A group representing American egg farmers said it had discussions about the matter, but ultimately, it won’t scramble its plans to supply roughly 30,000 eggs for the event.

The firings come as right-wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer raised concerns to President Trump about the allegiance of some of his staff.

It comes a day after Trump announced far-reaching new tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners — a 34% tax on imports from China and 20% on the European Union, among others — that threaten to dismantle much of the architecture of the global economy and trigger broader trade wars.

WASHINGTON—A top Kremlin envoy completed two days of talks with President Trump’s Russia negotiator at the White House on Thursday, the first high-level bilateral meeting in the U.S. since before the Ukraine invasion in 2022.

Aides struggled to satisfy the president’s competing priorities before settling on a plan to both raise revenue and boost corporate onshoring.

White House officials have circulated internal talking points telling surrogates that President Donald Trump’s new global tariff regime should not be characterized as a starting point for negotiations, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

The Trump administration on Thursday published a list of hundreds of products that would be exempted from the tariffs announced Wednesday, including energy products, a variety of minerals, and chemica

The absence of Russia on the president’s new list of countries that he’ll hit with steep tariffs did not go unnoticed on social media. Critics were quick to accuse Trump of kowtowing to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom Trump has for years expressed his admiration of.

Several White House National Security Council officials were fired on Thursday in the first major purge of Trump's second term, Reuters reported.