He toured the library ahead of its grand opening.
Paramedics responded to a report of a “cardiac arrest” for an “unconscious” individual at a known address for Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on the day his office disclosed he was hospitalized, according to police scanner audio obtained by NBC News.
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McConnell’s office, which has not disclosed why the senator was hospitalized, referred NBC News to a June 22 statement when asked about the audio.
“Senator McConnell is still working closely with staff on Senate business and Kentucky matters as he continues his recovery. However, he will not be voting this week,” the statement, from spokesman David Popp, said.
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Six years to the day after the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade took effect, the Trump administration announced that it plans to pull the plug on a deal widely viewed as a successful and stabilizing force across North America’s three largest economies.
Instead of renewing the deal, a senior Trump administration official told reporters today, the U.S. will begin of a decade of negotiations on amendments to it.
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One potential outcome of these negotiations is that Washington could reach separate, bilateral trade agreements, one with Mexico and another with Canada.
The move, which the administration had telegraphed for several months, nonetheless represented a stark reversal for Trump, who negotiated and signed the USMCA deal in 2018 after he pulled out of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will deliver a “major address” on Friday morning to mark America’s 250th birthday, his office shared with NBC News.
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Former CIA Director John Brennan sued the Trump administration today, demanding a court order that would require officials to preserve records from investigations that he says are targeting him for “phantom criminal conduct.”
Brennan said in the lawsuit that the records would be essential for him to mount a defense on vindictive prosecution grounds in the event of a future indictment brought by the administration. Such a defense, his lawyers said, would be supported by the more than 100 verbal or written statements that President Donald Trump has made since 2017 lambasting Brennan and by the Republican president’s directives to his Department of Justice to initiate cases “without regard to factual or legal justification.”
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“To fully consider those motions, the reviewing judge would need to scrutinize the motivations of the Justice Department officials who directed, oversaw, or undertook those actions to determine whether they violated Director Brennan’s rights, and specifically whether they were motivated by a desire to vindictively prosecute him as an act of retribution,” Brennan’s lawyers wrote in the lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington.
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Trump has wrapped up his remarks at the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota.
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In his first public remarks on the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday to uphold birthright citizenship, Trump said this afternoon that “we’ll work it out some way.”
“We’ll take care of the birthright citizenship, because that was that was not meant for rich people from other countries. That was meant for — actually, it was meant for the babies of slaves,” Trump said in North Dakota.
He added, “I know they got it wrong,” referencing the Supreme Court, but said it was OK given the victory they handed him in firing officials at independent federal agencies.
Trump yesterday urged Congress to pass legislation codifying his executive order on birthright citizenship.
“No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary! Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship,” he wrote on Truth Social. “They will have my Complete and Total Support!”
Trump previewed his July 4th speech on the National Mall today, saying he’ll be giving a lengthy speech amid a heat wave.
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“And by the way, on July 4th it’s going to be approximately 107 degrees out, and I’m going to go and I’m going to make a really long speech, just to show that I can do anything,” Trump said.
He added that the UFC fight held on the White House’s South Lawn on June 14 — Trump’s 80th birthday — had rain forecast in the hours leading up to it. The event took place in front of more than 4,000 spectators, including Trump.
In delivering remarks at the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, Trump called him “a man who I have long admired,” citing the completion of the Panama Canal that Roosevelt oversaw.
“And now China is trying to take over the Panama Canal, and we’re not going to let that happen. OK, and that was not part of the script, because I don’t really have a script,” Trump said.
He added that he had a conversation about the Panama Canal with an artificial intelligence hologram of Roosevelt in the new library.
Trump often brought up the Panama Canal after winning a second term, suggesting that he could use military force to take over the canal.
Trump today also brought up the war in Iran and military operations in Venezuela, comparing them to the Panama Canal.
Trump presented Theodore Roosevelt’s Medal of Honor to his presidential library in a short private ceremony this afternoon, where he also participated in the ribbon-cutting to officially open the museum after an audience countdown, alongside Interior Secretary and former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum. Trump brought Roosevelt’s Medal of Honor from the White House’s Roosevelt Room.
In his brief remarks, Trump joked about how he wants to award himself the Medal of Honor.
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“I want to give one to myself, but they tell me I’m not allowed to. My son over here — both of them — I said, ‘Fellas, I’d love to give one of them to me. What have I done that to — do I deserve it?’ And they couldn’t think of anything, so I’m not happy with them today.”
Trump toured the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota, this afternoon ahead of its official grand opening on July 4.
Trump briefly spoke to the press twice about the museum. He said they did a “fantastic job” with the museum and said he was getting “some good ideas” for his presidential museum. He noted it’s located in a “part of the country that I love,” adding, “I think they love me because I have the all-time record in presidential voting, and that’s an honor, because they are the people that built America.”
The White House said that Trump visited the following exhibits: train exhibit, journal exhibit, campfire exhibit, AI President Theodore Roosevelt exhibit and “Man in the Arena” speech exhibit.
Interior Secretary (and former North Dakota Gov.) Doug Burgum accompanied Trump on the tour and told reporters that Trump would be recording his voice reciting part of Roosevelt’s “Man in the Arena” speech to be broadcast into that exhibit of the museum. Trump noted that you probably have to add on “the Woman in the Arena” when you talk about the speech today.
When asked by a reporter if Vance is angry with Justice Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday to keep birthright citizenship enshrined in the Constitution, he replied: “Well look, do I think she made a mistake in the ruling? I do.”
“I don’t know how anybody can say that if a person who is an illegal alien, or a person for example who’s pregnant and comes to the United States on a vacation, they have a baby and all of a sudden their entire family gets the benefits of American citizenship, I don’t think that’s what the framers of the 14th Amendment had in mind,” Vance continued.
Vance said the landmark 6-3 ruling needs to be changed.
“Sometimes the Supreme Court makes mistakes. We’re going to try to correct that mistake, but nobody’s perfect, including the Supreme Court,” Vance said.
In remarks at the Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Vice President JD Vance praised Navy service members and the area’s congresswoman, GOP Rep. Jen Kiggans, who is facing a close re-election race.
“You’ve answered the call every single time we’ve given you a mission. You have accomplished it with pride and vigor,” Vance told the assembled service members, after saying, “The president of the United States has asked you to do more than I think any group of service members has ever been asked to do.”
In his remarks, the vice president reflected on his time in the Marines, from 2003 to 2007, and criticized former political and military leadership, saying, “We sometimes had leaders who would ask you all to go to war, but would not give you a clear mission on the other end.”
Today, Vance said, Trump “has given you a defined mission” and has “given you the tools to kick the hell out of the enemy and to come home safely.”
The vice president also told the crowd that Kiggans is “somebody who comes to work every single day and fights for you.” He called the congresswoman, who is a Navy veteran, “a rock star for our veterans” and “a rock star for our troops.”
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg appeared on “Good Morning America” earlier this morning to speak about a false Child Protective Services report that targeted him and his children last week.
He described the details of the investigation and what his family went through, saying that it was “some of the darkest times of my life” and that he was unable to be around his children unsupervised until the report was proven false.
Buttigieg also said that there had been an outpouring of support and that “actually people from the other side, people in some cases that I campaigned against, reaching out or speaking out in solidarity.” He stressed that making false reports like this is considered a crime and that although the call was anonymous, he hopes that “whoever did this is found and is prosecuted, because this caused a huge amount of pain in our family.”
On moving forward, Buttigieg said he plans to continue working, saying: “This is not going to slow me down, you know. Just this month, I’m going to be in Iowa, going to be in Florida, going to be doing work here around Michigan.” He also said the country must be able to agree that “whatever you think of somebody’s politics, however you want to argue or fight about political issues, you leave somebody’s children alone.”
Trump will take his first flight today on the new Air Force One that was gifted to the U.S. by Qatar last year, a move that was heavily criticized.
“This will be the first flight of what I think is maybe the greatest commercial plane ever built. … This is the first flight; we’re going to the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library opening and that will be very good, that’ll be a lot of fun, but to be honest with you, I’m excited about the first flight,” Trump said at Joint Base Andrews this morning before boarding the plane.
Asked how much refurbishing the plane cost U.S. taxpayers, Trump said, “Very little relative to what it would cost that we did it a different way — so this was a gift from a country that’s treated us very well.”
“Frankly, we couldn’t build a plane like this because we wouldn’t be willing to spend the kind of money necessary,” he added.
The newly designated Air Force One presidential plane at Joint Base Andrews, Md., today. Luis M. Alvarez / AP
The president will use the Boeing 747 to fly today to North Dakota, where he’s scheduled to take part in events for America’s 250th anniversary. On Friday, he’s expected to travel to South Dakota to speak at Mount Rushmore for another July Fourth event.
Trump unveiled the new jet last month at Joint Base Andrews. It’s designed in a red, white and dark blue color scheme, different from the previous model.
Both Democrats and Republicans criticized the U.S. acceptance of the plane from Qatar, raising ethical and security concerns. Aviation experts estimated to NBC News that the overhaul of the plane would cost more than $1 billion.
One year after President Donald Trump signed the law he dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” on the South Lawn of the White House, it has begun reshaping the country — altering who gets help from the government and who goes without.
The most consequential legislation of Trump’s second term reaches into nearly every corner of American life. It supercharges immigration enforcement, pouring billions into border security and deportations. It rewrites student loan rules. It dismantles tax incentives for electric vehicles and clean energy. It creates a national school-voucher tax credit.
And at its core is a seismic shift: extending roughly $4.5 trillion in tax cuts disproportionately benefiting corporations and the wealthy over 10 years while cutting about $1.1 trillion from healthcare and food assistance programs serving poor and working-class people.
It ultimately adds a projected $4.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.
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President Donald Trump earned more than $635 million from a licensing agreement with a cryptocurrency group specializing in “meme” coins bearing his name last year, an amount that pushed his total crypto holdings past $1 billion, according to a lengthy financial disclosure form he released yesterday.
The figures from 2025 — the first year of Trump’s second term — were disclosed to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics in a 927-page document. By comparison, President Barack Obama’s final disclosure form was eight pages, while President Joe Biden’s was 11. Vice President JD Vance’s form for last year is 17 pages.
Trump’s meme-coin earnings came on top of more than $236 million worth from additional crypto token sales, and an additional sale of equity worth more than $65 million associated with Trump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial. There’s also more than $290 million classified as income from cryptocurrency wallets associated with World Liberty.
The $635 million was earned from a group called “Celebration Coins.” No digital footprint could be found for the group, and a representative for the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to a request for comment last night.
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