The president said his administration would \u201cend all federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens\u201d and remove \u201canyone who is not a net asset to the United States\u201d. It was unclear how he would carry out such a pause, as his previous attempts have been challenged by the courts and Congress.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s social media post followed his announcement of the death of Sarah Beckstrom<\/a>, one of two guard members shot in the attack close to the White House on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Authorities suspect the shooting was carried out by Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who entered the US in September 2021 after the country\u2019s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. He was granted asylum in April this year, under the Trump administration, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n What do we know about the other guard member? Andrew Wolfe, 24, is still fighting for his life, according to the president.<\/p>\n What does Trump mean by \u2018third world\u2019? He did not identify the countries he intended to target or specify what he meant by the phrase.<\/p>\n US regulators \u2018taking seriously\u2019 allegations of bankers\u2019 support for EpsteinJes Staley is alleged to have protected Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s access to the banking system, according to Elizabeth Warren. Photograph: Tayfun Salc\u0131\/Zuma Press Wire\/Rex\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n US regulators say they are taking \u201cvery seriously\u201d allegations that top banks may have facilitated<\/a> Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s criminal activity, as they faced calls to investigate executives, including the former Barclays boss Jes Staley.<\/p>\n In correspondence seen by the Guardian, officials from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currencyand the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said they had reviewed a letter from the Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren, which raised concerns over bankers\u2019 alleged support for the convicted child sex offender Epstein.<\/p>\n Rescue efforts end at Hong Kong tower block fire as death toll reaches 128Firefighters at the scene of the fire in Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, Hong Kong. Photograph: Daniel Lai\/Sopa Images\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n The death toll from the Hong Kong apartment complex fire<\/a> that began on Wednesday has risen to 128, with about 200 missing, officials have said, as rescue efforts ended.<\/p>\n Firefighters were searching for anyone alive in the complex after the inferno spread to seven of eight towers in one of the city\u2019s deadliest ever blazes. The fire at the complex, which housed more than 4,600 people, began during building renovations, with authorities saying they believed a highly flammable styrofoam found in every elevator window drove the fire\u2019s intensity.<\/p>\n What do we know about the missing people? About 200 people remain unaccounted for, including 89 unidentified bodies. Officials said the fire was out but they needed to wait for the towers to cool down before entering some areas that remained above 200C (392F). It is estimated it would take three to four weeks to collect evidence.<\/p>\n In other news \u2026 Small tweaks to the tone of the political content fed to users of X over one week can drive political polarization by an amount that would have historically taken at least three years, research has found. An experiment to measure the power of Elon Musk\u2019s platform to drive division<\/a> found that when posts expressing anti-democratic attitudes and partisan animosity were slightly boosted, Democrats and Republicans both experienced a significant increase in their unfavourable feelings towards the other.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t miss this: \u2018It felt dangerous. You got naggy\u2019: Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater on their 32-year friendship\u2018You got kind of naggy\u2019: Ethan Hawke, left, and Richard Linklater. Photograph: Sarah Lee\/The Guardian<\/p>\n Ahead of the release of Blue Moon, their 11th movie together, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater sat down and talked<\/a> about the legacy of Philip Seymour Hoffman, having a healthy partnership, and how playing lyricist Lorenz Hart \u2013 who was bald and 5ft tall \u2013 gave Hawke a different outlook on the world.<\/p>\n Climate check: \u2018There\u2019s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data \u2013 and it\u2019s a gift to deniers\u2019George Monbiot investigated climate deniers\u2019 claims that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare\/The Guardian<\/p>\n Climate deniers claim that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat \u2013 and so argue that inaction on global heating is the correct course, though this position ignores the myriad other climate impacts, from flooding and fires to crop failures. George Monbiot set out to discover whether the claim about extreme cold is true<\/a> \u2013 and found there are huge gaps in our data from most of the world\u2019s hottest countries.<\/p>\n Last Thing: Can anyone get into free jazz, history\u2019s most maligned music genre?\u2018Truly a soul music, both political and spiritual\u2019: free jazz musicians Pharoah Sanders, left, and Sonny Sharrock in Berlin in 1968. Photograph: \u00a9 Philippe Gras, courtesy of Suong Gras<\/p>\n Guardian music critic Alexis Petridis describes himself as not being a listener \u201cwho requires music to be melodic or rhythmically straightforward\u201d. And yet, a real appreciation of free jazz had long remained out of grasp for him \u2013 so he set out on a journey into the world of a much-reviled genre.<\/a> He describes Machine Gun by the Peter Br\u00f6tzmann Octet as \u201cfurious and completely unremitting, like a bomb that won\u2019t stop going off for the best part of an hour\u201d.<\/p>\n Sign up<\/p>\n Sign up for the US morning briefing<\/p>\n<\/p>\n First Thing is delivered to thousands of inboxes every weekday. If you\u2019re not already signed up, subscribe now<\/a>.<\/p>\n Get in touch<\/p>\n![\"Mohammed](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/429.jpg\")
Relatives said Ibrahim was severely underweight and suffering from scabies contracted during his detention Stat of the day: Consuming political content on X for a week increases polarization by a degree that would have previously taken three yearsMusk introduced the \u2018For you\u2019 feed in X, which uprates content calculated to maximise engagement. Photograph: Reuters<\/p>\n