Trump live updates: Judge rules Elon Musk’s DOGE ‘likely violated’ Constitution by shutting down USAID

The one-time “never Trump guy” turned MAGA stalwart was selected by Trump to be his running mate while on the campaign trail in July 2024. Eight months on, Trump’s longtime aides and allies have begun throwing their support behind Vance for a possible run at the presidency in 2028.

President Trump is due to sit down for an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham for a interview shortly at 7 p.m. ET.

Gustaf Kilander looks at the numbers.

The former Navy captains returned home in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft alongside Crew-9 mission members Nick Hague and Russian Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.

The astronauts undocked from the orbiting laboratory at 1:05 a.m. EDT, hit Gulf Coast waters by 5:57 p.m. They started their re-entry at around 5:10 p.m. – which can be some of the most dangerous moments of space travel.

Lawyers for the Venezuelan detainees deported to El Salvador have responded to President Donald Trump’s appeal of Judge James Boasberg’s ruling on the deportation flights over the weekend.

They write in part: “The implications of the government’s position are staggering. If the President can designate any group as enemy aliens under the Act, and that designation is unreviewable, then there is no limit on who can be sent to a Salvadoran prison, or any limit on how long they will remain there. At present, the Salvadoran President is saying these men will be there at least a year and that this imprisonment is ‘renewable.’”

Read the full filing here.

Here’s the background on the case:

They have been “effectively forcibly disappeared from our communities,” attorneys wrote.