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BREAKING: The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News. nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that President Donald J. Trump has invited the new Pope Leo XIV to the White House.

US Vice President JD Vance JD Vance previews President Donald J. Trump' phone call with Russian President Putin: 'We realise there's a bit of an impasse here, and I think the President's going to say to President Putin, look, are you serious? Are you real about this? Because the proposal from the US has always been.'

WH officials say that President Trump's call with Putin has begun.

NEW: A source confirms to me that President Trump called Ukrainian President Zelensky BEFORE he spoke to Vladimir Putin. No word yet on whether there'll be a second call between President Donald J. Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський following Trump's ongoing call with Putin.

Russian news agency RIA is citing Putin saying that the call between him and POTUS last over 2 hours and 'very, very informative and helpful'

Substantively, it appears not much fresh ground was made. The Russians say they are ready to work with Kyiv on a 'memorandum of future peace talks' and that a ceasefire is possible 'once agreements are reached'. The US position has been ceasefire first to make room for a deal.

NEW: President Trump says the Vatican is interested in hosting peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine

Trump's post on his call with Putin. Trump says both sides will immediately start negotiations towards a ceasefire, but Putin has said Russia was 'ready to work with the Ukrainian side on a memorandum on a possible future peace deal'.

British official says Starmer was not on the call between Trump, Zelensky and other European leaders. The call was organised at short notice and Starmer had an engagement at the time. The official says Starmer is in frequent contact with Trump and will discuss the matter soon.

Trump on Putin's aims: 'I thought it was a very good chance - like 50/50 chance - that he would say, "I want to take the whole thing" [Ukraine]. I didn't know what he was going to say. And then they [Ukraine] have a different kind of a problem. But I believe he wants to stop.'

I asked President Donald J. Trump whether Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський & Ukraine were doing enough to secure a peace deal, he said 'I'd rather tell you in about 2 weeks.' He calls Zelensky 'a strong guy' & 'not the easiest person to deal with' but says that he hopes that Zelensky wants to 'get it solved.'

NEW: I spoke to the spokesperson for South African President Ramaphosa and he told me that he fully believes the relationship between the US and SA was salvageable; calling today’s bust-up in the Oval ‘noise’.

30 year old Elias Rodriguez shot and killed 2 Israeli diplomats outside of the Capital Jewish Museum before shouting ‘Free, Free Palestine’ whilst being apprehended. The latest as of 1am EST here.

The Israeli Ambassador to the US says Israel is fighting a war on 7 fronts. He says the kind of violence we saw in D.C. last night is the 8th front.

Israel’s ambassador to the US says France has a ‘contorted sense of morality’ for wanting to recognise Palestine as a state

Donald Trump makes his first public appearance of the day. He hasn’t so far addressed on-camera the killing of two Israeli embassy staffers. He began his remarks talking about the ‘5 trillion’ dollars of investments he brought back from the Middle East. The event focuses on MAHA

Trump on his newly announced 50% EU tariffs - 'I'm not looking for a deal, we've set a deal - it's at 50%'

NEW: Trump announces in the Oval that it WON'T just be Apple subject to a 25%, but rather ANYONE who makes smartphones outside of the US - including Samsung.

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