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Musk Apologizes To Trump After Public Feud

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Waving the white flag…

Early Wednesday morning, billionaire Elon Musk publicly apologized to President Donald Trump, putting an end to the online feud.

Musk, who recently deleted posts warning that Trump was named in the files relating to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, had mostly broken with Trump over the “One Big Beautiful Bill” currently moving through the Senate. He went so far in a number of posts to call for people to vote against anyone in Congress who supported it.

In his Wednesday morning post, however, he voiced regret for how far he’d taken his attacks: “I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far.”

Many began to question whether a reconciliation between the two billionaires was on the table as Musk voiced his support for Trump’s actions in California.

On several occasions, Musk either reposted or commented positively on posts from Trump or his team regarding the administration’s actions to control the rioting in Los Angeles County.

Musk also shared Trump’s statement criticizing California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Karen Bass for their failure to restore order once the protests turned violent. Rioters have been seen specifically targeting law enforcement and federal agents, including throwing rocks at federal vehicles.

U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said Monday that 40-year-old Elpidio Reyna, a resident of Compton, California, was the man seen on video throwing rocks at law enforcement vehicles in Paramount, injuring one federal officer and damaging government vehicles.

“Elpidio Reyna can run, but he can’t hide. He threw rocks at federal officers leaving a command post in Paramount on Saturday, a brazen attack caught on film and that could have resulted in deaths. Reyna, 40, is charged with assault on a federal officer, and faces up to eight years in prison if convicted,” Essayli posted on X. 

A video shared with the post shows a man wearing a motorcycle helmet pelting rocks at federal vehicles on Saturday afternoon. 

Reyna has not yet been arrested, and the FBI is offering $50,000 for information that leads to his capture. 

Trump authorized sending another 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles on Monday and deployed hundreds of Marines. 

“The Insurrectionists have a tendency to spit in the face of the National Guardsmen/women, and others,” he posted on Truth Social. “These Patriots are told to accept this, it’s just the way life runs. But not in the Trump Administration. IF THEY SPIT, WE WILL HIT, and I promise you they will be hit harder than they have ever been hit before. Such disrespect will not be tolerated!”

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Terry Moran Out At ABC News Following Post Attacking Trump White House

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Madeleine Jackson
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Just in…

ABC News correspondent Terry Moran is leaving the network after he took aim at President Donald Trump and top White House aide Stephen Miller in a now-deleted post on X. 

“We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran and based on his recent post – which was a clear violation of ABC News policies – we have made the decision to not renew,” a spokesperson for ABC News confirmed to Fox News Digital.

“At ABC News, we hold all of our reporters to the highest standards of objectivity, fairness and professionalism, and we remain committed to delivering straightforward, trusted journalism,” the spokesperson added. 

Moran was initially suspended after he called Trump and Miller “world-class” haters early Sunday morning. Moran, who’s been with the network since 1997.

This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates.

What To Know For The Army’s 250th Anniversary Parade

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Madeleine Jackson
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President Donald J. Trump is presented with a 10th Combat Aviation Brigade challenge coin following an air assault and gun rain demonstration at Fort Drum, New York, on August 13. The demonstration was part of President Trump's visit to the 10th Mountain Division (LI) to sign the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019, which increases the Army's authorized active-duty end strength by 4,000 enabling us to field critical capabilities in support of the National Defense Strategy. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Thomas Scaggs) 180813-A-TZ475-010

The streets of central D.C. are soon to be filled with thousands of soldiers, massive tanks and artillery, and the cacophonic rumble of Vintage warplanes and sleek Blackhawks flying overhead.

The U.S. Army is marking its 250th anniversary with a pomp-filled procession through the streets of the nation’s capital Saturday, June 14, showcasing military might in a display with few, if any, precedents.

The date also coincides with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday.

The parade, which will feature Army equipment, flyovers, musical performances and thousands of soldiers in uniforms from the past and the present, caps off a week of programming designed to celebrate the country’s military might. Trump posted a short video address about the parade to Truth Social on Friday, June 6, inviting Americans to what he called an “unforgettable” celebration, “one like you’ve never seen before.”

“For two and a half centuries, the men and women of America’s Army have dominated our enemies and protected our freedom at home,” he said in the video. “This parade salutes our soldiers’ remarkable strength and unbeatable spirit. You won’t want to miss it. Just don’t miss this one. It’s going to be good.”

Here’s what to know about the parade and day-long celebration in Washington, D.C.

When and where is the June 14 DC military parade?

The military parade is slated for Saturday, June 14, in the heart of Washington, D.C., spanning six blocks and bisecting the National Mall. Organizers say the procession begins at 6:30 p.m. ET.

What are the events and performances at the June 14 celebration?

Celebrations and associated events are set to take place throughout the day at the Army Birthday Festival starting at 11 a.m. ET. Members of the public can visit, where there will be military demonstrations, equipment displays and live music throughout the day, Army event organizers say

Visitors can expect kid zones, more than 50 vendors and experience booths and meet-and-greets with “Army soldiers, NFL players, influencers and celebrities,” according to the U.S. Army event page.

Those feeling adventurous can show up early and take part in the Army’s fitness competition, from 9:30 a.m. to noon.

Where is the Army Birthday Festival?

The festival is between 14th Street SW and the 12th Street Expressway on the lawn between Madison Drive NW and Jefferson Drive SW, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET.

It is next to the Smithsonian Metro Station NW entrance, which will be closed, organizers say, though the Smithsonian Metro Station SW entrance will be open.

Information is also available on the Army’s event website, www.army.mil/1775/.

How to get tickets to attend in person

Tickets for the parade are limited, but those interested in attending the parade on June 14 can RSVP here. Prospective attendees will be asked to provide their full name, phone number, email, state and zip code.

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Vance, DHS Appear To Back Deportation of Popular ‘Menswear Guy’

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Madeleine Jackson
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His days are numbered…

Vice President Vance and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday appeared to back the deportation of the popular X user known as the “Menswear Guy.”

In a lengthy post on the social platform Sunday, X user @dieworkwear, also known as “Derek Guy” said he had a history of “being an undocumented immigrant.” 

“Since I came here without legal documentation, I eventually fell into the category of being an undocumented immigrant. Yet, I’ve been in the United States since I was a baby. My identity and roots are very much based in this country, no different from anyone else,” he said in the post.

Earlier Monday, a user on X said “the menswear guy just openly admitted on here that he’s here illegally,” to which another user responded, “JD Vance I know you’re reading this and you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.”

Vance responded to the post with a GIF of actor Jack Nicholson nodding.

The DHS account also responded to the first user’s post about Guy’s immigration status, replying with a GIF featuring a character from the “Spy Kids” movie series who is wearing glasses that have a series of lenses on one side that flip out and become smaller as they extend.

Guy is known for snarkily noting what he sees as mistakes in how people dress on X and often targets right-wing figures. In response to Vance’s post, he posted two photos of the vice president, one in which Vance is wearing a white button-up shirt and another in which he’s wearing a suit.

Governor Files Emergency Motion To Stop Trump’s Military Deployment To Los Angeles

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    Madeleine Jackson
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    Casa Rosada (Argentina Presidency of the Nation), CC BY 2.5 AR via Wikimedia Commons

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday filed an emergency motion to block President Donald Trump’s deployment of Marines and National Guard troops to Los Angeles in response to riots over his administration’s immigration enforcement.

    “Trump is turning the U.S. military against American citizens. The courts must immediately block these illegal actions,” Newsom wrote on X.

    Newsom and other Democratic officials have accused Trump of inciting violence by deploying troops over the objections of local officials.

    The troops were deployed after protests over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation in Los Angeles turned violent over the weekend. On Monday, California sued the Trump administration after the state’s National Guard was deployed, calling the move an “unprecedented power grab.”

    The lawsuit said Trump “unlawfully bypassed” Newsom by putting National Guard troops under federal control without the governor’s permission

    This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates.

    24 Arrested At Trump Tower As ICE Protests Spread Beyond LA

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      The New York City Police Department arrested about two dozen protesters at Manhattan’s Trump Tower who were demonstrating against the White House’s position on immigration policy on Monday.

      The demonstrators chanted “Bring Them Back,” while they occupied the lobby of the building. They also read the names of the illegal immigrants who were deported to the CECOT maximum security prison in El Salvador.

      Video shot by Fox News showed dozens of NYPD officers entering Trump Tower armed with plastic ties hanging from their belts.

      Anti-ICE protests began to spread across the country on Monday in response to an eruption of violent protests across Los Angeles, which has now entered its fourth day.

      In another video, protesters sitting in a circle were warned to leave the building or face arrest. Once the officers approached the protesters, they were told they were subject to arrest.

      Police then used plastic ties to detain two dozen protesters from the lobby of the building. The protesters were restrained and then escorted outside and placed into police vans.

      President Donald Trump warned rioters in Los Angeles that his administration is “not playing around” as U.S. Marines prepare to deploy to the city Tuesday.

      Trump made the statement during an exchange with reporters, adding that he had called California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday and criticized his handling of the riots.

      “A day ago, I called him up to tell him got to do a better job. He’s done a bad job causing a lot of death and a lot of a lot of potential death,” Trump said of Newsom.

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      GOP Congressman To Retire After Voting For Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill

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      House Republicans’ majority will soon shrink by one…

      On Monday evening, Tennessee Rep. Mark Green announced he plans to retire from Congress in the coming weeks.

      Green, who currently serves as the House Homeland Security Committee chairmain, said he is leaving Congress for the private sector after the House votes again on President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” in the coming weeks, in a statement first obtained by Fox News Digital.

      “It is with a heavy heart that I announce my retirement from Congress. Recently, I was offered an opportunity in the private sector that was too exciting to pass up. As a result, today I notified the Speaker and the House of Representatives that I will resign from Congress as soon as the House votes once again on the reconciliation package,” Green said.

      He called serving Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District “the honor of a lifetime.”

      “They asked me to deliver on the conservative values and principles we all hold dear, and I did my level best to do so. Along the way, we passed historic tax cuts, worked with President Trump to secure the border, and defended innocent life. I am extremely proud of my work as Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, and want to thank my staff, both in my seventh district office, as well as the professional staff on that committee,” Green said.

      Green acknowledged in his statement that he had previously planned to retire in the last Congress, but reversed course. Republicans are expected to maintain their grip on Green’s district which voted for President Donald Trump by more than 20 percentage points over former Vice President Kamala Harris last year.

      “Though I planned to retire at the end of the previous Congress, I stayed to ensure that President Trump’s border security measures and priorities make it through Congress,” he said.

      “By overseeing the border security portion of the reconciliation package, I have done that. After that, I will retire, and there will be a special election to replace me.”

      Republican leaders are hoping to complete consideration of Trump’s massive agenda bill by the Fourth of July or shortly thereafter.

      The bill passed the House in a narrow 215-214 vote, and it is now being considered by the Senate. If the Senate changes the bill, as expected, the House will have to approve that version before it hits Trump’s desk.

      The bill — titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” adopting Trump’s slogan for the measure — extends the tax cuts enacted by the president in 2017; boosts funding for border, deportation, and national defense priorities; imposes reforms, like beefed-up work requirements, on Medicaid that are projected to result in millions of low-income individuals losing health insurance; rolls back green energy tax incentives; and increases the debt limit by $4 trillion, among many other provisions.

      It also does away with taxes on tips and overtime — two of Trump’s campaign promises — among other provisions.

      House Democrat Says Lawmakers ‘Had Wagers Going’ On Trump, Musk Implosion

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      Madeleine Jackson
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      It was only a matter of time…

      Some members of Congress believed the implosion of President Trump’s relationship with tech billionaire Elon Musk was so inevitable that they were wagering on how long it would last, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas) suggested Thursday.

      “We had wagers going on the floor: Is this relationship going to last three months? Is it going to last six months?” Gonzalez told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in an interview. “I don’t think anyone thought it was going to last a year.”

      “I don’t think you needed to be a genius, though, to foresee that this eruptive and public display of divorce was going to happen at some point,” he added.

      Trump and Musk publicly traded barbs on Thursday in an explosive end to their previously tight alliance, with cracks beginning to show in recent days as Musk blasted the House GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” as a “disgusting abomination.”

      On Thursday afternoon, Elon Musk publicly endorsed a call for President Donald Trump’s impeachment. Responding to a post on his social media platform X by conservative commentator Ian Miles Cheong — who suggested Trump should be impeached and replaced by Vice President JD Vance — Musk replied with a succinct “yes,” signaling his agreement with the sentiment.

      The world’s richest man and SpaceX CEO said his space exploration company will ground the spacecraft used to shuttle astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station.

      On Friday morning, Fox News reported that Musk may speak with some of the President’s aides in an apparent effort to calm the growing feud between the two powerhouses.

      A senior White House official told Fox News that Trump does not expect to speak to Musk today. However, White House aides told Doocy that Trump administration staffers might try to talk to Musk. 

      “No call scheduled or had. Musk wants a call. POTUS hasn’t made a decision,” a source familiar with the matter also told Fox News regarding a possible conversation between Trump and Musk.

      Doocy also reported that a red Tesla vehicle that Trump bought during a Tesla demonstration on the South Lawn of the White House grounds earlier this year is now expected to be given away or sold off. 

      The vehicle with Florida tags, as of Friday, remains parked near the White House on West Executive Drive.

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      Trump Border Czar Warns California Officials Can Be Arrested If They Disrupt ICE Raids

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      Madeleine Jackson
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      By Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America - Thomas Homan, CC BY-SA 2.0,

      Things are escalating…

      On Sunday, Border czar Tom Homan warned California officials could face arrest and prosecution if they “cross the line” following President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles to quell ongoing immigration protests.

      Trump ordered at least 2,000 National Guard members to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents after two days of clashes with demonstrators, despite state and city leaders saying they had not asked for assistance.

      Homan said Trump’s order was not only to protect law enforcement officers but also to “protect this community.”

      “The rhetoric is so high against ICE officers in this city that it’s a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt,” Homan told NBC News’s Jacob Soboroff in an interview slated for broadcast Sunday night. “We’ve got help coming, and we’re going to do our job, and we’re going to continue doing that job.”

      On Sunday morning, Newsom, in a post on the social platform X, claimed the federal government is “taking over the California National Guard” because “they want a spectacle.”

      “Don’t give them one. Never use violence. Speak out peacefully,” he added.

      In the NBC News interview, Homan bashed Newsom’s comments and called him “an embarrassment for the state.”

      “I have absolutely no respect for this governor,” Homan said. “Criminal aliens are walking in this state every day because of his government policy. I don’t care what the governor thinks of me. I’m not running a popularity contest.”

      ABC News Suspends Terry Moran Over Deleted Post Blasting Stephen Miller

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      Madeleine Jackson
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      He’s out…

      ABC News has reportedly suspended senior national correspondent Terry Moran over a deleted X post in which he called White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller a “world class hater.”

      According to CNN’s Brian Stelter, ABC News said Sunday that Moran has been “suspended pending further evaluation” following his post.

      “The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism,” Moran wrote in the deleted post. “Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that’s not what’s interesting about Miller. It’s not brains. It’s bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater. You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate. Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred only a means to an end, and that end his his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment.”

      In its full statement obtained by Stelter, ABC News said Moran’s post was a violation of standards.

      “ABC News stands for objectivity and impartiality in its news coverage and does not condone subjective personal attacks on others,” the network said. “The post does not reflect the views of ABC News and violated our standards — as a result, Terry Moran has been suspended pending further evaluation.”

      The White House immediately denounced the comments — with Vice President JD Vance calling them an “absolutely vile smear.

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