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Ukraine struck an oil facility in Russia’s Samara region, along with a Russian vessel and drone facilities, according to Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The strikes came as Donald Trump urged Ukraine to stop attacking Russian refineries amid fuel-supply concerns.
AllegedUkraine’s campaign has knocked out more than 45% of Russia’s refining capacity, according to Ukrainian estimates.
Donald Trump announced plans for South Korea to invest roughly $54 billion in an Alaska natural gas export project. The project includes a 1,300-kilometer pipeline connecting Alaska's North Slope to an LNG export terminal in southern Alaska.
Investment slated for the Alaska liquefied natural gas project
The Trump administration is proposing 43 grants worth $176.9m from the State Department’s human-rights and democracy fund, including awards supporting anti-communist, anti-immigration and other conservative causes. The proposals were still under deliberation.
The proposed grant slate contains 43 awards.
G20 trade ministers met for a second day in Milwaukee amid US tariff tensions. US Trade Chief Jamieson Greer said ministers failed to agree on industrial overcapacity and forced labour, but reached consensus against weaponising food through coercive trade actions.
The G20 trade-minister talks are scheduled to last two days.
At a White House meeting, Trump and AI executives signed a voluntary accord on controls, audits, board oversight and community support; it is nonbinding and has no penalties or government enforcement. Trump ordered agencies to use “Super Intelligence”; America.gov was unveiled.
Donald Trump launched America.gov to simplify access to federal information and services. The AI chatbot points users to official sources and is powered by Google Gemini and xAI Grok; testing found it answered that Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
Presidents listed by America.gov as refusing their salaries before Donald Trump
The Supreme Court lifted restrictions on Trump administration third-country deportations while agreeing to hear the case in December. The lower court had required effective notice and a chance to raise persecution concerns; more than 25,000 people have been affected, and Burundi joined at least 35 countries with agreements.
Refugees International and Human Rights First counted more than 25000 people deported by the Trump administration to countries that were not their own.
The Trump administration’s rollback of US fuel economy standards faces lawsuits from 26 states and progressive climate groups. The rollback sets a 34.9 mpg fleet average by 2031, compared with 50.4 mpg under Biden-era rules.
Required fleetwide fuel economy under the Biden-era rules was scheduled to reach about 50.4 mpg by 2031.