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Attorney General Liz Murrill in May in Baton Rouge, La.
Attorney General Liz Murrill in May in Baton Rouge, La.
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It began as story time for children. It quickly became classic Donald Trump. Appearing on Second Lady Usha Vance's podcast to read a picture book for young audiences, United States President Donald Trump veered off script with jokes about ex-presidents, his own looks, his weight, and even the new White House ballroom. At one point, when asked if he finds time to read for pleasure, Trump delivered the line that summed up the episode. "I usually read stories about myself," he quipped, according to the Associated Press . Trump appeared on "Storytime with the Second Lady," a podcast hosted by Usha Vance in which guests read picture books to children. In the episode, released on Friday, the president read "Presidents Play!", a children's book published by the White House Historical Association that highlights how US presidents spent their leisure time at the White House. The episode, which was pre-recorded in the Oval Office in mid-June, showed Trump frequently pausing to add his own commentary rather than simply reading the book. Turning the pages, Trump offered quick takes on several former presidents. He described Lyndon B Johnson as "a tough cookie," Ronald Reagan as "a high-quality person," and called John F Kennedy "the second-most good-looking president," without identifying the president he thought was the most handsome.
The Congress party has called for the dissolution of the Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust amidst allegations of donation theft. They are demanding a Supreme Court-monitored investigation and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address the controversy. The party criticized the RSS's "clean chit" as shameful and highlighted public anger over the alleged misappropriation of funds.
Pope Leo XIV, the first pope born in the United States, and Zohran Mamdani, the first Muslim mayor of the country’s most populous city, have sent pro-immigrant messages to mark the 250th anniversary of US independence. Leo has previously criticised the Trump administration’s immigration policies as “inhuman”. One of Trump’s top advisers, Stephen Miller, has sculpted the president’s hardline immigration stance, a defining policy of both his first and second terms. Miller has long been deeply opposed to modern immigration systems and has repeatedly argued that US immigration practices pose an existential threat to the country. During Trump’s second term, Miller has led a push to restrict nearly all forms of immigration, including legal pathways like refugee admissions, asylum applications and temporary visas, while simultaneously launching a mass deportation drive. As part of his administration’s efforts to restrict immigration, Trump signed an executive order on the first day of his second term to end birthright citizenship, which confers citizenship to virtually all children born in the US. Just days before the 250th anniversary, the US Supreme Court struck down Trump’s executive order, ruling it unconstitutional. But the high court has backed other parts of Trump’s immigration platform. On June 25, it ruled that immigration agents could physically block asylum seekers from setting foot onto US soil, to prevent them from being able to submit applications for protection in the US. After the ruling, Miller announced that “America’s doors are closed, fully, to asylum seekers”.
