Share Boulder attack suspect lives in US illegally, White House says The White House said on Sunday that the suspect arrested in connection with the Boulder, Colorado attack is an undocumented immigrant who overstayed a visa.
“A terror attack was committed in Boulder, Colorado by an illegal alien,” said Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, in a statement on X.
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They cited other legal options the White House could use to pressure China and other countries into trade talks.
The White House budget director Russ Vought on Sunday dismissed as “totally ridiculous” fears expressed by voters that cuts to benefits in the huge spending bill passed by the House will lead to premature deaths in America.
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The Boulder attack happened as members of the volunteer organization Run For Their Lives were wrapping up a weekly protest to draw attention to the hostages still held in Gaza.
A witness can be heard yelling, “He’s right there,” on the scene’s video. A policeman with his gun drawn moves toward a suspect with bare chest and containers in each hand while saying, “He’s throwing molotov cocktails.”.
San Diego resident Alex Osante claimed that while he was eating lunch on a restaurant patio, he heard a bottle smash on the floor, followed by a “boom” sound and cries and screams, according to the AP.
Osante recorded the scene and showed people dousing a woman who was lying on the ground with water after he claimed she had caught fire during the assault.
On the video, a man who subsequently revealed that he was an Israeli traveling to Boulder and had chosen to join the group that day ran up to Osante and asked for some water to help.
Osante claimed that after the initial attack, the suspect fled behind some bushes, reappeared, and threw a petrol bomb, but he apparently unintentionally set himself on fire while doing so.
Before the police arrived, the man then removed his shirt and what looked to be a bulletproof vest. Without putting up any fight, the man fell to the ground and was taken into custody.
According to a witness who spoke to CNN, one of the victims of Sunday’s attack on a group of Jewish community members in Colorado experienced the Holocaust.
The FBI reports that eight people, ages 52 to 88, were hurt when a suspect used molotov cocktails and a flame-thrower.
According to Boulder police chief Stephen Redfearn, one person was “very seriously injured.”.
Chany Scheiner, a friend of the survivor, told CNN affiliate KUSA:.
She has given talks about her background, the Holocaust, and her own viewpoint at our synagogues as well as other synagogues and schools.
She is incredibly exceptional and passionate about advocating for what is right. She always has a smile on her face.
Despite having a difficult life, she is a shining example. Additionally, anyone who befriends her is her friend for life.
On Monday, a 45-year-old man named Mohamed Sabry Soliman was taken into custody in Boulder, Colorado, on suspicion of throwing an incendiary device at a gathering of people who were there to show support for hostages being held in Gaza.
FBI special agent Mark Michalek stated at a press conference, “It is evident that this is a targeted act of violence, and the FBI is looking into this as an act of terrorism.”.
According to police, those hurt ranged in age from 67 to 88.
As hurricane season begins, key US weather monitoring offices are understaffed.
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According to data obtained by the Guardian, as the United States enters an anticipated active season for destructive storms, over a dozen National Weather Service (NWS) forecast offices along the hurricane-prone Gulf of Mexico coast are understaffed.
In Puerto Rico, which bears the brunt of nearly every hurricane that strikes the United States, and in 15 of the regional weather service offices along the coastline from Texas to Florida, there is a shortage of meteorologists. At least a third of the meteorologists needed to staff all of the offices, including those in Miami, Jacksonville, Puerto Rico, and Houston, are out of commission.
Despite claims from the Trump administration that it is fully staffed in anticipation of what is expected to be a busy hurricane season that officially began on Sunday, the Guardian has learned that the National Hurricane Center (NHC), the Miami-based nerve center for tracking hurricanes, is short five specialists.
The center and local field offices collaborate to warn and prepare communities for impending hurricanes, but they have been negatively impacted by the president’s hiring freeze and job cuts, with over 600 NWS employees leaving since Trump took office.
Tom Fahy, legislative director of the National Weather Service Employees Organization, an independent labor union that provides the office staffing data, stated that the system is already overburdened and will eventually break. “We are currently at the tipping point. “.”.
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Russ Vought, the White House budget director, dismissed voter concerns that the massive spending bill passed by the House would result in fewer benefits and more premature deaths in America as “totally ridiculous” on Sunday.
Millions of people will be impacted if Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill act, which is currently pending debate in the US Senate, is passed into law. It would cut two important federal safety net programs: Medicaid, which offers healthcare to Americans who are impoverished or disabled, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), which helps people afford groceries.
In a Sunday morning appearance on CNN, Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and a pivotal member of Project 2025, the right-wing manifesto designed to steer a second Trump term, defended the bill and the cuts made to the federal workforce by Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge).
During a town hall meeting in Iowa last week, which was hosted by Senator Joni Ernst, Vought was questioned about a constituent who yelled out that people were going to die as a result of proposed Medicaid cuts.
“People are not—well, we’re all going to die,” Ernst said in response to mockery. For the love of God, people. “.”.
Following the online virality of the exchange, she posted a sarcastic, non-apologetic video on Saturday, stating: “I assumed that everyone in the auditorium knew that yes, we are all going to die from this world. Hence, I’m sorry. Additionally, I am extremely happy that I was spared from having to mention the tooth fairy. “.”.
A sheriffs’ association sharply criticized the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for removing a list of “sanctuary” states, cities, and counties from its website, claiming that the list of “noncompliant” sheriffs could seriously harm the relationship between law enforcement and the Trump administration.
On Thursday, DHS released a list of “sanctuary jurisdictions,” which it said were those that have a policy of restricting collaboration with federal immigration authorities. Over 3,000 elected sheriffs nationwide are represented by the National Sheriffs’ Association, which responded to the list and generally supports federal immigration enforcement.
“A list of alleged noncompliant sheriffs was published by DHS in a manner that lacks transparency and accountability,” said association president Sheriff Kieran Donahue in a statement on Saturday. Sheriffs had no say in the list’s creation, according to Donahue, and it “violated the core principles of trust, cooperation, and partnership with fellow law enforcement.”.
In a late April executive order, Donald Trump demanded that his administration calculate the number of apparent sanctuary jurisdictions, claiming that the lack of collaboration amounted to “a lawless insurrection.”.
On the talk show Sunday Morning Futures, Fox News host Maria Bartiromo brought up the issue of the DHS website listing the jurisdictions being unavailable on Sunday. The issue was brought up with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
“I observed a list being generated,” Bartiromo remarked. “I don’t see the list in the media anymore. Are you in possession of a list of sanctuary cities that are currently harboring illegals?
While denying that the list had been taken offline, Noem claimed that some localities had become agitated.
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The White House’s constitutional duty to request congressional approval of Donald Trump’s drastic cuts to the federal workforce, led by Elon Musk, was questioned on Sunday by Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Vought stated that the White House would rather use “executive tools” for all but a “necessary” portion of the cuts rather than sending the entire package of agency and job cuts, which were carried out through the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), to the congressional branch for formal approval.
The US president’s One Big Beautiful Bill act, which was approved by the House last week and includes budget proposals for the upcoming fiscal year beginning in October, calls for significant future cost-cutting. The White House budget director defended this idea in an interview with CNN on Sunday.
However, Doge slashed “funding and programs that Congress already passed,” as CNN’s State of the Union host Dana Bash noted. Even though the departing Musk claimed that those cuts were worth $175 billion, Vought stated that OMB would only be submitting roughly $9.4 billion to Congress this week for approval, which is minuscule in comparison to the trillion or more he predicted. According to reports, that sum primarily covers the shutdown of the USAID organization and the reductions in public broadcasting, which have sparked protests and legal action.
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The Guardian has learned that senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have mandated that VA scientists and doctors refrain from speaking to the public or publishing in medical journals without first obtaining approval from Donald Trump’s political appointees.
The directive was sent in emails on Friday by John Bartrum, a senior adviser to VA Secretary Doug Collins, and Curt Cashour, the VA’s assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs. It was sent just hours after two pulmonologists who work for the VA in Texas co-authored a perspective that was published in the esteemed New England Journal of Medicine.
Cashour, a former Republican congressional aide and campaign consultant, attached the journal article and wrote, “We have guidance for this.”. “It was not followed by these people.”. “”.
The article cautioned that the health of a million veterans seeking treatment for illnesses associated with toxic exposure—from Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange to Iraqi and Afghan veterans who developed cancer after being exposed to smoke from heaps of burning toxic waste—is at risk due to terminated contracts, layoffs, and a planned 80,000-person staff reduction in the country’s largest integrated healthcare system.
Doctors Pavan Ganapathiraju and Rebecca Traylor wrote, “As pulmonologists in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), we have been seeing an increasing number of veterans with respiratory conditions such as asthma, pulmonary fibrosis, and chronic bronchitis.”.
Practicing at the VA in Austin, Texas, the authors pointed out that Congress significantly increased the list of illnesses assumed to be associated with military service in 2022.
The White House claims that the Boulder attack suspect is illegally residing in the United States.
The suspect detained in the Boulder, Colorado attack is an undocumented immigrant who overstayed a visa, the White House announced on Sunday.
In a statement posted on X, White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser Stephen Miller claimed that an illegal alien had carried out a terror attack in Boulder, Colorado.
“The Biden administration gave him a tourist visa, which he then unlawfully overstayed. The Biden administration responded by issuing him a work permit. The complete reversal of suicidal migration is necessary,” he added.
Mohamed Soliman, 45, was identified by law enforcement as the suspect. The Hill stated that the assault took place during a nonviolent weekly march that was planned to express support for the hostages that Hamas is holding in Gaza and to demand their release.
According to FBI Special Agent in Charge Mark Michalek, who was speaking at a press conference, the suspect used incendiary devices and a “makeshift flame-thrower” during the attack. He also reportedly yelled “free Palestine.”. “”.
Two of the six injured, ages 67 to 88, were airlifted to a burn unit. The incident is being investigated as a terrorist act by the FBI and local authorities.
White House: Despite a legal setback, tariffs will remain in place.
Welcome to the live blog for US politics. Throughout the coming hours, I, Tom Ambrose, will be providing you with the most recent news updates.
We begin with the announcement that the Supreme Court’s decision to declare many of the Trump administration’s tariffs unlawful would not dissuade the president’s top economic advisors.
They mentioned additional legal means by which the White House could compel China and other nations to engage in trade negotiations.
Additionally, they said Trump had no intention of extending a 90-day pause on some of the highest tariffs, which increases the likelihood that those duties will go into effect in July.
On Fox News Sunday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stated, “Don’t worry, tariffs aren’t going away.”.
In response to a question concerning the future of the reciprocal tariffs that were suspended and initially declared in April, Lutnick stated: “I don’t see an extension coming today.”. “”.
It comes as China accused the US of “seriously violating” the tenuous US-China detente, which has only been in effect for less than a month after the two nations decided to put a halt to the trade war that threatened to topple the world economy.
On May 12, the United States and China reached an agreement to temporarily suspend the intense “reciprocal” tariffs that both nations had imposed on each other’s goods in a frantic trade war that had begun just weeks earlier.
There were 125 percent tariffs on both sides, which officials feared amounted to a virtual trade embargo between the two largest economies in the world.
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Researchers are not allowed to publish in journals without permission, according to a directive from the US Veterans Agency. Curt Cashour, the VA’s assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs, and John Bartrum, a senior adviser to VA secretary Doug Collins, issued the directive via email on Friday. The article was published in the New England Journal of Medicine just hours earlier.
The White House’s constitutional duty to request congressional approval of Donald Trump’s drastic cuts to the federal workforce, led by Elon Musk, was questioned on Sunday by Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). According to Vought, the White House would have preferred to use “executive tools” for all but a “necessary” portion of the cuts rather than presenting the entire package of agency and job cuts, which were carried out through the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), to the congressional branch for formal approval.
After receiving harsh criticism from a sheriffs’ association that claimed a list of “noncompliant” sheriffs could seriously harm the relationship between the Trump administration and law enforcement, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) took a list of “sanctuary” states, cities, and counties down from its website.
On Sunday, White House budget director Russ Vought dismissed voter concerns that the massive spending bill passed by the House would result in premature deaths in America due to benefit cuts as “totally ridiculous.”. Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is currently pending debate in the US Senate, would cut two important federal safety net programs: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), which helps people afford groceries, and Medicaid, which offers healthcare to Americans who are poor and disabled. If it becomes law, this would have an impact on millions of people.
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