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Yahoo
19 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Trump warns Putin's right-hand man: ‘You're entering very dangerous territory'
Donald Trump issued a stern warning to 'failed' former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and urged him to 'watch his words' after he ridiculed the U.S. president on social media. 'Russia and the USA do almost no business together,' Trump said in a midnight Truth Social tirade, after attacking India's close ties with Russia and setting his sights on Medvedev. 'Let's keep it that way, and tell Medvedev, the failed former President of Russia, who thinks he's still President, to watch his words. He's entering very dangerous territory!,' he added Medvedev, who was handpicked by Vladimir Putin to serve as president in 2008 due to term limits, ridiculed Trump's recent ultimatum demanding Russia agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine. During his trip to Turnberry, Scotland, on Monday, the president said that Putin must agree to make progress toward ending the war in Ukraine within '10 or 12 days from today,' shortening it from a 50-day negotiating window. Hours later, Medvedev issued an equally scathing response on X to Trump, who repeatedly promised on the 2024 presidential campaign trail to end Russia's offensive in Ukraine on his first day in office. 'Trump's playing the ultimatum game with Russia: 50 days or 10… He should remember 2 things,' he tweeted. '1. Russia isn't Israel or even Iran. 2. Each new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country.' Plucking a nickname from Trump's dictionary, Medvedev warned the president not to 'go down the Sleepy Joe road,' referring to former President Joe Biden, which he said could lead to direct conflict between Russia and the U.S. Hours later, Medvedev, who is currently the deputy chair of Russia's security council, took a jab at South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham after the Republican demanded that the Russian politician 'get to the peace table.' 'It's not for you or Trump to dictate when to 'get at the peace table'. Negotiations will end when all the objectives of our military operation have been achieved,' he said. 'Work on America first, gramps!' Earlier Wednesday, Trump announced plans to penalize India for buying Russian arms and oil as part of a revived 'Liberation Day' tariff package that is due to kick in on Friday, along with doubling down on his threat to impose sweeping 25 percent levies on Indian imports. While he previously called India a 'friend,' Trump escalated his criticism against the country during his rebuke of Medvedev on Thursday. 'I don't care what India does with Russia,' he wrote. 'They can take their dead economies down together, for all I care.' 'We have done very little business with India, their Tariffs are too high, among the highest in the World,' he added.
USA Today
20 minutes ago
- USA Today
Pre-2026 redistricting race
Good morning!🙋🏼♀️ I'm Nicole Fallert. "Zootopia 2" is the cinema news we needed. A pre-2026 redistricting arms race is heating up Democrats across the country are searching for ways to block or counter a Trump-led effort by Republicans to redraw Texas' congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterm elections This is a rare mid-decade redistricting in Texas. The president and Republicans hope that shifting boundaries in Texas could help the GOP pick up as many as five seats in the 2026 race for control of the U.S. House. A wave of relief The earthquake that hit a Russian island was among the most powerful ever recorded, and forecasters immediately feared it could spur cataclysmic walls of water thousands of miles away in Hawaii, California and Alaska. But hours later, evacuation warnings were lifted for nearly all of the U.S. Damage was determined to be minimal — at least in the U.S. so far, with Honolulu's dangerous traffic gridlock the main impact. More news to know now What's the weather today? Check your local forecast here. Drastic changes are coming to homeless services President Donald Trump has long criticized how the U.S. manages homelessness, and argues public streets aren't safe for either the homeless or residents. Now, the president has declared that organizations for the homeless receiving federal funding mustfocus first on locking up people with drug or mental health challenges. Longtime social workers, medical experts and mental health service providers say a law and order approach will likely worsen homelessness across the country, particularly because Trump's order contains no new funding for mental health or drug treatment. Additionally, they say the president appears to misunderstand the fundamental driver of homelessness: People can't afford housing. The Fed didn't cut interest rates this week. But here's when they might The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady Wednesday between 4.25% and 4.5% — exactly as interest-rate traders' bets had predicted after the policy-making body's meeting in June. Traders now see the Fed's Oct. 29 meeting as the most likely chance for an interest rate cut. That means short-term interest rates — which are heavily influenced by the Fed's decisions — could remain elevated for several more weeks. Today's talkers A major deadline for MLB today There are still several difference-makers on the market so baseball fans can expect a flurry of activity as the 2-25 Major League Baseball trade deadline at 6 p.m. ET approaches. Perhaps today is the day we see starting pitchers Sandy Alcantara, Edward Cabrera, Merrill Kelly or Zac Gallen make shifts? Here are some of the top players who could be on the move ahead of Thursday's deadline. Photo of the day: Goodbye, Ozzy Fans, friends and family bid farewell to Ozzy Osbourne at his funeral procession Wednesday through his home city of Birmingham, England. The Black Sabbath frontman died July 22 at the age of 76, a little over two weeks after his final live performance with his Black Sabbath bandmates. Scroll through for photos of the rock legend's funeral proceedings. Nicole Fallert is a newsletter writer at USA TODAY, sign up for the email here. Want to send Nicole a note? Shoot her an email at NFallert@
Washington Post
22 minutes ago
- Washington Post
Live updates: Trump scrambling to announce trade deals ahead of self-imposed deadline
President Donald Trump is scrambling to announce trade deals before broad new tariffs on imports kick in on dozens of countries Friday, a self-imposed deadline that Trump says he is standing by. Results so far have been mixed. Trump announced the framework for a deal with South Korea on Wednesday but cast doubt early Thursday on reaching an accord with Canada after the country said it planned to recognize a Palestinian state — an unrelated move Trump opposes. Trump has only one public event scheduled Thursday: signing more executive orders. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is scheduled to hold a briefing. The Republican-controlled Senate voted along sharply partisan lines Wednesday to confirm Joseph Kent as head of the National Counterterrorism Center, approving his nomination over objections from Democrats who cited his embrace of conspiracy theories and attempts to alter intelligence reports as disqualifying. Twelve House Democrats on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over what they say are illegal actions to limit in-person congressional oversight visits to federal immigration detention facilities. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he had reached a trade deal with South Korea ahead of a self-imposed Aug. 1 deadline before broad new taxes on imports kick in, though he also cast doubt on striking a deal with India, another of the United States' largest trading partners. Brown University reached an agreement with the Trump administration to restore federal research funding, the school's president and the White House announced Wednesday. Brown will not pay any money to the federal government as a result of the deal. The school does commit $50 million over the next decade to workforce development organizations in Rhode Island — a promise the university's president said aligns with the school's mission of service and community engagement.
