Six people — three adults and three children, including a family visiting from Spain — lost their lives.

The president said, “Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and his talented staff are on it.”

He wrote in full on Truth Social:

Terrible helicopter crash in the Hudson River. Looks like six people, the pilot, two adults, and three children, are no longer with us. The footage of the accident is horrendous. God bless the families and friends of the victims. Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, and his talented staff are on it. Announcements as to exactly what took place, and how, will be made shortly!

Io Dodds writes:

To back an authoritarian leader because he makes the trains run on time is one thing. To back him even when he dynamites the track is quite another.

So how's that going?

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The Supreme Court says that the Trump administration must facilitate the return to the U.S. of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador and incarcerated.

Full story to come...

Mike Bedigan reports.

The announcement has given foreign leaders some relief, with a new deadline of July 8 now fixed so that trade deals with affected countries and the U.S. can be negotiated. It follows days of chaos in the global markets, with stocks on such a roller coaster that even billionaire business owners were getting the jitters.

Here’s what you need to know about what’s going on:

Alex Woodward reports:

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is denying Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s request to reply to the government’s latest filing in his case, after the Trump administration raised two new pieces of evidence.

In making their argument to stop the court from ordering Trump to return the wrongly deported Maryland father who is sitting in El Salvador’s mega prison, government attorneys claimed they have “been informed” that El Salvador has its “own legal rationales for detaining members of criminal associations and foreign terrorist groups like MS-13.”

The government contends that Abrego Garcia is a member of the transnational gang, based on spurious evidence, and which his attorneys and family have flatly rejected.

The government also stated that a Justice Department’s lawyer’s recent arguments in court “do not reflect the position of the United States.” That official was placed on leave after insufficiently defending the administration.

But, in a single-line entry on the docket, Roberts won’t allow Abrego Garcia’s team to respond to those claims in a new filing. It’s not typical for the court to grant permission for what’s called a “sur reply,” but Roberts’s brief entry is the first time the public has heard from the court since it allowed Trump to keep Abrego Garcia imprisoned while they consider next steps.

The court could rule at any time on whether Trump must bring him back to the United States.

Simon Walters writes:

When, in 1974, President Richard Nixon was forced to resign after lying about a break-in involving planting listening devices at his Democrat rivals’ Watergate Hotel HQ during his re-election campaign, it became the biggest scandal in political history. Now, Donald Trump has found himself in the middle of a political storm that could prove as damaging: Tariffgate.

As markets opened on Wednesday, Trump posted on his TruthSocial platform: “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!” Hours later, he issued an abrupt U-turn on the reciprocal tariffs he announced on his “Liberation Day” at the start of the month, declaring a “90-day pause” on tariffs for all countries except China.

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He blinked. Not since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 has an American president engaged in such a high-risk, high-stakes game of chicken with the future of his nation and the world.

In that lost age of American leadership, John F Kennedy faced down the Russians – and won. This week, Donald J Trump tried to face down China, the European Union and, most foolhardy of all, the capital markets. He lost.

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A group of 77 Democrats has called on the White House to commit to a May 30 deadline for Elon Musk to finish in his unprecedented role inside the government, arguing the DOGE billionaire must step down by then under federal law.

In a letter to the president, led by Rep. Greg Casar of Texas, the lawmakers alleged that Musk had used his position as a so-called “special government employee” to enrich himself while slashing billions from the federal government and impacting key services.

Josh Marcus reports.