Trump says he is considering giving $3bn of Harvard’s grants to trade schools – US politics live

Here’s a recap of today’s developments:

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  Donald Trump used the traditional presidential Memorial Day speech at Arlington national cemetery to talk up his own plans and achievements. The president laid a wreath and paid tribute to fallen soldiers but also veered off into rally-style personal boasting and brief partisan attacks during the solemn event.

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  EU leaders expressed hopes for a quick deal to resolve the trade war with the US after Trump announced he was delaying his threatened 50% tariffs for the bloc until 9 July. The US president said on Sunday he would pause the border tax due to be imposed on 1 June, which he had announced two days earlier, after what he called a “very nice call” with European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen.

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  Trump issued a pardon for a former Virginia sheriff who was convicted last year of federal bribery charges. Scott Jenkins, who had been the sheriff of Culpeper county, Virginia, was set to report to jail on Tuesday after he was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for accepting more than $75,000 in bribes in exchange for appointments as auxiliary deputy sheriffs.

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  Trump also said he is considering taking a further $3bn of grant money away from Harvard University and giving it to trade schools across the US. Former president of Harvard and current professor Drew Gilpin Faust warned that American freedoms and democracy were at risk.

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  Trump suggested Russian leader Vladimir Putin had “gone crazy” after Moscow launched its third consecutive night of massive drone strikes against Ukraine, killing at least six people. In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump railed against Putin while also criticising the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for calling out US inaction against Russia.

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  Former congressman Charles Rangel of New York died on Monday at the age of 94. An outspoken, gravel-voiced Harlem Democrat who spent nearly five decades on Capitol Hill, Rangel was a founding member of the Congressional Black caucus and the first African American to chair the powerful House ways and means committee.

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  The FBI will launch new investigations into the 2023 discovery of a bag of cocaine at the White House during Joe Biden’s term, and the leak of the supreme court’s draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade in 2022. The FBI will also investigate pipe bombs discovered at Democratic and Republican party headquarters before the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot.

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  The Trump family media company plans to raise about $3bn to spend on cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, according to a Financial Times report. The Trump Media & Technology Group, which is behind the Truth Social app and controlled by the president’s family, aims to raise $2bn in fresh equity and another $1bn via a convertible bond, the paper said, citing sources.

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Donald Trump has issued a pardon for a former Virginia sheriff who was convicted last year of federal bribery charges.

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Scott Jenkins, who had been the sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia, was set to report to jail on Tuesday after he was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.

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Jenkins was convicted by a jury in December 2024 for accepting more than $75,000 in bribes in exchange for appointments as auxiliary deputy sheriffs.

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In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump wrote:

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Sheriff Scott Jenkins, his wife Patricia, and their family have been dragged through HELL by a Corrupt and Weaponized Biden DOJ.

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He said Jenkins was a “victim of an overzealous Biden Department of Justice” and a “wonderful person”, adding:

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He will NOT be going to jail tomorrow, but instead will have a wonderful and productive life.

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The EU’s trade chief, Maroš Šefčovič, said he held “good” calls with the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick,and the US trade representative, Jamieson Greer.

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The EU Commission remains “fully committed to constructive and focused efforts at pace” towards an EU-US deal, Šefčovič wrote on X.

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Šefčovič and Lutnick last spoke on Friday. Since then, Donald Trump has announced he will pause his threatened 50% tariffs on the EU until 9 July.

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The FBI will launch new investigations into the 2023 discovery of a bag of cocaine at the White House during Joe Biden’s term, as well as into pipe bombs discovered at Democratic and Republican party headquarters before the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot by supporters of Donald Trump, and the leak of the supreme court’s draft opinion before the historic overturning of national abortion rights with the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that overturned Roe v Wade in 2022.

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Dan Bongino, a rightwing podcaster turned deputy director of the FBI, made the announcement on X, where he said he had requested weekly briefings on any progress in looking into the old cases.

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The incidents have been popular talking points on America’s political right wing and among conspiracy theorists.

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Bongino said that he and the FBI director, Kash Patel, had been evaluating “a number of cases of potential public corruption that, understandably, have garnered public interest” and had made a decision “to either re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention, to these cases”.

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Former US representative Charles Rangel, a founding member of the Congressional Black caucus and chair of the house ways and means committee, died on Monday at the age of 94.

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His death was confirmed in a statement provided by the City College of New York.

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A Korean war veteran, Rangel defeated legendary Harlem politician Adam Clayton Powell in 1970 to start his congressional career and stepped down in 2016 after more than 45 years in office.

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During that time, he was a founding member of the Congressional Black caucus, dean of the New York congressional delegation and, in 2007, the first African American to chair the powerful ways and means committee.

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Trump takes credit for the US hosting the 2026 Fifa soccer World Cup (alongside Canada and Mexico) and the 2028 Summer Olympics.

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“We have the World Cup and we have the Olympics,” he says during his Memorial Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery.

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“I have everything. Amazing, the way things work out. God did that – I believe that,” he says.

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He does not, however, take credit for the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolutionary War, saying it “was not mine”.

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I’d like to take credit, but I got the Olympics, I got the World Cup when I was president.

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He says “in some ways I’m glad I missed that second term” because then he wouldn’t have been president for these milestones.

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Donald Trump begins his remarks by thanking his vice-president, JD Vance, who he says has been doing a “terrific job”, and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, who is also “doing very well” and is a “tough cookie”.

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Trump says people are gathered today on Memorial Day to pay tribute to the “immortal deeds” of American warriors who “answered their nation’s call” and have “given their last breaths”.

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“We will never ever forget our fallen heroes, and we will never forget our debt to you,” he says.

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President Donald Trump said on Monday he is considering taking $3bn of grant money away from Harvard University and giving it to trade schools across the United States.

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His comments, which were made on Truth Social, come less than a week after his administration blocked Ivy League school from enrolling foreign students.

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He wrote:

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I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!

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Donald Trump has been warned by fiscal hawks within his own party in the US Senate that he must “get serious” about cutting government spending and reducing the national debt or else they will block the passage of his signature tax-cutting legislation known as the “big, beautiful bill”.

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Ron Johnson, the Republican senator from Wisconsin who rose to prominence as a fiscal hardliner with the Tea Party movement, issued the warning to the president on Sunday. Asked by CNN’s State of the Union whether his faction had the numbers to halt the bill, he replied: “I think we have enough to stop the process until the president gets serious about spending reduction and reducing the deficit.”

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Trump has invested a large portion of his political capital in the massive package. It extends the 2017 tax cuts from his first administration in return for about $1tn in benefits cuts including reductions in the health insurance scheme for low-income families, Medicaid, and to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap) food stamps.

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The bill squeaked through US House by just one vote on Thursday. It now faces a perilous welcome in the upper legislative chamber.

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The United States demanded that South Korea resolve the large trade imbalance between the countries during recent trade talks, South Korean media reported on Monday.

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The US repeatedly raised the issue of the trade imbalance in the commodity sector and both countries agreed it was necessary to address it, broadcaster YTN and the Yonhap news agency reported, citing an unnamed South Korean trade official who was part of the trade delegation.

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South Korea earned a $55.6bn surplus from trade with the US in 2024, up 25% from 2023 and a record high, according to Korea Customs Service data.

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The two countries held technical consultations about trade in Washington last week, Reuters reported.

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They also discussed non-tariff measures as well as economic security, digital trade, the origin of goods and commercial considerations, the official cited by media said, adding that Washington made specific requests for the first time.

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Donald Trump has warned that if Vladimir Putin attempts to conquer all of Ukraine, it will lead to the “downfall” of Russia, while also criticising Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a Sunday night post on Truth Social.

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“I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY!” Trump wrote in a social media post, adding, “I’ve always said that he wants ALL of Ukraine, not just a piece of it, and maybe that’s proving to be right, but if he does, it will lead to the downfall of Russia!”

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Earlier on Sunday the US president told reporters that was he was “very surprised” that his Russian counterpart had intensified the bombardment of Ukrainian cities despite the US president’s efforts to broker a ceasefire.

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Pressed by a reporter to say if he was now seriously considering “putting more sanctions on Russia”, Trump replied: “Absolutely. He’s killing a lot of people. What the hell happened to him?”

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In his post on Sunday night, Trump also criticised Zelenskyy, saying the Ukrainian president was “doing his Country no favors by talking the way he does.”

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“Everything out of his mouth causes problems, I don’t like it, and it better stop.”

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Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and will be bringing you all the latest news lines throughout the day.

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Donald Trump has announced that he will pause his threatened 50% tariffs on the European Union until 9 July, after a “very nice call” with EU chief Ursula von der Leyen.

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The European Commission president announced in a social media post that she had spoken with Trump and secured the delay to give the two sides more time to negotiate.

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European assets rallied on Monday, Reuters reported. The euro hit its highest level against the dollar since 30 April, while European shares surged and were poised to recoup the previous session’s losses.

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“Europe is ready to advance talks swiftly and decisively,” von der Leyen wrote. “To reach a good deal, we would need the time until July 9.”

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Brussels and Washington have been locked in negotiations in a bid to avert an all-out transatlantic trade war, after Trump’s tariff threat on Friday dramatically raised the stakes.

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Trump warned he would impose 50% tariffs on all of the bloc’s imports into the US, saying “discussions with them are going nowhere”, adding that the tariffs would be applied from 1 June. Trump claimed he was “not looking for a deal”, repeating his longstanding view that European states had “banded together to take advantage of us”.

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For the full story, see here:

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  President Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin had “gone absolutely CRAZY” by unleashing the largest aerial attack of the war on Ukraine and said he was weighing new sanctions on Moscow, though he also scolded Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump posted the remark on Truth Social as sleeping Ukrainians woke to a third consecutive night of Russian aerial attacks, listening for hours to drones buzzing near their homes and eruptions of Ukrainian anti-aircraft fire.

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  The United States demanded that South Korea resolve the large trade imbalance between the countries during recent trade talks, South Korean media reported on Monday. The US repeatedly raised the issue of the trade imbalance in the commodity sector and both countries agreed it was necessary to address it, broadcaster YTN and the Yonhap news agency reported, citing an unnamed South Korean trade official who was part of the trade delegation.

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  Trump said on Sunday his tariff policy was aimed at promoting the domestic manufacturing of tanks and technology products, not sneakers and T-shirts. Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One in New Jersey, Trump said he agreed with comments from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on 29 April that the US does not necessarily need a “booming textile industry” – comments that drew criticism from the National Council of Textile Organizations. “We’re not looking to make sneakers and T-shirts. We want to make military equipment. We want to make big things. We want to do the AI thing with computers,” Trump said.

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  Malaysian prime minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Monday he has written to US president Donald Trump to organise a meeting between the United States and the Asean regional bloc. Malaysia is chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations grouping this year.

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  Hong Kong’s education bureau has called on the city’s universities to “attract top talent” by opening their doors to those affected by the Trump administration’s attempt to ban Harvard from enrolling international students. Last week the Trump administration revoked Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, effectively banning the university from accepting foreign students.

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  Federal judges are discussing a proposal that would shift the armed security personnel responsible for their safety away from the Department of Justice and under their own control, as fears mount that the Trump administration is failing to protect them from a rising tide of hostility. The idea of creating their own armed security detail emerged at a meeting of about 50 federal judges two months ago, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

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  Trump has been warned by fiscal hawks within his own party in the US senate that he must “get serious” about cutting government spending and reducing the national debt, or else they will block the passage of his signature tax-cutting legislation known as the “big, beautiful bill”.

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• Donald Trump used the traditional presidential Memorial Day speech at Arlington national cemetery to talk up his own plans and achievements. The president laid a wreath and paid tribute to fallen soldiers but also veered off into rally-style personal boasting and brief partisan attacks during the solemn event.

• EU leaders expressed hopes for a quick deal to resolve the trade war with the US after Trump announced he was delaying his threatened 50% tariffs for the bloc until 9 July. The US president said on Sunday he would pause the border tax due to be imposed on 1 June, which he had announced two days earlier, after what he called a “very nice call” with European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen.

• Trump issued a pardon for a former Virginia sheriff who was convicted last year of federal bribery charges. Scott Jenkins, who had been the sheriff of Culpeper county, Virginia, was set to report to jail on Tuesday after he was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for accepting more than $75,000 in bribes in exchange for appointments as auxiliary deputy sheriffs.

• Trump also said he is considering taking a further $3bn of grant money away from Harvard University and giving it to trade schools across the US. Former president of Harvard and current professor Drew Gilpin Faust warned that American freedoms and democracy were at risk.

• Trump suggested Russian leader Vladimir Putin had “gone crazy” after Moscow launched its third consecutive night of massive drone strikes against Ukraine, killing at least six people. In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump railed against Putin while also criticising the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for calling out US inaction against Russia.

• Former congressman Charles Rangel of New York died on Monday at the age of 94. An outspoken, gravel-voiced Harlem Democrat who spent nearly five decades on Capitol Hill, Rangel was a founding member of the Congressional Black caucus and the first African American to chair the powerful House ways and means committee.

• The FBI will launch new investigations into the 2023 discovery of a bag of cocaine at the White House during Joe Biden’s term, and the leak of the supreme court’s draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade in 2022. The FBI will also investigate pipe bombs discovered at Democratic and Republican party headquarters before the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot.

• The Trump family media company plans to raise about $3bn to spend on cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, according to a Financial Times report. The Trump Media & Technology Group, which is behind the Truth Social app and controlled by the president’s family, aims to raise $2bn in fresh equity and another $1bn via a convertible bond, the paper said, citing sources.

Former Virginia sheriff Scott Jenkins, who has been pardoned by Donald Trump, was convicted in December 2024 of one count of conspiracy, four counts of honest services fraud and seven counts of bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds.

In a press release in March, acting US attorney Zachary T Lee said:

Scott Jenkins violated his oath of office and the faith the citizens of Culpeper County placed in him when he engaged in a cash-for-badges scheme. We hold our elected law enforcement officials to a higher standard of conduct and this case proves that when those officials use their authority for unjust personal enrichment, the Department of Justice will hold them accountable.

The release says that Jenkins accepted more than $75,000 in bribes in exchange for appointing numerous northern Virginia businessmen as auxiliary deputy sheriffs within his department.

Trump announces full pardon for Virginia sheriff convicted of bribery

Donald Trump has issued a pardon for a former Virginia sheriff who was convicted last year of federal bribery charges.

Scott Jenkins, who had been the sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia, was set to report to jail on Tuesday after he was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.

Jenkins was convicted by a jury in December 2024 for accepting more than $75,000 in bribes in exchange for appointments as auxiliary deputy sheriffs.

In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump wrote:

Sheriff Scott Jenkins, his wife Patricia, and their family have been dragged through HELL by a Corrupt and Weaponized Biden DOJ.

He said Jenkins was a “victim of an overzealous Biden Department of Justice” and a “wonderful person”, adding:

He will NOT be going to jail tomorrow, but instead will have a wonderful and productive life.

Donald Trump honored the sacrifices of US military veterans in the traditional presidential Memorial Day speech at Arlington national cemetery, but also peppered his address on Monday with partisan political asides while talking up his own plans and achievements.

The US president laid a wreath and paid tribute to fallen soldiers and gave accounts of battlefield courage as tradition dictates, from prepared remarks, after saluting alongside his vice-president, JD Vance, and the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth.

But Trump also veered off into rally-style personal boasting and brief partisan attacks during the solemn event.

Fallen soldiers’ valor “gave us the freest, greatest and most noble republic ever to exist on the face of the earth … a republic that I am fixing after a long and hard four years. That was a hard four years we went through,” the US president said.

He continued with an anti-immigration statement that chimes with his agenda, though without directly mentioning his predecessor, Democratic president Joe Biden, who served between Trump’s first term and the Republican’s return to the White House this January.

“Who would let that happen? People pouring through our borders unchecked. People doing things that are indescribable and not for today to discuss,” Trump said.

It was a nod to his Truth Social platform on Monday morning, where he posted a tirade against judges who hold up his deportation aims, chiefly because of his ignoring due process obligations, as “monsters” and again attacked undocumented immigrants, using sweeping disparagements.

Full report here.

Joanna Walters

US congressman Eugene Vindman said more a little earlier about Donald Trump’s seeming epiphany about Vladimir Putin’s ill-intent over Ukraine.

“Up to now, Putin has mainly got what he wanted from Trump in the US – chaos. I always said it would take three to six months [for Trump] to figure out that the Russians are not interested in peace,” Vindman, a Democrat representing Virginia in the House of Representatives, told CNN in an interview.

Vindman, who serves on the House armed services committee, said he was not surprised that instead of Trump admitting that he had read Putin inaccurately the US president was giving the impression that it was the Russian president who had suddenly changed.

“The Russians are not our friends and they [the Trump administration] need to pressure Russia,” Vindman said.

He said bipartisan resolve was building in the US House and Senate in support of Ukraine’s continued efforts to resist Russia and the need for a peace that Ukraine can accept.

Vindman first gained a national profile after he and his brother, Alexander Vindman, played a central role in Donald Trump’s first impeachment. The Vindman brothers, who both held senior roles on Trump’s national security council, were dismissed after raising concerns about the then president’s alleged efforts to pressure Ukraine into investigating Trump’s political rival, Democrat Joe Biden, who went on to beat him in the 2020 presidential election, and his son Hunter Biden. Eugene Vindman won a seat in Congress in the 2024 election last November, when Trump regained the White House.

Joanna Walters

Freshmen member of Congress Eugene Vindman, who was fired by Donald Trump during his previous administration after playing a role in the president’s impeachment over efforts to extort Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has taken a wry look at Trump’s latest comments suggesting that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has suddenly “gone crazy” with his latest military attack on Ukraine.

Vindman also doubted that Russia wants peace, more than three years after it invaded Ukraine.

“They are not intimidated by Donald Trump, I’m not sure they take it [his comments] seriously,” the Virginia Democratic lawmaker told CNN on Monday.

He said Trump’s suddenly angry words about Putin after years of defending him are “right now, frankly, meaningless”.

Vindman said: “There has been no shift in Putin, he is the same person he has been for decades, what we are seeing is a very slow and painful learning process for this president [Trump] .”

After European trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said moments ago that he had a “good call” with the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, Šefčovič pledged that hewould remain in “constant contact” with his American counterpart.

The two men spoke on the phone the day after Donald Trump delayed a threat to impose a 50% tariff on the European Union, after a phone call with the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen.

Jennifer Rankin

EU leaders have expressed hopes for a quick deal to resolve the trade war with the US after Donald Trump announced he was delaying his threatened 50% tariffs for the bloc until 9 July.

The US president said on Sunday he would pause the border tax due to be imposed on 1 June, which he had announced two days earlier, after what he called a “very nice call” with Ursula von der Leyen.

The European Commission president persuaded Trump to delay the duties by more than a month to give the two sides more time to negotiate. Her chief spokesperson, Paula Pinho, said the pair had agreed “to fast-track the trade negotiations and to stay in close contact”. Von der Leyen initiated the call, the EU spokesperson said, adding “there was, it seems, a mutual intention to speak to each other”.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said on Monday he hoped Washington and Brussels could get to the lowest tariffs possible. “The discussions are advancing,” he told reporters during a trip to Vietnam.

There has been a good exchange between President Trump and President Von der Leyen and I hope we can continue on this road and return to the lowest possible tariffs that will allow for fruitful exchanges.

Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, who is deemed to have one of the closest relationships with the White House among EU leaders, was reported by local media to be trying to organise a meeting between Trump and European leaders in early June.

EU commissioner says he had ‘good’ call with US commerce secretary

The EU’s trade chief, Maroš Šefčovič, said he held “good” calls with the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick,and the US trade representative, Jamieson Greer.

The EU Commission remains “fully committed to constructive and focused efforts at pace” towards an EU-US deal, Šefčovič wrote on X.

Šefčovič and Lutnick last spoke on Friday. Since then, Donald Trump has announced he will pause his threatened 50% tariffs on the EU until 9 July.

FBI to reinvestigate 2023 White House cocaine find and leak of supreme court Dobbs draft

Edward Helmore

The FBI will launch new investigations into the 2023 discovery of a bag of cocaine at the White House during Joe Biden’s term, as well as into pipe bombs discovered at Democratic and Republican party headquarters before the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot by supporters of Donald Trump, and the leak of the supreme court’s draft opinion before the historic overturning of national abortion rights with the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that overturned Roe v Wade in 2022.

Dan Bongino, a rightwing podcaster turned deputy director of the FBI, made the announcement on X, where he said he had requested weekly briefings on any progress in looking into the old cases.

The incidents have been popular talking points on America’s political right wing and among conspiracy theorists.

Bongino said that he and the FBI director, Kash Patel, had been evaluating “a number of cases of potential public corruption that, understandably, have garnered public interest” and had made a decision “to either re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention, to these cases”.