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(NewsNation) President Trump has threatened to arrest New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani should he defy the administration, and told reporters they "will take a look" at deporting Elon Musk.The president has criticized Mamdani on several occasions since his victory in the Democratic primary for the New York City mayorship over former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.While in Florida on Tuesday, Trump doubled down in his critique of the Ugandan-born socialist, who became a U.S. citizen in 2018.Trump tours Alligator Alcatraz detention center in FloridaIf Mamdani defies ICE, Trump would have him arrestedAsked about Mamdani's comments that he would defy ICE, Trump replied, "We'll have to arrest him.""We don't need a communist in this country. But if we have one, I'll be watching over him very carefully on behalf of the nation. We [would] send him money, we [would] send him all the things that he needs to run a government," Trump said.On his campaign website, Mamdani has proposed ending New York City's cooperation with the immigration agency. "Hell ensure our immigrant New Yorkers are protected by strengthening our sanctuary city apparatus: getting ICE out of all City facilities and ending any cooperation, increasing legal support, and protecting all personal data."Trump floated to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that the federal funding received by New York should be the same as Florida. "A lot of people are saying he's here illegally, you know, we're going to look into everything. And ideally, he's going to turn out to be much less than a communist. But right now, he's a communist. That's not a socialist."Trump on deporting Elon Musk: 'I don't know'Speaking to reporters at the White House on Tuesday, the president was asked a question about the possible deportation of Musk, a native of South Africa. "I don't know," Trump replied. "We'll have to take a look. We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? The monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldnt that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies."Musk recently finished his employment with the federal government and has since entered into something of a feud with the president over the administration's proposed tax cuts and spending package relating to the "big, beautiful bill."Senate passes Trumps megabill after overnight marathonIt is a far cry from the strong relationship the pair shared during the 2024 presidential campaign and at the onset of Trump's second term, where Musk spearheaded the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).Musk reiterated his suggestion for a new political party on Monday as he rebuked Trump's megabill.

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(NewsNation) President Donald Trumps proposed temporary free pass for some migrant workers remains in the development phase but a lack of details designed to protect farming and the hospitality industries has some worried that working migrants will remain targets for arrests and deportation.White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says the administration is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Homeland Security to develop the temporary pass. But without providing specifics on an idea Trump floated in a weekend televised interview, she said the priority remains on removing public safety threats and deporting violent criminals.However, in the latest shift in policy regarding workplace enforcement operations, Trumps temporary free pass suggests protection for some migrants may be coming. But until the plan fully takes shape, many advocates fear the same workers the pass could cover will instead live in continued limbo.Mayor: Recent ICE raids extremely shameful, un-American(Trump) putting things on social media and saying things in interviews doesnt change anything, United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero told NewsNation. We are guessing what (Trump) will do because there is no plan. Its just him saying what he feels at that moment.What is President Trump proposing with a temporary free pass?Trump told Fox News that the temporary pass is being worked on for people who pay taxes, giving farm owners more control to avoid ICE raids similar to those that took place at California farms last month.Trump and DHS have bounced between pausing workplace raids and saying they will continue calling them a cornerstone of preserving public safety. White House Border Czar Tom Homan told reporters he would not get ahead of Trump on the temporary pass and declined to give more specifics despite being part of ongoing conversations.Trump said he understands what taking migrants away from farms means for those running agricultural operations.President Donald Trump speaks while touring "Alligator Alcatraz," a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, right, and others, Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)You end up destroying a farmer because you took all the people away, Trump said. Its a problem.Three in four say democracy facing serious threat: SurveySpokespersons for DHS and the White House declined to give more specifics to NewsNation on Monday, deferring to Trump and Leavitts comments.But Romero said that, like Trump, farm owners understand the difficulty of empty jobs in the American farming industry. The Center for Migration Studies found 86% of workers are foreign-born, and 45% are in the U.S. illegally, often without documentation.Despite Trumps commitment to protect farming, Romero said high levels of fear and anxiety continue to keep some migrants from going to work, convinced ICE agents will turn up to take more migrants into federal custody.The workers say that the way (the administration) is treating them, they feel like theyre disposable, Romero said.Migrants seeking a permanent solutionUnited Farm Workers, the nations largest union representing farm workers, has backed the bipartisan Farm Workforce Modernization Act that is designed to reform the H-2A visa program. Without legislation in place, however, Romero said that the immigrant workers that the union represents remain fearful that they will be targeted by ICE because of their status as undocumented immigrants.On May Day farm workers march to a Hannaford supermarket to protest the supermarket chain's refusal to purchase milk from dairy suppliers who have committed to a set of fair labor practices, May 1, 2022, in Burlington, Vermont. The campaign, organized by immigrant and migrant farm workers in rural Vermont, is called Milk with Dignity. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)She said that while Trump deemed farm workers as essential during the COVID-19 pandemic, migrants don't fall into that category today. Instead, she said they are part of a population that is targeted by an administration with set goals for both daily arrests and annual deportations.Romero said her goal is that migrant farm workers are instead rewarded as loyal professionals who, in many cases, have worked in the farming industry for decades. For now, the current climate surrounding immigration is changing the way they go about their lives, forcing them to miss work and miss their childrens school events, anxious about what could happen.Cartel violence in Sinaloa, Mexico, leaves 20 dead, including 4 decapitated bodiesNot only do they feel like theyre being used, but their families and children are being terrorized, Romero said. (ICE) doesnt have a court order (during raids), they dont have any documents signed by a judge, they are not covering their faces, theyre not wearing their uniform and theyre driving unmarked vehicles. To me, thats kidnapping.Valerie Lacarte, a senior U.S. immigration policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute, said that the goals for arrests and deportation have made who is being taken into custody feel indiscriminate. As of mid-June, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse showed that of the 56,397 in ICE custody, 28% have criminal convictions and 25% have pending criminal charges. Meanwhile, 46% have other immigration violations. Just more than 11% have been fast-tracked for deportation, data shows.Lacarte said it also affects the U.S. economy. Farming, for instance, contributed about $223 million to the nations gross domestic product in 2023, while data shows that the hospitality industry contributed $1.7 trillion to the U.S. economy in 2024.However, although Trump has acknowledged that he does not want to harm key industries, Lacarte said that if more of the presidents immigration policies were built on logic, the idea of a pathway for migrant workers would extend to other industries such as the health sector, childcare and other environments in which migrants are working.Lacarte suggests that perhaps, Trump and his administration may be more aware and sensitive to some professions than others. However, she believes migrant workers remain vulnerable to being detained by ICE while they are trying to support themselves and their families.If (the administration) pursued the real costs of what the mass deportation plan is, (the free pass) would extend really to the whole economy, Lacarte told NewsNation, adding if arresting "the worst of the worst" remained Trump's main priority, workplaces would likely go unaffected by ICE raids.It's a mixed bag right nowm" Lacarte said. "And theres definitely a lack of focus there.

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Senate Republicans on Tuesday passed the largest cuts to Medicaid since the program began in the 1960s, a move that would erode the social safety net and cause a spike in the number of uninsured Americans over the next decade.The tax and spending bill is projected to cost more than $3 trillion during that time, but it would be partially paid for with about $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid.Almost 12 million lower-income Americans would lose their health insurance by 2034, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).It still needs to pass the House again, where some moderate Republicans have expressed concerns about the cuts.The CBO was still analyzing the bill after it was released late Friday, and many last-minute changes meant a more exact forecast on coverage losses wasnt possible before the Senate rushed to vote on it.President Trump and most congressional Republicans say the reductions arent true cuts. They argue nobody who should be on Medicaid will lose benefits.Were cutting $1.7 trillion in this bill, and youre not going to feel any of it, President Trump said at the White House last week.Still, experts and health advocates say the CBO analysis confirms that despite Trumps repeated pledges to only cut waste, fraud and abuse in Medicaid, the legislation would enact an unprecedented reduction in the program currently used by more than 70 million low-income Americans.Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) made an impassioned speech on the Senate floor Sunday night warning that Trump was breaking his promise not to cut Medicaid.The people in the White House advising the president, theyre not telling him that the effect of this bill is to break a promise, Tillis said the day after announcing he would not seek reelection.Im telling the president, you have been misinformed. You supporting the Senate mark will hurt people who are eligible and qualified for Medicaid.Over time, the losses will blunt the significant coverage gains made under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), signed by then-President Obama in 2010.This bill isnt being crafted to improve health care in America, or to improve the Medicaid program, or to improve the [ACA]. The purpose of these cuts in the bill is to try to find savings to pay for tax cuts, said Andrea Ducas, vice president of health policy at the Democratic-aligned Center for American Progress.Its treating these health care programs as a [piggy bank]. Its just, how do we extract as much from these programs as humanly possible so that we can find the savings to pay for tax cuts, Ducas said.Coverage losses, impacts beyond Medicaid recipientsThe effects of the cut could be devastating, beyond coverage losses.People who lose their Medicaid would have to pay more out of pocket, driving up medical debt and leading to them likely delaying needed treatment or medication.Hospitals would see a spike in uncompensated care and overcrowding of emergency rooms.Even people who still have insurance may not have anywhere to go for care. Hospitals, nursing homes and other providers operating on thin margins warn they could close."Seniors will struggle to afford long-term care. People with disabilities will lose critical healthcare coverage that allows them to work and live independently. Rural communities across America will be decimated from hospital closures, and people will lose their lives," said Richard Besser, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a statement. "It is unfathomable to see policymakers intentionally inflict so much damage on the people they represent."Experts said its nearly impossible to take almost $1 trillion out of Medicaid without impacting the entire health system, not just the people who lose insurance.By design, the group that would be hit the hardest are people who gained insurance when their states expanded Medicaid under ObamaCare.The bill particularly attempts to undermine the Medicaid expansion, said Jennifer Tolbert, deputy director of the program on Medicaid and the Uninsured at health policy research organization KFF. It doesnt exactly repeal it, but many of the provisions target both expansion states and the expansion population.The bill would achieve its savings in various ways, but the bulk of the cuts come from a strict national work requirement and new restrictions on state-levied taxes on health providers.The provider taxes were the second-largest Medicaid cut in the House bill, after the work requirements. The cuts are even larger under the Senate design. Those changes would reduce spending by nearly $191 billion over a decade, according to the CBO estimate.States impose taxes on providers to boost their federal Medicaid contributions, which they then redirect to hospitals in the form of higher reimbursements.Limiting provider taxes is a long-held conservative goal, as they argue states are gaming the current system and driving up federal Medicaid spending.But senators representing states with poorer, rural populations have objected to the scale of the provider tax cuts, including Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Tillis.The House bill would freeze the tax rate for most states, but the Senate version would require many states to lower their existing rates.As an incentive for senators uncomfortable with the provision, the bill includes a $25 billion fund to aid rural hospitals. Overnight Monday, senators voted down an amendment from Collins to double the size of the fund and increase taxes on the ultra-wealthy.Hospitals said the relief fund isn't enough to make up for the impacts of the bill, and they urged lawmakers to reject it in favor of the House version which also would have enacted unprecedented Medicaid cuts, but was less damaging to rural providers.Even some Republicans sounded the alarm.Tillis focused his ire on the provider taxes and state-directed payments, arguing they were simply too harmful to his constituents. He warned his fellow Republicans that their support for the bill could boomerang and cost them politically.Hawley condemned the provider tax cuts and other Medicaid changes but voted for the bill anyway.Part of his reasoning, he said, was that the bill was changed to delay implementation of the cuts for another year. He also touted "tax cuts for working families" and an extension of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act.Hawley in a statement after the vote urged the House to pass the bill quickly, while sounding a warning on Medicaid."Let me be clear, I will continue to do everything in my power to reverse future cuts to Medicaid. If Republicans want to be the party of the working class, we cannot cut health insurance for working people."Work requirements imposed for first timeThe other major Medicaid change in the bill is work requirements.For the first time in the history of the Medicaid program, the bill would require beneficiaries to prove they are working or in school at least 80 hours a month to keep their health insurance starting Dec. 31, 2026. The Senate version extends the requirement to low-income parents of children older than 14, in addition to childless adults without disabilities.States can apply for a good faith exemption to delay the start until 2029, but its up to the discretion of the Trump administration to grant it. Advocates said giving the administration power to delay coverage losses has the potential to politicize the work requirements, as the White House could grant waivers to important states Republicans need to win.The work requirements are projected to save about $325 billion over a decade, because millions of people would be moved off Medicaid rolls.Nearly six million people would eventually lose Medicaid for not meeting the House bills work requirements, according to CBO.Work requirements are only money savers if people lose coverage. Otherwise they wouldn't be in this bill, Ducas said. I think that's pretty clearly the intent.

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(NewsNation) Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022, has accepted a plea deal that would allow him to avoid the death penalty but it's not final yet.A judge must approve the agreement at a change of plea hearing scheduledfor Wednesday.Sources have confirmed the prosecution has proposed dropping the death penalty in exchange for Kohberger pleading guilty to committingthe killingsand to a burglary charge.Victim's father calls Bryan Kohberger plea deal 'anything but justice'NewsNation first reported that the plea agreement requires Kohberger to waive his right to appeal and agree to spend the rest of hislife in prisonwithout the possibility of parole.Kohberger, 30, a former graduate student in criminal justice at Washington State University, faces murder charges for the deaths ofXana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves and Ethan Chapin, who were killed at an off-campus house near the University of Idaho on Nov. 13, 2022.He had pleaded not guilty.(NEWSNATION)What is a plea deal?Plea deals or plea bargains are usually offered to a defendant when the prosecution has a strong case, in order to avoid a trial and potentially "reduce exposure to a more lengthy sentence," according to the U.S. Department of Justice.Under a plea agreement, the defendant pleads guilty in exchange for reduced charges or sentencing considerations. If a defendant pleads guilty, there is no trial, and the next step is a sentencing hearing.Notable cases ending in plea dealsAccording to the American Bar Association, 98% of federal criminal cases are resolved through plea agreements.However, theABA Plea Bargain Task Forcecited "substantial evidence" that some defendants, particularly those facing decades-long mandatory minimum sentences, may feel coerced into pleading guilty, even when innocent.Bryan Kohberger trial: Timeline in Idaho college killings, arrest, plea dealWhile the Kohberger case has drawn intense national attention, its not the first high-profile case resolved through a plea agreement. Others include.Derek Chauvin: The former Minneapolis police officer accepted a federal plea deal in the civil rights case related to the death of George Floyd.Alex Murdaugh: After his double-murder conviction, Murdaugh pleaded guilty to dozens of state-level charges related to financial theft.Young Thug's YSL co-defendants: Several members of rapper Young Thug's collective accepted plea deals in a RICO case.Angela Garcia: Convicted of arson and murder, Garcia took a plea after nearly two decades fighting to prove her innocence, leading to a reduced sentence.Bryan Kohberger plea deal sparks backlashKohberger's plea deal has shocked observers and deeply upset the victims families, some of whom told NewsNation they had no indication of a plea deal being offered and that they had more questions, including whether Kohberger would confess to the killings.The father of slain University of Idaho student Kaylee Goncalves criticized the agreement, calling it anything but justice.This is the opposite of our will, said Steve Goncalves, in an exclusive interview with NewsNations Banfield on Monday. There was no majority (of victims families) believing that this was acceptable.Idaho deadly shootings suspect had no criminal history: SheriffGoncalves blamed prosecutors and court leadership for the decision, saying they decided to play God and decide what this mans decision should be, and not a jury, not his peers.Another family member of one victim told NewsNation that upon hearing of the plea deal, she felt like all the power had been given back to Kohberger.Bryan Kohberger faces 4 murder chargesInvestigators believe the four students,thought to be sleeping at the time, were fatally stabbed between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. on the morning of Nov. 13, 2022. According to the coroner, there wasno sign of sexual assault.A little over a month after the killings,Kohbergerwas arrested at his parents home in Pennsylvania on Dec. 30, 2022, and extradited to Idaho.(NEWSNATION)Court records showed that investigators identified Kohberger as the suspect through a combination of DNA evidence at the scene, cellphone records and a white Hyundai Elantra.A trial date was initially set for October 2023, but after Kohberger waived his right to a speedy trial, it was pushed to the summer of 2025.Kohbergers attorneys previously attempted todelay the trial, citing 68 terabytes of evidence to review.The trial wasscheduled to begin in August,with opening arguments expected Aug. 18.NewsNation's Brian Entin contributed to this report.

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For more episodes of "Reality Check," subscribe to NewsNations YouTube channel.(NewsNation) U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., told NewsNation's Ross Coulthart that he plans to reintroduce the UAP Disclosure Act, legislation that could push the federal government to release files and records related to unidentified anomalous phenomena.A stripped-down version of the original amendment was previously passed as part of an annual defense policy bill, but that iteration nixed several key provisions that were expected to lead to more transparency. Rounds says he and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., intend to "move forward once again" with the initial UAP transparency effort as lawmakers begin working on the annual National Defense Authorization Act in the coming weeks.UAP recovery video shows 'egg-shaped' object: Exclusive"I have no objections to submitting the legislation in its current form, but I would also work with my House counterparts to allay any concerns that they may have," Rounds told Coulthart on a new episode of "Reality Check."The UAP Disclosure Act was originally modeled after the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, which required that documents regarding the assassination be made public no later than 25 years after enactment.UAP disclosure bill revised; two key provisions strippedThe version of the UAP amendment that ultimately passed eliminated a proposed advisory panel that would have helped determine which records would be disclosed. It also removed a provision that would have granted the federal government eminent domain over UAP-related materials held by private individuals or entities.Those changes watered down the push for transparency in the eyes of whistleblowers like David Grusch, who have maintained that the government isn't revealing everything it knows about UAPs.Rounds said his support for the amendment is driven by a desire for clarity, not by any evidence of a "smoking gun.""If there was such information that existed, we were directing that it be preserved and then it be delivered for appropriate persons, and for review, by this select committee," Rounds said.He added: "At this stage of the game, I think it's worth trying once again to reassure the American people that those of us that are here, we're not trying to hide anything, but we will protect very clearly those items of national interest with regard to our national security."

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(NewsNation) A 12-member jury will enter its second day of deliberations in the criminal case against Sean Diddy Combs on Tuesday.Jurors convened for more than five hours Monday and hit a potential roadblock early on.One hour into deliberations, the foreperson sent a note to Judge Arun Subramanian, saying a juror might be having issues following instructions the judge had just read to them.Referring to Juror 25, the note said, We are concerned (the juror) cannot follow your honors instructions, the foreperson said in a note to the judge.Top 10 moments from Diddys criminal trialSubramanian responded, instructing the panel to deliberate and to follow his instructions.The case was handed over to a jury of eight men and four women after Subramanian read instructions on the law and elements required to convict Combs.Combs family showed up in full support Monday, praying with other supporters in the courtroom.Jurors have been provided with a laptop loaded with all of the exhibits shown in court, including text messages, photographs and videos of the sexual encounters at the heart of the case.Combs has pleaded not guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy, two counts of sex trafficking and two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.The trial brought forth several former employees of Combs Bad Boy Entertainment companies, but its most noteworthy witnesses were two of his former partners singer Casandra Cassie Ventura and Jane, a social media influencer who testified under a pseudonym.The women said they felt pressured to engage in hundreds of sexual events, dubbed Freak Offs or hotel nights, with sex workers. These encounters were often filmed.In their closing statements, the government painted Combs criminal enterprise as his kingdom.While the prosecution presented a robust case, defense attorneys wrapped up theirs within hours, calling no witnesses.Diddys defense ridicules investigation over seized baby oilMuch of their argument rested on the theory that the accusers were consenting adults and were not forced to participate in Combs sexual events.They relied largely on text messages between Combs and his ex-partners to show the women were willing and even arranged for the sexual encounters at times.Defense attorneys used their closing statements to call Combs prosecution overkill, saying that he was being put on trial for his sexual proclivities and lifestyle choices.The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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WASHINGTON (NewsNation) The Senate is pushing through a marathon overnight session that stretched into Tuesday morning, as Republican leaders scramble to lock in enough support for President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill."The so-called vote-a-rama, which has lasted more than 20 hours on the Senate floor, could move closer to a final vote later Tuesday.Lawmakers have been voting on amendments to tax breaks and spending cuts since early Monday, a long delay tactic for Senate Democrats, but some of these votes will ultimately impact how Senate Republicans vote on the larger bill.GOP hunts for votes to pass Trumps tax planAmong the Republican senators to watch are Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who have both raised concerns about health care cuts.Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., voted against advancing the bill over the weekend. Paul has raised concerns about raising the debt ceiling, and Tillis has criticized the Medicaid changes.DOJ announces takedown of record $14.6B in health care fraudSome Republicans have also demanded steeper cuts. The package, centered on tax breaks like "no tax on tips" and overtime exemptions, has divided the chamber."We've been working on this for a while. This is a lot of what President Trump's agenda was: The no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, those tax cuts, and delivering on those promises is very important," said Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo. "The stakes were high, and we intend to deliver."But Democrats have said they're not backing down."We'll be here as long as it takes for us to show the American people that this is bad policy, said Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.Elon Musk blasts debt ceiling increaseAs the Senate moves closer to Trump's July 4 deadline, billionaire Elon Musk has criticized the plan for raising the debt ceiling. "Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame!" Musk wrote on his social platform X.NOAA to discontinue some weather data, but delays cutoffTrump fired back, bringing up government contracts with Musk's companies and suggesting, "Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!"House GOP critical of Senates version of the billEven before the bill reaches the House, signs of discontent have emerged.A moderate House Republican, speaking anonymously to NewsNation partner The Hill, said that "everyone is complaining," and "no one is happy with the Senate version."

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(NewsNation) On Friday, President Donald Trump told reporters, "We think within the next week were going to get a ceasefire in Gaza but Israeli strikes have only ramped up since.The Israeli Defense Forces said it hit 140 terror sites in the last 24 hours as it prepares to enter a new phase of "intensified" military operations against Hamas.Musk calls for new political party amid criticism of Trump megabillCivilians are being caught in the crossfire, and witnesses say more than 70 people were killed Monday as Israeli forces attacked a caf and fired on people seeking food.Without a warning, all of a sudden, a warplane hit the place, shaking it like an earthquake, Ali Abu Ateila, who was inside Al-Baqa Caf, told the Associated Press.President Donald Trump has urged Israel to make a deal alongside theQatari government. In an exclusive interview with NewsNation, Majed Al-Ansari, the senior adviser to the Qatari prime minister, said they are working day and night.Netanyahu to visit White House next weekWASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 07: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (L) talks to U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump is meeting with Netanyahu to discuss ongoing efforts to release Israeli hostages from Gaza and newly imposed U.S. tariffs. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, D.C., next week for talks about the war in Gaza and Iran, Netanyahu confirmed during a government speech Tuesday. "I am due to leave next week for meetings in the U.S. with U.S. President Donald Trump," Netanyahu said, originally in Hebrew. "These come in the wake of the great victory that we achieved in Operation Rising Lion."NOAA to discontinue some weather data, but delays cutoffNetanyahu's visit comes after Trump involved the U.S. in the Israel-Iran conflict with strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, then helped broker a ceasefire between the two Middle Eastern countries. Discussions surrounding the effectiveness of Trump's strikes on Iran and a long-term ceasefire between Israel and Hamas are likely to take center stage in the meeting.International pressure to end war in Gaza growsAs Trump prepares to pressure Netanyahu stateside, calls from the international community to end the humanitarian situation inside Gaza are growing louder.A big concern for the United States is food falling into the hands of Hamas and being used as a means of exerting control over Palestinians in Gaza. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which has backing from the U.S. and Israel, has taken the lead on food distribution in the area.Qatar sees the light at the end of a very long tunnel: AdviserThe foundation's president, Johnnie Moore, told NewsNation some of the group's local aid workers have been killed and taken hostage, and claimed Hamas has put bounties on aid workers' heads."We've got to get food into the Gaza Strip, and we've got to get it in now, so one more time to the international community: let's work together. The food insecurity is real. It's a serious situation. It's an emergency situation," Moore said. "We're not a political organization. We have one mission: to show up and keep feeding Gazans. We're going to keep doing it."The international community does not support the foundation including key U.S. allies like Great Britain and the United Nations. They contend that aid distribution sites have been made too dangerous."People are being killed simply trying to feed their families. The search for food must never be a death sentence ... Any operation that channels desperate civilians into militarized zones is inherently unsafe," said U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres.Trump signs order dismantling decades of Syria sanctionsMore than 56,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war in Gaza, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. It said more than half of the dead were women and children.The Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, that sparked the war killed approximately 1,200, mostly civilians, and took 251 others hostage. An estimated 50 hostages remain, many of them thought to be dead.The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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(NewsNation) Students from the University of Idaho are opening up about what happened when four of their fellow students were stabbed and killed in an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho.University of Idaho student Hunter Johnson, along with his girlfriend, Emily Alandt, and several others, will be featured in a new Prime Video docuseries titled "One Night in Idaho: The College Murders," premiering on July 11.Bryan Kohberger accepts plea dealin Idaho college murders caseThey will also be featured in an upcoming James Patterson and Vicky Ward book called "The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy," which is set to release July 14. Ahead of these releases, Hunter and Alandt spoke with People about their experience.'Something in my soul told me that I should go lock my door': Idaho studentJohnson said that he got up to lock the door to his girlfriend's off-campus apartment in Moscow on the night of the killings. The 24-year-old revealed to People, "That's something I've never done in my life there. There was no noise. I don't know why, but something in my soul told me that I should go lock my door."This woke up the rest of the people in the home, including Johnson's girlfriend. "We hung out in the living room for about 30 minutes before we all went back to bed," 23-year-old Alandt told People.Bryan Kohberger trial: Timeline in Idaho college killings, arrestAn hour later, Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were killed in their off-campus home right down the street. That morning, Dylan Mortensen asked Johnson to come over and check out that same house and was followed by Alandt.That's when Johnson allegedly found Kernodle and Chapin in the second-floor bedroom, dead. "I was like, 'What is going on? Is this real?' Then you realize the gravity of what you just walked into. At that moment, you don't really realize what you walked into until you really look at it and process it," the student explained.Johnson told People, "That was our last day living as kids," with Alandt adding, "Our innocence was gone."Officers investigate a homicide at an apartment complex south of the University of Idaho campus on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. Four people were found dead on King Road near the campus, according to a city of Moscow news release issued Sunday afternoon. (Zach Wilkinson/Moscow-Pullman Daily News via AP)Officers investigate a homicide at an apartment complex south of the University of Idaho campus on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. Four people were found dead on King Road near the campus, according to a city of Moscow news release issued Sunday afternoon. (Zach Wilkinson/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News via AP)Candles and flowers are left at a make-shift memorial honoring four slain University of Idaho students outside the Mad Greek restaurant in downtown Moscow, Idaho, on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. Police discovered the bodies of the four students at home near campus on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022, and said the killer or killers used a knife or bladed weapon in the targeted attack. Two of the victims, 21-year-old Madison Mogen and 20-year-old Xana Kernodle, were servers at Mad Greek. (AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios)Boise State University students, along with people who knew the four University of Idaho students who were found killed in Moscow, Idaho, days earlier, pay their respects at a vigil held in front of a statue on the Boise State campus, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, in Boise, Idaho. Autopsies performed on the four students who were found dead inside a rental house near campus showed that all four were stabbed to death, the Latah County coroner said. (Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman via AP)FILE - Bare spots are seen on Nov. 29, 2022, in the snowy parking lot in front of the home where four University of Idaho students were found dead on Nov. 13, in Moscow, Idaho, after vehicles belonging to the victims and others were towed away earlier in the day. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)Bryan Kohberger enters the courtroom for his arraignment hearing in Latah County District Court, Monday, May 22, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. Kohberger is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022. (Zach Wilkinson/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News via AP)MOSCOW, IDAHO - JUNE 27: Bryan Kohberger enters the courtroom for a hearing at the Latah County Courthouse on June 27, 2023 in Moscow, Idaho. Kohberger is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022. (Photo by August Frank-Pool/Getty Images)Heavy equipment is used to demolish the house where four University of Idaho students were killed in 2022 on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. Students Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves were fatally stabbed there in November 2022. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)Heavy equipment is used to demolish the house where four University of Idaho students were killed in 2022 on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. Students Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves were fatally stabbed there in November 2022. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)FILE - Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students, is escorted into court for a hearing in Latah County District Court, Sept. 13, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool, File)Objects left for a makeshift memorial sit at the site of a quadruple murder on January 3, 2023 in Moscow, Idaho. A suspect has been arrested for the murders of the four University of Idaho students. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)Book, docuseries will reveal new details about their friends' deathsThe book and docuseries will explore the lives of the college students and reveal new details about their friends' deaths. They were both set to be released about one month before the start of Bryan Kohberger's trial, but he has since accepted a plea deal, NewsNation has learned, pleading guilty to committingthe murdersand to a burglary charge.Kohberger is the 28-year-old former Ph.D. criminology student at Washington State University charged with killing the fourUniversity of Idaho studentsin November 2022. His plea deal, effectively avoiding the death penalty, made furiousthe family of one of the victims, Kaylee Goncalves.Father turns in son after fatal shooting in FloridaKohberger was arrested on Dec. 30, 2022, six weeks after the murders took place. He was charged with four counts of first-degree murder, to which he originally pleaded not guilty. Police said that the suspect who committed the crime was dressed in black and had a ski mask on.The suspect also had a fixed-blade combat and hunting knife, and came into the house through the kitchen sliding door. They then allegedly stabbed Mogen and Goncalves repeatedly before killing Kernodle and Chapin.Kohberger has been in jail while awaiting trial, which was set to start on August 11. If he had been convicted, prosecutors were seeking the death penalty.

(NewsNation) The father of slain University of Idaho student Kaylee Goncalves criticized a plea agreement that would spare Bryan Kohberger from the death penalty, calling it "anything but justice.""This is the opposite of our will," Steve Goncalves told NewsNations Banfield on Monday evening in his first national interview since the plea deal report. "There was no majority (of victims' survivors) believing that this was acceptable."Goncalves expressed outrage after learning that Kohberger, charged with killing four university students in November 2022, had accepted a plea deal that would sentence him to life in prison without parole in exchange for guilty pleas to murder and burglary charges.Bryan Kohberger accepts plea deal in Idaho college murders case"Prison is nothing but adult child care. You get free vision, you get free dental, you get free meals, you get AC room and board, cable TV, internet access. It's ridiculous," Goncalves said,NewsNation first reported that the plea agreement requires Kohberger to waive his right to appeal. A change of plea hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.Goncalves blamed prosecutors and court leadership for the decision, saying they "decided to play God and decide what this man's decision should be, and not a jury, not his peers."He praised law enforcement officers and FBI agents who worked on the case, placing fault "100%" on leadership.The victim's father said prosecutors never consulted families about their wishes regarding the plea deal, despite regular meetings with the prosecution team. He said multiple families opposed the agreement but declined to speak for other victims' relatives.Goncalves family 'beyond furious' at Bryan Kohberger plea dealKaylee GoncalvesBryan Kohberger enters the courtroom during a hearing Tuesday, June 27, 2023, at the Latah County Courthouse in Moscow, Idaho. Defense attorneys for Kohberger who is charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students asked a judge Tuesday to order prosecutors to turn over more records, laying the groundwork for challenges to the case. Kohberger, 28, was indicted in May on four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary in connection with the Nov. 13, 2022, slayings of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin at a rental home near the University of Idaho campus. (August Frank/Lewiston Tribune via AP, Pool)Kohberger, 30, a former graduate student in criminal justice at Washington State University, faces murder charges for the deaths of Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves and Ethan Chapin, who were killed at an off-campus house near the University of Idaho on Nov. 13, 2022. He had pleaded not guilty.(@kayleegoncalves Instagram)"We had an outsider come to our community, kill our kids in their sleep while they're getting a college education, doing everything that they should do, and we don't have the courage to hold him accountable," Goncalves said.He urged Judge Steven Hippler to reject the plea agreement, asking the public to contact the judge to oppose the deal."We couldn't pick the prosecution. We inherited them," Goncalves said.Shanon Gray, attorney for the Goncalves family, said judges typically accept plea agreements when both prosecution and defense present sufficient facts supporting guilty pleas to the charges.Kohberger is accused of fatally stabbing Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin at an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho, on Nov. 13, 2022.

(NewsNation) NewsNation has learned a plea deal has been offered to Bryan Kohberger, the man charged with killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, and he has accepted.Sources confirm the prosecution has proposed dropping the death penalty in exchange for Kohberger pleading guilty to committing the murders and to a burglary charge.NewsNation has learned Kohberger must also agree to spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole and must waive his right to appeal.A court hearing for a change of plea will be Wednesday.Kohberger, 30, a former graduate student in criminal justice at Washington State University, faces murder charges for the deaths ofXana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves and Ethan Chapin, who were killed at an off-campus house near the University of Idaho on Nov. 13, 2022.He had pleaded not guilty.Bryan Kohberger trial: Timeline in Idaho college killings, arrestKaylee Goncalves family 'beyond furious' at Bryan Kohberger plea dealIn a statement on social media, the family of Goncalves said, "It's true! We are beyond furious at the State of Idaho. They have failed us. Please give us some time. This was very unexpected. We appreciate all your love and support. #heartbroken #kayleejade4ever"A family member of one victim told NewsNation that upon hearing of the plea deal, she felt like "all the power had been given back to Kohberger."Many families of the victims had planned on living in Boise, Idaho, for the duration of the trial.Family members tell NewsNation they had no indication of a plea deal being offered and say they are shocked and have more questions, including whether Kohberger will confess to the killings.Kohberger, 30, a former graduate student in criminal justice at Washington State University, faces murder charges for the deaths of Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves and Ethan Chapin, who were killed at an off-campus house near the University of Idaho on Nov. 13, 2022. He had pleaded not guilty.Kohberger, 30, a former graduate student in criminal justice at Washington State University, faces murder charges for the deaths of Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves and Ethan Chapin, who were killed at an off-campus house near the University of Idaho on Nov. 13, 2022. He had pleaded not guilty.Idaho shootings suspect had no prior criminal history: SheriffBryan Kohberger faces 4 murder charges connected to the killingsThe students were found with fatal stab wounds in anoff-campus rental homein the early morning hours.Investigators believe the four students,thought to be sleeping at the time, were fatally stabbed between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. According to the coroner, there wasno sign of sexual assault.A little over a month after the killings,Kohbergerwas arrested at his parents home in Pennsylvania on Dec. 30, 2022, and extradited to Idaho.Kaylee GoncalvesThis July 2022 photo provided by Jazzmin Kernodle shows University of Idaho students Xana Kernodle, right, and Ethan Chapin on a boat on Priest Lake, in Idaho. Both students were among four found stabbed to death in an off-campus rental home on Nov. 13. (Jazzmin Kernodle via AP)(@kayleegoncalves Instagram)In this photo provided by Stacy Chapin, Ethan Chapin surfs on Priest Lake in northern Idaho in this family snapshot from July 2022. Chapin was one of four University of Idaho students found stabbed to death in a home near the Moscow, Idaho campus on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. Police are still searching for a suspect in the case. (Stacy Chapin via AP)Vandal Healing Garden and Memorial dedication: Maddie May Mogen memorial plaque at the University of Idaho on Aug. 21, 2024. (Credit: University of Idaho)Bryan Kohberger, left, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, looks toward his attorney, public defender Anne Taylor, right, during a hearing in Latah County District Court, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool)Police released video of a traffic stop involving a man charged in connection with a quadruple murder in Idaho. (Hancock County Sheriff)FILE - Boise State University students, along with people who knew the four University of Idaho students who were found killed in Moscow, Idaho, days earlier, pay their respects at a vigil held in front of a statue on the Boise State campus, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, in Boise, Idaho. The arrest of Bryan Christopher Kohberger in the Nov. 13, 2022 fatal stabbings of four University of Idaho students has brought relief to the small college town of Moscow, Idaho.(Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)Candles and flowers are left at a make-shift memorial honoring four slain University of Idaho students outside the Mad Greek restaurant in downtown Moscow, Idaho, on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. Police discovered the bodies of the four students at home near campus on Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022, and said the killer or killers used a knife or bladed weapon in the targeted attack. Two of the victims, 21-year-old Madison Mogen and 20-year-old Xana Kernodle, were servers at Mad Greek. (AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios)Heavy equipment works to demolish the final pieces of the foundation of the house where four University of Idaho students were killed in 2022 on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. Students Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves were fatally stabbed there in November 2022. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)Court records showed that investigators identified Kohberger as the suspect through a combination of DNA evidence at the scene, cellphone records and the suspects white Hyundai Elantra.A judge had granteda venuechange for the murder trial from the small town of Moscow, Idaho, arguing the small local jury pool was likely tainted by pretrial publicity, after a request from Kohberger's attorneys.Latah County Judge John Judge also agreed with Kohbergers lawyer on the massive publicity of the case making it difficult to find impartial jurors in Latah County.A trial date was initially set for October 2023, but after Kohberger waived his right to a speedy trial, it was pushed back until the summer of 2025.Kohberger's attorneys had tried to delay the trial, citing 68 terabytes of evidence to review.The trial wasscheduled to begin in August,with opening arguments expected Aug. 18.

(NewsNation) NewsNation has seen a new video showing Karmelo Anthony fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf at Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, Texas, on April 2.Recorded from the press box across the field from where the attack occurred, Karmelo Anthony was wearing a grey hoodie, and there was no obvious physical altercation leading up to the stabbing.According to police reports, Metcalf told Anthony he needed to move out from under their team's tent, then Anthony grabbed his bag, reached inside and told Metcalf: "Touch me and see what happens."Suspected Idaho sniper, accused of killing 2 firefighters, identifiedThe police report states Metcalf grabbed Anthony to tell him to move. It is then that Anthony pulled out a knife, stabbing him once in the chest before running.Metcalf, 17, died in the arms of his twin brother. As of last week, Anthony was indicted and charged with first-degree murder.Neither side would comment to NewsNation on the video, given that it is evidence. The video may tell prosecutors something that NewsNation did not see, but what was apparent is that things went quickly from calm to chaotic.

Police on Monday named Wess Roley, 20, as the suspect in the attack. He was found dead late on Sunday, according to law enforcement.(Image credit: Young Kwak)

(NewsNation) Trial attorney Mercedes Colwin believes Bryan Kohberger's acceptance of a plea deal for the murders of four Idaho college students will likely rob the victims' families of an explanation for the deaths.NewsNation confirmed the prosecution proposed dropping the death penalty in exchange for Kohberger, 30, pleading guilty to committingthe murdersand to a burglary charge.Kohberger's accepted plea has angered the family of one of the four victims. The family of Kaylee Goncalves, who died aged 21 on Nov. 13, 2022, said on Facebook they were "beyond furious" at the state of Idaho.Full story: Bryan Kohberger accepts plea dealin Idaho college murders caseGiven his acceptance of the deal, the families may never gain an understanding as to why he murdered the four college students Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, Goncalves and Ethan Chapin at an off-campus house near the University of Idaho."What the allocution is, generally, is, you've accepted this plea, you understand that you're going to be in prison for life. No explanation [is needed]," Colwin told "Elizabeth Vargas Reports." "It's going to be gut-wrenching, because you're going to hear from these parents whose children were slaughtered, and they're going to continue to live the nightmare, not knowing why their children were slaughtered. All they know is that this man's life is spared and their children are dead."