave an answer, that was so bad and incompetent that it would have cost her many of the Votes that she ended up getting. It was a disastrous answer! 60 Minutes and its corporate parents, in order that this not have a negative impact on her, removed and deleted Kamala’s entire answer, every word of it, and replaced it with a response that she gave later on to an entirely different question. The new answer was not good, but it didn’t show Gross Incompetence like the one that was removed by 60 Minutes. In other words, 60 Minutes perpetrated a Giant FRAUD against the American People, the Federal Elections Commission, and the Federal Communications System. Despite all of the above, and Paramount’s/CBS’/60 Minutes’ admittance to this crime and, with other similar corrupt removals of answers to questions, the Failing New York Times, which is Fake News both in writing and polling, claims that “people” said that the case is baseless. They don’t mean that, they just have a non curable case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, possibly to the point where the Times’ interjection makes them liable for tortious interference, including in Elections, which we are intently studying. The bottom line is that what 60 Minutes and its corporate owners have committed is one of the most egregious illegalities in Broadcast History. Nothing like this, the illegal creation of an answer for a Presidential Candidate, has ever been done before, they have to pay a price for it, and the Times should also be on the hook for their likely unlawful behavior. It is vital to hold these Liars and Fraudsters accountable!

Here’s our recent coverage of Trump’s feud with 60 Minutes:

And the fallout from the departure of the show’s producer:

Oliver O'Connell30 April 2025 15:05

Girl, 2, marooned in US foster care after parents deported

A two-year-old girl has been marooned in foster care in the U.S. after her Venezuelan parents were deported to countries 1,500 miles apart.

Yorely Bernal Inciarte and Maiker Espinoza Escalona arrived with their child Maikelys Antonella Espinoza Bernal in Texas on May 14 last year. Neither held valid entry documents so they immediately surrendered to immigration authorities, according to ABC News.

After being held in separate detention facilities in the Lone Star State for several months, able to communicate with one another only by phone, Inciarte was abruptly returned to Venezuela earlier this month – but without her daughter.

She was subsequently shocked to learn that Escalona had been sent first to Guantanamo Bay and then to the notorious CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador on March 30, meaning their child was without access to either parent.

Joe Sommerlad has more:

James Liddell30 April 2025 15:21

Navarro says trade deals are coming 'just be patient'

Coming up to a quarter of the way through Donald Trump’s 90-day tariffs pause, trade adviser Peter Navarro told reporters at the White House this morning, “deals are coming, just be patient.”

He previously said there would be 90 deals in 90 days.

Oliver O'Connell30 April 2025 15:35

Top Dems planned all-nighter to mark Trump’s ‘100 days of hell’

Top Democrats planned to hold the Senate floor late into the night Tuesday to mark what Minority Leader Chuck Schumer coined as Donald Trump’s “100 days of hell.”

That evening, Schumer tweeted: “RIGHT NOW: We are holding the Senate floor to fight back against the hell American families have gone through in Trump’s first hundred days.”

Before the planned all-nighter, Schumer said that Trump is a “threat to our democratic republic,” adding that: “He's acting like a king, a mob boss, a wannabe dictator.”

“Let us commit ourselves, all of us Democrats here in the Senate, against this administration, and to uphold the core values and principles of this beautiful nation which we must fight to preserve and protect,” he said.

Senate Democrats are due to join members of the House on the steps of the upper chamber on Wednesday in protest against Trump’s agenda.

James Liddell30 April 2025 15:42

Watch: Agriculture sec dismisses shrinking GBP

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins dismisses the latest GDP numbers that show the U.S. economy contracted in the first quarter of 2025 — the first time it has shrunk in three years.

“We remain convinced and confident this president knows exactly what he is doing. He is the ultimate deal-maker,” Rollins told Fox News this morning, towing the party line in a manner we will likely see echoed at today’s Cabinet meeting.

Oliver O'Connell30 April 2025 15:44

Musk no longer working from White House, Trump’s chief of staff reveals

The president’s so-called First Buddy has been a looming presence during Trump’s first 100 days back in office. But earlier this month the Tesla CEO said he would be spending more time working on his troubled car company.

Now Susie Wiles has said that Musk is “not as present as he was” - physically at least.

He will reportedly be at this morning’s Cabinet meeting.

Here’s Madeline Sherratt’s report.

Oliver O'Connell30 April 2025 15:50