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#1 Sen Kennedy Says No Living Politicians Should Have Buildings Named After Them After Trump’s Moves - Landon Mion for Fox News, Erik Hoffmann, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Face the Nation, and
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said on Sunday that living public officials should not have buildings named after them and proposed a rule to prohibit such renaming efforts. This comes as President Donald Trump continues to push to rename the Kennedy Center after himself. The president has also sought to rename other prominent federal buildings in Washington, D.C., after himself since returning to the White House last year. Kennedy said public officials, including Trump, should not "spend public money on private ads for themselves."
#2 Trump Amplifies Calls to Oust MAGA Rep in Furious Posting Spree - Laura Esposito for The Daily Beast, Jeffrey J Davis, Ron Ben-Dov, Stoned Ranger, and M.A. Rothman/Eric Daugherty on X
Donald Trump is spiraling on social media about the Florida congresswoman who has broken ranks with him over his harsh immigration tactics. The president, 80, shared at least 14 posts on Truth Social targeting Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar on Saturday night, seemingly in response to a video the Trump-endorsed candidate released earlier this month criticizing him. “Primary her in two years and see how she likes to keep criticizing Trump then,” wrote one user in a post the president shared. In another, a user added, “So we need a NEW Republican to replace Salazar.”
#3 Here’s the List of Goods the US, China Agreed on for Tariff Cuts - Bloomberg/Yahoo News, Fox News Politics, Reuters, Al Jazeera English, and DARWIN on X
The US and China released lists of the $30 billion worth of goods they plan to cut tariffs on, though without providing details on how much levies would be slashed. The lists include 77 Chinese products and 1,619 from the US. China's Ministry of Commerce separately said that about 90% of the products covered by the reciprocal arrangement would have their tariffs reduced to most-favored-nation rates.Here are key highlights of the lists, edited for brevity...
#4 Trump Asked China’s President if He Wants to Buy US Arms, Ambassador Says - Ben Finley for AP News, NBC News, Financial Times, New York Post, Sky News, and The Wall Street Journal on X
President Donald Trump has justified the pending U.S. arms sale to Taiwan to Chinese President Xi Jinping by downplaying it as just one of many sales Washington makes around the world — even asking Xi if he’d be in the market for U.S. arms, Trump’s ambassador to China said on Sunday. David Perdue said Trump raised the prospect of the arms sales from the U.S. to its ascendant geopolitical rival, an unlikely offer that if consummated would upend generations of U.S. policy toward China and Taiwan and potentially expose U.S. technology to a potential foe. Perdue, speaking to Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday” days after Trump hosted Xi for a state visit in Washington, didn’t specify when the offer was made...
#5 Right-Wing Conservatives Push to Shut Down the Last Active Jan. 6 Prosecution - Ryan J. Reilly for NBC News, Thomas Massie/Steve Baker, Shelley, The Mel K Show, and KaliConservatives63 on X
There’s just one active federal prosecution still tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the case of the man accused of planting two pipe bombs at the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee. And some of MAGA’s most fervent supporters want to shut it down. Some conservative figures accuse the Trump administration of framing Brian Cole Jr., who was arrested almost five years after the unexploded devices were placed. Cole, as NBC News first reported, told the FBI that he believed the 2020 election had been stolen after false accusations fueled by President Donald Trump and his supporters...
#6 Iran Live Updates: Saudi Foreign Minister Arrives in US for Rubio Talks - David Brennan for ABC News, KMET1490AM, Next News Network, Van Emmerick Kris, Türkiye Today, Nation Press, and Red Pill 1.0 on X
President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government, and infrastructure sites. Delegations from the U.S. and Iran entered negotiations in June aimed at a war-ending deal based on a memorandum of understanding signed by both countries. Those talks broke down as the U.S. and Iran continued to exchange strikes, with the strategic Strait of Hormuz as the primary flashpoint. Trump then said in August that the U.S. would launch a "crushing economic operation" to force Tehran into submission...
#8 Iran Says Filed Complaint to UN Aviation Watchdog Over US Flight Restrictions - Insider Paper, Technopolitik, Open Source Intel, Al Arabiya English, and TRT World on X
The head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization on Monday said the body has filed a complaint to the United Nations aviation agency against the United States for imposing restrictions targeting the country’s airlines. “To defend the legitimate rights of the aviation industry and counter illegal restrictions imposed by America, Iran has drafted and submitted a formal protest to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO),” said Iran’s civil aviation chief Abouzar Shiroudi, according to state news agency IRNA...
#8 5 Men Arrested Near a UK Air Base Used by U.S. Forces on Suspicion of Preparing a Terrorist Act - Duarte Dias and Lucia|Suarez Sang for CBS News, Bloomberg, The Independent, Al Jazeera English, Good Morning America, and New York Post on X
British counterterrorism police said Sunday that they are investigating after several men were arrested on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act in a village near a Royal Air Force base, which is used by U.S. bombers. The Metropolitan Police said officers received a call around 12:45 a.m. local time about three suspicious vehicles that were traveling toward RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, a county in southwestern England. Armed officers responded, and five men were arrested in the Whelford area on suspicion of committing offenses under the Explosives Act. They were then arrested on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act...
#9 What to Know About the $810 Million in Spending Canceled by President Trump - Eric McDaniel for npr, xalfeed, Me, Daniel Sprader, Victoryismine, and Scott Kent on X
Each year, Congress passes laws which allocate money to the federal government's various programs and agencies. Trump, for the second year in a row, is refusing to send some of that money to the places that Congress says it has to go, setting off a fresh battle with lawmakers over who controls federal spending. Of the $810 million being withheld, $567 million comes from programs that "provided services to refugees, asylees, and other non-citizens," according to a memo from the White House. The move, called a pocket rescission, is illegal, according to the Government Accountability Office, an independent, non-partisan watchdog agency charged with providing federal agencies fact-based information...
