Trump fires hundreds of FAA workers weeks after DC crash as Rubio continues Ukraine-Russia peace talks: Live

The Oscar-winning actress has reacted with “great shock” after finding out that her children’s book Freckleface Strawberry has reportedly been banned in schools by the Trump administration.

The book series follows a young girl with red hair and freckles, who is teased by her fellow students for it and feels different from everyone else.

Illustrated by LeUyen Pham, the first book was published in 2007, led to five more sequels also inspired a 2010 stage musical.

Shahana Yasmin has this on Moore’s eloquent response on Instagram.

Also debasing himself in front of the president this weekend was Brian Kilmeade on Fox News, who sought to shoot down questions over Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s increasingly democratically dubious partnerships by asking: “Why does the media have a hard time believing that two powerful successful handsome man could work together?”

Trump and Musk themselves likewise sought to address the optics on Friday, saying the following:

Also of note on Fox regarding the president was this surprisingly frank criticism of his first term from the usually-agreeable Jesse Watters.

Representative Claudia Tenney has introduced a commemorative bill to make Donald Trump’s birthday an official federal holiday in the latest act of shameless MAGA toadying to the commander-in-chief.

The celebratory order, introduced as “Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day Holiday Establishment Act”, was proposed by Tenney, who declared in doing so: “This legislation would permanently codify a new federal holiday called “Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day” on June 14 to honor this historic day.”

Her proposed annual event would coincide with the anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the U.S. flag in 1777, otherwise known as Flag Day.

Madeline Sherratt reports.

The Washington Post pulled out of running a $115,000 front and back page advert that called for Donald Trump to “fire” Elon Musk, his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head, according to The Hill.

Members of Congress, political pundits and the public have watched the world’s richest man and his non-official advisory body, DOGE, tear through various government departments, as he attempts to slash bureaucracy and cut $2 trillion in federal spending.

Advocacy group Common Cause, in collaboration with the Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund, signed an agreement for a scathing anti-Musk wrap advert for Tuesday’s edition of the newspaper, as well as a full page inside the paper.

The newspaper containing the “Fire Elon Musk” wrap was meant to be delivered to subscribers at Congress, the Pentagon and the White House, only for the Post to get cold feet.

Donald Trump’s administration has begun firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) probationary employees who look after critical air traffic control infrastructure, according to their union, CNN reports.

The dismissals reportedly began on Friday and come less than three weeks on from the midair collision over Washington, D.C, between a passenger plane and a helicopter that killed 67 people and exposed shortages of air traffic controllers and FAA infrastructure issues.

Interestingly, Trump’s Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy revealed on social media yesterday. that Elon Musk’s DOGE officials are due to visit the Air Traffic Control command center in Warrenton, Virginia, today as they look at reforms.

DOGE personnel will “get a firsthand look at the current system, learn what air traffic controllers like and dislike about their current tools, and envision how we can make a new, better, modern and safer system,” Duffy added.

This is what the Ukrainian leader had to say about the American president himself:

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday and told host Kristen Welker that a withdrawal of American support from Kyiv would embolden Vladimir Putin’s Russia to carry out further aggressions against former Soviet satellite states in Europe.

Asked about Zelensky’s remarks at Daytona a short while later, Trump was naturally dismissive.

Here’s more from Holly Evans.

Donald Trump’s administration is asking the United States Supreme Court for permission to fire an ethics chief as he and Musk move quickly to gut the federal workforce, including agency officials and watchdogs.

The top official at the independent U.S. agency that protects government whistleblowers and enforces ethics rules sued the administration this month after he received an email from the president simply stating that his role is “terminated, effective immediately.”

A lawsuit from Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of Special Counsel, is one of at least three legal challenges from government officials testing the president’s authority to oust the heads of independent agencies.

Dellinger’s case at the Supreme Court could serve as an early test of the new administration’s authority as the president and Musk signal their willingness to obliterate checks and balances and reject court orders that don’t align with their agenda.

Here’s more from Alex Woodward.