The Latest: Trump hosting Philippines leader to talk tariffs and China

President Donald Trump hosts Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. connected Tuesday astatine the White House, seeking person information and economical ties astatine a clip erstwhile China is progressively assertive successful the Indo-Pacific region.

More than a period aft their deployment by Trump, 700 Marines volition permission Los Angeles, wherever they stood defender implicit 2 downtown buildings successful what section officials called “political theater.”

Updated Congressional Budget Office projections amusement Donald Trump's taxation and spending instrumentality volition adhd $3.4 trillion much to the shortage and permission much than 10 cardinal radical uninsured. An AP-NORC poll recovered astir two-thirds of U.S. adults expect the caller taxation instrumentality to mostly assistance the rich.

And the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s household hopes his FBI lawsuit files, released arsenic Trump tries to debar scrutiny implicit the Epstein files, volition beryllium “viewed wrong their afloat humanities context.”

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US says it is pulling retired of UNESCO, again

The Trump medication announced Tuesday that it volition erstwhile again retreat from the U.N.’s educational, technological and taste bureau due to the fact that of what Washington sees arsenic its anti-Israel bias. Trump did truthful earlier during his archetypal word earlier the Biden medication rejoined the agency.

UNESCO “supports woke, divisive taste and societal causes that are wholly out-of-step with the commonsense policies that Americans voted for successful November,” said Anna Kelly, White House adjunct property secretary.

UNESCO’s manager wide Audrey Azoulay said the U.S. determination is “deeply” regrettable but the bureau “has prepared for it.” She besides denied accusations of anti-Israel bias, saying the claims “contradict the world of UNESCO’s efforts, peculiarly successful the tract of Holocaust acquisition and the combat against antisemitism.”

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Bernice King: ‘Now, bash the Epstein files’

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s surviving children did not notation Trump successful their archetypal absorption to his administration’s merchandise of the afloat investigative lawsuit files connected their father.

But Bernice King aboriginal posted on her idiosyncratic Instagram account a black-and-white photograph of her father, looking annoyed, with the caption “Now, bash the Epstein files.”

And immoderate civilian rights activists did not spare the president.

“Trump releasing the MLK assassination files is not astir transparency oregon justice,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton. “It’s a hopeless effort to distract radical from the firestorm engulfing Trump implicit the Epstein files and the nationalist unraveling of his credibility among the MAGA base.”

White House says Trump is superior astir wanting Washington Commanders to spell backmost to its erstwhile name

Press caput Karoline Leavitt told reporters astatine the White House Monday that sports is 1 of Trump’s “many passions” and “he wants to spot the sanction of that squad changed.”

The Commanders were formerly the Redskins, a sanction that was considered violative to and by Native Americans.

Trump threatened successful a play societal media station to clasp up a woody for the team’s caller stadium successful the nation’s superior if the sanction isn’t changed.

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Justice Department says it’s successful interaction with attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell, erstwhile woman of Jeffrey Epstein

Deputy Attorney Todd Blanche says he’s been successful interaction with counsel for Maxwell to find retired if she’s consenting to talk with Justice Department prosecutors regarding the lawsuit against the convicted enactment offender, Epstein.

Maxwell is Epstein’s erstwhile girlfriend. She was convicted successful a assemblage proceedings successful 2021 of helping the financier sexually maltreatment underage girls and is serving a 20-year situation sentence.

The petition to interrogation her represents an further Justice Department effort to woody with the backlash from parts of Trump’s basal implicit an earlier determination not to merchandise further records from the Epstein investigation.

Blanche said successful a connection Tuesday, “I expect gathering with Ms. Maxwell successful the coming days.”