Closing summary
Our live coverage is ending now. In the meantime, you can find all of our live US politics coverage here. Here is a summary of the key developments from today:
Donald Trump hosted the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, at the White House today. The visit comes as indirect talks between Israel and Hamas over a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza continued for a second day on Monday. Speaking to reporters, Netanyahu said he has sent a letter to the Nobel committee nominating Trump for a Nobel peace prize. Earlier in the day, Netanyahu met with US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff. He will meet House speaker Mike Johnson tomorrow.
During his meeting with Netanyahu, Trump told reporters the United States will resume weapons shipments to Ukraine. Last week, the Pentagon halted shipments of US Patriot air defence systems and other precision weapons to Ukraine after concern that US stockpiles were running too low. Earlier in the day, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denied that Trump had ordered weapons shipments to Ukraine paused, instead saying the decision was made as part of a normal review of such shipments by the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth.
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The White House published letters to 14 countries detailing new tariff rates on imported goods to the United States. He also signed an executive order on Monday extending a 90-day pause for a slate of so-called “reciprocal” tariffs first introduced in April – in effect pushing back the deadline of trade talks back to 1 August. The tariffs include:
Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, and Tunisia: 25%
Indonesia: 32%
Bangladesh and Serbia: 35%
Bosnia: 30%
Cambodia and Thailand: 36%
South Africa: 30%
Laos and Myanmar: 40%
Trump signed two other executive orders today: one directs his administration to “strictly enforce the termination of the clean electricity production and investment tax credits”, Biden-era subsidies for wind and solar projects. The other extends a federal hiring freeze through 15 October 15.
Los Angeles mayor, Karen Bass, confronted immigration agents after US Customs and Border Patrol conducted a raid on the city’s MacArthur Park today, she said in a social media post.
The Trump administration will deport Kilmar Ábrego García if he is released from custody, a justice department attorney said in court this morning, according to the New York Times.
The Department of Veterans Affairs will no longer need to cut 80,000 jobs, as ordered by the Trump administration’s so-called “department of government efficiency”, because it has already cut staff by 30,000 through retirements, buyouts and hiring freezes, the agency said today.
A judge has ordered the Trump administration to continue disbursing Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood, despite a provision in the president’s recently signed tax and spending bill.
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In a break from decades-old policy, the IRS said in a court filing today that churches and other religious groups should be allowed to endorse political candidates, the New York Times reports.
In a lawsuit, two Texas churches and an association of Christian broadcasters asked the IRS to exempt all nonprofits, which many churches are, from endorsing political candidates to their members. The IRS agreed to a narrower exemption, saying that it would view a church’s decision to endorse a candidate not as campaigning but as a private matter, like “a family discussion”.
