Over a lunch of cheeseburgers at his Jupiter, Fla. golf course, Trump listened as the tobacco executives complained about the FDA not approving flavored vapes. Trump said he had heard significant complaints from others about FDA Commissioner Marty Makary.
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NEW: In an unusual attempt to get Trump’s ear—and go around Marco Rubio—the grandson of Cuban leader Raúl Castro tapped a wealthy Havana entrepreneur to try to personally deliver a letter to Trump outside of regular diplomatic channels
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President Trump has repeatedly promised his top administration officials pardons before he leaves office.
“I’ll pardon everyone who has come within 200 feet of the Oval,” Trump said in a recent meeting to laughs, according to people with knowledge of the comments, @jdawsey1 reports https://t.co/NbyrjHRBXY
Even for a president who has long relied on maximalist threats, today’s 85-word post was jarring.
It ricocheted from the Oval Office to foreign embassies and corporate suites, setting off a countdown to Trump’s 8 p.m. deadline and a frantic global guessing game over what the world’s most powerful man was prepared to do.
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For nearly two days, injured and alone, a U.S. aviator hid in a remote mountain crevice as Iranian forces closed in on him with helicopters and drones.
“God is good,” he radioed once he reached an elevated ridge, a message that was met with suspicion back in Washington as a possible Iranian trap as officials scrambled to verify he was still alive.
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One of Pam Bondi’s last acts before being ousted as Trump’s AG was to quietly authorize a U.S. attorney in North Carolina to pursue probes related to 2020 election fraud across the country—pursuing one of Trump’s biggest fixations into her final days on the job
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President Trump told aides he’s willing to end the U.S. military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed, likely extending Tehran’s firm grip on the waterway https://t.co/3jpci6Gi4E via @WSJ
The Russian tanker Anatoly Kolodkin has arrived in Cuba carrying a full load of crude oil, providing a critical energy supply to the island amid a U.S. oil blockade. This video by a local TV Yumurí journalist shows the vessel docking at the port of Matanzas this morning.
President Trump’s decision to allow a one-time shipment of crude oil to Cuba effectively breaks a two-month blockade that has led to fuel shortages and increased power outages on the island https://t.co/wUat0qYCP1 via @WSJ
Two months after signing an executive order threatening tariffs on any country that sends oil to Cuba, Trump now says he has “no problem” with countries doing that.
Mexico's navy says it has activated a search-and-rescue operation in the Caribbean to locate two sailboats carrying humanitarian aid to Cuba after the vessels failed to arrive in Havana as scheduled
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Violent crime in Caracas and other major Venezuelan cities is falling to the lowest levels seen in decades, giving the country a boost as it prepares to welcome more potential foreign investment https://t.co/FzEI1LHwkW via @WSJ
The Pentagon is sending three warships and thousands of additional Marines to the Middle East, even as President Trump insists he won’t put American boots on the ground in Iran, according to U.S. officials. https://t.co/7iXeIuvYlO