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Elon Musk has known as for Donald Trump’s impeachment and in impact claimed the president was a part of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged baby sexual abuse ring in a unprecedented social media blow-up between the previous allies on Thursday.

Trump didn’t maintain again both, threatening to finish federal contracts and tax subsidies for the billionaire’s corporations because the feud that had been brewing flared up on their respective social media platforms.

Within the saga’s most explosive motion, Musk tweeted: “Time to drop the actually huge bomb: Donald Trump is within the Epstein information. That’s the actual motive they haven’t been made public. Have a pleasant day, DJT!” The put up adopted Trump threatening to chop subsidies for Musk’s corporations as it could save “billions”.

• What’s the origin of the feud? Tensions have been mounting for weeks over a Republican spending invoice that Musk has criticised.

• How is it affecting Musk’s backside line? Tesla’s shares plunged by about 14.2% on Thursday at market shut after the pair traded barbs.

Rubio imposes sanctions on 4 ICC judges for ‘concentrating on’ US and Israel

The US is imposing sanctions on 4 judges from the worldwide prison court docket (ICC) for what it has termed its “illegitimate actions” towards the US and Israel, the secretary of state has introduced.

Marco Rubio introduced the sanctions towards Solomy Balungi Bossa of Uganda, Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza of Peru, Reine Adélaïde Sophie Alapini-Gansou of Benin and Beti Hohler of Slovenia on Thursday after Donald Trump instructed cupboard officers to plot sanctions towards the court docket.

• Why had been these judges focused? Two of the judges licensed the arrest warrants towards the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the previous protection minister Yoav Gallant, whereas the opposite two licensed an ICC investigation into abuses by US personnel in Afghanistan.

• Has the US focused others earlier than? Sure – it handed sanctions on the ICC’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, after he pursued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant. Because of this, Khan has misplaced entry to his e-mail and had his financial institution accounts frozen, the Related Press reported.

Choose blocks Trump’s ban on Harvard’s worldwide college students from getting into the US

A district choose in Boston has blocked the Trump administration’s ban on Harvard’s overseas college students from getting into the US after the college argued it had violated federal legislation.

The Ivy League faculty argued that the administration did not again up the president’s claims that the scholars posed a menace to nationwide safety and requested Choose Allison Burroughs to dam the ban.

The submitting additionally argued that the administration’s nationwide safety argument was unsound as, below the ban, the identical individuals had been in a position to nonetheless enter the nation – simply not attend Harvard.

The event got here whereas a whole bunch of 1000’s of Chinese language college students within the US struggled with an unsure future after the state division mentioned final week that it could “aggressively” revoke visas for Chinese language college students.

• Why did Trump ban Harvard from accepting worldwide college students? The White Home spokesperson Abigail Jackson has known as Harvard “a hotbed of anti-American, antisemitic, pro-terrorist agitators”, claims the college denies. Harvard argues Trump is indignant as a result of it has refused to provide in to the administration’s calls for to form the college’s governance, curriculum and theideology of employees and college students.

In different information …

• Russia’s in a single day missile and drone barrage on Kyiv in a single day killed 4 individuals after Vladimir Putin vowed revenge for Ukraine’s assault on its bomber fleet.

• The IDF has recovered the our bodies of two Israeli-American hostages of their 70s who had been kidnapped throughout Hamas’s 7 October assault, in an in a single day operation in southern Gaza.

• El Salvador is utilizing emergency gang violence laws to grab land that was granted to individuals after the nation’s civil conflict.

Stat of the day: College of Michigan paid undercover investigators at the very least $800,000 to surveil college students concerned in Gaza protests

The College of Michigan is utilizing non-public, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus teams, the Guardian can reveal, with the information from the college’s governing physique displaying that the college paid at the very least $800,000 between June 2023 and September 2024 to Ameri-Protect, the mother or father firm of the non-public safety group Metropolis Protect. 5 college students who’ve been adopted, recorded or eavesdropped on mentioned it appeared largely to be an intimidation tactic.

Don’t miss this: Demise isn’t the tip! – how posthumanism is having a film second

Disneyland not too long ago introduced an animatronic recreation of Walt Disney, meant to provide guests a way of “what it could have been wish to be in Walt’s presence”, incomes a rebuke from his granddaughter Joanna Miller. Lengthy a fascination for cinema, posthumanism is beginning to really feel worryingly present, writes Stuart Heritage, after consultants this yr voiced considerations about Neuralink, Elon Musk’s mind implant firm.

Local weather examine: The Swiss village buried by a glacier collapse

When a Swiss village was worn out in seconds after a glacier collapsed above it on 28 Could, consideration turned to why it occurred – and the way international heating will make such occasions extra widespread. This podcast tells the surprising story.

Final Factor: Spanish police’s plea for respect backfires over picture of older girls alfresco

Police in a small Andalucían city have unleashed a storm after they selected for instance a name for individuals to not disturb their neighbors late at evening with … an image of six older girls sitting outdoors. The transfer violated the silent Spanish injunction that forbids any makes an attempt to change the habits of the nation’s cherished older individuals – notably given the lengthy custom of the out of doors sit-down chat as the warmth of the day provides technique to the cool of the night, often known as tomando el fresco, or taking the cool air. The social media response was filled with power and sarcasm. One typical instance: “We have to put an finish to this critical problem – no extra impunity for grannies who sit out to benefit from the recent air.”

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