Latest news and live updates as Marco Rubio meet with Russian foreign minister amid tensions over Ukraine and Trump releases tariff letters to trading partners.

A professional clown spoke out against comparing President Donald Trump and members of his administration to clowns in a Washington Post op-ed on Thursday.

"Bezos’s policies and activities have projected the image of a Donald Trump supplicant. The result – fleeing journalists, plummeting morale" The post Veteran Washington Post Columnist Eviscerates Trump ‘Supplicant’ Jeff Bezos In Scathing Resignation Post first appeared on Mediaite.

Axios reporter Cuneyt Dil tells our Marina Marraco that Trump's interest could bring unpredictable changes to the project.

Vietnam was the first in Asia to strike a deal, but it has little leverage against Washington, and is now facing levies up to 40%. The same goes for Cambodia. A poor country heavily reliant on exports, it has been negotiating a deal as Trump threatens 35% tariffs.

At issue now is a newly declassified CIA report, ordered by Ratcliffe, that faults Brennan’s oversight of a 2017 intelligence community assessment that found that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election because Russian President Vladimir Putin aspired to see Trump beat Democratic opponent Hillary Rodham Clinton.

President Donald Trump praised a new book by the Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito, saying it provides an eyewitness account of the “unbreakable spirit” demonstrated after his assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Here are answers to whether the president can make good on his threat to take over the city if Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor.